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Speaker 1: So before we get into everything else, we got to

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Speaker 2: That's all it is.

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Speaker 1: They want to maintain power because collective bargaining and pulling

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Speaker 5: Maybe. I mean, they've played a lot of games, George.

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Speaker 5: It might it might not just be a matter of health.

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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, And I mean so when you talk about

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Speaker 1: have some other young linebackers, well young y ish linebackers

438
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: that are still returning as well that are good players

439
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: as well. And there's a reason why they did not

440
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: go out and get players in the portal, particularly at

441
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: the linebacker spot, because they said they're good with what

442
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: they have and Marion and they are in love with that,

443
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: and otherwise they would have gone out and got something else. Now,

444
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, you just mentioned

445
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: Dante Moore stagnation. That feels almost impossible to me. It

446
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: really really does, because you look at his growth from UCLA,

447
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: like personal growth and maturity. Right to then leave Ucla

448
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: go to Oregon sit for a year, how much better

449
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: he played last year? They look like two different humans

450
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: and two different humans from the start of the season

451
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: to the beginning of the season. So it feels like

452
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: Dante more that his stagnation doesn't seem possible because the

453
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: fact that he would forego the NFL Draft and being

454
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: the likely number two pick all of that money to

455
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: come back to school to be better. He didn't come

456
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: back to half ass. He came back to go to work.

457
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: So you know that his leadership is going to be better,

458
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: his maturity is going to be better. And when you

459
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 1: hear people talk about Dante more, it's actually funny to

460
00:28:54,760 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: me because they hold on to that Indiana, Oh my gosh.

461
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 2: He's gotta get so much better. Look at him. He stinks.

462
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: He oh he you know, he shited the band versus Indiana,

463
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: and there's nothing there and you're like, well, how about

464
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, fam, how about the rest

465
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: of the season that you could be extremely excited about

466
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: because the two Indiana games were the two that he

467
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: played his worst football against the best team in the country.

468
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: So it's hard to just sit up here and act

469
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: like the kid's a bum and he doesn't have it

470
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: and all of that when at the end of the year,

471
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: he finished the season. He finished the season throwing for

472
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred yards. Yeah, throwing for thirty five hundred yards,

473
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: And that is you can't shake a stick at that.

474
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: That is something that you have to be excited about

475
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: because there's no way to look at what this kid

476
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 1: did thirty touchdowns, ten and interceptions and what five of

477
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: them five in the interceptions came against Indiana.

478
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 2: So half of his.

479
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: Interceptions came against in Indiana, Twelfth in the nation in passing,

480
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: eighth and I'm sorry sixth and touchdowns fifth and quarter

481
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: fifteenth in quarterback ready and when, And that was without

482
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: his top wide receivers for half of the year. And

483
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: this year he's going to get Evan Stewart back. The

484
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: Kreyan Moore is going to be back that they Gatlin

485
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: Bear just came off of his mission. You have Jeremiah

486
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: McClelland Jamari Johnson at tight end who's likely going to

487
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: be a first round pick next year as well. So

488
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: and then in the running back room, the running back

489
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: room looks really good with Dare Hill Jordan Davidson a

490
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: year older. They've added players in the transfer portal, they've

491
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: recruited well at that position. So you're solid at tight end.

492
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: Well now you're not even solid at tight end. You're

493
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: really good at tight end. And the team lived in

494
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: two tight ends last year and they might this year

495
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: to depending on how to transfer from Penn State or

496
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: Kendre Harrison. The true freshman how they're able to do.

497
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 1: But this is a team that is loaded at every

498
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: single spot, and the biggest question is they're like the

499
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: the offensive line where your center returns, who's the quarterback

500
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,959
Speaker 1: of your uh of your offense? Fox Crater at tackle

501
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: who came in and played played well. You have a

502
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: potential starter coming in as a true freshman in Ianacho.

503
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: It depends on how he fits in. David Ouli, he's

504
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: coming back.

505
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: You have.

506
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: H Janoris Wilson at the other tackle or the kid

507
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: that transferred in from a Yale and Oregon has been

508
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: a Joe A. Moore Award semi a finalist the last

509
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: couple of years.

510
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: So elite.

511
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: Terry's putting together elite offensive line. So there's no way

512
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: to believe that that's not gonna happen again.

513
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 5: Sure, and my concern isn't the Indiana games. My concern

514
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 5: is the middle of the season loll that came against

515
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 5: Wisconsin and Iowa like that he got, those just have

516
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 5: to be gone. You can't have the offense protecting him

517
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 5: by only throwing fifteen passes, trying to trying to eke

518
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 5: out in both of those games.

519
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: Of weather was atrocious, though too.

520
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, but at the same time, like those are

521
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 5: the things that where it's not so much what he

522
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 5: did against Indiana, because I think you can I think

523
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 5: the best way to evaluate data is to always throw

524
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 5: out best and worst, Right, So you got to throw

525
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 5: out the Indiana games because that's the best competition and

526
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 5: it wasn't necessarily even his work. He had a couple

527
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 5: of flashing moments in that. It's that like that there

528
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 5: were times when.

529
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: He looked overwhelmed.

530
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 5: Maybe not every quarterback in the country would have been

531
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 5: eliminated by weather. Maybe they would have, But that's just

532
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 5: the thing that you you you can't go into a

533
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 5: game saying like, all right, well we got to just

534
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 5: ignore that we even have a quarterback here and only

535
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 5: throw the ball fifteen times and not even get him

536
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 5: out of the run, because I believe in that game

537
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 5: he was he was negative in the in the Russian

538
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 5: category two. So all I want to see is his baseline,

539
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 5: and he did come back from the You have to

540
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 5: acknowledge he came back from those games and at his

541
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 5: best run, that's when he would have was off those

542
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 5: two games. Yeah, yeah, so so, but I want to

543
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 5: make sure that that's not his big The other thing

544
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 5: I worry about a little bit, George, I gotta be honest.

545
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 5: Portland State, where it's situated in the schedule, I don't

546
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 5: love that it comes right before what is ultimately the

547
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: super Bowl of the first third of your season.

548
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll pull up the schedule right right now, so

549
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: everybody can.

550
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: September nineteenth, Portland State going into LA Memorial Coliseum if

551
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 5: they're even playing there? Are they gonna be at so

552
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 5: farre wherever?

553
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: Those that that that's a twenty twenty eight when the

554
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: Olympics are here.

555
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay, So yeah, that's my other that's my

556
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 5: other concern. That's my other worry. It's not so much.

557
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 5: I do think that they have the advantage against USC

558
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 5: had to head, but I worry about the structure of

559
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 5: the schedule, going from Portland State at home to LA

560
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 5: the next week. That's a worry. Work. That's one of

561
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 5: the things I'd worry about.

562
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: The only thing that bothers me about or is highly

563
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: concerning about Oregon schedule is that their by is after

564
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: the USC game, after four games being being played, and

565
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: then you got to run off eight more eight more

566
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: in a row. That's gonna be a touch that right there,

567
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: gonna be some tough sledging. Is you got UCLA, which

568
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: which should be improved. You have no Nebraska should be

569
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: another easy win at Illinois. Went to Illinois last year

570
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: to interview Brett Belma. That place is one of the

571
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 1: more when they're rolling is loud because they got metal bleachers.

572
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: People just bang on them all day. That was tough.

573
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: They should be able to get through Nebraska. Then you

574
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: got to go to Ohio Stadium, Ohio to play Ohio State,

575
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,479
Speaker 1: and then it's Michigan at Michigan State. The weather's gonna

576
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: be it's at least worst case scenario, gonna be cold

577
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: out there in East Lansing. And then you got Washington

578
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: at home. I don't think that this is the easiest

579
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: schedule to navigate, But remember last year when we were

580
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: talking about Penn State schedule their beginning of the year.

581
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: I don't see this Oregon schedule as that I see

582
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: it as. But the question is Ralph, now, let's now

583
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: let's ask the question which teams do you think are

584
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: a biggest bigger threat to Oregon, either getting to the

585
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: playoff or winning the national championship.

586
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: Well, winning the National championship, whether whether they're in the Big.

587
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 5: Ten or not, Well, uh, Indiana gets an auto bid

588
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 5: into the conversation clearly, Yeah, they just get that at

589
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 5: this point their threat, so we have to recognize them

590
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 5: as such. I think that everybody has to be on

591
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 5: notice for Texas Tech. And I know how that playoff

592
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 5: game went last year, and I know that Brendan Soresby

593
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 5: didn't always show up for Cincinnati when the lights were

594
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 5: the brightest. But this is an upgraded quarterback. I don't

595
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 5: care what anybody it is definitely is and now they've

596
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 5: been there. The defense sometimes that's the door.

