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Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Last night, I fell asleep before the end of the game,
Speaker 1: but Broncos lost. I hated that, So I guess Broncos
Speaker 1: and Chargers are now nine and six. Yes, And then
Speaker 1: there's a drop kick thing or if you fair catch
Speaker 1: it wherever you fair catch it, then if you want
Speaker 1: to try to kick a field goal from there, that
Speaker 1: then happens. Since I think the Bronosaurus in the earth,
Speaker 1: yeah something, but it's been like fifty years or something.
Speaker 7: I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 8: I know that rule.
Speaker 1: I've not seen that rule looks like a Canadian Football
Speaker 1: League rule more than it's like you guys saw that
Speaker 1: live not live, Okay, because I didn't either. I was,
Speaker 1: but yeah, kind of weird and cool. I wonder if
Speaker 1: if they knew that pride, like, did he fair catch
Speaker 1: it on purpose?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: For that reason, because I didn't hear them talking pretty
Speaker 1: and posted to watch the clip?
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 8: No, but there's also a penalty, yes, which is why,
Speaker 8: which is why we moved back.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so that's but my question was yes, because
Speaker 1: so they had to do the kickback.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so was it?
Speaker 1: Hey if you if you can fair catch it, we'll
Speaker 1: try to kick it.
Speaker 7: Who cares? Right?
Speaker 1: It had to be though, like who cares? I literally
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 7: It is cool. Yeah, it was different. Read did you
Speaker 7: watch it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: I was thinking of a completely different type of drop
Speaker 9: kick or were you dropping on the ground kick in
Speaker 9: the fold goal? No, I was thinking of like kick
Speaker 9: or got drop kicked?
Speaker 1: Like, oh oh Readheart is talking about it. He thought
Speaker 1: like Chris Jericho came, Yeah, that's that's why I drop kick.
Speaker 7: Really, I don't know. I thought it was a fight
Speaker 7: or something.
Speaker 10: I don't know what you were talking about.
Speaker 7: Reid got in a wreck yesterday?
Speaker 8: Oh did you really?
Speaker 9: On my way home?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 7: Man? No, I wasn't too bad. I mean I was uh.
Speaker 9: I was about to get onto the highway over here,
Speaker 9: but a lady pulled out in front of me, and
Speaker 9: I hit her, and then the grace.
Speaker 1: Hold on because you need to say because people will go, oh,
Speaker 1: you hit her when you say like that, she pulled
Speaker 1: out in front of you. Yeah, like right in front
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 7: Her fault. Let's just get that completely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, retake the responsibility for everything is having his fault.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: He's so sweet, like, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 9: But the greatest part was then she left. It's like
Speaker 9: I hit him, run in the middle, but there were
Speaker 9: so many people around, like people were filming her as she.
Speaker 7: Was driving off and got hit, but it was your fault.
Speaker 5: You got hit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got hit and run And then it took
Speaker 9: like twenty five minutes for the cops to get there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I saw a cop literally drive over my rubble, look
Speaker 9: at me and keep going because I was like, oh,
Speaker 9: finally he's here.
Speaker 1: Maybe a robber one, yeah, but the right one eventually came.
Speaker 7: Right one eventually came.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The bar messed up. Yeah, it's pretty jacked up. And
Speaker 7: I how'd you get in today?
Speaker 9: Well, half of my like plastic underneath the wheel flew
Speaker 9: off while I was on the highway today getting here,
Speaker 9: So that was fun.
Speaker 7: I didn't know.
Speaker 9: I didn't know it was loose under there were your insurance?
Speaker 7: What's you're deductible?
Speaker 5: Do you know? I do not know?
Speaker 9: But the cop was making it seem like, do you
Speaker 9: know what a deductible is?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Like how much you have you have to already have
Speaker 9: paid for or you have to pay now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't know what it is before you get
Speaker 1: it fixed. Did you know did you call your insurance company?
Speaker 9: I haven't yet called him today even know.
Speaker 1: You got a wreck yesterday midday?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Do you know how much the damage is going to be?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Why did you not call the insurance company?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: Now I should have.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter though, if you have the police report.
Speaker 3: I think if you have that then you can call
Speaker 3: them kind of whenever.
Speaker 1: But I would say it gets probably the sooner the
Speaker 1: fixed faster the faster you make the call, and the
Speaker 1: more you know what you have to pay in order
Speaker 1: to get it fixed, and Christmas is coming up, and
Speaker 1: are you going to get a rental car? All those
Speaker 1: things factor in based on how quickly you make your
Speaker 1: decision to call the insurance company.
Speaker 8: And insurance companies are you know they'll look for any
Speaker 8: way to Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he gave me like a little it's got like
Speaker 9: the little number on the on the ticket that he said,
Speaker 9: just give that to him and it'll.
Speaker 8: So what's up with a lady? Did you get a
Speaker 8: license plate?
Speaker 9: Or in I got her license plate? I mean she
Speaker 9: drove off like like three miles an hour till the
Speaker 9: paper house.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know who shit or where she is. And
Speaker 1: also she thought about stopping, didn't she She.
Speaker 9: Did, she pulled, She pulled in front of me, and
Speaker 9: like I put my hazards on and she kind of
Speaker 9: stopped and stayed there. And then somebody, some lady walked
Speaker 9: up and she was talking to her for a second,
Speaker 9: and so I was about to get out of my car,
Speaker 9: and then all of a sudden, she.
Speaker 5: Just slowly started back into the lane and.
Speaker 9: Then just kind of just got ride in front of
Speaker 9: somebody else and just kind of slowly went away.
Speaker 1: She's like whistling, thinking no one sees her just into
Speaker 1: the distance.
Speaker 9: I'm like, there's literally people out here just filming you. Like,
Speaker 9: but he patient literally dang, So she one dred percent,
Speaker 9: didn't have a license, had drugs in the car.
Speaker 1: Wait, no, he's saying he's giving one of the that no,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, okay, no insurance. I would think she ether
Speaker 1: I had no insurance. The person I had no insurance
Speaker 1: or worn out for their arrest, or they shouldn't be here.
Speaker 1: There are reasons why. Well, I'm sorry that happened to you.
Speaker 1: I would call insurance immediately, even when we finish this,
Speaker 1: just and ask if you get a rental car as
Speaker 1: part of because again, if you're traveling for the holidays,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be good.
Speaker 9: I was thinking, thinking I could make it. If I
Speaker 9: could make it home, then I'll be home for like
Speaker 9: five or six days.
Speaker 1: You're gonna drive six seven hours on a broken car.
Speaker 3: The problem is you don't know what's really broken Arkansas. Yes,
Speaker 3: oh no, no, no, no, you just call and see
Speaker 3: if they'll give you a rental car.
Speaker 1: I think at home here, no even that though I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: he's like I was driving in two wills came.
Speaker 5: On that what he said, I think.
Speaker 9: I think the worst of it flew off though. To
Speaker 9: be honest, I drive on sparks for eight my lap, yeah,
Speaker 9: because I was worried about it because it was kind
Speaker 9: of loose, but like it was still attached.
Speaker 7: But it's gone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do an interview here. You should go call
Speaker 1: your insurance company.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Andy Staples. He's on right now.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites when it comes to covering college football.
Speaker 1: Andy Staples. He's worked for SI the Athletic, now works
Speaker 1: for ON three. He's got his own show nine thirty
Speaker 1: am Eastern Monday through Thursday. Listen wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1: Big thanks to any for coming on a preview in
Speaker 1: the big weekend and just talking sports. And he has
Speaker 1: a microphone in his car, which you hear we were
Speaker 1: super shock guy.
Speaker 5: Legit.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is this is a great one
Speaker 1: because he's really funny. And I'm honestly thinking to myself
Speaker 1: when we start this, oh, he must not have got
Speaker 1: back to his wherever he's doing the interview from his studio,
Speaker 1: his hotel, if he's covering a game, where his podcast
Speaker 1: setup is, he's a microphone and he's in his car,
Speaker 1: and the audio in a car is never as good?
Speaker 1: Could you do it on your phone? And I'm a
Speaker 1: lot of like, oh man, And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he pulls a microphone from like under his seat
Speaker 1: and it sounded amazing wild. Here he is, Andy Staples.
Speaker 1: Oh he's got a mic. Oh, dang Angel.
Speaker 6: We we do the professional setup from this this rented
Speaker 6: Nissan Frontier you're in.
Speaker 1: I felt like I'm letting people. Now when I don't
Speaker 1: drive around with a mic. Now, I felt like I'm
Speaker 1: a loser. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Mike,
Speaker 1: let me know when we're rolling. We are rolling, we
Speaker 1: happen to have me be in surprise, he pulled the
Speaker 1: mic out of his box. Holy Andy, dude, I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan. So thank you for coming on and talking
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you, Bobby. I appreciate this. Yeah, this is
Speaker 6: a I've sort of learned to have everything everywhere. It
Speaker 6: goes back to my original career as a newspaper reporter.
Speaker 6: I was an intern at Florida Today down in Melbourne, Florida.
Speaker 6: I got a signed to do some generic editorial on
Speaker 6: beating the heat, and I had the brilliant idea of
Speaker 6: going to the nude beach and asking those people what
Speaker 6: they did to beat the heat and not get sunburned.
Speaker 6: And I realized that I was, you know, dressed in
Speaker 6: the dress code of the newspaper. I was wearing a
Speaker 6: white polo shirt and green slacks, which made me look
Speaker 6: exactly like a Brevard County Sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 7: So they were all running away from me.
Speaker 6: And then I remember I realized at that moment, like,
Speaker 6: always be prepared for anything that might happen. So I
Speaker 6: always keep a change of clothes. I keep multiple kinds
Speaker 6: of clothes with me, and I keep every single audio
Speaker 6: visual piece of equipment I need. If I might need
Speaker 6: to get on somebody's podcast, video or audio.
Speaker 1: It's a plus. And now I shall set up a
Speaker 1: full studio in the back of my car, like I've
Speaker 1: been motivated. Sometimes you get inspired in the most random
Speaker 1: of places, and today it's Andy Staples. Hey, let's start Andy,
Speaker 1: You're the guy I wanted to talk to about this.
Speaker 1: So Carson Beck not going to play first round, maybe
Speaker 1: not going to play at all, who knows, But what's
Speaker 1: up with Georgia. Obviously that's their guy, but it's not
Speaker 1: like he's been playing great all year. Your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Georgia shot.
Speaker 6: Now, Yeah, it's interesting in the reaction to it because
Speaker 6: Gunner Stockton probably played better than Carson Beck in the
Speaker 6: in the sec Championship game against Texas, and so the
Speaker 6: thought is is it really going to be that different?
