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Speaker 2: you ever had an oyster? He goes, yeah, yeah, don't
Speaker 2: they have like a pearl in him? And I go, no, no,
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Speaker 4: For some reason, I thought it was that little pearl thing,
Speaker 4: one of those little white circles counts as a royal oyster.
Speaker 3: But I guess I don't even know what a royal
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Speaker 2: Then I don't think that would be good to eat.
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Speaker 2: And so's all that. Well, they're raw, just to let
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Speaker 4: But there's the scallops and there's the ribby, and there's
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Speaker 2: It's Texas and Ohio State. We will talk to the
Speaker 2: Arizona head football coach, Kenny Dillingham a little later on.
Speaker 2: Also Bill Cower will join us. It'll be the Steeler
Speaker 2: head coach, CBS Sports Hall of Famer a little bit
Speaker 2: later on as well. The most must win game of
Speaker 2: the weekend, we'll have that for you coming up. But
Speaker 2: Notre Dame comes back to beat Penn State twenty seven
Speaker 2: to twenty four. And it was such a weird game
Speaker 2: when you think about it, the back and forth with
Speaker 2: this Penn State scores the first ten Notre Dame, the
Speaker 2: next seventeen, Penn State, the next four team and then
Speaker 2: Notre Dame scores the final ten points. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of different directions to go in. I think if you're
Speaker 2: a Penn State fan, you've been down this road before,
Speaker 2: certainly with your head coach. James Franklin doesn't do well
Speaker 2: in games against top ten opponents. In fact, he's three
Speaker 2: and eleven facing a top ten team when his team
Speaker 2: was also ranked in the top ten. That's the worst
Speaker 2: record by any active coach with at least ten such games.
Speaker 2: But give credit to Marcus Freeman Notre Dame. At one
Speaker 2: point I text the dan Nets and I said, I
Speaker 2: don't know if they're going to win, but Penn State's
Speaker 2: a better team than Notre Dame. They had more explosive
Speaker 2: players have due Carter is awesome. I watched him against USC.
Speaker 2: I've watched him twice. Like a true game. Now, you
Speaker 2: can watch highlights and you can make somebody really good
Speaker 2: or really bad in a highlight. But he is a disruptor.
Speaker 2: And he wasn't one hundred percent. And we kept thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: they got a running attack, that offensive line was great,
Speaker 2: and I was just waiting for Drew Aller to be
Speaker 2: who I guess we thought he was. That he was
Speaker 2: not going to make mistakes, spat it around. The wide
Speaker 2: receivers for Penn State didn't have a reception. That's really
Speaker 2: really hard to do. But Notre Dame hung in there.
Speaker 2: You know, when Riley Leonard got knocked down, I thought
Speaker 2: he had a concussion, and then you have the backup
Speaker 2: quarterback who comes in and leads them down to a
Speaker 2: field goal, going six per seven in that drive, and
Speaker 2: I thought that's more than three points because I didn't
Speaker 2: know if Riley Leonard was going to be able to
Speaker 2: come back it in play. The backup quarterback who's been
Speaker 2: there for I don't know, two or three years, waiting
Speaker 2: his turn while they bring in all these transfers and
Speaker 2: they get a field goal, and it just felt like
Speaker 2: it was ten to three, but it felt like it
Speaker 2: was ten to ten. Penn State looked like they should
Speaker 2: have been up by thirteen fourteen points. I thought they
Speaker 2: were that good, but they just didn't make a big
Speaker 2: play when they needed to, and then you had the
Speaker 2: interception late in the game that led to the game
Speaker 2: winning field goal. Here's Marcus Freeman on his team last night.
Speaker 5: In the second half, he made some Jeremiah Love plays,
Speaker 5: and you know when it speaks volumes to the heart
Speaker 5: he has. He gave everything he had to this place.
Speaker 5: He did not have to play today, and you know,
Speaker 5: nobody would have bet it an I, but he put
Speaker 5: team in front of himself and how he felt. And
Speaker 5: we got a whole bunch of guys like that in
Speaker 5: the locker room, and that's why we're in this position.
Speaker 2: Here is the call Notre Dame Radio Network with the
Speaker 2: game winning field goal by Mitch Jeter.
Speaker 6: Goot snap good, hold, kick on its way and is good.