597
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: I don't think the defense is going to be quite

598
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: as good. I think it'll be good. But the thing

599
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: that made their defense so spectacular were Lee Hunt. Lee

600
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: Hunter in the middle, the big dude is gonna be

601
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: a first round pick this year. And David Bailey, who

602
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: is a freak of nature. He is literally a freak

603
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: of nature. He might have had the best best single

604
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: half of football out of any defensive lineman that I

605
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: saw all year against against Oregon. In that first half

606
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: of that playoff game, it was the most dominant.

607
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 5: And Romelo Heights not that much worse. Than David exactly

608
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 5: first first step getting yeah. So like they're they're yes,

609
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 5: But I think the offense is gonna be able to

610
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 5: carry him a little bit more than it more than

611
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 5: it did last year. I I I have to throw

612
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 5: them in the conversation then and then you know, at

613
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 5: the at the sec level, I am one of those

614
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 5: people that is threatened by the class that Lane Kiffin

615
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 5: put together because I know what he did in one

616
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 5: year's notice with the defense at Ole miss in twenty

617
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 5: twenty four with Walter Nolan and and that whole crew.

618
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 5: So you know that if he gets the right people

619
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 5: in place, I think he's a talent maximizer. And so

620
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 5: to have Jordan Seaton on that offensive line to retain

621
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 5: some of the talent they did to bring in the

622
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 5: receivers they did. I think there's still holes in this

623
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 5: LSU team, but I think that if everything goes right,

624
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 5: you got to worry about them. But no, I look

625
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 5: at Oregons as they should be there in the semi final,

626
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 5: and I don't have anybody specifically that I would put

627
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 5: above them. I want to get to the point where

628
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 5: I believe in Julian saying at Ohio State, but there

629
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 5: hasn't been that flash. To be fair, we only saw

630
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 5: from Walker Howard at the end of the year, so

631
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 5: you don't know, maybe saying has it in him.

632
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm actually so the teams that I'm putting

633
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: up there that can challenge for a national championship. I'm

634
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: gonna put Ohio State up there. I am going to

635
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: put Georgia up there because Kirby Smart always has his.

636
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: Team in the mix.

637
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: Indiana and I know that this is gonna sound crazy,

638
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: but I'm not a believer in Indiana yet, and not

639
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: as a like.

640
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 3: I'm not a.

641
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: Believer that this is a perennial year in and year

642
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: out thing like that they are going to be able

643
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: to change the quarterback, change the corners, change all of

644
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: these things, and then be a national championship worthy team again.

645
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: Now do I believe that they can be a ten

646
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: win football team, one hundred percent, But there's a big

647
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: difference in a ten win football team and a national

648
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: championship caliber team. That's what and out of the and

649
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: part of me, I think there's been so much Texas

650
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: hype that is starting to infiltrate my brain and I

651
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: don't want to discount Texas, but I just don't it

652
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: is until I see arch Manning come out in the

653
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: beginning of the season and play good football. It's not

654
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: that I don't believe he can. It's one of those

655
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: I need to see it to believe it. And then

656
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: the last team, I don't think that you can discount Miami.

657
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: They upgrade it significantly at quarterback with Darien Menza. My

658
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: only question for them is they leaned so heavy on

659
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,720
Speaker 1: the defense last year and you got Mesador and Baine,

660
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: who are first round picks them a top ten pick,

661
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 1: maybe two of them in the top fifteen. That's hard

662
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: to replace on the defensive line, even if your defense

663
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: is good again. So that means the offense is gonna

664
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: have to be even better, which it could be under Mensa.

665
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: And I think that they are one of the five

666
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: best teams in the country with Darien Mensa. So it's

667
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: just going to be for them, how much offense can

668
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: they like, how dynamic this offense can be, because if

669
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: you put cam Ward's offense basically with last year's defense,

670
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: they probably win a Natty.

671
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, And the thing about Darien Mensa, that's really nice

672
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 5: and this is no disrespect to the O line at

673
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 5: Duke they were one of the bottom O lines as

674
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 5: far as run production in twenty twenty three. In twenty

675
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 5: twenty four, huge step up. They win the ACC and

676
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 5: all that. And you know, I know, I know Bruno

677
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 5: Fina a little bit. I covered him in high school.

678
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 5: No disrespect to his right and left tackle. But Darien

679
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 5: Mensa made that offense go because he gets the ball

680
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 5: out so quick, because he knows the offense so well.

681
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 5: And so I think that even though Miami is losing

682
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 5: CC Malaga and others, or Maligoa and others to the draft,

683
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 5: I think that Darien Mensa, the way that he gets

684
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 5: the ball out is going to make up for any

685
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 5: downgrade that they would have in O line. So I

686
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 5: think you're smart to put them in that category as well.

687
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: All right, So now we'll move on to the rest

688
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten, because we were talking about the

689
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: Big Ten Boogeyman and what each Big Ten team and

690
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: their fan base what you should be afraid of when

691
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: it comes to the twenty twenty sixth season.

692
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: So we'll start with the Illinois fighting a Lina.

693
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: So Illinois comes into this season and with you know,

694
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna be changing quarterbacks. They're gonna be changing running back.

695
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,479
Speaker 1: They lose a lot. They lost their defensive coordinator Aaron

696
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:00,959
Speaker 1: Henry as well, And so the question is, Ralph, what

697
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: do Illinois fans need to be afraid of when it

698
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: comes to potentially making the College Football Playoff or just

699
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: for their season alone this year?

700
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 5: For me, losing your defensive coordinator in February is never

701
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 5: easy to replace. And this is somebody that has been

702
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 5: with Brett Bielima for whatever, Yeah, has always been with

703
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 5: him and so and the choice George that they made

704
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 5: to replace him is Bobby Howck out of Montana. Multiple

705
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 5: stints as Montana's head coach. He said football is not

706
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 5: fun for him anymore, the nil era, all that stuff,

707
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 5: and he stepped down from a great job where I

708
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 5: think he I mean, he led Montana to multiple appearances

709
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 5: in the in the FCS playoffs. Great coach, didn't have

710
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 5: a great run at NLB, but a great, great coach,

711
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 5: and he comes in to run the defense of what

712
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 5: I hear is they're leaning three three five. So if

713
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 5: I'm an Illinois fan, what I know need to be

714
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 5: afraid of is this is still the Big ten, right, Yeah?

715
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 5: Have you ever heard of anybody successfully running the three

716
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 5: three five against a bunch of power run teams.

717
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's the vulnerable.

718
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 5: That is my current biggest fear. Yeah, that is my

719
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 5: current biggest fear.

720
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: I think that that's fair. Let's let's look at their

721
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: schedules super super quick. Is there anything on this schedule

722
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: that that scares you? They got UAB, then Duke, then

723
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: Southern Illinois, so they should be three and zero. Then

724
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: they go at Ohio State, which is going to be

725
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 1: a loss. Then they play Perdue, which is a winnable game.

726
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: Michigan at Michigan State is a winnable game. Then they

727
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: have their bye week lose to Oregon. So you already

728
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: got two for sure losses. They're at Maryland. Maryland's in

729
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: a do or die situation this year as far as

730
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: as their their head coach, Nebraska at UCLA at the

731
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Then you got Iowa and Northwestern. This feels

732
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: like a very friendly Big ten schedule to me like that,

733
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: this this has losable games that well, two losses Ohio

734
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: State and Oregon and then some and then three other

735
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: losable games. So anything worse than eight and four I

736
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: would be if I was an Illinois fan, I'd be

737
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: a little disappointed with anything worse that did with seven

738
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: and five would feel like a disappointment. Eight and four

739
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: would feel like, oh man, we could have got to nine.

740
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: But I think nine is the ceiling.

741
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 5: Uh Yeah. I think that you can compete for a

742
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 5: college football playoff spot with a ten and two year

743
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 5: if you beat Iowa and if if the games against

744
00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 5: Oregon and Ohio State are not blood baths, and I

745
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 5: think that's that should be the ultimate goal this season.

746
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 5: Of course, you want to win those games, you want

747
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 5: to compete in those games against Ohio State and an Oregon,

748
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 5: of course, but I think ten wins is is what

749
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 5: they should be chasing.

750
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Now, next team up. We have the

751
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: defending the reigning defending national champions. You have the Indiana

752
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: Hoosiers and Ralph The biggest thing that is scary to

753
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: me for them.

754
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 2: Is their roster, Like that's the that's the thing. It's

755
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: not that So.

756
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: Kurtz Signetti is not the guy that's gonna fall off

757
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: a cliff coach. He's not gonna all of a sudden

758
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: the game didn't pass him by, something new didn't happen.

759
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: But he also has to make some significant adjustments, and

760
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: he's already said it, we are going to recruit high

761
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: school better. This means that the man gets it, which

762
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 1: is also scary if you're an Oregon fan, because you're like, oh,

763
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: a coach actually gets it. He's not gonna keep trying

764
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: to transfer a portal everybody in. Now he's gonna try

765
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: to high school recruit him, transfer a portal man, keep

766
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 1: lowering the transfer portal class in until he can get

767
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: his Like like, he's not gonna be recruiting three star guys.