Speaker 6: And you know, I don't know that Carson made that
Speaker 6: big of a difference for Georgia this year as long
Speaker 6: as Gunner Stockton is what we saw in that second
Speaker 6: half of the SEC Championship game. Now, that could have
Speaker 6: just been him playing out of his mind because the
Speaker 6: adrenalin is running. But my guess is Gunner Stockton with
Speaker 6: three weeks of practice with the ones because remember this
Speaker 6: wasn't a situation where the back was getting a lot
Speaker 6: of playing time outside of mop up duty. So when
Speaker 6: he went into that game, he probably had had no
Speaker 6: practice with the ones that week. I mean, they were
Speaker 6: operating clearly from a very limited menu. But this is
Speaker 6: a guy who's been with the program the entire time.
Speaker 6: You know, he knows their playbook. So my guess is
Speaker 6: we see a more polished version of Gunner Stockton when
Speaker 6: they play whoever wins the Notre Dame Indiana game. And
Speaker 6: so I think I think they're gonna be okay, because again,
Speaker 6: you know, Carson Beck good quarterback. I don't know that
Speaker 6: he was a transcendent quarterback who without him, they can't
Speaker 6: be who they are. I think they can still be
Speaker 6: a really good team and compete for the national title
Speaker 6: with a quarterback who's about the same.
Speaker 1: So just one more Georgia question than regarding Beck, because
Speaker 1: when the season started he was the guy most people
Speaker 1: were like, number one quarterback off the board could be
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. Do you feel like that
Speaker 1: was a miscalculation that he really wasn't that, or that
Speaker 1: he had some sort of I don't like the pressure.
Speaker 1: I'm not able to perform as well as you know,
Speaker 1: my potential. As where do you think that fell off?
Speaker 6: Well, it fell off when Lad McConkie went to the
Speaker 6: Chargers and brock Bauers went to the Raiders.
Speaker 7: That's where it fell off.
Speaker 6: I mean, he had elite targets last year and he
Speaker 6: doesn't have those this year. And it you know, certain
Speaker 6: quarterbacks make their targets better, and certain targets make their
Speaker 6: quarterbacks better. And I think brock Bauers, you've seen he's
Speaker 6: probably the best tight end in the NFL already, so
Speaker 6: you see what he was probably doing for George's offense.
Speaker 6: And then Lad mcconkee obviously was you know, a huge
Speaker 6: contributor to George's offense as well, so I think that
Speaker 6: probably has more.
Speaker 7: To do with it than anything else.
Speaker 1: College football playoff greatest thing to happen in sports to
Speaker 1: me in the past twenty years, because it made so
Speaker 1: many games matter the last two and three weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, you know, aside from how you feel about
Speaker 1: the seedings or and I think there are things that
Speaker 1: are going to learn this year and going to change,
Speaker 1: But it for me, it was great, not even because
Speaker 1: of the tournament, but because of what mattered the last
Speaker 1: three to four weeks of the regular season. So I'm
Speaker 1: a big, a plus fan of it. That being said,
Speaker 1: there are some issues. I think now you look and
Speaker 1: you go, probably you just give the top four seeds
Speaker 1: to the best four teams, et cetera, et cetera. What
Speaker 1: do you think will be the first thing change because
Speaker 1: there won't be any wholesale changes. Are I going to
Speaker 1: do five things at once? What do you think when
Speaker 1: they finally do if they add teams first, if they
Speaker 1: change how the seeding, what do you think they'll change first?
Speaker 6: Well, I was under the impression that they would keep
Speaker 6: this exact format for the first two years, because that's
Speaker 6: the last two years of the original TV deal for
Speaker 6: the College Football Playoff and then they would change whatever
Speaker 6: they wanted to change for twenty six. But it sounds
Speaker 6: like they can change the seting for next year if
Speaker 6: they really want to. People realize very quickly, and we
Speaker 6: said it all season all season, were like, well, the
Speaker 6: five seeds probably going to have the best situation. Turned
Speaker 6: out the sixth seed probably actually has the cleanest path
Speaker 6: in this particular case, because I don't think I don't
Speaker 6: think any of us predicted that the Mountain West champ
Speaker 6: would get the three seed and the Big twelve champ
Speaker 6: would get the four seed. I don't think we We
Speaker 6: may have thought the Big twelve champ would got the
Speaker 6: four seed, but we figured probably the ACC champ would
Speaker 6: be the three seed.
Speaker 7: So I think that probably.
Speaker 6: Showed when that bracket came out, It's like, all right,
Speaker 6: this is ridiculous because Penn State probably wound up with
Speaker 6: a better path than Oregon into the semi finals. In
Speaker 6: Oregon beat Penn State in the Big Ten championship game,
Speaker 6: and I know people say, oh, but Penn State has
Speaker 6: to play another game.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: I would rather play SMU and then Boise State than
Speaker 6: have to play the winner of Tennessee, Ohio State like Oregon,
Speaker 6: got punished for being the number one seed, and you
Speaker 6: can't have that. So have your automatic qualifiers, have your
Speaker 6: automatic bids for five conference champs.
Speaker 7: That's fine, but if.
Speaker 6: They are not in the top four seeds, don't give
Speaker 6: them buys. Give the teams ranked one through four of
Speaker 6: the buys, and then everybody else populates from there.
Speaker 7: You think the lad after not next year.
Speaker 1: But as you were talking about the two year second,
Speaker 1: you know the last two years is the initial deal.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll add two more teams, four more
Speaker 1: teams into this?
Speaker 6: The push has been for two from the Big ten
Speaker 6: and I understand why the Big ten in the SEC
Speaker 6: would like their championship games to be very meaningful. And
Speaker 6: the thought this year is, oh, you know, all four
Speaker 6: of the teams in those championship games are in the
Speaker 6: playoff anyway, so what's the point of this.
Speaker 7: Like the ACC championship game.
Speaker 6: Which weirdly both teams got in, but it didn't feel
Speaker 6: like that at the time, the Big twelve championship game
Speaker 6: was definitely a win. And in scenario like this, this
Speaker 6: format raises the stakes of those games, but it lowers
Speaker 6: the stakes of the Big Ten Championship in the SEC Championship.
Speaker 6: But if you only had two buys because you had
Speaker 6: fourteen teams, chances are those two buys are going to
Speaker 6: your Big ten champ and your SEC champ, which suddenly
Speaker 6: makes those games more valuable.
Speaker 7: And this is all about money.
Speaker 6: They don't really need to play those anymore, but they
Speaker 6: make a ton of money off of them. The conferences
Speaker 6: don't want to let them go yet, so I think
Speaker 6: that that is their solution to create bigger stakes for
Speaker 6: those games.
Speaker 1: I respect your opinion a lot, and so I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask you about one more rule change. And if
Speaker 1: you were the guy changing the rule, you got to
Speaker 1: if you were king, would you and when you become king,
Speaker 1: would you change the Doctor Pepper halftime ball throwing thing
Speaker 1: from chess passes or give them a basketball? Because so
Speaker 1: it's the dumbest thing I saw.
Speaker 6: I can't remember which championship game was, I want to
Speaker 6: say it was the Big twelve championship game, so yes.
Speaker 6: For those who don't know, the Doctor Pepper challenge is
Speaker 6: basically two people trying to throw footballs into a giant
Speaker 6: Doctor Pepper bottle for a scholarship and they do this
Speaker 6: during the halftime of the championship games for the various conferences,
Speaker 6: and it is the competition has devolved. It started out
Speaker 6: with people throwing footballs like quarterbacks throw footballs, and now
Speaker 6: they do chess passes. But here's the thing, Bobby, and
Speaker 6: this is brilliant. There was a guy or no, actually
Speaker 6: was a young lady. She was throwing option pitches, like
Speaker 6: triple option pitches, like she played for a service academy,
Speaker 6: and she was deadly accurate and she just destroyed like
Speaker 6: she's going as a guy who was chess passing, and
Speaker 6: she destroyed him. So I actually fell back in love
Speaker 6: with it, because the option pitch is just as great
Speaker 6: as throwing a football the right way.
Speaker 1: I think the option pitch I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 1: The chess pass is just maybe it's not maybe it
Speaker 1: needs to be ten yards farther. And I don't want
Speaker 1: it to be where somebody doesn't have a good arm
Speaker 1: they can't play right. You don't want someone who can't
Speaker 1: throw football right. But it's just when you have two
Speaker 1: people throwing basketball chess pass if I'm like drills in
Speaker 1: sixth grade, it doesn't look it's not that fun and
Speaker 1: I used to look forward to that.
Speaker 6: Well, I will say I went crazy when Josh Allen
Speaker 6: threw a chess pass in an NFL game. Now I
Speaker 6: got called back because of holding, but he threw a
Speaker 6: chess pass for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not convinced. I'm not convinced he was
Speaker 1: watching game tape on one of them. Hey, let's talk
Speaker 1: about quin yours for a second and Arch manning and
Speaker 1: not even so much about what's happening in the playoff.
Speaker 1: But now it's as Quinn you were is gonna go?
Speaker 1: Is it going to take whatever money from some mythical
Speaker 1: Big ten school that's going to offer him four million
Speaker 1: dollars to stay? What do you think is happening here?
Speaker 6: Well, it's it's interesting because this is one of these
Speaker 6: weird things that happens in the NIL era. Now that
Speaker 6: was never an issue before, because before Quinn youwers would
Speaker 6: just be head of the NFL. It'd be well, I'm
Speaker 6: probably not gonna stay at Texas because we kind of
Speaker 6: had this deal that it's Arch's time next year, So
Speaker 6: I'm going to the NFL and I'll be making more
Speaker 6: money than i'd make in college. But if Quinn Ewers
Speaker 6: isn't a first round pick, and he isn't a second
Speaker 6: round pick. And once you get into the third, fourth rounds,
Speaker 6: the money Quinn Youewers could command at a big time
Speaker 6: school might be bigger than what he'd make as a
Speaker 6: third rounder. So if you're him, it's actually worth considering,
Speaker 6: Like you have to really consider, like where where's my
Speaker 6: draft stock? Could I potentially raise it with another year
Speaker 6: in college? And if that's the case, can I make
Speaker 6: the same or more money in college? Because if I can,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna stay. I mean, you're looking at bow Knicks
Speaker 6: now in the NFL. If bo Nix didn't have those
Speaker 6: those two years at Oregon, he's not what he is
Speaker 6: in the NFL right now. He is that because he
Speaker 6: had sixty starts under his belt going in. So if
Speaker 6: I'm Quinn, I actually do consider that heavily. It's I
Speaker 6: want to know from the NFL people, honestly, what do
Speaker 6: you think I am? Where do you think I fall?