Speaker 7: It's Jeter who's seventh second left gives the Irish hold
Speaker 7: twenty seven twenty four Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: He's on the precipice. Yes, and they've also done maybe
Speaker 2: the impossible. They're kind of likable. Whether you know, I
Speaker 2: grew up a Notre Dame fan, but if you're not
Speaker 2: a Notre Dame fan, like I don't think you go, well,
Speaker 2: I hate Marcus Freeman Like Marcus Freeman's a guy I'd
Speaker 2: want to play for. And you can get that. Remember
Speaker 2: when he got the head coaching job, when Brian Kelly left,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he walks into the room,
Speaker 2: into the locker room, and his players erupted like it
Speaker 2: was such a cool moment. Now, granted, you know some
Speaker 2: of those players aren't there anymore, but that feeling is
Speaker 2: still there. And then they made the right place when
Speaker 2: they needed to. And you know, right before dru Aler
Speaker 2: throws that interception, Greg McElroy said, hey, you know he
Speaker 2: takes care of the football until he didn't. Here is
Speaker 2: the quarterback for Penn State on that turnover.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I was going through my progression, got
Speaker 8: to the backside, and honestly, I was just trying to
Speaker 8: dirt it at his feet. But just I should have
Speaker 8: just thrown it a way when I felt the first
Speaker 8: two progressions not open, just because of the situation we
Speaker 8: were in. But I was just trying to dirt it
Speaker 8: out Amari's feet. So but just did to execute what
Speaker 8: I was trying to do, and he was hit when
Speaker 8: he threw it.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those plays that you still have
Speaker 2: two timeouts left, little less than a minute to go,
Speaker 2: and you know the fact that you have two timeouts
Speaker 2: and you have a little bit of time on the clock,
Speaker 2: that's why you're not going to play for overtime. You're
Speaker 2: not going to you know, you're trying to do something
Speaker 2: and I think that they got a little too aggressive
Speaker 2: there instead of throwing the ball away obviously, but for
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Now they wait for the winner of tonight's
Speaker 2: game with Ohio State and Texas. By the way, Ohio
Speaker 2: State is the favor to win the national title. Bennett's
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and Texas. Ohio State is a six point
Speaker 2: favorite coming up tonight, Pole question Today's Seaton. By the way,
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Speaker 9: I don't know if he can call them up right away,
Speaker 9: but he has one here that was interesting. Would you
Speaker 9: rather be today, James Franklin or Brian Kelly?
Speaker 10: Wow?
Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, voters take your place.
Speaker 2: Dang, where did that come from?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: One's working on an accent, one's gonna, you know, playing
Speaker 4: for a national title.
Speaker 2: Uh well, no, he's not playing for a national type.
Speaker 9: Well, a lot of people were pointing out, let's say
Speaker 9: that Brian Kelly left Notre Dame because he wanted to
Speaker 9: go to a place where he could win a national title.
Speaker 9: That is true, and thus far, well, he struggled to
Speaker 9: be anywhere close to that. I would rather be Brian
Speaker 9: Kelly today. I would rather be Brian Kelly because once
Speaker 9: again this this stays with James Franklin.
Speaker 2: He can't win. He doesn't win now, is it all
Speaker 2: on him?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: But you know it still comes back to you. It's
Speaker 2: on your one loss record. It's not on Drew Awler's
Speaker 2: one lost record as much as it is James Franklin.
Speaker 2: And it's not a coincidence. He just doesn't win when
Speaker 2: his team is ranked in the top ten. He doesn't
Speaker 2: beat top ten opponents. Yeah.
Speaker 9: So when you have like this, that's like, you know,
Speaker 9: wide receivers had like zero touches, zero yards, zero touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you put that more on the head coach for not
Speaker 9: finding a way to get his receivers of the ball.
Speaker 9: Then you do the quarterback who has to get it there? Well,
Speaker 9: I would say both yeah, yeah, I would say obviously
Speaker 9: shared responsibility, but.
Speaker 2: I'd put it on the offensive coordinator. Yeah, and James Franklin, Like,
Speaker 2: you want to put your players in a position to succeed,
Speaker 2: and so that's why you have coaches. They need to
Speaker 2: be coached to be put in positions to succeed. It's
Speaker 2: really hard to not have a reception if you your
Speaker 2: Penn State wide receivers and nobody has a reception. And
Speaker 2: I still watching that first half, I kept thinking, boy,
Speaker 2: they better score points and you got a great tight end.
Speaker 2: It just felt like all else fails go to Warren.
Speaker 2: They had a running game, you had two running backs,
Speaker 2: offensive line, you had a defensive player might have been
Speaker 2: the best player on the field. Like it was all there.
Speaker 2: It matched up for you. I mean, Riley Leonard played
Speaker 2: well in the second half through for one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty yards, but you're still watching, and I just thought
Speaker 2: Penn State should be dominating, like physically dominating this game.
Speaker 2: And then it's it's almost like Notre Dame got that
Speaker 2: confidence boost. Then Ridley Leonard comes back and they kind
Speaker 2: of it's almost like when you face Mike Tyson, not
Speaker 2: that Penn State is Mike Tyson, but you have to
Speaker 2: survive the first two rounds and then once you do,
Speaker 2: then you gain confidence. And it's like Notre Dame was
Speaker 2: getting hit and then they're like, all right, we're hanging
Speaker 2: in here, hanging in here, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they didn't get knocked down, they didn't get knocked out,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a testament to them, and they
Speaker 2: made some big plays when they needed to. Would anybody
Speaker 2: want to be James Franklin over Brian Kelly today?
Speaker 12: Yes, Paul today. It's painful, but you're close. You're not
Speaker 12: off the map right now. LSU with all that talent,
Speaker 12: not being in the playoff picture is more embarrassing. Okay,
Speaker 12: By the way, people in college football like the James
Speaker 12: Franklin nickname small game James.
Speaker 2: Wow d Okay, set a big game James. Okay, dang, Yes, Ton.
Speaker 3: I would agree with Pauli that you got it to
Speaker 3: the final four.
Speaker 4: I know you didn't get over the hump just yet,
Speaker 4: but you're extremely relevant and something to build on, and
Speaker 4: they were one of the last four teams.
Speaker 3: So I'd rather be James.