768
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: He's gonna be recruiting like, yes, he's gonna get some,

769
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be up there with a lot of

770
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: four star kids from here on out. And Indiana is

771
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: gonna be no longer that that that lovable underdog story.

772
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna they are now part of the halves, or

773
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: at least they will be in a year or two.

774
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: So I think that that's their biggest thing is that

775
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: Indiana has to get used to being the hunted and

776
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: not the hunter and get used to being a have

777
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: instead of a have not.

778
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, the thing I'm the thing I worry about is

779
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 5: Indiana is, for lack of a better term, because they're

780
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 5: a dominant football team. They are sort of they're also

781
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 5: kind of a ball control efficiency offense. Yes, there's not

782
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 5: a lot of mistakes being made, right like just.

783
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: Yes, Curtis of efficiency.

784
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know, they they bring in Fernando Mendoza

785
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 5: out of Cal who threw almost four hundred passes his

786
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 5: sophomore season at Cal and only through six interceptions. And

787
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 5: he threw almost four hundred passes at Indiana last year

788
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 5: and only through six interceptions. He was Fernando Mendoza was

789
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 5: who he was at Cal. As far as protecting the

790
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 5: ball at Indiana, yeah, Josh Hoover has fourteen games with

791
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 5: an intercept in his last twenty one and eight of

792
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 5: those were multi interception games. Josh Hoover eight eight multi

793
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 5: interception games in the last two years. Eight multi interception

794
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 5: games really in the last We're not going to get

795
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 5: into the amount. But he when he starts turning the

796
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 5: ball over, he really does, and he'll have some high

797
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 5: volume games where he also turns the ball over. He's

798
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 5: got kind of a short memory. He's a gun slinger

799
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 5: like that, and that's why I like him. But this

800
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 5: is not the Indiana football that we saw with Curtis

801
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 5: Urk or alons of Barnett right at JMU. This is

802
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 5: not that. So Josh Hoover does not run, So what

803
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 5: are they going to do to make sure that he's

804
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 5: getting rid of the ball quick and he's making reads

805
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 5: that protect the football, because yeah, Indiana can go out

806
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 5: and blow you out, but in a close game, those

807
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 5: turnovers mean everything.

808
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that Indiana fans are like they

809
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: they are they're hu on their own supply right now.

810
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: They are are gonna be look look at what we

811
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: did in two years. We'll be back in the Nattie

812
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: next next year. Lookout for us every year. It just

813
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. It's just not how it works.

814
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to There are gonna be some

815
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: adjustments and sometimes your roster is just not gonna be

816
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: good enough. And teams are going to catch up to

817
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: what Indiana is doing offensively in terms of their efficiency.

818
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's look at their schedules super quick.

819
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 2: We got.

820
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: This non conference schedule is pitiful, North Texas, Howard and

821
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. Then they go Northwestern at Rutgers, at Nebraska.

822
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: Damn bro They their first what.

823
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: Six games, they don't have anything on there that that

824
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: should scare a college football playoff type team. Then you

825
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: get Ohio State at Michigan. That's a tough run right there,

826
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: back to back games. Then you get Minnesota, USC and Washington.

827
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,919
Speaker 1: They have Ralph on their schedule. They really only have

828
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: three and a half losable games. Actually, yes, because I'm

829
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: gonna give actually, no, no, no, four losable games. So

830
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them Ohio State, Michigan USC only because

831
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: it's at USC, and then Washington only because.

832
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 3: It's at Washington.

833
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: They only got four losable games and those come in

834
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: the last five five weeks, so I definitely expect them

835
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: to be seven and oh going into the Ohio State

836
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: game with with blowouts in every single game.

837
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that this is This is really gonna

838
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 5: be a truth telling year for Indiana of whether or

839
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 5: not they're here to stay, because they're this is I

840
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,479
Speaker 5: think this is tougher than what they've faced the last

841
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 5: couple of years.

842
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 2: Yep.

843
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 5: But those those early season games, god, yeah, exactly, pathetic exactly.

844
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go on to the next team on

845
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: the list. We have the Iowa Hawkeyes Ralph can Kirk Farriance,

846
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: get some offense. Please, for the love of God, that

847
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: to me is the only thing holding Iowa back. You

848
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: know they're gonna put together competent defense. There is no

849
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: question whether they're going to put together competent defense. Question

850
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: is can they put together competent offense because Kirk Farence. Honestly,

851
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to. When I put the top ten coaches

852
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: in all of college football lists together, I wanted to

853
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 1: put Kirk Farns on there. He is one of the

854
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: best coaches. However, it's hard to put him on the

855
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: list where he should be, or even on the list

856
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: when he repeatedly for decades has given up on offense,

857
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: has has no desire to have any explosion.

858
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 2: If they get down, they can't come back.

859
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 1: Their whole goal is to try to drag you down

860
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: and beat you, when in reality, yes they should be

861
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: trying to do that, but they got to figure out

862
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: a way.

863
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 2: To be more efficient on offense. Now.

864
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that they should be a Lincoln Riley

865
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: try to score as quick as you can. I don't

866
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: think that's good for USC either, But I also think

867
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: that they have to develop something that is better than

868
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: run and punt football.

869
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 5: My worry if I'm Iowa is that they've already backed

870
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 5: away from participating in the quarterback transfer market. Well, my

871
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 5: worry if I'm an Iowa fan is that points matter,

872
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 5: like points on the scoreboard. You gotta score. But last

873
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 5: year I think they went over a million for Mark

874
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 5: Gronowski and then they used him like a battering ram.

875
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 5: But he got better as the season went.

876
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: Well, well, they may have figured out he couldn't he

877
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: couldn't hit water, standing in a boat, throw throwing the football.

878
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 2: But part of it.

879
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,240
Speaker 1: Probably is too because they used him as a battering

880
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: ram and his shoulders are hurt, army feeling the same.

881
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 1: It probably leads to extra inaccuracy.

882
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, And so you know they don't repeat themselves.

883
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 5: They don't go out and buy a quarterback. They had

884
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 5: Jeremy Heklinsky on the roster last year. It would it

885
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 5: would be so funny if they went from Mark Gronowski,

886
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 5: who's like a mini hulk, to Hecklenski, who's at six

887
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 5: foot one eighty soaking wet, like maybe six foot You know,

888
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 5: you know they're not gonna use in that way. But

889
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 5: they also got Hang Brown from Auburn. He's a big dude.

890
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 5: He's six four two twenty and but but Hank Brown

891
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 5: didn't play really at Auburn, spent very sparingly. I think

892
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 5: he had a six touchdown season two years ago. So

893
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 5: they've already backed off that being their spend and in

894
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 5: a year where you actually have the budget to do it.

895
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 5: So I'm really interested to see what that means for Iowa.

896
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 5: It they like dipped their toe in the pool of

897
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 5: evolution and then immediately he got a towel.

898
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, they're their their schedule, Ralph. They

899
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: got Niu, who is absent a head coach right now

900
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: because Thomas Hammock left and went to the NFL. Iowa

901
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: stayed as a shell of themselves. They have forty forty

902
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: eight fifty transfers out they.

903
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 5: Got They got like computer generated players at Iowa State

904
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 5: right now.

905
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.

906
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: Why it's like, it's like it's like COVID where they

907
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: got cardboard cutouts just sitting in the seats, except for

908
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: they gotta they just put a helmet on them on

909
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: the side. They're at Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington, at Minnesota,

910
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: then they got Wisconsin at Northwestern Purdue, at Illinois and Nebraska.

911
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: Their schedule is front loaded. If they can get two

912
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 1: one or two out of Michigan, Ohio State and Washington.

913
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: If they can get two out of them, bro, they're

914
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: gonna be cook cooking with Crisco for ten wins.

915
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 5: If they go on a typical it feels like typical

916
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 5: Iowa season where you like write them off by mid October,

917
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 5: then all the sudden they're there right at nine and

918
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 5: three and they just whooped someone's ass and the bowl game.

919
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're like, well, I guess they were better

920
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 2: than we thought.

921
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I would be competitive in terms of making

922
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: the college football player.

923
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 5: Yeah. You and I watched Mark Grenowski last year and

924
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 5: we're like, never mind. By the end of the season,

925
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 5: he had put together a pretty damn good campaign. I mean,

926
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 5: this is what they do though. They kind of bore

927
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 5: you to death.

928
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, they will. They will just drag you down

929
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: in the mud and then beat you the hell up.

930
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: All right, Next team up, Maryland, Ralph. I want Mike

931
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: Locksley to to to show us something. Last year Maryland.

932
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: Their their biggest boogieyman to me is the second half.

933
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: They were one of the worst second half teams in

934
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: all of college football. Last year, they had lead to

935
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: in the first half on so many teams U C. L. A.

936
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: Washington other teams and and find a way to snatch

937
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: defeat from the jaws of it. And that's what I

938
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: want to see out of them. I want to see

939
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: Maryland be a second half football team, because that's there

940
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: Achilles Hill right now.