Speaker 6: Because if they think he's a late first round early
Speaker 6: second round pick, just go to the league. Just go
Speaker 6: to the league and you're gonna play and you're gonna
Speaker 6: get paid more. But if they don't think that or
Speaker 6: they're not sure, then yeah, get another year of college,
Speaker 6: make a bunch of money. Do some more Doctor Pepper commercials.
Speaker 6: Do some fans billed by the doctor Pepper.
Speaker 7: Good Ward.
Speaker 6: We've talked about them a lot, but yeah, do some
Speaker 6: more of that. And it's it's weird that that's how
Speaker 6: it works now. But he actually be more valuable as
Speaker 6: a one year rental to a team in college than
Speaker 6: he would be to an NFL team that takes him
Speaker 6: in the third.
Speaker 5: Round in the NBA.
Speaker 1: In college basketball, obviously, these players are trying to get
Speaker 1: to their second contract, right, big deal. You want to
Speaker 1: get in, get in early, and it's all about that
Speaker 1: second deal. Where the live span at times of an
Speaker 1: NFL player not as long as that of an NBA player,
Speaker 1: depending on especially what position you play. Would that factor
Speaker 1: in it all to somebody who's like a second or
Speaker 1: third round, Yeah, you might make less money, but you
Speaker 1: want to try to get to that second deal. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a four year and an option whenever
Speaker 1: you go to the NFL. Is that even being talked.
Speaker 6: About if you're a running back, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 6: the running backs don't want to stay in school. If
Speaker 6: you have any chance of being pretty good in the NFL,
Speaker 6: you don't want the tread taken off your tires.
Speaker 7: You want to get to that second contract.
Speaker 6: Other positions where you're getting hit a lot and the
Speaker 6: injury risk is exceptionally high, you know, inside linebacker type positions,
Speaker 6: Those are other ones that you want to probably get
Speaker 6: to the NFL. Start the clock on that second contract.
Speaker 6: Quarterbacks have a little bit longer life span. Typically, offensive
Speaker 6: linemen have a little bit longer lifespan. Edge rushers have
Speaker 6: a little bit longer lifespan. So those guys do have
Speaker 6: decisions that they need to make if they can raise
Speaker 6: their draft stock while still making a really good amount
Speaker 6: of money in college.
Speaker 1: What about Dabo going to the portal first time?
Speaker 6: Not a virgin anymore, It wasn't It was the first
Speaker 6: non quarter see nobody ever remembers he took a quarterback.
Speaker 6: I got of the portal three years ago. Three years ago,
Speaker 6: maybe two. It was Hunter Johnson who had originally signed
Speaker 6: with Clemson and then didn't win the starting job. He
Speaker 6: was like a you know, blue chip, five star guy.
Speaker 6: He goes to Northwestern decides, you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6: My last year back at Clemson, so that that was
Speaker 6: the first transfer Dabo actually took. He did not take
Speaker 6: a single one this past year, so Clemson and the
Speaker 6: service academies who don't take transfers were the only ones
Speaker 6: that didn't.
Speaker 7: But yeah, he's in the portal now.
Speaker 6: And the reason they're doing this is you have this
Speaker 6: house versus the NCAA settlement that's coming where there's going
Speaker 6: to be a revenue sharing plan where the schools are
Speaker 6: allowed to pay the players directly. So a program like Clemson,
Speaker 6: which doesn't have the biggest donor base, is going to
Speaker 6: have money to pay players in a way that's competitive
Speaker 6: with the Alabamas and the Georgia's and the Ohio States.
Speaker 6: The problem for Clemson wasn't Dabba laid this out very
Speaker 6: nicely last spring. I thought was the players who are
Speaker 6: good enough to help Clemson, because remember Clemson still recruits
Speaker 6: out of high school at a really, really high level.
Speaker 6: So the players that were good enough to help Clemson
Speaker 6: at the transfer portal, Clemson was priced out of the market.
Speaker 6: Well now they're not. So they go get the receiver
Speaker 6: from Southeast Missouri State. They go get an edge rusher
Speaker 6: from per Do like they're going to be players in
Speaker 6: this It's not going to be wholesale. It's not going
Speaker 6: to be a bunch of guys. It's going to be
Speaker 6: plugging in its spots where you have some holes in
Speaker 6: the roster. And I tell you what, Bobby, I think
Speaker 6: that puts Clemson right back where they want to be,
Speaker 6: because that was the issue. They'd have these little that
Speaker 6: you know, they'd have these kind of glaring holes in
Speaker 6: the roster that everybody else was filling in the portal
Speaker 6: and they weren't, and there was a reason for that.
Speaker 7: But now they can fix that.
Speaker 1: I guess my half opposing view of Dabo getting to
Speaker 1: quarterback that he once had is he didn't get a
Speaker 1: quarterback from the portal. He went back and got his
Speaker 1: own guy because his own guy left in the portal,
Speaker 1: and he went and rescued. He went and rescue his
Speaker 1: own guy. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And so I hate Texas.
Speaker 1: I hate Texas all my heart. Like I hate Texas.
Speaker 1: I wish they could fall in the hole and not
Speaker 1: exist anymore as a team. Listen, I see those pigs.
Speaker 1: I see those pigs. Yes, when we have I hate Texas.
Speaker 1: I hate everything about them, and I don't want them
Speaker 1: to win. But man defensevely their defensive line there, it's
Speaker 1: it's a monster. Uh. And we have Texas fans here
Speaker 1: on this show, so I'm not going to say anything
Speaker 1: positive about Texas. So would you say something positive about
Speaker 1: Texas to just kind of help, you know, balance us out.
Speaker 6: Yes, nastiest defense in the country. We spend so much
Speaker 6: time talking about Quinn and Arch and it's really unfair
Speaker 6: to a very very sound group of defenders that of
Speaker 6: the let's say there, you know, there's there's twelve teams
Speaker 6: in the college football playoffs, so twelve offenses and twelve defenses,
Speaker 6: twenty four units. The Texas defense is the one I
Speaker 6: trust the most out of those twenty four.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, that's it. We're good on that one.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 1: We're all Texas out. No more positive Texas and all right,
Speaker 1: Mick to hate. Hey Mike Vic being a coach. First
Speaker 1: of all, we saw the Sacramento State that that happens,
Speaker 1: and it's like Mike Vic maybe, and then now it's not.
Speaker 1: I didn't know Mike Vic coached what So what do
Speaker 1: you know about this?
Speaker 7: I didn't know either. I didn't know this was something
Speaker 7: that was in his heart.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's interesting because he's if you've heard
Speaker 6: him talk after his his football career, after the dog
Speaker 6: fighting stuff, after the imprisonment, you know, he's he sounds
Speaker 6: like someone who has changed quite a bit, who has
Speaker 6: grown up quite a bit. And so, you know, I
Speaker 6: do wonder with people who've been through a lot in
Speaker 6: their lives and who've done some things that they regret
Speaker 6: and have admitted that they regret doing those things, like
Speaker 6: there's probably something to teach to a younger generation. So
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's gonna work. You know, we've
Speaker 6: seen guys come out, you know, who were very good
Speaker 6: players kind of go a little bit faster into the
Speaker 6: coaching ranks, so like move move to a position that
Speaker 6: they wouldn't have normally gotten without the name. I thought
Speaker 6: Dion's done really well, that Eddie George has actually done
Speaker 6: pretty well with it at Tennessee State too, So I
Speaker 6: think there's something to be And Deon talks about this,
Speaker 6: He's like, why should that guy have to grind it
Speaker 6: out as a GA when he has so many more
Speaker 6: things that he can teach that the guy grinding it
Speaker 6: out as a GA can't.
Speaker 7: So I think he's worth a shot.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Sacramento State wound up hiring Brittan Marion, who did grind
Speaker 6: it out as a GA and and as an offensive
Speaker 6: coordinator at the FCS.
Speaker 7: Level and then the FBS level.
Speaker 6: So we'll see, you know, those two programs, how how
Speaker 6: they how they differ going forward. But I just I
Speaker 6: think it's interesting that the victing. I didn't realize that
Speaker 6: that that was something he wanted. But I am curious
Speaker 6: to see what he what he is as a coach.
Speaker 1: And I guess aside from his troubles and what he's
Speaker 1: done and hopefully learned and reformed it can teach and
Speaker 1: can turn it positive as a head coach. I just
Speaker 1: think you'd probably want someone that has a bit of
Speaker 1: not just the football, but how to put together coordinators,
Speaker 1: how to how to organize. So to me, more than
Speaker 1: if he's reformed as a person, it's and maybe it's
Speaker 1: just because those schools want to splash and they'll surround
Speaker 1: him with people that actually know how to do that.
Speaker 1: I was surprised because Vic hasn't ever coached anywhere where.
Speaker 1: I know Dion pretty well. I'm lucky we did a
Speaker 1: TV pilot together. We're together for months every day love
Speaker 1: Deon s Anders, like that's my guy. But Dion was
Speaker 1: coaching his kids high school like he was a head
Speaker 1: coach there right then he went to Jackson State then,
Speaker 1: and so at least there was a bit of a
Speaker 1: progression there where Mike Vick was just like they're Mike
Speaker 1: Vick and now he's a head coach. But they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to surround with people that know how to do
Speaker 1: all these structure things, right.
Speaker 6: He's gonna have he's gonna have to do that. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's gonna have to to be able to do that,
Speaker 6: and I think that that is a skill that maybe
Speaker 6: can't be taught, and so he'll either be good at
Speaker 6: it or he won't cause you know, you mentioned Dion
Speaker 6: had worked in coaching his sons before. But like when
Speaker 6: he takes the Jackson State job, that's a completely different
Speaker 6: animal than what he'd been doing. And he did a
Speaker 6: great job surrounding himself with the right people. I don't
Speaker 6: think he hired very well the first year at Colorado.
Speaker 6: That you know, you look at the second year at
Speaker 6: Colorado and the staff he put together. That staff worked
Speaker 6: much better together and made that team better as the
Speaker 6: season went on. So I think with Mike Vick, we
Speaker 6: don't know what he's gonna be as a CEO, and
Speaker 6: sometimes you don't know until you see it. We've seen
Speaker 6: it at various levels of sports where somebody gets in
Speaker 6: as a CEO and they just aren't very good at it.
Speaker 6: They're a better assistant coach, they are a head coach.