Speaker 9: Frank Okay, Seaton, right, I think you want to be
Speaker 9: playing at the bare minimum even if you're even if
Speaker 9: you are, say, small game, James, you at least got
Speaker 9: to the big game to not.
Speaker 2: Be able to you know, you lost it, But yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess I don't want that reputation if I can't
Speaker 2: win a big game and it's there, and we thought
Speaker 2: that going into I just thought, you know what, somehow
Speaker 2: Someway Notre Dame wins this game, even though I thought
Speaker 2: Penn State was far and away the better team, certainly
Speaker 2: in that first half. Yes, Marvin, Then what's Brian Kelly's reputation?
Speaker 2: Maybe the guy who left Notre Dame to try to
Speaker 2: win titles and then Notre Dame won a national title?
Speaker 2: Forgive me Brian. Wait wait, wait, no, that's not nice
Speaker 2: because he hadn't even won all of his games. You no, yes,
Speaker 2: it's still early, but Marcus Freeman did the impossible. He
Speaker 2: made Notre Dame likable at least. Maybe I'm overstating this,
Speaker 2: but I just get the feeling that people watch Notre
Speaker 2: Dame and they're like, okay, all right, you know kind
Speaker 2: of spunky here.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, Brian Kelly got to the National Championship game,
Speaker 9: and Notre Dame's still hasn't gotten the stink off of
Speaker 9: them yet.
Speaker 2: From that game.
Speaker 9: They got destroyed us. They got absolutely destroyed by Alabama.
Speaker 9: That was his one moment of let's see what happens
Speaker 9: when you get the big game.
Speaker 2: He at least got to the big game.
Speaker 9: Notre Dame still isn't taken seriously as a football program
Speaker 9: because of that one game.
Speaker 2: And I'm a Notre Dame fan, and that one game
Speaker 2: was so bad. That's when you realized that there was
Speaker 2: a difference between the SEC and everybody else, or you
Speaker 2: were reminded that there's a big difference because you watched.
Speaker 2: When you watch Notre Dame, it's like and I always
Speaker 2: thought maybe their cleats are heavier than everybody, and like
Speaker 2: they always seemed slower when they were facing Alabama because
Speaker 2: Alabama came in. It's like uh, you guys are supposed
Speaker 2: to be good. They blew them out. It's a different
Speaker 2: Notre Dame team. You know, it's not a finesse team.
Speaker 2: You know, they had to kind of sec that lineup
Speaker 2: a little bit. Yes, Marvin, wait, hold on, Notre Dame
Speaker 2: got molly wopped by Clemson also in the final four.
Speaker 2: That maybe the Cotton Bowl. Okay, they got Look it's
Speaker 2: probably thirty three to three. Yeah, but that was a
Speaker 2: while ago, two eighteen. That's that's an internity.
Speaker 9: It's definitely way more recent than the example I gave. Correct,
Speaker 9: I was twenty thirteen, so correct.
Speaker 2: I think I'd still rather be Brian Kelly than I
Speaker 2: would James Franklin today. But that's a great poll question.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll ask Chris Fowler that d and he
Speaker 2: just canceled. Yeah. Yeah, we normally don't have you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes you get people say, hey, uh, you know, he'll
Speaker 2: do the interview, but not Chris. But you know we'll
Speaker 2: have gaslet said, but you can't ask about and normally
Speaker 2: it's the question I wasn't going to ask that they
Speaker 2: bring up to me that I go, oh, maybe I
Speaker 2: should ask that question.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Paulie, I'm not going to give names, but a
Speaker 12: major music artist was coming in studio, and the last
Speaker 12: thing we heard from the pub is a was don't
Speaker 12: ask about what happened in Vegas last week. We had
Speaker 12: no idea until we looked it up and we're.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, oh yeah, I'm like I want to ask that.
Speaker 9: So anything interesting.
Speaker 2: What goes on in Vegas? Stas he was thinking, last
Speaker 2: time I was in Vegas, it was really a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. Ever been there?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's actually happened a number of times.
Speaker 3: Don't ask him what the cops founded his trunk. He
Speaker 3: doesn't want to get it.
Speaker 2: Talk about, okay, what they found in his trunk. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember right before we were gonna have Barry Bonds
Speaker 2: on and we were told this is they're going to
Speaker 2: hand him the phone, and he was on and he
Speaker 2: was I think he was promoting a new personality. And
Speaker 2: maybe it was KFC or maybe it was his home
Speaker 2: security uh company, I don't know what it was. But
Speaker 2: they're like, all right, Barry's joining us from spring training,
Speaker 2: and hey, before if we're not talking about stairs there
Speaker 2: any of that stuff, and you know, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: here's baar. I go wait on hold on here. I
Speaker 2: have to I have to do and I can't have
Speaker 2: bombs on and then go, hey, so what do you
Speaker 2: attribute your growth to? Now thirty seconds, you're gonna give
Speaker 2: me ground rules. I'm like, no, tell Dan no baseball questions.
Speaker 2: It's cream clear.
Speaker 3: People going to jail for him. We we're not getting to.
Speaker 2: It all right, We're just getting started here. Chris Fowler
Speaker 2: will join us. He'll be on the call tonight for
Speaker 2: Texas and Ohio State. We'll get to those phone calls.