941
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 5: I'm so excited for Maryland to have the marriage of

942
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 5: Malik Washington and Clint Trickett. Clint Trickett was running that

943
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 5: Jacksonville State offense. We talked about it a few times

944
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 5: on shows last year Cam Cook and the way that

945
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 5: they can run the ball and everything, and I would

946
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 5: love to see some balance brought to Maryland's offense. And

947
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 5: maybe balance in Maryland's offense means that the other team's

948
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 5: offense is on the field less. But I have the

949
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 5: same concerns as you. It really all is on the

950
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 5: defensive side of the football. I think offensively, Maryland's going

951
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 5: to scare some people this year, but you know how

952
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 5: much are they going to be playing in on the

953
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 5: wrong end of a forty five thirty eight game. That's

954
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 5: my worry.

955
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 2: Oh that's a fact. And their schedule.

956
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: They start out nice and easy Hampton, you with a

957
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: new head coach because their coach left went to Colorado State,

958
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: former UCLA coach. And then they get the fighting James

959
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: Franklin's which we don't know what they're gonna be, but

960
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: that that should be a competitive game. Then they get Ucla,

961
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: which could be a competit like all of Maryland's games

962
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: are going to be competitive. They're not going to outside

963
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: of Hampton and Yukon. They're not gonna knock people's doors off.

964
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm struggling, Ralph. I'm struggling with a team that finished

965
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: four and eight last last year with losses to Washington, Nebraska, Ucla, Indiana.

966
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: That's a lot of ls in a row. You finished

967
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: the season, you started season four and oh and then

968
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: you lose eight in a row.

969
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 5: Eight Ralph, and I was thirty eight to Michigan State,

970
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 5: Oh my god.

971
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: And that was one of the worst offenses in the

972
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: Big Ten. So success for me feels like six and

973
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: six for them because they went all in on nil

974
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: because you got actually, so you got Penn State, which

975
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. USC probably a loss, but it's

976
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be tough. You gotta get Wisconsin, Purdue, Rutgers

977
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: and Nebraska or U C l A.

978
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the seven and five is what they should.

979
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 3: Be shooting for.

980
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm with you, yeah, all right, yeah, and a lot

981
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: of people, why do y'all spend so much time on Maryland? Well,

982
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: they deserve some love to oh, Ralph. I could not

983
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:52,919
Speaker 1: be more excited about this team right now. The Michigan Wolverines.

984
01:00:55,440 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: The boogeyman for them to me is paid. That's their

985
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: boogeyman because they are going to want to come in

986
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: and be competing for a national championship immediately. That's what

987
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: their fans are going to expect. They got Kyle Whittingham

988
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: as head coach. They have so they have replaced Sharon Moore,

989
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: who how do I put this nicely? Not forget nice,

990
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: I'll just say what it is. If Sharon Moore had

991
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: been a free agent in this coaching cycle, he would

992
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: not have been hired by any of the big names.

993
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: Like nobody looked at Sharon Moore. It was like, I

994
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: want him to be my coach. Let's go steal Sharon Moore.

995
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: It's just what wasn't how he was perceived. Now you

996
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: got Whittingham coming over, a man who's done more with less.

997
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: He is of the Kirk Farence mold, except for he

998
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: will actually play offense too. And we have always wondered

999
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: what would Kyle him do with elite talent. Well, now

1000
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: you got it, buddy, now you got it. It's gonna

1001
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: take a couple of years to get the culture the

1002
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: way he wants it, but it's gonna get set up

1003
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: pretty fast. And Michigan is my sleeper, my dark horse,

1004
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: my underdog like that. This is a team that could

1005
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 1: if he can get Bryce Underwood to to to to

1006
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: not turn into what was the king in Gainesville La

1007
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: Lagway if he can't go from you know, because he

1008
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: had a lagway asque first year, and to get to

1009
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: where you're excited but you're also like EU but you're

1010
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: like there's something there. So if he could avoid a

1011
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: sophomore slump out of out of out of his quarterback,

1012
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: Oh this this, this Michigan team is goat. They have

1013
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: more talent than Utah has. They're playing in a tougher conference,

1014
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,919
Speaker 1: but this is this, This is what dreams are made

1015
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: out of for Michigan, and so patience is going to

1016
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: be their Boogeyman.

1017
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 5: I think I agree with you on this one, just

1018
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 5: from having some experience with the fans this offseason. You know,

1019
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 5: they chased a lot of hypothetical head coaching candidates, Kenny

1020
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 5: Dillingham being one of them, right they it was a

1021
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 5: genuine surprise that they ended up with Kyle Whittingham. What

1022
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 5: the initial reaction to that was from a lot of

1023
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 5: Michigan fans was weeping and gnashing of teeth. They were pissed.

1024
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 5: And there's this thing you know in video games, you're

1025
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 5: playing like an open world video game where if you

1026
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 5: go to a certain place, you unlock the map, right

1027
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 5: so Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto five, Like, if

1028
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 5: you've been somewhere, then the map is unlocked on the

1029
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 5: past screen, like you can see what all is there.

1030
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 5: If not, it's cloudy. But once you've been there before,

1031
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 5: you know it a little bit. That map is unlocked.

1032
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 5: Michigan fans, a lot of them anyway, if they're being honest,

1033
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 5: we're upset about this hire right away, which means they've

1034
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 5: already been down on Kyle Winningham. They've already been there,

1035
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 5: and it's easiest to go back to a place that

1036
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 5: you've already been, and so that I'm with you on

1037
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 5: patience that if it doesn't look perfect right out the gate,

1038
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 5: when this is a development when he made his his

1039
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 5: money in this sport and his reputation in this sport.

1040
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 5: On getting a two star Luki Fotu to be a

1041
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 5: fourth round pick in the NFL, on getting one of

1042
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 5: the lower three stars in was Devin Lloyd to be

1043
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 5: PAC twelve Defensive Player of the Year in a first

1044
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 5: round pick like that, That's who this guy is, and

1045
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 5: so let him get to work on this team and

1046
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 5: mold it into what he wants to do. He's got

1047
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 5: an experienced defensive coordinator, he's got an experienced offensive coordinator.

1048
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 5: They both had success at this level. I think it's

1049
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 5: going to work out. But when you're a house divided,

1050
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 5: and Michigan the big house is often divided, it can

1051
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 5: get that much harder. So I I just I agree

1052
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 5: with you a million percent on what their weakness will

1053
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 5: be this year. It will really be if the program

1054
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 5: doesn't have buyer's remorse. If it doesn't look great immediately, for.

1055
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: Sure, their their schedule, their non conference Western Michigan, Oklahoma, UTEP,

1056
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: then they got Iowa at Minnesota. Then they have their

1057
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: buy Penn State, Indiana at Rutgers, Michigan State at Oregon,

1058
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: U c l A at Ohio State.

1059
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 2: Bro, this is a gauntlet.

1060
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: They got Indiana at Oregon at Ohio State and Penn State,

1061
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: and people are just writing Penn State a off like

1062
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: they're not a very talented team and they just got

1063
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: Matt Campbell and they got a quarterback. This Penn State

1064
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: team is gonna be a tough out. This this, my friends,

1065
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: could be the most difficult Big ten schedule that we

1066
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: that we see.

1067
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 2: And they got Iowa on their to Ralph.

1068
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 5: And that's why I think Michigan fans need to have

1069
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 5: the mindset that this year, this schedule probably would have

1070
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 5: gotten shrown more fired.

1071
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: Oh, this would have absolutely he was he was gone

1072
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: after this year.

1073
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 2: No matter what.

1074
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 5: So I would look at this as having a one

1075
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 5: year head start eight nine wins. Eight or nine wins

1076
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 5: would be so encouraging for a transition year. And you

1077
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 5: got a one year head start on where you probably

1078
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 5: already would have been maybe even halfway through, maybe even

1079
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 5: by November of this season.

1080
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: For sure, you guys make sure that you guys like

1081
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: subscribe get notifications tell a friend about the show, and

1082
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: most importantly, share one of college football's fastest growing YouTube channels,

1083
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: College Football is honestly broker here with the rain Man

1084
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: himself missed Ralph Amazon And you guys can make sure too.

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Next thing that we got to talk

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01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: about Michigan State. Ralph, Michigan State's biggest fear is that

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01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 1: you are stuck in Groundhog's day, that you just got

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01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: a that you just had a previous coach.

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01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:25,680
Speaker 2: And oh my gosh, why's his name?

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01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 5: Of escaping me?

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01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 2: Ralph from Colorado? From Colorado by way of Alabama, they

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01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 2: got fired.

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01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 5: Wait who are you talking? You talking about Jonathan Smith

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01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 5: from Oregon State?

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01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 2: Or no, no, no, no, the coach before him?

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01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 4: Oh oh.

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01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, and how did you make me forget? I was

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01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 5: reading about him today? You know that he's the reason

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01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 5: why you got Dan Lanning? Right?