Speaker 6: And then you see guys like ed Orgeron was a
Speaker 6: position coach his whole career, is never even a coordinator.
Speaker 6: Ervin Meyer was never coordinated before he's a head coach,
Speaker 6: and these guys.
Speaker 7: Are just natural CEOs.
Speaker 1: I was reading your article, and by the way, you
Speaker 1: can read Andy's work at on three on three dot com,
Speaker 1: and I loved your idea. It's even kind of feels
Speaker 1: like the basketball All Star Game now where they were
Speaker 1: picking they picked their players and picked their teams. But
Speaker 1: how you were talking about seed in the college football playoff?
Speaker 1: Would you talk about that idea for a second. What
Speaker 1: do you think that the way to do it will be?
Speaker 6: That was sent in by a viewer to my show,
Speaker 6: and I God bless him. It's great because he understand
Speaker 6: like he understands the what we're doing here. Because this
Speaker 6: is entertainment. And so instead of just seating the teams
Speaker 6: and saying this is who's playing who like, what they
Speaker 6: should have done is they should have ranked the teams
Speaker 6: and then you say, okay, here's the potential matchups, but
Speaker 6: now we're gonna go live to Dan Lanning, the coach
Speaker 6: of the number one Oregon Ducks, he has to pick
Speaker 6: which first round matchup is going to feed into his game.
Speaker 6: So essentially he has to insult these two teams by saying,
Speaker 6: you're the two we think are the easiest to be
Speaker 6: I would love like televise it.
Speaker 7: You give him like five minutes to pick.
Speaker 6: You have the Jeopardy theme music playing, and then you're like, okay, Dan,
Speaker 6: who are you gonna play?
Speaker 7: It would be brilliant television.
Speaker 1: And what I say, a lot as much as we
Speaker 1: love sports, live with it, it is a TV show, right,
Speaker 1: It's entertainment, and you gotta find that balance between integrity
Speaker 1: and honesty and the love of the game and entertainment
Speaker 1: because if you have a whole bunch of one and
Speaker 1: not the other, then there's no trust on product. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be like the greatest you know. Another thing
Speaker 1: would be like when a player you know, signs with
Speaker 1: the new team, like DeAndre Hopkins, Like they don't even
Speaker 1: say he's a chief until it's game time and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's announce the new players this week on
Speaker 1: the team and here deandreh my god, that's DeAndre exact yes,
Speaker 1: Like you know that would be the product we love. Hey,
Speaker 1: talk about your podcast for a second, because you guys
Speaker 1: go live, which means where we do ours and we
Speaker 1: loaded a couple hours later we get to edit.
Speaker 7: You do yours live.
Speaker 1: There's a been a risk in that I don't know
Speaker 1: you and it's Andy and Ari on three podcasts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you guys are on are you guy? On four
Speaker 1: days a week?
Speaker 6: We're actually on five days a week because we do
Speaker 6: a postgame show during the season, and then once the
Speaker 6: season ends, will go we'll be Monday through Friday in
Speaker 6: the mornings with a more regular schedule. But we we
Speaker 6: go Monday through Thursday in the mornings right now, nine
Speaker 6: thirty am Eastern time. And yeah, me and Ari Wasserman.
Speaker 6: I find when Ari is taped, he's not as interesting,
Speaker 6: Like I don't want to edit out when Ari's really cooking.
Speaker 7: That's that's the thing.
Speaker 6: So we had Mike Goullett Junior on, you know, former
Speaker 6: Notre Dame offensive lineman who owns his own excellent podcast,
Speaker 6: and Mike was talking about how he puked before every
Speaker 6: game because it was just part of his process and
Speaker 6: he gets his nerves out.
Speaker 7: And then so the.
Speaker 6: Interview ends and Ari goes, you know, I puked before
Speaker 6: every show, and I'm like, Okay, I see what we're
Speaker 6: doing a bit here, and then he starts talking about
Speaker 6: how the post puke feeling is one of the greatest
Speaker 6: feelings in life.
Speaker 7: I'm like, Ari, I have an ad to read after this.
Speaker 6: I know this advertiser does not want to juxtapose you
Speaker 6: talking about how great it feels to puke with their
Speaker 6: their product. So we're gonna We're gonna move on here.
Speaker 6: But if we edit, then we don't get things like that.
Speaker 6: We need moments like that. So I am all for
Speaker 6: the live and you can interact with the commenters, which
Speaker 6: I am guilty of getting sucked into that a little
Speaker 6: too much, but no, it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: And we go live after games too.
Speaker 6: So after the college football playoff games at like the
Speaker 6: last one of the night will go live.
Speaker 7: So if you want to come. Heckle us, you want
Speaker 7: to come, ask us questions?
Speaker 6: Come on, because I love that the viewer has a
Speaker 6: chance to interact with us, you know, because and I
Speaker 6: find that the people who watch us regularly they're so creative.
Speaker 6: We do a mailbag show every Thursday, and they they
Speaker 6: send in all the questions that that idea for the
Speaker 6: seating was a mailbag question. Like I love our audience
Speaker 6: because they're so smart and they love college football and
Speaker 6: so yeah, if you guys want to want to join
Speaker 6: that group, they're the smartest, best looking audience. I have
Speaker 6: a friend named Chris Childers who works for Serious XM.
Speaker 6: He says that all of his doctors listen to our
Speaker 6: show and like, but you don't have to be a doctor,
Speaker 6: like any profession is welcome.
Speaker 1: Check out to Andy and ari on three podcast and
Speaker 1: read Andy on three dot com. Hey, big fan of
Speaker 1: your work. Have been for a long time and at
Speaker 1: even other institutions. I won't even mention here, but keep
Speaker 1: up to good work and thank you for the time.
Speaker 1: And now I have to go build a complete podcast
Speaker 1: studio in the back of my car, So I got
Speaker 1: I got stuff to do today. But Andy, have a
Speaker 1: great weekend at what a fun weekend it is. And
Speaker 1: hopefully I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Bobby.
Speaker 6: I followed your career for a while and and you
Speaker 6: know you're you're an inspiration to all of us who
Speaker 6: are doing this stuff.
Speaker 1: So thank you for having me on all right there
Speaker 1: he is Andy Staples. Thanks Eddie, have a good day, buddy. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Bengals, there's six and eight. They have a six
Speaker 1: point five percent chance to make the playoffs. So the
Speaker 1: remaining games of the Browns, the Broncos, the Steelers and
Speaker 1: need some stuff to happen, but they still can make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Cowboys, they need the Commanders to lose
Speaker 1: every game.
Speaker 5: What's the number?
Speaker 1: Well, if do you not see I'm getting there.
Speaker 7: I would have a led with that if that's what
Speaker 7: I wanted first, Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys win all three games, one of them
Speaker 1: is against the Commanders.
Speaker 5: Though, correct, and the Eagles, Yeah, and then Bucks.
Speaker 1: Which I think the Bucks and the Commanders are games
Speaker 1: they could actually win. The Eagles will be tough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but okay, if the Cowboys went all three games, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, and the Commanders lose all three, but what
Speaker 1: makes that a bit easier is you get to actually
Speaker 1: play the Commander. So you beat the Commanders, you win
Speaker 1: the other two, they lose the other two. I just
Speaker 1: look at their schedule, if I remember, their schedule was
Speaker 1: not easy. And then there's a couple of teams in
Speaker 1: the middle of them.
Speaker 7: Like the Seahawks.
Speaker 5: They have to lose somewhere in there too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cardinals, I believe we're in the middle of that.
Speaker 5: I mean it's a huge like shot in the dark.
Speaker 1: At what's the schedule there?
Speaker 11: If I have the Commanders, Yeah, they play the Eagles,
Speaker 11: then the Falcons, and then the Cowboys to wrap up
Speaker 11: the scene.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they get lose to the Eagles, no doubt. Well,
Speaker 1: Panics is starting this week, right. The Cowboys have zero
Speaker 1: point two chance exactly.
Speaker 7: Out though zero point they're out.
Speaker 1: As long as you're still in it, you're in a baby.
Speaker 5: There's no chance, which is good.
Speaker 3: I mean really like if they made the playoffs, well
Speaker 3: and they just they would just get destroyed round one.
Speaker 1: Maybe not look at the Buck last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they won a game, didn't they.
Speaker 8: Beat the Eagles?
Speaker 7: Yeah? They lost the lines barely, right, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Almost beat the truck.
Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy. Though, like we're not as Cowboys fans,
Speaker 3: we are not used to this kind of season. We
Speaker 3: at least go to the playoffs, right and now it's
Speaker 3: like we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not going right now, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Speaker 1: Usually now you're actually disappointed, which is weird. It's already happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So we also have to an admission here. And I
Speaker 1: like to blame two people for this, and neither neither
Speaker 1: of them are me.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, I love.
Speaker 1: To put something on somebody else. I'm definitely one of them,
Speaker 1: read you or not one of them. And and it's
Speaker 1: it's not Casey. So it is Eddie and Kevin, and
Speaker 1: I blame Kevin. Wait wait, probably slightly less than Eddie,
Speaker 1: really slightly, because Eddie took the credit for it.
Speaker 7: Oh that's true.
Speaker 1: Edie could at least a said and that wasn't true.
Speaker 5: What are we talking about?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 8: Actually, when you say it like that, I agree.
Speaker 5: So last week we had you two know what we're
Speaker 5: talking about.
Speaker 1: But last week we hit our party, our parlay, and
Speaker 1: everybody kept hitting me, going, you'd hit you parlay, I
Speaker 1: hit mine, Kevin his and you took credit for yours.
Speaker 1: You didn't hit yours, We did not win, you lost.
Speaker 5: And oh really, yeah I took the Packers, didn't that?
Speaker 1: You took the Seahawks?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And when we came on, we're talking about everybody's like,
Speaker 1: edit lost, what's he talking about?
Speaker 8: That's hilarious?
Speaker 1: Really, So I didn't know until I started getting DMS
Speaker 1: and Kevin took blame for you. He goes, no, I
Speaker 1: wrote that down wrong on the sheet, so okay, you
Speaker 1: can have a little bit of it. But mostly Eddie
Speaker 1: just was like, yep, I guess we got it. Hope
Speaker 1: everybody won.
Speaker 5: Dang, So I went Seahawks on that. What was I thinking? Man,
Speaker 5: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: We had a buddy who Steve, who's a massive Cowboys fan,
Speaker 1: and he bet a seven eight parlay hit six and
Speaker 1: lost on the Cowboys and Panthers because he bet the Panthers.