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Speaker 2: Chris Fowler, he'll be on the call. It's the Cotton
Speaker 2: Bowl coming up tonight, Texas, Ohio State Herbie will be there,
Speaker 2: Holly row Laura Rutledge festivities on the mother Ship starting
Speaker 2: at seven point thirty Eastern. He'll also be on the
Speaker 2: call for the National title game. Here's your question and Chris, Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, it's a good thing they're not playing
Speaker 2: the game outdoors. How does it look outside there in
Speaker 2: Dallas wintrey.
Speaker 7: We had like a nice wintry mix. It was snow
Speaker 7: that became hail, sleep rain yesterday. It's wild. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 7: it gets frigid also, like very cold and windy. The
Speaker 7: at and T is right behind me here out that window.
Speaker 7: It's hard to see, but it's got so in the
Speaker 7: top of it, and it's nice and warm even in
Speaker 7: cold weather. Some stadiums are cold when it's cold outside
Speaker 7: because they don't have heat in them, and this one
Speaker 7: is nice and toasty, So good setting.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the question I'll start the conversation with.
Speaker 2: Would you rather be James Franklin this morning or Brian Kelly.
Speaker 7: Oh Man, I got to pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think James Franklin's team. It was a
Speaker 7: it was a good run. I mean, it's a heartbreaking
Speaker 7: way to lose the game. Some of those plays that
Speaker 7: decide it will haunt probably him and his team for
Speaker 7: a while. But I think there's a lot to be
Speaker 7: proud of what Penn State did and batt Levin and
Speaker 7: I don't think that they have anything to really be
Speaker 7: embarrassed about it at Penn State. If you're James Franklin certainly,
Speaker 7: you know, I think you've answered some questions. Some remain,
Speaker 7: but I think I think it was a really good
Speaker 7: year of Penn State.
Speaker 2: But when we talk about James Franklin, it's about his
Speaker 2: record against top ten teams. I mean, that's really what
Speaker 2: his resume seems to be about. Is that favorite.
Speaker 7: Oh well, it's whatever the media decides it's about. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's part of it. You are, when you're a program
Speaker 7: at Penn State, you were expected to compete with and
Speaker 7: beat the best. Your share of the time, most of
Speaker 7: those losses are to Ohio State, you know. And I
Speaker 7: was wondering if that was going to be the narrative
Speaker 7: at Penn State. One last night. Ohio State wins tonight,
Speaker 7: another rematch in an all Big ten game and in
Speaker 7: a series that obviously Ohio State's dominated, and I called
Speaker 7: the last time Penn State beat them was a block
Speaker 7: field goal run back by Grand Haley on a whiteout night.
Speaker 7: It's been since then, So we're not going to get
Speaker 7: that narrative. And I think that's okay because I don't
Speaker 7: know how much national belief there would be the Pen's
Speaker 7: Sake could get over the hump against the red hot
Speaker 7: Buckeye seen if that's what happened. So we don't have
Speaker 7: that narrative. But you know again, yeah, he's gonna have
Speaker 7: to get better. They get the beat Ohio State once
Speaker 7: in a while, but I don't I don't think that's
Speaker 7: sorely laughing. I gotta be honest with I just don't
Speaker 7: you know, you want to look at Ohio State against
Speaker 7: SEC teams who are ranked in the top five. I
Speaker 7: spin this back because bluck eye fans know that James
Speaker 7: Franklin's stats. Okay, well if that's relevant. Is it relevant
Speaker 7: that Ohio State's won seven and one all time against
Speaker 7: SEC top five teams, which Texas is No, I don't
Speaker 7: think so at all. So you can you can spin
Speaker 7: stats any way you want. I mean, would you have
Speaker 7: loved the game, won the game?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 7: Could they have? Should they have? Maybe? But I don't
Speaker 7: think that that that's on James Franklin for sure.
Speaker 2: Do you ever have announcer envy when you're watching a game?
Speaker 2: Of course yeah.
Speaker 7: All the time.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 7: I mean I would not have minded calling Orange Bowl.
Speaker 7: I live in Miami. For one thing, it is not
Speaker 7: wintery in Miami. I really had my expectations for that
Speaker 7: game last night that unfolded. I don't know who's going
Speaker 7: to win. But I was a Notre Dame practice this week.
Speaker 7: I saw the Irish I a forecast the kind of
Speaker 7: game we got. It was going to be three points
Speaker 7: either way. It's going to come out of the last possession.
Speaker 7: I don't mind calling games to coming out of the
Speaker 7: last possession. I would love for this game tonight not
Speaker 7: to be a first round knockout. But listen, Dan, I mean, like,
Speaker 7: who am I to whine of at anything? This is
Speaker 7: our twenty third playoff game the Kirk and I have
Speaker 7: had the privilege to call tonight. That's a big number
Speaker 7: going back to the first one in twenty fourteen. So
Speaker 7: I don't let my envy get in the way of
Speaker 7: having a good time calling whatever I'm calling. But yeah,
Speaker 7: that's a hell of a game to call last night.
Speaker 2: But when you're calling a game like this, I know
Speaker 2: they're supposed to be like it's just another game, but
Speaker 2: it's not just another game. But then you have to
Speaker 2: stay in your comfort zone. Do you ever have that
Speaker 2: kind of conflicting Am I adding too much or not enough?