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01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: No?

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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01:08:58,760 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 2: He so he left?

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01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: Lord, have mercy.

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01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 5: Mel Tucker. Mel Tucker left his defensive coordinator role at

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01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 5: Georgia for that Colorado job, which is what got Dan

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01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 5: Lanning promoted.

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01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 2: Oh butterfly effected it. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: That's a melt so on your on your gratitude list

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01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 5: you got if you're if you're loving what you're getting

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01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 5: out of Dan Lanning, you gotta have melt Tucker on

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01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:22,639
Speaker 5: your gratitude list.

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01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 1: Oh if you sound like Alabama fans that that should

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Speaker 1: have Drew Brees on their on their gratitude list. They

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01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 1: should so, And if you guys don't know what what

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01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: that's about, go back to another episode of On a

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01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: Fraid Joe, or look on the shorts, because there's a

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Speaker 1: whole thing about why Drew Brees is so important to

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01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: Alabama and actually got them six national championships. All right, So,

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01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: Mel Tucker, Jonathan Smith, and now you're a head.

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01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 2: Coach who just got fired.

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01:09:54,680 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: He got exonerated over there at at Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald,

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01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: and so Michigan State's biggest fears should be that they

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01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: are stuck in Groundhog's Day and they don't have the

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01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: right coach or the right NIO, the right alignment. That

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01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: they are just stuck in purgatory for a while, which

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01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 1: will make my brother in law very sad.

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Speaker 5: I think Michigan State's Achilles heel is the spelling of

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01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,640
Speaker 5: their potential quarterbacks name. Have you ever? Have you ever

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01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 5: taken a shot? I would love for you to take

1145
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 5: a shot at this I would love he finished last

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01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,440
Speaker 5: year as a starter. I would love for you blindly

1147
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 5: to take a shot at this man's name. I'm gonna

1148
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 5: put it in the chat and I just I want you,

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01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 5: I want you to take a shot at it. Don't

1150
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 5: even think once you see it come in the chat,

1151
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 5: just read it.

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01:10:52,479 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 4: Here we go, okay, where okay, okay, interview chat.

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01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 2: Let me pull it up.

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 4: Where the hell is interview chat it?

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01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 5: I should just text it to you.

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01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where to find it.

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01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 5: I would love. I love the idea that you saw

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01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,600
Speaker 5: his name when I put it in the chat and

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01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 5: you're just like in the prom You're like, I can't

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01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 5: find it, but you're googling how to phonetic.

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01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: No, bro, I can't find it. Text it, text it

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: to me because I have no idea how to how

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01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: to say this.

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01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 5: All right, so it's it's Alessio, which you can say.

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01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,639
Speaker 5: You can say, Okay, right, Alessio. That's not too hard.

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01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 5: I'm gonning spell his last name for you.

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Speaker 3: M I l I v O j e v I

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01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:52,560
Speaker 3: c m I l I v uh huh oh j

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01:11:53,320 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 3: o j e v e v I seem.

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01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: Mill Millie Vojic milli Vojic. No, No, there's mill live

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01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: vote Oh Milliojevic's definitely not.

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01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 5: Oh okay mill of Vojevic.

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01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, okay, you're like and people.

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01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 5: Need to know like, I'm not just challenging, You're actually

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01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 5: like the king of Simoean last names. You're you're You're

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01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 5: actually really good at pronouncing this thing.

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 2: It's just the last name.

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01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: I get, I get, I can, I can, I can,

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01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: I can Iliavo. Yeah, with the best of.

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01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 5: Alessio mill of Vojevic. He looked so good at the

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01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 5: end of last year. And I almost wonder if Pat

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01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 5: Fitzgerald is you know, because his style at Northwestern I

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01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 5: think it was talent based, I really and people always

1184
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 5: talked about that, who's the Navy coach? The coach can yeah, Dato, Yeah,

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01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 5: he speaking of some old last names. He went over

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01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 5: to San Jose State and he he's had like two

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01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 5: years in a row of one of the leading receivers

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01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 5: in all college football.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 5: So it sometimes it's about how how your roster is built.

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01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 5: And I'm interested to see if Pat Fitzgerald comes in

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01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 5: and actually like opens up the offense. I think it's

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01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:30,640
Speaker 5: gonna be a fun yer. I don't think there's a

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01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 5: ton of expectations for Michigan State. They got their chickens

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01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 5: in order, they got their money. They like you figured

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01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 5: they're gonna be fine. Pat Fitzgerald is a good coach.

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Speaker 5: We know this. Is he the right guy? I think

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Speaker 5: that's a great that's a great point. Is he the

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Speaker 5: right guy? We'll find out, But I don't think we're

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Speaker 5: gonna find out too much in year one. I would

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01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 5: love to see them just come out and let it

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01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 5: fly though, have some fun to because I think they

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01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 5: have a good quarterback and eventually we're all gonna have

1204
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 5: to learn his name.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, now let's move on to the Minnesota.

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01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: The Minnesota go didn't go for us because people tried

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01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 1: to poach their head coach and and mister yeah, they

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01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: tried to poach their head coach and PJ Fleck he

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01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 1: said no, he lost his best player, was second best player,

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01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: because they because they retain their quarterback, they lost their

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01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 1: best player to the portal uh in in Coy Parish.

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01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: And for this upcoming season, Rob, I look at them

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01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, they I just don't see. I

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01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: don't see where Michigan, I'm sorry, where Minnesota gets over

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01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: the hump for this year.

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Speaker 5: What is what is the hump for them? More than

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 5: eight wins? Yes, hmm, that's a good point. I I

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01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 5: would think maybe with a bounce back year from Darius Taylor.

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01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 5: Not that he was bad last year, it's just that

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01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 5: he wasn't his sophomore year. In freshman year, he was

1221
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 5: so good that you thought his junior year was going

1222
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 5: to be his last year there, and now he's coming back.

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01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 5: He was their leading rusher last year. I think he

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01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 5: probably has the potential to be a thirteen fourteen hundred

1225
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 5: yard back. And so you know, if they're able to

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01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 5: run the ball. Drake Lindsay is a fine quarterback. I

1227
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 5: like him a lot. If there's any offensive consistency at all,

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Speaker 5: I think they can get back to eight to nine wins.

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01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:35,559
Speaker 5: I do. But it's but Minnesota, Indiana has ruined things

1230
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 5: for everybody. For everybody. You have this, you have this

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01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 5: charismatic leader in PJ. Fleck, who is an involved recruiter.

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01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 5: They play an exciting schedule. They play when they have

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01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 5: the athletes available. They can play an exciting brand of football,

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01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 5: weather permitting. But you know, if they can run the ball,

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Speaker 5: I think they might have a nice little year.

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01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, definitely that And so we have their their

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01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: schedule handy all right, here here's their schedule. How do

1238
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: you feel about this? Eastern Illinois, Mississippi State, Mississippi. You

1239
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: cannot say Mississippi. You gotta say Mississippi, Mississippi State, Akron,

1240
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: at Washington, Michigan, at Purdue Iowa, at Indiana, Ucla, at

1241
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: Penn State, Northwestern, and at Wisconsin. So they avoid Oregon

1242
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: and Ohio State, which which has to be a blessing

1243
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: for any team in the Big Ten. Oh oh, and

1244
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: they avoid USC two. That feels like you got off light.

1245
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 5: Yeah. Five, I mean five conference wins would be real

1246
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 5: nice for them in my opinion, because you have to

1247
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 5: figure there probably gonna you know, Mississippi State's maybe maybe

1248
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,600
Speaker 5: a toss up maybe, but five conference wins is going

1249
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 5: to get you in a position to maybe have a

1250
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 5: nine win season. And you know, in the history of

1251
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 5: that program, they they've had the back to back five

1252
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 5: and four conference wins. That's good, it's good enough. It's

1253
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 5: good enough, right he has he he did have the

1254
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 5: eleven win year, what in his third season. Yeah, but

1255
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 5: that that's not who this team is there. They are

1256
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 5: a team that's going to compete for eight and nine

1257
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 5: wins every single year. I don't see them being you know,

1258
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 5: making a run for the College Football Playoff or anything

1259
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 5: like that.

1260
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: So I guess that their biggest fear has to be

1261
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: not nine wins and losing their their head coach. That

1262
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: probably should be their biggest.

1263
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 5: Fear, which if people have been making a run at him,

1264
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 5: that there's always going to be the thought that like, oh,

1265
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 5: well it's Minnesota. If he can get eight to nine

1266
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 5: wins every single year at Minnesota, what can he do.

1267
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: For us?

1268
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 5: And then you get the fatigue amongst the fan base

1269
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 5: if you're if you're not punching past your feeling what

1270
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:10,639
Speaker 5: because that eleven win season in his third year kind

1271
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:12,959
Speaker 5: of maybe set an expectation that he's gonna.

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01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 2: Get You said you get the what with the fan base? Well?

1273
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 5: What did I say?