Speaker 1: What idiot think about Steve a massive Cowboys fan. We're like,
Speaker 1: why did you bet against your team? Just don't bet
Speaker 1: the game at all? And he was like, well, all
Speaker 1: the experts were saying, it's like, hey, I don't bet
Speaker 1: against my team. Even I never bet against Arkansas because
Speaker 1: I don't want to have a split route. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't ever want for one part of me to
Speaker 1: not want them to win.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 1: So if I think that that's the case, and I
Speaker 1: would bet that, I'm not betting that. And that's what
Speaker 1: that kept him from making a ton of money.
Speaker 3: I have taken the Cowboys out of many, many, many
Speaker 3: parlays because I will not bet against them.
Speaker 5: That's just what you do.
Speaker 8: Is well, there's already enough emotion in it.
Speaker 7: You will take credit.
Speaker 5: Though, Man, I really thought I picked the Packers.
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 8: I haven't even thought about it from that perspective, But
Speaker 8: you're right. He sat there taking it like.
Speaker 1: Gorma says, wouldn't you though?
Speaker 8: Two days I'm like, damn, I messed up. Man, I
Speaker 8: messed up. I messed up. And then I'm like, well, actually,
Speaker 8: I guess I could have been saved.
Speaker 1: Oh this is hitting me up like Eddie's lying.
Speaker 7: Eddie' lying. He didn't hit. He didn't hit.
Speaker 5: I didn't lie. I just said like, cool, I didn't lie.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's fix some games here. Uh twenty five whistles
Speaker 1: parlay on DraftKings. The spread are so big, Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: so big. I can't even go money line, because that's
Speaker 1: so that would be so cheap. You looking at college, Well,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm bad. I mean, this is it's a
Speaker 1: comfortable playoff. Why not you have to that's like the
Speaker 1: most exciting. I mean, like, yeah, I gotta do college. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I don't even want I hear you,
Speaker 1: but it's like, I'm not gonna do four. I don't
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Speaker 5: Oh is it going on the app this time?
Speaker 1: If it no, but it's four four, it'll go up.
Speaker 9: I don't want to go up because I don't like
Speaker 9: I usually will pick a game and go, like I
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Speaker 8: you do the three then three Saturday ones.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think Notre Dame beats Indiana by more than seven.
Speaker 1: It's Notre Dame minus seven, so I'm gonna go Notre
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Speaker 7: I think in.
Speaker 1: I hate Texas and Clemson so much I can't I
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Speaker 5: It's a tough one.
Speaker 1: I hate Texas more, but like I hate Clemson only
Speaker 1: because Dabo. I think Penn State beats SMU by more
Speaker 1: than eight and a half. I'm going on two favorites
Speaker 1: so far, and then I'll go Tennessee plus seven and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 5: Like it.
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Speaker 1: a half, Tennessee plus seven and a half. That's that's
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Speaker 1: B ball. I gotta go to the freaking Jets making
Speaker 1: personnel decisions because of Madden, which is hilarious. I play
Speaker 1: Madden and in case he's a big Jets fan, and
Speaker 1: so story I read on the with The Atlantic is that,
Speaker 1: first of all, the grandson of Woody Johnson has been
Speaker 1: making a lot of the personnel decisions apparently, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1: I think he's seventeen.
Speaker 8: Serious, Yeah, is he really that young?
Speaker 1: I think he's seven. I think he's seventeen.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: You may look he's a teenager.
Speaker 10: He wasn't true. Yeah, I know he's young.
Speaker 1: And so I'll read just some of this from the
Speaker 1: Excuse Me the Athletic. The piece of story focused Onody Johnson,
Speaker 1: who's been hands on, but what he says I did
Speaker 1: not expect to learn that his son's Brick and Jack,
Speaker 1: whose love for the Madden franchise seems to influence the
Speaker 1: owner of the team. The Jets or NIXT to trade
Speaker 1: for Jerry Judy last off season because his EA Sports
Speaker 1: rating was too low. Hold on Earth, See this is
Speaker 1: how i'd be a coach. Yeah, now, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: what you know as a coach, it's only a TV show.
Speaker 1: It's not only their video game ratings that have factored
Speaker 1: into their personnel decisions. Aaron Rodgers was urging patients when
Speaker 1: the owner wanted to make a hasty move this season,
Speaker 1: like firing Rogers solid. I don't know if that's Sue
Speaker 1: or not, but whatever, we're gonna believe one. We should
Speaker 1: consider all of them here. Yeah, the seventeen year old
Speaker 1: what's his name?
Speaker 10: That break looks like Brick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been heavily involved.
Speaker 7: Would be cool for.
Speaker 8: Him, he imagine going to school.
Speaker 5: Hey, what do you guys want to do? What do
Speaker 5: you want to do on Sunday?
Speaker 1: See if Madden will accept this trade? And if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: Like that's how they're like seeing it.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's your team. What do you want to say? Uh?
Speaker 11: It just the Jets just never failed to surprise, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. That's that's what I've been dealing with.
Speaker 11: My my whole adult life with this team hilarious.
Speaker 8: So I always have you watched the Aaron Rodgers I have.
Speaker 10: I said I saw the trailer, but yeah, I haven't
Speaker 10: checked it out.
Speaker 8: Watch it.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't.
Speaker 5: You can watch it.
Speaker 1: He's so cringey everything about it.
Speaker 10: You should have saw the trailer. Then he's in like
Speaker 10: Peru with like a tank top.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw someone TikTok where he was like high
Speaker 1: on something.
Speaker 11: Like talking about the whole drama with his family and
Speaker 11: the all things.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so he's involved in it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's all on him.
Speaker 1: No, but there's a difference if it's on him and
Speaker 1: he's involved in it.
Speaker 8: Oh, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I wonder if he had final cut, which
Speaker 1: means he had decisions about what it wouldn't go in
Speaker 1: he had to have, does it make him more likable?
Speaker 10: I mean it's I don't know it. It's indifferent to me.
Speaker 11: It's just because it's all the same stuff that we
Speaker 11: already kind of know about his family and stuff like that.
Speaker 11: So I didn't really take that much out of it.
Speaker 11: Then again, it was just a trailer, so I gotta
Speaker 11: have it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: No, four months ago, I was rooting Aaron Rodgers. So
Speaker 1: it's not like I've been. I was like, let's go.
Speaker 1: He's cringe. Everything about is cringe.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 8: The timing of this release is just not good either.
Speaker 11: But even like that, the stuff on magazine thought that
Speaker 11: this was going to be something this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, and he thought the Jets would be better.
Speaker 10: Yeah, better than four wins for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even like the stuff on McAfee. That's happening now where.
Speaker 1: But he's also with Ryan Clark and they're like feuding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Rogers was like, you know, before whatever, all I
Speaker 1: want to know before you get into any more feud.
Speaker 1: So I know, have you been vaccinated? And it's like
Speaker 1: we're still doing vaccine jokes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: That was literally like two days ago. He was doing
Speaker 1: this on MACA. He's like, and if you are, then
Speaker 1: you're freaking more on it. Trust nothing, you say, that's
Speaker 1: my quarterback, baby, like go to the go to a
Speaker 1: different well. But yeah, he he is a douchebag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come a long way, complete flip. If I were like
Speaker 1: a member of Congress, you'd be like, he's a flip flobbery.
Speaker 1: I was very pro Aaron Rodgers and now he's just
Speaker 1: the worst. The Charlotte Hornet, Oh, you'll talk about this,
Speaker 1: the PS.
Speaker 5: Five I do whacked, man, Like, I can't believe they
Speaker 5: did that.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know the story yet?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: God.
Speaker 3: So there's a halftime little little presentation where Santa comes
Speaker 3: up and the Charlotte Hornets like, give a kid a
Speaker 3: PS five.
Speaker 5: He wins it. Oh my gosh. Everyone's like, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: And then they walk off and the cameras turn away
Speaker 3: and they take the PS five back and they give
Speaker 3: him a jersey. And so people are that were there
Speaker 3: or saying like no, I saw it happen, and even
Speaker 3: the kid's uncle is like, no, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 5: They took the PS five back, we just got a jersey.
Speaker 3: So then the Charlotte Hornet Charlotte Hornets are like, look,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we apologize.
Speaker 5: We made it right though.
Speaker 3: We gave him a real PS five and now he
Speaker 3: has like, you know, season tickets or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd pr yeah, move what they take.
Speaker 9: A PS five from the locker room or something.
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, don't know, but yeah they got everybody
Speaker 1: else had their kids back, though.
Speaker 5: There was no explanation of why they even did that.
Speaker 3: It's almost like what movie was that with Will Ferrell
Speaker 3: where the semimi like a million dollars for a half
Speaker 3: court so everyone shows up, we don't have a million dollars, like,
Speaker 3: I'll never make it.
Speaker 5: It makes it? Do you guys?
Speaker 1: Do the Bulls version of that where the guy made
Speaker 1: the shot. It was over half with maybe three quarter
Speaker 1: shot and he signed up and he hits it and
Speaker 1: he wins. I think it's a million dollars.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm mixing the two.
Speaker 1: But in the fine print it said you could have
Speaker 1: never had some sort of like professional and he played
Speaker 1: like some weird for like a year and they never
Speaker 1: gave him the money.
Speaker 7: That's so stupid, and so.
Speaker 1: Like people like Jordan got involved. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: There may be a thirty might have been in the
Speaker 5: last Dance.
Speaker 1: No, I think I watched whatever. Whatever I watched defended
Speaker 1: the clips on TikTok for the whole series. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he it's the shot. The whole team's going crazy,
Speaker 1: George's jumping on. I'm like, yeah, he thought he just
Speaker 1: won whatever it was, thousand million bucks and they never
Speaker 1: gave it to him or at least they didn't then
Speaker 1: now name road ended, Yeah I don't remember. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: go to our talk with former NFL linebacker Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: Jalen was a consensusul American Notre Dame projected top three
Speaker 1: draft pick. He blew out his knee in a bowl
Speaker 1: game against Ohio State. Drafted by the Cowboys in the
Speaker 1: second round twenty sixteen. Awesome career, you can still tell
Speaker 1: by this interview, especially he still loves Notre Dame already
Speaker 1: thinks they're going to be Indiana moving on to the
Speaker 1: next which is pretty funny. And then I called him
Speaker 1: on He's like, no, that's not what I meant. So yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty cool here he is, Jalen Smith. Super cool to
Speaker 1: have Jalen Smith on. Hey Jayleen, just a warning, one
Speaker 1: of my guys here is a massive, die hard, lifelong
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys fan. So if he hits you with like
Speaker 1: a whole lot of Cowboys questions, like I just say,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna ask you like some Notre Dame college
Speaker 1: football playoff, But he's such a Cowboys fan. I'd just
Speaker 1: like to preface that with going, sorry.