Speaker 2: Am I excited? Am I favoring somebody or not realizing it, Like,
Speaker 2: do you process any of that while you're getting ready
Speaker 2: or while you're doing it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you do. I don't think I have to worry
Speaker 7: about favoring somebody because if you honestly don't care about
Speaker 7: the outcome and separate yourself from that, then you don't
Speaker 7: have to worry about it. And it's all in the
Speaker 7: ear of a holder anyway. You know, the fans listening,
Speaker 7: you're gonna think, oh, he loves the other team, Toby,
Speaker 7: so look's listen to the call and the other side.
Speaker 7: That's the same thing. I mean, you know, you get
Speaker 7: excited when when good things happen on the field, and
Speaker 7: I don't even think about who's in the uniform that's
Speaker 7: doing it. I think that you know, you do a
Speaker 7: lot of these games. You want to strike the balance
Speaker 7: between certainly not being jaded because you've done a lot
Speaker 7: of big games and I don't think we ever come
Speaker 7: across as being jaded or hey and they're done that.
Speaker 7: It's going to take a lot to impress us. But
Speaker 7: you also don't want to come out of your shoes
Speaker 7: in the first quarter. You have to you know, you
Speaker 7: have to save something for the finish because you can't
Speaker 7: start the game out at eleven and then there's nowhere
Speaker 7: to go. So yeah, I think you learn over time
Speaker 7: that you know a measured approach is good. But you know,
Speaker 7: when Ohio States scored touchdowns on the first two plays
Speaker 7: of the game and Jeremiah Smith is doing something special,
Speaker 7: you know, Okay, you're gonna get really excited about that,
Speaker 7: and you're gonna get excited when the other team starts
Speaker 7: to come back and make it a game we all want.
Speaker 7: We want close games. I have the same agenda. Who
Speaker 7: do you like? I like a close game. I like
Speaker 7: a competitive game that viewers like, the people who are
Speaker 7: not just hardcore fans of the winning team enjoy, because
Speaker 7: I have State fans enjoyed the hell out of those
Speaker 7: first two playoff games that we did. If you want
Speaker 7: a competitive game like last night, not so much so,
Speaker 7: you know I want I want this to be a
Speaker 7: battle worthy of the occasion, which last night' semifinal was.
Speaker 2: Chris Fowler will be on the call with Herbie tonight
Speaker 2: the Goodyear Cotton Bowl that'll be on ESPN. They started
Speaker 2: seven thirty Eastern. Feels like we're underestimating Texas a little
Speaker 2: bit and having and I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: home field advantage Ohio State travels well, I don't know
Speaker 2: what kind of sense you'll get of this is a
Speaker 2: home ish game for Texas.
Speaker 7: Ryan Dave's always really concerned about the crowd. We were
Speaker 7: obviously at Tennessee came in and brought a lot of fans.
Speaker 7: Ohioa stadium that fired up the bluck guys. You know,
Speaker 7: it felt like the Roman Coliseum and something that the
Speaker 7: visitors brought a lot of people, and Ohio State responded
Speaker 7: in that way. At the Rose Bowl, He's going, what
Speaker 7: do you think is it sixty to forty is I
Speaker 7: don't know what the crowd is. There's a lot of greed.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of Scarlett. I mean tonight, there's gonna
Speaker 7: be a lot of bar orange in there. I don't
Speaker 7: think it's going to decide the game, but I do think,
Speaker 7: you know, there's an advantage to playing Texas in Texas.
Speaker 7: You know, if you're the Longhorns, they haven't had great
Speaker 7: success in this building. To be honest with you, they
Speaker 7: have won. They haven't played a Cotton Bowl game in
Speaker 7: twenty years. They've played a big twelve championship game in here.
Speaker 7: But Ohio State Historic has actually done better in this
Speaker 7: building than Texas has. It doesn't mean a lot when
Speaker 7: they're on the same field. But you know, Texas, you
Speaker 7: said underestimated. It's interesting because I think we've been overestimating
Speaker 7: the potential of this team, waiting for the pieces to
Speaker 7: come together, waiting for Texas to play a complete sixty
Speaker 7: minute game in all three phases, which they have not
Speaker 7: really come close to doing it. For being honest, they
Speaker 7: played great football for like thirty minutes. They have a
Speaker 7: terrible record after halftime in these games. You know, Sarkisian,
Speaker 7: he just has to address it. So they have to
Speaker 7: weather the start against Ohio State, as everybody does. They're
Speaker 7: a good starting team. Texas starts well. Their defense is
Speaker 7: the best in the country in the first quarter at
Speaker 7: limiting plays and limiting points. So a lot of say,
Speaker 7: we'll have to try to change that. But Texas dan
Speaker 7: they haven't scored a third quarter touchdown in like six games.
Speaker 7: They have an outscored and opponent in the second half
Speaker 7: since they beat Oklahoma in the Red River game here
Speaker 7: in Dallas. That's a long time. That's a shocking stat
Speaker 7: for a really good team. It's won thirteen games.
Speaker 2: I go back to, you know the fact that we
Speaker 2: extended the playoff to twelve teams. When Ryan Day lost
Speaker 2: to Michigan. I wonder if there was a four team playoff,
Speaker 2: would Ryan Day have kept his job?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you would have. But I think it
Speaker 7: would have been a really long, miserable lost season in
Speaker 7: Columbus without the chance to redeem yourself. But we do
Speaker 7: have a twelve team playoff, so I think you have
Speaker 7: to filter it in. I know Ohio State fans. I've
Speaker 7: done some shows and they'll still never forget that game.