1274
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 2: You said you get something with with the fan I

1275
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 2: don't know what you said. That's why I was like, what.

1276
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:24,639
Speaker 3: Did you say?

1277
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 5: The benefit of the doubt or I don't know.

1278
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:32,679
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say fatigue, but you said

1279
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 2: something else, Oh.

1280
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 5: Fatigue, and maybe what I meant?

1281
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I was like, what I'm.

1282
01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 5: Gonna have to find I don't have to go back

1283
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 5: and find out.

1284
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 2: I was like, what did you say?

1285
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean worry man? I was like, did I

1286
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 5: say a slur or something.

1287
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 2: No, you did not say it slur. All right. The

1288
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:57,080
Speaker 2: next thing that we got to talk about the Nebraska

1289
01:18:57,320 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 2: coin Huskers. The thing that they have to worry about is.

1290
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 1: Nebraska should be worried in the twenty twenty sixth season

1291
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 1: that they are still Nebraska, that they are they they

1292
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: are a has been used to be college football team.

1293
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 1: They have to worry about the quarterback position. Even though

1294
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 1: that Dylan Ryola wasn't the best quarterback in the whole world.

1295
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 2: He was competent.

1296
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: The house wouldn't burn down with him with a minute.

1297
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: And now you're looking at them and you're saying, what

1298
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 1: what what? What are we supposed to make out of this?

1299
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 1: They their fans got upset with me because I talked

1300
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: about their recruiting rankings and they were like, we're the

1301
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: youngest team in college football. We have six hundred and

1302
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: thirty eight freshmen. Okay, so now what are you going

1303
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: to do with those freshmen? What are you going to

1304
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: do because last year is not going to be good enough.

1305
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: Just making it to a bowl game and what your

1306
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 1: your four of your head coach is not going to

1307
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: be the answer, especially after he just got an extension.

1308
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: So so you brought in another quarterback in the transfer portal?

1309
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:12,560
Speaker 1: Or is it gonna be TJ Latif who's gonna be

1310
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: your your starter who ended up starting a bunch of

1311
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: games last year even though he wasn't necessarily ready to

1312
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 1: be the starter? And uh yeah, So I I just

1313
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: don't know.

1314
01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 2: How this works.

1315
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: They they lost their starting running back Emmitt Johnson because

1316
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 1: he declared for the draft.

1317
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,680
Speaker 2: I I just don't know.

1318
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't see a world where this is a excellent

1319
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: football team.

1320
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 5: I think it could happen, But my worry, and I

1321
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 5: think the Nebraska Beans worry should be that if it

1322
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 5: does happen, it'll be on accident. I think I think

1323
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 5: that the biggest problem for this team is that there's

1324
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 5: a massive lack of identity. Being willing to go from

1325
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 5: the three three five to the four two five is

1326
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 5: probably a good idea. I think rob our Rich might

1327
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 5: be one of the best hires of the entire offseason

1328
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 5: by any school. There's a fantastic addition as your defensive coordinator.

1329
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 5: But why didn't Tony White work out? Why why didn't

1330
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 5: your original offensive coordinator who you stood by workout? And

1331
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 5: then you had to bring in Daniel Holgerson. How come

1332
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 5: your quarterback didn't want to be there anymore? Well, you know,

1333
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,640
Speaker 5: what is your identity at quarterback? Were you trying to

1334
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 5: go for an identity or we're just trying to go

1335
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:34,560
Speaker 5: for the best available player. So you know, I I

1336
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 5: know that they didn't bring in that many freshmen. I

1337
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 5: love the running back they got Jamal Rule. I got

1338
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 5: a chance to see him in play in person. He

1339
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 5: ran for about two hundred and fifty yards against my kids.

1340
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 5: He's a monster and I like I and I know

1341
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 5: you're a KWASI Gilmour guy? That they got another transfer portal? My?

1342
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 5: I think my biggest worry if I'm a Nebraska fan

1343
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 5: is that's even if this year does look different than

1344
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,639
Speaker 5: the previous years, if you are a contender, then maybe

1345
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:04,680
Speaker 5: it's not sustainable because maybe it's not on purpose. And

1346
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:10,639
Speaker 5: that is are they a purpose driven, identity driven team

1347
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 5: or are they just throwing stuff at the wall every

1348
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 5: single year to see what is going to happen. But

1349
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 5: I do love a couple of these freshmen. I do

1350
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:22,880
Speaker 5: love a couple of these transfers. I'm not to be mean,

1351
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:25,839
Speaker 5: but I think it might have some addition by subtraction

1352
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 5: at the quarterback position, and their defensive coordinator is going

1353
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 5: to be a star. So I'm higher on Nebraska than

1354
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:35,719
Speaker 5: I've been in a really long time. I just worry

1355
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 5: if them being good is going to be a matter

1356
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:40,680
Speaker 5: of intent or it's going to be a matter of

1357
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 5: just like it worked this time.

1358
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: He's saying a broken clock is right twice twice a day.

1359
01:22:46,280 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: But you're a non conference schedule. I mean, if they

1360
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 1: can't if they can't start the season three and zero

1361
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: against Ohio Bowling Green in North Dakota, this season is lost.

1362
01:22:58,520 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 2: Anyway.

1363
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,160
Speaker 1: Then they got a head head to East Lansing. They

1364
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:08,040
Speaker 1: got Maryland, Indiana, at Oregon, Washington, at Illinois, Ohio State,

1365
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: at Iowa Ralph I can't, I can't find. So they're

1366
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: gonna start out three and oh, they're gonna lose to Indiana, Oregon,

1367
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: Washington because Washington's at at home, so they'll for sure

1368
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:26,759
Speaker 1: when when that one at Illinois, Ohio State and at Iowa.

1369
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:32,760
Speaker 1: So that's a minimum of six losses and then they

1370
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: still got to get through Rutgers, Maryland, and Michigan State.

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01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 1: This team could end up upside down.

1372
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 5: It could, but I think I think an eight nine

1373
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 5: win season I think would be with this particular schedule,

1374
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,640
Speaker 5: would be very, very respectable. You do gotta worry if

1375
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 5: they don't have their offense figured out by week four

1376
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 5: and five, then you run a risk against a team

1377
01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 5: like Maryland, who I think is going to score some points.

1378
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, now let's talk about them buck Eyes,

1379
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: the Ohio State buck guys, and.

1380
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 2: What should they be afraid of Ralph because I.

1381
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 1: They have Julian Saying coming back, And I have talked

1382
01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: about Julian Saying extensively. I've watched him play against my

1383
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: kid in high school, Washington play in college. He's an

1384
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: efficiency quarterback. He is not going to wile you with

1385
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 1: his arm strength. He's not gonna wore you with his

1386
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 1: running ability. He's not gonna wow you with anything except

1387
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: for his consistency and decision making.

1388
01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 2: You're like, god, damn.

1389
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 1: He just doesn't make bad choices very often, and he's

1390
01:24:38,040 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. Like he does the requisite things to be

1391
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. And then you add in Jeremiah Smith

1392
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: and the rest of the weapons that they have around him.

1393
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: They're a good offensive line. Bo Jackson at running back. Yes,

1394
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 1: they're losing a lot with. I mean they lose a

1395
01:24:57,479 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: lot on defense when you lose Arvel Caleb Downs McDonald,

1396
01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: the corner, Igmunosan ignosan or Bona ja I forgot how

1397
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: you say his name. And then so they lose a lot,

1398
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: like they lose a bunch of NFL players, and Caleb

1399
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 1: Downs is the one. He's like the perfect player. So

1400
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: and then you look at what r Vel Reese was

1401
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: as a specimen. Oh and then Sonny Styles two there

1402
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: is a zero percent chance. I don't care what Matt

1403
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: Patricia does. He can't run the same defense last year

1404
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: as he ran this year. I mean, sorry this year

1405
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: as he ran last year, because he's not going to

1406
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 1: have the level of experience and as good of players.

1407
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:47,559
Speaker 1: And it's not to say that Ohio State's just gonna

1408
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: oh because they recruit well, but there's a big difference

1409
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: in what you had in RVL Reee, Sonny Styles McDonald,

1410
01:25:55,880 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 1: the other d n and and Caleb Downs and and

1411
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: the rest of the second secondary as well. So yes,

1412
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: they have good players, but it is going to take

1413
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: a step back talent.

1414
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 5: Wise, you think. So they they hit the portal hard.

1415
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:17,719
Speaker 2: Okay, who are you excited about out of their portal

1416
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 2: hal Well.

1417
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 5: Based on the way they run their offense, I think

1418
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 5: the UTSA wide receiver Devin McQuinn could be could could

1419
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 5: be good. They rated Alabama. They got James Smith off

1420
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 5: that off that D line. John Walker was a good

1421
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 5: D lineman for for UCF. I think both of those

1422
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 5: guys will be impact players. Dominic Kelly Corner out of

1423
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 5: Georgia I think could come in and play right away.