Speaker 12: Hey you if you if you're diehard Cowboys fan, it's
Speaker 12: it gets real all year round.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7: Let's just start with that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is my friend Eddie. Eddie lead us
Speaker 1: off with the goo Dallas Cowboys question.
Speaker 5: All right, come on, what's out, Jalen, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Brother dude?
Speaker 3: My first question is like, I mean, obviously I love
Speaker 3: the Cowboys. My whole family loves the Cowboys. But what
Speaker 3: does the rest of the country think about us when
Speaker 3: you go play other places as a Dallas Cowboy?
Speaker 10: Do they just hate us?
Speaker 5: Or do they love us?
Speaker 12: I will say that if you're a Dallas Cowboy, it's
Speaker 12: like there's no in between. It's either you love, absolutely
Speaker 12: love the Dallas Cowboys or you hate everything about what
Speaker 12: Jerry Jones has going on and being a Cowboys for life.
Speaker 12: I understand the magnitude or the significant when we talk
Speaker 12: about America's team. The whole America's Team thing is very real,
Speaker 12: it's very true, and it's not going to change.
Speaker 1: So how do you feel in an adult man says
Speaker 1: we but like, Eddie's not on the team, but you
Speaker 1: actually played for them for years, Like, yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you feel like that?
Speaker 12: I don't mind it, because, like I said, I understand
Speaker 12: the importance of what the Dallas Cowboys has done for
Speaker 12: the sport. It's a global entity and there's nothing short
Speaker 12: of it. It's the reason why I still live in
Speaker 12: Dallas to this day.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about when you were drafted, because
Speaker 1: I mean, you were on the CUSP, but I think
Speaker 1: you were drafted thirty fourth overall, which was like one
Speaker 1: of the first couple picks in the second day. Going
Speaker 1: into the draft, were you feeling where did you feel
Speaker 1: you could go at? From what pick to what pick?
Speaker 1: Were they telling you? And then when it was the
Speaker 1: Cowboys at that thirty fourth pick, like, how did that feel?
Speaker 4: So prior to my jury, I was going to be
Speaker 4: a top three pick.
Speaker 12: So having that injury in the bowl game, the Fiesta Bowl,
Speaker 12: kind of shifted the narrative for really for all of
Speaker 12: college sports, like created the Jalen Smith rule of people
Speaker 12: being allowed to send out of bowl games because of
Speaker 12: risk of injury. If you look at my draft stock
Speaker 12: and where I was going, what I accomplished in college,
Speaker 12: and you know what I was prepping to do at
Speaker 12: the next level. So prior to the NFL Draft, you know,
Speaker 12: like the first rounders get the invite to go to
Speaker 12: wherever they're hosting the draft and all of these different things.
Speaker 12: For US players that have been watching the draft for
Speaker 12: a long time growing up, it's always a dream when
Speaker 12: you know you're going to be a first round pick
Speaker 12: to go to to draft night. I got some extreme detail,
Speaker 12: an insight really from a legendary guy by the name
Speaker 12: of Gil gil Brandt who told me that I wasn't
Speaker 12: going to be drafted on Day one, so have an
Speaker 12: opportunity to spend time at home really allowed me to
Speaker 12: manage my emotions, manage my ego, and all of these
Speaker 12: different things. Now, I wasn't expected. I wasn't expecting to
Speaker 12: be the third pick in the second draft, in the
Speaker 12: second round. So when I was like, as soon as
Speaker 12: I got to my draft party, within ten minutes, my
Speaker 12: number was called and it was a two on four
Speaker 12: number Dallas, Texas. Mind you, at the time, my older brother,
Speaker 12: Ron Smith was playing on the Dallas Cowboys. He just
Speaker 12: finished his rookie year. Our father is a diehard Dallas
Speaker 12: Cowboys fan. So when I seen that area code, it
Speaker 12: was just blessing because I knew I was going to
Speaker 12: get an opportunity to not only play with my brother
Speaker 12: for the first time because he went to Ohio State
Speaker 12: and I'm a Notre Dame guy, but being able to
Speaker 12: play for our dad's favorite team is definitely a family
Speaker 12: dream come true.
Speaker 1: How cold is it put the uniform on, in the
Speaker 1: helmet on for the very first time.
Speaker 12: Nothing like it. Nothing like it because you understand the
Speaker 12: value that comes with it. You understand going into it,
Speaker 12: the degree of stardom or celebrity or you know, just
Speaker 12: having an opportunity to wear that uniform.
Speaker 4: It means a lot for sure.
Speaker 1: So growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which I've been
Speaker 1: to Fort Wayne a bunch of times. Live what a
Speaker 1: couple hours in Fort Wayne now, like our radio shows
Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne have toured through for I have been there.
Speaker 1: It's cold, that's my point. Like it's a cold place.
Speaker 1: It's like colder than where we live all the time.
Speaker 1: Fort Wayne's cold. Now when you decide to go to
Speaker 1: Notre Dame to meet obviously Notre Dame, one of the
Speaker 1: blue bloods in football, it's also very cold. I have
Speaker 1: a friend that played a Notre Dame Golden tate and
Speaker 1: I asked him. I was like, man, that's a whole
Speaker 1: different world. Like it's cold and I gotta imagine when
Speaker 1: you get up there, some of these guys that come
Speaker 1: from Texas, Florida and they come up to Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: like it's like an introduction to new elements in the weather.
Speaker 7: Right to play.
Speaker 4: Football in absolutely because.
Speaker 12: Father time is undefeated and you don't know, you know
Speaker 12: what what our father is going to put us through
Speaker 12: when it comes weatherwise, you can't control it. And it's
Speaker 12: really that second semester after the season when you got
Speaker 12: to go back on campus. There's no football being played.
Speaker 12: There's no uh, there's no there's no training or practice.
Speaker 12: That's and that that's happening. And you got to walk
Speaker 12: through negative ten degree weather to get to your to
Speaker 12: your arts class, to your Portuguese class, two years your
Speaker 12: finance or trigonometry class. It's not a fun thing when
Speaker 12: the windshield is in your face and your you feel
Speaker 12: like your lips are frozen. But I will say, man,
Speaker 12: we play some we play some great football at Notre Dame,
Speaker 12: and it's it's a rich tradition. It's a global entity.
Speaker 12: It's like the Dallas Cowboys, Notre Dame, the New York Yankees,
Speaker 12: like those institutes are in a whole different class so
Speaker 12: it's a lot of appreciation for it, but there's a
Speaker 12: lot of.
Speaker 4: My teammates who come from down South and boy, they
Speaker 4: hate it.
Speaker 1: Well, if someone comes to you now and says he
Speaker 1: they're a seventeen eight year old kid for a five
Speaker 1: star recruit. Coach Framan's recruiting them, and they're like Jalen,
Speaker 1: like like, what's the one reason let's take an al
Speaker 1: out of it. Well, like, what's the one reason about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame that that would make me want to go
Speaker 1: and stay and be fighting Irish.
Speaker 12: It's so it's so deeper than just getting the opportunity
Speaker 12: to play the game that you love at the next level.
Speaker 12: It's about the relationships that you create that last a
Speaker 12: long time, lasts for the next forty years rather than
Speaker 12: just four years. It's not just about a college education.
Speaker 12: It's about the network that you're being aligned with. And
Speaker 12: in any city, any state, any country that you live
Speaker 12: or go into, someone knows about Notre Dame. I was
Speaker 12: in South Africa a few years ago and walking down
Speaker 12: the street and somebody had a Notre Dame hat on.
Speaker 12: So that's the biggest that's the biggest thing, that's the
Speaker 12: biggest benefit it's a real it's a real people's university.
Speaker 12: And the alumni we take it, we don't take it lightly.
Speaker 12: How we understand the importance of togetherness. That's what I
Speaker 12: love about Notre Dame. I'm an hour and a half.
Speaker 12: I'm born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, so an
Speaker 12: hour and a half from Notre Dame. And I'm a
Speaker 12: mama's boy. So I didn't want to go away from
Speaker 12: home for college. You know, I wanted to be close by.
Speaker 12: Like I said, my brother and my older brother played
Speaker 12: at Ohio State, so I was able to take my
Speaker 12: own path.
Speaker 4: But she was a Notre Dame.
Speaker 7: And I love it.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to be there Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about that. Because I'm a big
Speaker 1: coach Freeman guy. Just like i'd play for I suck.
Speaker 1: I would never make the team, but I would like
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. Like you didn't, no, I would say
Speaker 1: right now, I'd be like, I'm in whatever you want
Speaker 1: me to do, Coach. I'll be a wedgebuster right now
Speaker 1: and I will die right now. And so what has
Speaker 1: Coach Freeman done? Like, what's the for that culture at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame.
Speaker 12: I think he's he sparked the urgency for greatness, and
Speaker 12: that's what us alumni we see, we feel. You know,
Speaker 12: I've had a great opportunity to form a relationship with
Speaker 12: the Witch coach Freeman, which goes a few years back now, Marcus.
Speaker 12: He was actually a GA at Ohio State while my
Speaker 12: brother was playing there, So as I was getting recruited,
Speaker 12: getting a chance to meet him and understand his journey,
Speaker 12: I got a great appreciation for Coach Freeman. Can't wait
Speaker 12: to see these guys on Friday. We're going to get
Speaker 12: the job done. It's the Battle of Indiana. And believe
Speaker 12: we haven't played the Hoosiers since nineteen ninety one or
Speaker 12: nineteen ninety five, something like that, so we're gonna I'm
Speaker 12: looking forward to to putting it on them.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Notre Dame being independent still?
Speaker 1: You feel like there's a need for them to hop
Speaker 1: in a conference or you all good at them scheduling everything?
Speaker 12: No, never, And the reason why is because we're the
Speaker 12: University of Notre Dame and you can't tell us that
Speaker 12: we can't go play our arch rival team, which is
Speaker 12: the University of Southern California. You can't tell us that
Speaker 12: we can't play Stanford. The benefits of Notre Dame is
Speaker 12: we play all across the country each year, and I
Speaker 12: never want that to change. Bottom line is we got
Speaker 12: we can only afford to lose one game a year.
Speaker 12: We understand that, we know that, and we're looking forward
Speaker 12: to to our first ever college football playoff home game.