Speaker 7: And some people would still rather beat Michigan than win
Speaker 7: a championship, which is lunacy to me. It makes no sense.
Speaker 7: You got to change your thinking in this twelve team
Speaker 7: bracket era. And the fact was the opportunity was there
Speaker 7: for and they they're halfway there. They got a long
Speaker 7: way to go because if they don't win tonight, then
Speaker 7: people will remember the Michigan loss because they didn't win
Speaker 7: a Big ten, they didn't beat Michigan, and they didn't
Speaker 7: win a national championship. So they're three goals are h
Speaker 7: for three? There's a lot on the line for Ohio State,
Speaker 7: and they responded really well to that urgency so far.
Speaker 7: So we'll see if they and keep doing it.
Speaker 2: Handicap the format for the playoffs. Let's say next year
Speaker 2: you have total autonomy. What tweaks changes do you make?
Speaker 7: I think there's tweaks that need to be made to
Speaker 7: the regular season leading into the playoff. I think eventually
Speaker 7: the conference championship games don't really have a place in this,
Speaker 7: especially the conference is like the Big Ten of the SEC.
Speaker 7: Both teams are going to make it every year. It's
Speaker 7: an extra layer of games. If you really care about workload,
Speaker 7: wear and tear, then you have to look at that.
Speaker 7: I mean, these teams have been preparing for this sixteen
Speaker 7: to seventeen game season from the start, and the smart
Speaker 7: programs we're doing that the ones that had the resources
Speaker 7: and the roster to do that. Texas did it. Ohio
Speaker 7: State did it very intentionally, pranking back to tempo, not
Speaker 7: playing at piper speed, playing one hundred and fifty less
Speaker 7: plays in the regular season to save their players for this.
Speaker 7: It's worked really well. But going forward, I think if
Speaker 7: you took the conference championship out of it, that would
Speaker 7: help a little bit. I think that you need to
Speaker 7: do away with the adviys for the four highest ranked
Speaker 7: conference winners. I think that's a pretty popular opinion. You
Speaker 7: see Arizona State boys, you say they didn't play badly.
Speaker 7: I just don't think that you deserve a top four
Speaker 7: seed by winning a conference. I think you should get
Speaker 7: in the bracket. I'm all for inclusivity. Maybe even give
Speaker 7: an extra uh, maybe make the American Conference get an
Speaker 7: automatic bit. But don't see them based on act but
Speaker 7: one through twelve play it out like they do it
Speaker 7: at college basketball. You don't. You don't get an automatic
Speaker 7: seeding for winning a conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to script this for you. Texas is
Speaker 2: down by four late and Arch Manning comes in. It
Speaker 2: comes off the bench. Okay, you cut away to the
Speaker 2: Manning family.
Speaker 7: It's hard, they're hard to find. They high, Well, Cooper's
Speaker 7: hard to find it. They will find them, though.
Speaker 2: Well you don't. We don't care about Cooper. We care
Speaker 2: about Arch and Payton and Eli and then and then
Speaker 2: whatever happens from there. They have the ball, they're down
Speaker 2: four and here comes Arch Manning savior.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have one of those stories that you write
Speaker 7: a movie that sounds like a movie. Script what you
Speaker 7: just laid out right, what it'd be more movie like
Speaker 7: if he wins the game and the legend is born.
Speaker 7: There's a reason why you Weres is playing the game though,
Speaker 7: and I think you know if that happens, if when
Speaker 7: Yourers got hurt, that would be tough. You know, he
Speaker 7: is an Ohio State recruit. We know that he spent
Speaker 7: a year there. He is the original nil quarterback at court,
Speaker 7: he really is. He was like the curtain flood you
Speaker 7: know of free agency, right, that's an old reference. How
Speaker 7: many people get that reference? But you know he ushered
Speaker 7: in the nil era and cashed in really well at
Speaker 7: two places. Good for him. So obviously facing his former
Speaker 7: school and that's a big plotline coming in if he
Speaker 7: gets knocked out of the game and artists to go
Speaker 7: in there. I mean, I don't like to see players fail.
Speaker 7: It's tough to watch interceptions decide games like it did
Speaker 7: last night for Dreuell. That's tough. You know, it'll haunt him.
Speaker 7: I don't like to see takers choke and don't like
Speaker 7: to see quarterbacks make mistakes at the side games. So
Speaker 7: in your storybook script, Manning goes down in Texas wins
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you take it from there. Okay, Uh, well,
Speaker 2: great to hear from me.
Speaker 7: What would you hear from me?
Speaker 2: No, I said great to hear from you. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I figured that. You know, you're busy. You probably got
Speaker 2: to work out today. Herbie gonna spot you on the bench.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 7: He doesn't get in the gyms much. But I don't
Speaker 7: look so much any of the spotter. I'll be all right,
Speaker 7: t bows around to spot me. Dude, t Bo's working
Speaker 7: out in the gym like four times a day. I see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're not putting up the same weight.
Speaker 7: No, we are not in the same weight class. Speaking
Speaker 7: of busy, you either love Christmas, you're really busy, or
Speaker 7: you're just too lazy to take the tree down. I know,
Speaker 7: how long is a tree? Going to say.