1424
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 5: Earl Little out of Florida State, that's good. That one

1425
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 5: kind of surprised me. He's older too. Right, if we're

1426
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 5: if we're all saying these twenty three twenty four year

1427
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:56,920
Speaker 5: olds like they're the they're the ones that that that

1428
01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 5: help you win these games, it's I think it's that

1429
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:03,640
Speaker 5: they win senior heavy and I heard you and I

1430
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 5: both heard Kenny Dillingham talk about this once at Arizona State.

1431
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 5: When you bring it in transfers, whether they're going to

1432
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 5: play or not, you do want to have roster balance.

1433
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 5: So you look at a guy like Justin Martin, your

1434
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,640
Speaker 5: guy who they brought in to be the backup quarterback.

1435
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:17,800
Speaker 5: This is a red shirt senior. They also took a

1436
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 5: red shirt senior tight end out of Northwestern they took

1437
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 5: or Little as a red shirt senior. They took a

1438
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:28,679
Speaker 5: red shirt senior safety out of Duke that Mason Williams,

1439
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 5: the tight end they got at Ohio, is going to

1440
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 5: be going into his fourth year in college. So I

1441
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:35,640
Speaker 5: think that bringing in a lot of experience in the

1442
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 5: portal it might make up for the talent dip, because

1443
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 5: if you are one of those people who criticized Indiana,

1444
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:44,880
Speaker 5: sometimes experience does make up for raw talent, and they

1445
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 5: went heavily on experience out of the port So.

1446
01:27:48,120 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: I guess that that would be the thing that you

1447
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: would be afraid of if you are Ohio State, is

1448
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 1: that you're bringing in so many transfers and that's not

1449
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: how you won a national championship, and you're trying to

1450
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: fill spots And is that then going to impact your recruiting?

1451
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,600
Speaker 1: How's it going to impact your your team balance? And

1452
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, now onto their their s.

1453
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,280
Speaker 5: If I'm a Ohio State fan, I'm not afraid of anything.

1454
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 5: I walk around like I'm I'm maybe maybe deep deep

1455
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 5: deep in the recesses of my brain. I worry that

1456
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 5: Julian Saying showed us his best. Maybe, But if I'm

1457
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 5: an Ohio State fan so confident going into this year.

1458
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:35,599
Speaker 5: I don't know really yeah yeah, because you already beat

1459
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 5: Texas and may maybe the truth will get told that

1460
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 5: second game, but you already beat Texas the way that

1461
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 5: you ran out of gas.

1462
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:54,600
Speaker 2: Dr though and there to be out for revenge.

1463
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 1: But then you got their their non conference house side

1464
01:28:57,080 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 1: of Texas, nothing nothing to speak about Illinois, Iowa, Maryland

1465
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:04,680
Speaker 1: at Indiana, and then you get a bye, and then

1466
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: you follow that up with USC, Oregon, nor Northwestern Nebraska, Michigan.

1467
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:14,000
Speaker 1: Their back half of the schedule is tough. Their back

1468
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: half of the schedule is tough, and you're gonna see

1469
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 1: what they're made out of. They finished twelve to zero

1470
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 1: in the regular season last year, one of the most

1471
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: dominant defenses, and then it fell apart in the Big

1472
01:29:23,240 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 1: Ten Championship and then against and then against Miami in

1473
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:34,400
Speaker 1: the College Football playoffs. So this is a roster that

1474
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:39,759
Speaker 1: should be national championship worthy, all the portal additions and everything,

1475
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,639
Speaker 1: but now it's building a team. And then they lose

1476
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:48,280
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, who I told I told everybody last

1477
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:52,559
Speaker 1: year that it was going to be his last season

1478
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 1: at Ohio State.

1479
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 5: Oh No.

1480
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 1: Georgian's gonna wait for the head coaching job. Oh yeah, okay, yeah,

1481
01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: he waited for the one down at down down at

1482
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:08,720
Speaker 1: two lane. That's what he was waiting on. So so

1483
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,080
Speaker 1: uh yeah, this that that's what Ohio State needs to

1484
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 1: be worried about. I think that they're staring ten and

1485
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:16,839
Speaker 1: two at the face.

1486
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 5: Ten and two with a CFP appearing like they're still

1487
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:23,400
Speaker 5: getting in.

1488
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 1: Yes, but that it could be a nine to three

1489
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: year because it's.

1490
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 5: It's a nasty schedule. But I I think that they

1491
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think they they're If they lose

1492
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,599
Speaker 5: to Texas, then it's we'll see how much they panic.

1493
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:42,760
Speaker 5: But I think that this is a this is going

1494
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 5: to be a solid team. It'll sneak up on some people,

1495
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,560
Speaker 5: but the experience they brought in, with the with the

1496
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 5: the high level experience they have coming back, I think

1497
01:30:52,160 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 5: they'll be okay.

1498
01:30:54,040 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Penn State.

1499
01:31:01,439 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 1: Penn State only needs to be afraid of one thing

1500
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:08,560
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six Ralph. One thing and it's the

1501
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: same thing that they need to be afraid of in

1502
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine thirty is that they

1503
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 1: fired James Franklin to get James Franklin. That's the only

1504
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 1: thing that they need to be afraid of is that

1505
01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:29,120
Speaker 1: they have And mind you, James Franklin is one of

1506
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:33,120
Speaker 1: the active coaches that has the five most wins in

1507
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 1: college football.

1508
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 2: He will get you to ten wins every year.

1509
01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 1: Yes, he's had some trouble against the top ten teams,

1510
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,760
Speaker 1: because guess who the top ten teams have been Ohio State,

1511
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: They've been against Oregon. They like, he's not just losing

1512
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 1: to any old body. So I think that people need

1513
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: to take a chill pill. I believe that Matt Campbell's

1514
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,800
Speaker 1: a really good coach. This feels exactly like Kyle Whittingham

1515
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 1: getting Michigan to me Ralph that it is a very

1516
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,760
Speaker 1: good head coach that you have wondered what he could

1517
01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 1: do with premier talent. Now he's going to get a

1518
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: chance to have the opportunity to show what he can do.

1519
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: So Penn State fans have patience, but also don't get

1520
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:24,560
Speaker 1: frustrated because James Franklin may have eventually gotten you to

1521
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: a national championship and Matt Campbell may eventually get you

1522
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:32,800
Speaker 1: to one as well. But don't don't fire the guy

1523
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 1: who wins, You know, over the course of you know

1524
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 1: who doesn't have losing seasons and gets your ten wins

1525
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:40,679
Speaker 1: a year, don't fire that guy.

1526
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll say this about Matt Campbell. He got he

1527
01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 5: has four wins against top ten teams in eleven tries.

1528
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:53,000
Speaker 5: James Franklin and four wins against top ten teams in

1529
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:57,080
Speaker 5: twenty five tries. So, you know, maybe it is the same,

1530
01:32:57,120 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 5: maybe it's not. But if I'm a penn State fan,

1531
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 5: my biggest year is that this James Franklin vendetta where

1532
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 5: he took the whole recruiting class doesn't end.

1533
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 1: Now He's got a target pointed at them every every

1534
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 1: time like I want oh, they want they want that guy.

1535
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 1: I want him, I want him. I'll get them.

1536
01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 5: Yeah. My my my thing is like, yeah, move on

1537
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:27,559
Speaker 5: from James Franklin. But creating an enemy of James Franklin

1538
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:33,600
Speaker 5: maybe not the best. Maybe not the best idea. You

1539
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,960
Speaker 5: will see somebody recruit western Pennsylvania. You'll never see anybody

1540
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 5: recruit western Pennsylvania harder than James Franklin does. Over the

1541
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:44,800
Speaker 5: next three years. I guarantee you that the Pennsylvania to

1542
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 5: Ohio River Valley to to uh to Virginia pipeline is

1543
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 5: about to be flowing. But I I don't know, I

1544
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 5: don't really know what to expect in year one. It's

1545
01:33:57,600 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 5: Iowa State in Penn State uniforms. It's a tougher schedule.

1546
01:34:01,320 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 5: Everything that Matt Campbell's ever accomplished, he's done without a

1547
01:34:03,840 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 5: top forty recruiting class. We brought those guys to Penn State,

1548
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 5: and so, I mean, you are going to want to

1549
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 5: see dudes.

1550
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:16,600
Speaker 1: James Madison took them to Indiana, so you know, so

1551
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:19,080
Speaker 1: we can't knock them. We when when you add them

1552
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 1: in with some premier talent, you may have something premiere.

1553
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 5: Uh.

1554
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 1: But this schedule though their non conference we we we

1555
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:32,400
Speaker 1: shall not even speak about this. Wisconsin at Northwestern USC,

1556
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:34,919
Speaker 1: which is going to be a tough game, at Michigan

1557
01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 1: tough game.

1558
01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 2: But Ralph, they of this is this is the dream.