Speaker 12: So South Bend is going to be rocking. I actually
Speaker 12: I'm actually opening up a Japanese ramen cruisine called Genia
Speaker 12: Ramen Bar right across the street from Notre Dame. So
Speaker 12: it's opening up in quarter one of next year. So
Speaker 12: we're looking forward to being a part of the Notre
Speaker 12: Dame community and and giving back. And it's just great
Speaker 12: for for the opportunity to be a part of the
Speaker 12: Notre Dame fighting iverage.
Speaker 1: I gotta feel you feel pretty good about the draw
Speaker 1: just looking through, I feel like Notre Dame obviously you'd
Speaker 1: love to have a buye, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: get one because you didn't want a conference right, and
Speaker 1: those rules should probably change. I think they, and I
Speaker 1: think they will. Just giving them the conference winners is
Speaker 1: not good because it's not the four best teams. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys will never get that buy and I think
Speaker 1: that is a bit unfortunate because if you guys are
Speaker 1: the number one team in the country next year the
Speaker 1: year after, you deserve to have that buy But how
Speaker 1: do you feel about the draw and and your side
Speaker 1: of the bracket there.
Speaker 4: I think the buye is I think it's necessary.
Speaker 12: I think Notre Dame should qualify for that buye only
Speaker 12: if we go undefeated, because we're not in the conference.
Speaker 4: But I like our chances, I really do. We we
Speaker 4: got to take care of home base first, which which
Speaker 4: is in.
Speaker 12: Notre Dame, Indiana, South ben Indiana versus the Indiana Hoosiers,
Speaker 12: who they are.
Speaker 4: They've had an amazing season.
Speaker 12: Great appreciation myself being from the Hoosier State, great appreciation.
Speaker 12: But Indiana, the Indiana University is about basketball. When you
Speaker 12: talk about football in Indiana, there's one place that you
Speaker 12: talk about, and that is the University of Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: And we're playing in the house that Rockney built, Nuke Rockney.
Speaker 12: If you don't know who I'm talking about, It's going
Speaker 12: to be live, it's going to be electric.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be there.
Speaker 12: A lot of our stars and Notre Dame Lennards are
Speaker 12: going to be there and we're gonna get the job done,
Speaker 12: especially it's a night game as well.
Speaker 4: But then I believe next what we will travel to
Speaker 4: to Georgia? Is that correct?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you're assuming, you're already gonna win,
Speaker 1: and I can appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, no, no, we take no opponent lights. Okay,
Speaker 4: speaking bracket, speaking bracket. We go to Georgia next next
Speaker 4: week or whenever that game is.
Speaker 6: Is that.
Speaker 4: Can you answer that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a bowl game, but in a dome, yes,
Speaker 1: so no weather the dome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like,
Speaker 1: I like I like that.
Speaker 4: You know, we travel well as well, so yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Can we go back to the Cowboys for a second.
Speaker 3: You got three in a row and we got dayling here,
Speaker 3: we got three day real quick? So, uh the light
Speaker 3: you know the building, it's three o'clock and that light's
Speaker 3: coming in. Everyone's like, oh man, they missed that pass
Speaker 3: because of the light. How bad is that light coming
Speaker 3: in through the windows?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, sun So I played in Dallas for five
Speaker 4: and a half years and the lighting is real. It's real.
Speaker 4: It's real. The CD isn't lying U.
Speaker 12: We know he should have he would have caught the ball,
Speaker 12: should have caught the ball, all of these different things.
Speaker 4: The lighting is real. However, Jerry Jones is a.
Speaker 12: Extremely successful businessman and he has non negotiables and that's
Speaker 12: one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of speaking of Jerry, you know, you hear
Speaker 3: the players once they leave and say talk about how oh,
Speaker 3: it's such a circus. You know there's people everywhere to
Speaker 3: watching our pregame warm ups.
Speaker 5: Is that accurate? Like everywhere you go there are just
Speaker 5: people watching you.
Speaker 12: That's accurate. I wouldn't call it a circus in a
Speaker 12: negative way. I think it's for it's for certain people, sir.
Speaker 12: A lot of people can't handle it. I don't know
Speaker 12: if it was because I was drafted into it and
Speaker 12: I appreciate it so much, or.
Speaker 4: If because I had a lot.
Speaker 12: Of experience playing at a a program and an institute
Speaker 12: like Notre Dame, which every week there's visibility, there's extreme visibility,
Speaker 12: which is another reason why there's Notre Dame fans across
Speaker 12: the globe.
Speaker 4: Same thing for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 12: So being a part of the least two rich entities,
Speaker 12: you know, I was able to understand and appreciate the
Speaker 12: limelight and me being a competitor. I operate, I operate
Speaker 12: so much better under pressure. So that's really my take
Speaker 12: on the whole Dallas Cowboy being a circus thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, last question, last question, So will you give us
Speaker 3: a little bit of encouragement going into the future because
Speaker 3: this has been a tough year for us? And my
Speaker 3: take too, Jalen, is that, like you know, Dallas Cowboy fans,
Speaker 3: we've complained about, oh, we choking the playoffs and we suck,
Speaker 3: we suck, you.
Speaker 5: Know, but in reality we haven't.
Speaker 3: This year, we're finally realizing what that means, like we
Speaker 3: are not going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: It's a bad season.
Speaker 3: So can you give us a little bit of encouragement
Speaker 3: going in the future, Like what do we need to
Speaker 3: do to go win that Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: I believe, man, I believe that.
Speaker 12: It's all about one accounts, it's all about when it counts.
Speaker 12: I think Cowboys, we have proven that we can have
Speaker 12: success in the regular season, but for some reason it
Speaker 12: hasn't been able to translate.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if that's a personnel thing, if
Speaker 4: that's a.
Speaker 12: The way in which we attack the playoff games. I'm
Speaker 12: not sure exactly what it's gonna take. I do know
Speaker 12: that Cherry really does want to win. He really does.
Speaker 12: He really does. I firmly believe that he wants to
Speaker 12: win again. But yeah, sometimes you got a plateau. And
Speaker 12: I know, losing dan Quinn that was that.
Speaker 4: That was tough. That was tough. And then I mean,
Speaker 4: injury availability.
Speaker 12: Matters tremendously, and you know, when you lose your starting quarterback,
Speaker 12: it puts.
Speaker 4: The odds against you.
Speaker 12: Even though I love Cooper Rush, we were in the
Speaker 12: same draft class, that's my brother. But yeah, I think
Speaker 12: that I think that the Cowboys fans deserve deserve it.
Speaker 12: It's been a long time.
Speaker 1: So two questions left, like how are you feeling?
Speaker 7: Like, what's up?
Speaker 1: Let's go. You're getting back in.
Speaker 7: Let's get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: Jared needs to bring me back. Yeah, right, I can come.
Speaker 4: I can come and dominate with with the with the
Speaker 4: hot shot talent, uh, the Mario oversha and I love it.
Speaker 4: That's my little brother. I love his game.
Speaker 12: I would I would love to come rock out with
Speaker 12: him and we can go out the right way. I
Speaker 12: can retire a Cowboy. H I'm I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: You're healthy, like you're just waiting for a call from
Speaker 1: from somebody to do something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Man, year nine, I'm healthy, I'm I'm ready. I'm staying ready,
Speaker 12: in shape, and ready to go.
Speaker 4: God's timing, you know.
Speaker 12: Outside of that, I'm the serial entrepreneur, athlete, entrepreneur, I'm
Speaker 12: heavy in the business field.
Speaker 4: And then I'm I'm I'm being a girl dad right now.
Speaker 12: Man, I got my I got six month old, my my,
Speaker 12: my first time being a father. So you know, there's
Speaker 12: always work to be done.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Jalen Smith, emmy, I because I was
Speaker 1: ready about it. You talking about being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 8: I mean this is that?
Speaker 1: What are you doing over there? Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, so MEI is all about investing.
Speaker 12: It's all about helping close the economic and educational gap
Speaker 12: that exists in this world today. So I founded MAI
Speaker 12: to help provide financial funding, mentorship, and also you know,
Speaker 12: helping with entrepreneurs putting together strategic execution plans.
Speaker 4: So investing in black and brown and Latin X companies.
Speaker 12: We've invested at one point four million dollars into thirteen
Speaker 12: different companies over the past four years and opened up
Speaker 12: marketplaces to be able to you know, invest in people
Speaker 12: who have tremendous ideas for lack of resources. There's something
Speaker 12: that's dear to my heart, my purpose beyond athletics to
Speaker 12: help close the economic and educational gap.
Speaker 4: Started my own.
Speaker 12: Life insurance agency recently to help educate and protect families
Speaker 12: as well. So there's a lot of different things that
Speaker 12: I got going on. Like I said, I have a
Speaker 12: huge purpose beyond athletics, but you know, I make sure
Speaker 12: I'm up in the mornings getting my work in to
Speaker 12: stay ready too.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Jaylensmith dot com if you guys want to
Speaker 1: check more about what he's talking about. And he's already
Speaker 1: got his bags packed for that Georgia game, which is fun. Hey, Indiana,
Speaker 1: ain't nothing but a thing about night that's happening, and
Speaker 1: we're moving on.
Speaker 7: Jane.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate the time rooting for you. Obviously. Eddie,
Speaker 1: being a huge Cowboys fan, was super excited that you
Speaker 1: were on. Thank you, Dale, and to hear all the
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Speaker 1: A couple things before we jump out of here. Connor
Speaker 1: McGregor says, you may fight Logan Paul in India. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're Conor McGregor or anybody else that's a fighter,
Speaker 1: you want to fight Logan Pol anywhere because you will
Speaker 1: make so much money, and Logan Pol make a bunch
Speaker 1: of money. I think I'm just kind of getting over
Speaker 1: the Logan Pol thing now, and Connor McGregor's already done that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to box for a bunch of money as
Speaker 1: a sideshow type thing.
Speaker 5: Floyd Mayweather, Yeah, so it was a disaster.
Speaker 1: This one doesn't really interest me that much. I would
Speaker 1: be interested if it were Mike Vick you talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: like somebody like that, versus Logan Pole like that would
Speaker 1: interest me. Logan Pol's not a box I mean fixed
Speaker 1: on a boxer. People are like Logan Pol's not as
Speaker 1: good as a boxer as you think, So why he
Speaker 1: keeps fighting chumps? The one boxer he did fight he
Speaker 1: lost my Logan or j Logan, But you're thinking Jake,
Speaker 1: But Logan fights too, doesn't get wrestles and stuff. But
Speaker 1: I want to fight either one of the polls?
Speaker 5: What because because Jake is like real mma though.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about boxing. Let me see Connor McGregor announces
Speaker 1: in a boxing exhibition. Yeah but Logan Paul, But does
Speaker 1: it matter? Aren't it the same thing? Like now the
Speaker 1: one of the really boxers and they both make a
Speaker 1: much money to fight him.