Speaker 2: That all the above, By the way, that I love Christmas,
Speaker 2: I don't the guy who takes down the tree his
Speaker 2: girlfriend just had a baby, so that he normally takes
Speaker 2: down the tree. So I'm gonna blame him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: all those fails, I blame it on my staff. Have
Speaker 2: fun tonight. Thanks for joining us as always, Chris. All right,
Speaker 2: that's Chris Baller. He'll be with Herbie tonight seven point
Speaker 2: thirty in the Cotton Bowl. Holly Row and Laurel Rutledge
Speaker 2: will be there. Chris Wols will be on the call
Speaker 2: for the National title game. Let me see, let me
Speaker 2: look at some numbers here for the Cotton Bowl. Let's
Speaker 2: see over under. I'll bet a lot of people took
Speaker 2: the under on Notre Dame last night in Penn State
Speaker 2: because it looked like, oh, it's going to be a slugfest.
Speaker 2: This is going to be an ugly game. It's going
Speaker 2: to be decided in the trenches. And then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, hey, they're scoring points. Wait a minute here, yeah, Paulin.
Speaker 12: I almost text you guys right before the game. I'll
Speaker 12: go I'm going fourteen to thirteen. Notre Dame thought was
Speaker 12: gonna be way under.
Speaker 2: Over under tonight is fifty three and a half and
Speaker 2: a half. Let me see, I got some prop bets.
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith over under ninety nine and a half receiving yards.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna throw for more yards tonight, Quinn Yours or
Speaker 2: Will Howard? According to DraftKings, it's Will Howard two hundred
Speaker 2: and forty nine yards. Quin Yours to forty four, So
Speaker 2: just some of the prop bets. Download the DraftKings Sports
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Speaker 2: The Crown is yours. We'll get to some phone calls
Speaker 2: coming up to this morning and eight seven seven three
Speaker 2: DP show. Our Play of the Day is up next.
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Speaker 13: Oh My God, Play of the Player lives like God.
Speaker 15: It is the play of the day.
Speaker 12: Ship the shout letter, take the snap, gives it to Love, running, left,
Speaker 12: truck jump, stays on the street through what tackle, muscling
Speaker 12: and strong heasy, Oh my gosh, hutch down. Notre Day,
Speaker 12: Jeremiah Love, do it not be tonight?
Speaker 7: One of the most relentless runs you'll ever see.
Speaker 1: Ten note name leads sixteen to ten.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't be denied. Notre Dame Radio Network. That's your
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Speaker 2: couple of phone calls here. Let's start out with Buddha
Speaker 2: in San Francisco. Good morning, Buddha. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 6: No, buddy, Happy Meet Friday Boys DP real quick shout
Speaker 6: out to my childhood friend Ezra Johnson, who's one of
Speaker 6: the many many firefighters down in Los Angeles fighting for
Speaker 6: people's livelihoods. Love you, brother, Be safe. But Dan, listening
Speaker 6: to Mike Florio floating his MDP boat around like he
Speaker 6: did earlier this week, I mean he was downright flipping
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 15: I was like my inner Jim Beyheim was like me,
Speaker 15: and I was like, I just want to make it
Speaker 15: known Dan that I would never give up my right
Speaker 15: to call into this show.
Speaker 11: Ever.
Speaker 6: I don't care how many times I gotta set my
Speaker 6: alarm for five forty five am.
Speaker 15: It's always worth it.
Speaker 16: I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 15: You guys are the best, and I'm incredibly honored in
Speaker 15: that way.
Speaker 2: Let's go goroncos By the way, I didn't hand out
Speaker 2: the most Valuable caller the MVC.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 2: I did have a campaign that was staged by Bob
Speaker 2: in Montana. I think he was trying to buy my vote.
Speaker 2: He sent me some bourbon, he sent me pictures, He
Speaker 2: sent me an entire call list of the number of
Speaker 2: times that he called into the show. I didn't name
Speaker 2: the most valuable caller. Do you guys have any suggestions here? Marvin,
Speaker 2: I'll start with you most valuable caller. If I say
Speaker 2: that right away, your response is recency bias. Gust In
Speaker 2: la gus In layah gus. I hope to hear from
Speaker 2: you everything that's going on there in Los Angeles. Hope
Speaker 2: you're safe. Seaton, you've got a most valuable caller?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, Dan, I don't do it. I don't
Speaker 9: rank them, I don't put them in order. I don't
Speaker 9: do the Oh wait.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't compare eras Dan. I just don't do it.
Speaker 2: Oh see it, that's your mic. You're inner, Mike Breen yesterday, This.
Speaker 9: Is probably more controversial choosing my favorite caller. Well, if
Speaker 9: I'm being put on the spot and you're asking you,
Speaker 9: the first name that came to my mind was, oh Man,
Speaker 9: salute the commanders.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's Paul MBC.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Seeton took it big year, getting better every year.
Speaker 2: He's doing great.
Speaker 4: Todd, Gusts and Buddha cancel each other out, So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go Andrew and Washington.
Speaker 2: Andrew and Washington joined the official pick. Hi, Andrew, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 11: Good morning, dan Nannette from the most valuable Danette to
Speaker 11: the most valuable caller. Thanks, Ritzy, I appreciate that. Anyways,
Speaker 11: Hey Cleveland, this one's for you. I'm here to attune
Speaker 11: for my cool steak on the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2: You guys got roughed up to start the show. The
Speaker 2: opening of the show there, Andrew.