Speaker 8: I feel like like Logan is a little more legit.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I don't know enough about who's legit of
Speaker 1: the Paul.
Speaker 7: Jake feels full of chumped to me, But Logan I
Speaker 7: feels more legit.
Speaker 5: Logan was the one spraying all the perfume, not the match.
Speaker 1: Jake spot the last one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Jake is tyson.
Speaker 1: I need to be educated on this thing because I'm again,
Speaker 1: I know the differences. And he's awesome, and he's good.
Speaker 1: He's awesome. He's a great wrestler. Yeah, yeah, he's like legitimate.
Speaker 1: It's not even like looks weird, Like he's somebody that's
Speaker 1: trying that really isn't like back in the day, like
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson tried to wrestle, or any Karl Malone wrestled
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, they're athletes, but they're not real. No,
Speaker 1: Logan Paulo is like a real wrestler.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a big dude. He's good.
Speaker 1: But when you want to fight Jake or Logan and
Speaker 1: make you ten million bucks in the end.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess, yeah, why wouldn't you?
Speaker 5: But for us, like I don't want to watch that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch I'm saying Connor McGregor doesn't
Speaker 1: interest me at all.
Speaker 3: Really, if he came back and fight UFC, that wouldn't
Speaker 3: be interesting. That would be interested in Yeah me, but
Speaker 3: you're not in the boxing exhibitions. We've already seen the
Speaker 3: boxing side show where he's like, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: a boxer and then Midweather just slaps him around and wins.
Speaker 5: And then he like kicks. He's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: I'm just used to kicking, Like and it's too.
Speaker 8: Close to the Tyson Jake Pole fight.
Speaker 1: We're still we're still like thinking about that, Like I
Speaker 1: think I might have thought of the same person.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's fair boxing.
Speaker 3: You think they're the same person until you see him
Speaker 3: side aside and they're like, oh no, you're not the same.
Speaker 7: You're very good.
Speaker 1: Most twins though, too, I'm like, they look exactly the
Speaker 1: same they stand by, I'm like, oh, I can definitely
Speaker 1: see that they're like exactly the same. But yes, yes,
Speaker 1: which one's older?
Speaker 9: I think Loganah, Logan's older, but a little shorter, taller
Speaker 9: and taller.
Speaker 8: I think it's Taller's tall?
Speaker 1: Yeah, is Jake thicker? Yes, Jake looks okay, he's monsters
Speaker 1: a big dude. Anyway, I don't care. I'd want to
Speaker 1: see out the one in the fight somebody that I'm
Speaker 1: interested in seeing that person fight like an athlete, like
Speaker 1: an ex athlete from another sport. But that is like
Speaker 1: awes It's like an awesome version of it. But like,
Speaker 1: who would be the greatest athlete right now? It's retired
Speaker 1: or even still play?
Speaker 7: No get killed?
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, you wouldn't that crazy.
Speaker 7: Not as CARDI.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be good to know. But like sha Shaq
Speaker 1: and Gronk are going to box.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they were talking about that as they said
Speaker 8: they wanted.
Speaker 1: I would be interested in.
Speaker 9: That big old like the socket things, big gloves.
Speaker 7: That Paul. I guess.
Speaker 1: I know they're two different people, but I think they're
Speaker 1: the same person.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it took me a minute to realize. I was like, wait,
Speaker 8: that's not.
Speaker 1: About Conor Record. That's the whole point of that story.
Speaker 1: I give no craps about Connor.
Speaker 5: I love him.
Speaker 1: NFL needs to chill out when it comes to flexing
Speaker 1: these games so late. Because let's say you have a son,
Speaker 1: you're going to a game on Sunday. For example, Kevin
Speaker 1: dad came down to the Titans game. You guys went Patriots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's on Sunday, but like a week before the like,
Speaker 1: we're flexing the game, moving that game to a Thursday.
Speaker 1: But Kevin's dad has plans to come down on Saturday
Speaker 1: for the Sunday game from Massachusetts. H. Well, now you're screwed.
Speaker 1: You can't go to the game because they just moved
Speaker 1: the whole night of the game. Yeah, and that is
Speaker 1: becoming an issue with fans because they have tickets if
Speaker 1: they're going to come from out of state, other city.
Speaker 3: Job.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize they've done that, so they.
Speaker 1: Voted last year to change flex scheduling procedures, and they're
Speaker 1: putting to effect this season. The tonight's matchup was supposed
Speaker 1: to last night, I guess last night because it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be Browns and Bengals, but they switched to
Speaker 1: Broncos and Chargers.
Speaker 5: WHOA, that's crazy.
Speaker 8: And even the Patriots game next week I believe got
Speaker 8: flexed from Sunday to Saturday. So like, there's a lot
Speaker 8: of these going.
Speaker 1: On, and most of the flexing happens after they know
Speaker 1: who's good and who's not. You see a lot of
Speaker 1: flexing the first half of the season if they're still
Speaker 1: feeling out right who sucks and who doesn't. But now
Speaker 1: they know and they know what the implications are these
Speaker 1: games and where the ratings are probably going to fall.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but they used to do it like from Sunday
Speaker 8: afternoon to Sunday night primetime, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know, probably yes, they in the same day.
Speaker 1: They would change, just change the time of the game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's okay, but yeah, Thursday stuff.
Speaker 3: And then what about those posters that they hang at
Speaker 3: bars man with the whole schedule that all changes too.
Speaker 10: You actually, the change and.
Speaker 1: What about the great point?
Speaker 5: Did not that whole schedule up there and now you
Speaker 5: can change it on me.
Speaker 1: Not factor into my thoughts. But that's a great point.
Speaker 1: That's so stupid. Yeah, uh, let's do CFP real quick.
Speaker 1: Who has the best chance to upset Indiana Notre Dame? Say,
Speaker 1: if you think, uh, this is the game, you think
Speaker 1: the upside is Notre Dame's favorite.
Speaker 5: I think that can happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not saying it will happen with that one.
Speaker 5: That can happen.
Speaker 1: You think Indiana can be Notre Dame?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 1: SMU at Penn State, well penstay, I know they lost,
Speaker 1: but they look really good against Oregon clembs into Texas.
Speaker 10: Yeah this game me too. This game me too, little
Speaker 10: damn bo magic.
Speaker 5: Sorry, but the.
Speaker 1: Tennessee I say too. That one that was legitimate too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that one.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised to spreads over a touchdown.
Speaker 8: Me too.
Speaker 1: But I think I hate Clemson lesson that its centerment
Speaker 1: for Clemson. The problem is Texas is SEC, and I
Speaker 1: always root for the SEC. But Texas isn't the SEC.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, just no, how many years.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be officially SEC positive never worry first, God,
Speaker 1: I hate him and I don't like Clemson. I don't
Speaker 1: want Clemson to win either, but I'm going Clemson if
Speaker 1: I have to pick one of those Saturday games. So
Speaker 1: tomorrow Texas and Chiefs, that'd be good. Chiefs three and
Speaker 1: a half point favorites. That's it. I guess it's because
Speaker 1: they don't know if Mahome is gonna play or not,
Speaker 1: although he's been a full participant in practice.
Speaker 8: But I think that the Texans opened what Texans opened
Speaker 8: as favorites, and that as the week's gone on. Oh
Speaker 8: so that just means to me that Mahomes is playing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the Texans just haven't been as hot.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they don't look nearly as good as we thought.
Speaker 1: Ravens in Baltimore against the Steelers, Ravens six and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. Surprise, it's almost a touchdown there.
Speaker 4: And they lost to him.
Speaker 10: That's high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even though it is in Baltimore, I'm still surprised.
Speaker 1: In the Sunday games, Giants and Falcons. The interesting game,
Speaker 1: but think about that is Penick will be playing quarterback
Speaker 1: for the first time. Lions at Bears. Do the Lions
Speaker 1: even need eleven people in defense. Nah, I mean at
Speaker 1: this point they don't have but they barely have eleven. Man,
Speaker 1: maybe they can play seven against eleven other Bears and
Speaker 1: like even it out a little bit because they shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But the Lions have lost a lot.
Speaker 10: Yeah, how bad for him.
Speaker 1: Browns at Bengals Bengals seven half point favorite. Bengals can't
Speaker 1: stop anybody. But who's starting quarterback for the Browns?
Speaker 10: I think they're gotta go back to Jamis.
Speaker 1: You do think they are? Or they should?
Speaker 10: I mean, what was that DTR guy? He did not
Speaker 10: look that good, So I think I'd take my chances
Speaker 10: with Jamis.
Speaker 1: Titans at Colts. Colts are in half point favorite Indy.
Speaker 5: As long as Taylor just holes onto the ball.
Speaker 1: Dude, what adult does that? I don't know what adult
Speaker 1: does that. Don't know what adult. Let's go to the ball.
Speaker 1: What professional adults plays Footballlet's go the ball.
Speaker 5: It's silly.
Speaker 1: Rams three point favorite the Jets, Rams U. Rams may
Speaker 1: make a run. They may make a real run.
Speaker 10: Rams.
Speaker 1: You know I love Stafford anyway, They may make a
Speaker 1: real run. Eagles three and a half point favorites at
Speaker 1: Commanders Eddie Show. Want the Eagles win that one. On
Speaker 1: zero point five.
Speaker 5: We want commanders just lose it all.
Speaker 1: All. I want commanders to lose it all because I
Speaker 1: have five hundred bucks on bow next to win. Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year is like six thousand dollars and he's
Speaker 1: not the favorite. I think he was like plus two
Speaker 1: to fifty when I looked, he was second overall. I
Speaker 1: just need the Commanders to fall off.
Speaker 10: Ja.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cardinals five point favorite of the Panthers. Vikings three point
Speaker 1: favorite of the Seahawks. Vikings just keep winning. Patriots at
Speaker 1: the Bills. The Bills are fourteen point favorite.
Speaker 9: Murder.
Speaker 1: Bills are just on fire. Forty nine Ers at Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Dolphins a one point favorite in Miami. But what does
Speaker 1: they say about the forty nine ers? What's said about
Speaker 1: the dolphin? Because four hits have nothing, right, they have nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the Bucks the Cowboys to a four point
Speaker 1: favorite in Dallas.
Speaker 5: That's the game of the week.
Speaker 1: That's a game this week, game on Saturday, game this week.
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Speaker 1: week too, like the big radio shows off. We have
Speaker 1: a couple episodes. We'll do next week as well, So
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