Speaker 11: I don't know any other callers that I've had through
Speaker 11: each store three show openings in less than six.
Speaker 2: Months, but I got there gradually, So.
Speaker 11: I atone for my sins. You know, out of the
Speaker 11: teams that have sixty six wins or more in an
Speaker 11: NBA season, seventy percent of them have won the finals.
Speaker 11: So Cleveland has a good chance at winning the finals. Dan,
Speaker 11: I did call to play a quick game of whose
Speaker 11: stats would you want? If you're available for that? Okay, okay,
Speaker 11: so here's some Wait a minute, could.
Speaker 2: We do the intro for whose stats would you want? Stats?
Speaker 2: Do you won? Whose stats?
Speaker 12: Do?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Stats?
Speaker 2: Do you won?
Speaker 6: Magasurance?
Speaker 11: Alrighty, all right. This rookie QB had thirty eight and
Speaker 11: one passing yards, Drake May, twenty two pds and thirteen interceptions. No,
Speaker 11: that's not Drake May.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 11: This rookie QB had twenty eight hundred yards, eleven tds
Speaker 11: and ten interceptions. And the last rookie QB had twenty
Speaker 11: two hundred and seventy six yards, fifteen touchdowns and ten interceptions.
Speaker 10: Which QB would you choose?
Speaker 11: Dan?
Speaker 2: I think you would probably choose the first one, wouldn't you?
Speaker 11: Yes, that is a good choice. That was Mac Jones
Speaker 11: in twenty twenty one, The second one was Bryce Young
Speaker 11: last year, and the last one was Drake May this year.
Speaker 11: My point is this, it matters who's your offensive coordinator
Speaker 11: as a rookie QB. And so if they bring in
Speaker 11: Mike Brabel to the Patriots, I don't think Drake may
Speaker 11: will grow because Mike Rabel doesn't show that he develops quarterbacks.
Speaker 11: But Josh McDaniels with Mac Jones in twenty twenty one
Speaker 11: had the best season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can always bring in Josh McDaniels. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's working so Brabel can bring him in.
Speaker 2: I don't think I mean I would. I don't think
Speaker 2: Brabel goes in and says, boy, I can develop a
Speaker 2: quarter I mean, Ryan Tannehill developed in Tennessee into a
Speaker 2: pretty good quarterback. But you know, let me see a
Speaker 2: if he gets the job and be who is it?
Speaker 2: Offensive coordinator is going to be Jake and Buffalo? Hey Jake,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Hey? Dan?
Speaker 10: I was calling to see if Todd was confident enough
Speaker 10: in his Broncos this weekend to shock the world and
Speaker 10: beat the Bills for a pie of the face. But
Speaker 10: and if he needs any incentive, I saw a staff
Speaker 10: this morning that Sean Payton is thirty and twelve against
Speaker 10: bald head coaches since twenty seventeen, and Sean the sermott
Speaker 10: is very bald.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is straight up, bet Todd. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think you've already spoken your piece on this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I have a pine in the bit
Speaker 4: going already with somebody who I can.
Speaker 2: Double down, I guess, but this is straight up Yeah.
Speaker 3: You think that's fair? You think what's your opinion?
Speaker 2: Well, you don't want to win a bet if your
Speaker 2: team gets you know that you cover the spread? True,
Speaker 2: not in the playoffs plays?
Speaker 3: All right, let's call it next takes down Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: Broncos and I like it? All right, Jake, you got
Speaker 2: a bet with Fritzie. Broncos gonna shock the world. They're
Speaker 2: eight and a half point Underdoks according to DraftKings This morning,
Speaker 2: Aiden in Utah, Hi, Aiden, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 16: Dp hell the hockey club. We have a winning record
Speaker 16: of winning his team in franchise history that I was
Speaker 16: gonna call. I got. You just gave me another topic
Speaker 16: to talking about. Todd. You get bullied into being a
Speaker 16: Broncos fan, say it with your chest, just back away.
Speaker 16: You always get they have to talk you into being
Speaker 16: a Broncos fan. Todd, what are we doing? Either you're
Speaker 16: with us or you're not.
Speaker 4: I am completely with the Broncos since I was like
Speaker 4: seven years old in nineteen seventy seven, but that's asking
Speaker 4: a lot for the Broncos to beat the Bills in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: But I'm still taking Denver. I just made a pie
Speaker 4: in the face bet that they're gonna win out right,
Speaker 4: and go Broncos.
Speaker 3: Let's see what happens at the high Mark Stadium in
Speaker 3: Upstate area.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 2: If I was a player and you were my coach,
Speaker 2: I'd run through a wall after that. That was inspirational. Yes, Marvin,
Speaker 2: get up, Come on, I'm ready to run through a
Speaker 2: wall today. Alright, get some more phone calls coming up
Speaker 2: next hour. Bill Cower is going to join us. A
Speaker 2: little later on, we'll talk to the very colorful Arizona
Speaker 2: State head football coach Kenny Dillingham. He'll join us. They
Speaker 2: of course went to double overtime with Texas, so we'll
Speaker 2: get him to handicap the game coming up tonight eight seven,
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