1559
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:44,479
Speaker 1: This is the easiest possible Big ten schedule. You do

1560
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,920
Speaker 1: not have Indiana, you do not have Oregon, you do

1561
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:49,360
Speaker 1: not have Ohio State.

1562
01:34:51,439 --> 01:34:54,760
Speaker 2: What else could you possibly Yes?

1563
01:34:54,920 --> 01:34:58,840
Speaker 1: And then USC comes to it's pretty great. Yes, Yes,

1564
01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: this is this is i deal. This is peak Big

1565
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:07,360
Speaker 1: ten schedule. This is this man from heaven?

1566
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 5: What is the what is the flirting versus harassment meme

1567
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 5: ten and two with Matt Campbell is going to be

1568
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:18,600
Speaker 5: flirting In ten and two with James Franklin was harassment.

1569
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,080
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, all right.

1570
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 1: We got the Perdue boiler Makers, Ralph. They were much

1571
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 1: improved last year. Coach comes over from U n l

1572
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: U n l V, does a very good job. They

1573
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 1: were highly competitive and what they need to be afraid

1574
01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:47,360
Speaker 1: of that this year, to me is nothing. I don't

1575
01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: think that they should be afraid of anything because the

1576
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 1: expectations should be very low. That that Barry Odam and

1577
01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 1: this offense and this. All you want them to do

1578
01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:05,640
Speaker 1: is go be competitive and win a couple of the

1579
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,559
Speaker 1: games that you should win. That is that is all

1580
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 1: I want if I am Perdue. I want to beat

1581
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:16,240
Speaker 1: Indiana State in the in the non conference, I want

1582
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,679
Speaker 1: to beat Wake Forest, which is gonna be a tougher

1583
01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:23,040
Speaker 1: game than most people really want to admit, and then

1584
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna lose to Notre Dame. I want

1585
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:29,479
Speaker 1: to beat Ucla. Let me put it put up to

1586
01:36:29,479 --> 01:36:32,880
Speaker 1: schedule so everybody can see it. I want to beat Ucla.

1587
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:37,760
Speaker 1: I want to uh, you know, be competitive at Illinois

1588
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:45,160
Speaker 1: competitive against Notre Dame, potentially beat Minnesota, competitive with Washington,

1589
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:50,760
Speaker 1: competitive with Penn's, Penn State, beat Maryland, beat Wisconsin, and

1590
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:54,720
Speaker 1: then competitive with Iowa. That feels like a good and

1591
01:36:54,840 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 1: then whatever happened, and then don't lose by fifty to

1592
01:36:59,360 --> 01:37:03,719
Speaker 1: to just make it like a two touchdown game. That'll

1593
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 1: be exactly what Purdwe fans are looking for. Nice nice What.

1594
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:13,960
Speaker 2: Five and seven season six and six? After last year?

1595
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:17,320
Speaker 1: Going what two ten, zero to nine into big ten five,

1596
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:20,200
Speaker 1: five and seven would be a godsend. They lost ten

1597
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:20,599
Speaker 1: in a row.

1598
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:30,519
Speaker 5: They brought in fifty three players this offseason. I don't

1599
01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:32,599
Speaker 5: even know what to expect. I will say this, they

1600
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 5: doubled their wins under Barry Otam in the first year.

1601
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 5: They went from one win to two a big difference too.

1602
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 5: They went from giving up forty points to thirty points.

1603
01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 5: That's big, right, Like they they did look better. But

1604
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 5: I you look at this transfer class and it's it's

1605
01:37:50,360 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 5: a lot of guys who weren't stars elsewhere but were contributors,

1606
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 5: like they could play some football. But I already two

1607
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:02,880
Speaker 5: guys they brought in in the portal class. I don't

1608
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:06,280
Speaker 5: see anybody that I'm like this is this is somebody

1609
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 5: who's gonna make an impact right away. There's some guys

1610
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,680
Speaker 5: I'm interested in. They got a six four to two

1611
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 5: thirty linebacker out of University of San Diego that if he,

1612
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 5: if he translates it, he can he can go from

1613
01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 5: you know, FCS school where they don't even have athletic

1614
01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 5: scholarships the PFL league all the way to the Big

1615
01:38:28,640 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 5: Ten and have the type of production that he had there,

1616
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 5: you know, six sacks, three forced fumbles, then all of

1617
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 5: a sudden, you've got a playmaker on the defense. So

1618
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 5: if I'm a Purdue fan, Yeah, why would you be

1619
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:44,920
Speaker 5: afraid of anything? You've been to the depths of Hell.

1620
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 5: You were born and bred in the depths of Hell.

1621
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 5: You shouldn't be scared of anyone. You should be scared

1622
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,680
Speaker 5: of having to memorize fifty three new names. Yeah, that's

1623
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 5: a lot NFL you need to.

1624
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 2: Be afraid of. Just just go out and hope you

1625
01:38:58,160 --> 01:38:59,879
Speaker 2: get four wins, five.

1626
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:02,880
Speaker 5: Exactly, double it two years in a row. Why not?

1627
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 2: Yep? All right?

1628
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:09,600
Speaker 1: Next team up, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. This is a

1629
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:11,680
Speaker 1: team that went two and seven in the Big Ten

1630
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:15,280
Speaker 1: last year. Their U their only wins were Perdue and

1631
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:20,559
Speaker 1: they beat yeah Purdue in Maryland. And this year, Ralph,

1632
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:26,080
Speaker 1: if I'm Rutgers, I the thing I have to be

1633
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:32,920
Speaker 1: afraid of is Indy. That we're not Indiana, that the

1634
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: hope that Indiana got with Kurt Signetti, that Greg Ciano

1635
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:41,560
Speaker 1: is not possible, that that that he doesn't have that

1636
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:45,320
Speaker 1: in in him, that that that's not his ceiling is

1637
01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: a national championship. But sometimes you don't need a coach

1638
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,920
Speaker 1: to get you to the national championship. You need to

1639
01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 1: get the coach to get the stuff in the in

1640
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:59,320
Speaker 1: ready for you, like like you had for for Oregon.

1641
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: You have Willie Haggard, get your Mario Christobal, who then gets.

1642
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 2: You Dan Lanning.

1643
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:11,400
Speaker 1: So Willie Taggert was very necessary in Oregon's trajectory, and

1644
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:16,320
Speaker 1: maybe Greg Ciano is very necessary in Rutgers trajectory. So

1645
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 1: that's what I believe for them, that this season is

1646
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. And I just don't see a world

1647
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:28,240
Speaker 1: after last year where they have one of the best

1648
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:30,599
Speaker 1: pass offenses in the country and one of the worst

1649
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: defenses in the country, that all of a sudden that

1650
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 1: this defense is gonna look better.

1651
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 2: I mean Howard and U mass Hell.

1652
01:40:39,280 --> 01:40:41,560
Speaker 1: They could end up with a game against them or

1653
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:46,200
Speaker 1: against Boston College who was god awful on offense last

1654
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: year and atrocious on defense as well. But then they

1655
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:56,640
Speaker 1: got USC, Indiana, at Maryland, at Northwestern Michigan. But they

1656
01:40:56,760 --> 01:41:00,880
Speaker 1: do avoid Ohio State and Oregon. But if when you're

1657
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: at Rutgers level, that doesn't even matter because all the

1658
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 1: rest of the games are going to be highly competitive,

1659
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: so you you have more toss up games, which gives

1660
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: fans a little bit more opportunity to be frustrated if

1661
01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:17,040
Speaker 1: you lose a lot of those toss up games.

1662
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:22,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think my biggest fears of Rutgers fan is

1663
01:41:22,439 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 5: that we made an absolute home run higher at defensive

1664
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 5: coordinator this offseason. They got Travis Johansson from University of

1665
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 5: South Dakota. He was the head coach. By the way,

1666
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,879
Speaker 5: this is a trend that we're seeing his head coaches

1667
01:41:35,080 --> 01:41:38,960
Speaker 5: leave smaller levels to go be position coaches elsewhere. Matt

1668
01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 5: enst did it after being a national championship winning coach

1669
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 5: at North Dakota State. He went to USC. We just

1670
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:49,960
Speaker 5: talked about Bobby House stepping down from and then he

1671
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:54,360
Speaker 5: got his PRESDO State right away. Oh that's Jason Eck.

1672
01:41:54,520 --> 01:42:00,640
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah, Matt Matt, yeah, yeah yeah. And so

1673
01:42:01,760 --> 01:42:04,800
Speaker 5: we saw it with Bobby Hawk, and now we're seeing

1674
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:07,679
Speaker 5: it with Travis Johansen. He steps down from South Dakota

1675
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 5: where he had six top ten defenses in fourteen years,

1676
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:17,080
Speaker 5: calling that defense six and Rutgers was tarrible with the

1677
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:21,280
Speaker 5: capital every letter last year. You make one of the

1678
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:24,800
Speaker 5: best possible hires you can make for a defensive coordinator.

1679
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 5: And my biggest worry would be that it doesn't matter

1680
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,280
Speaker 5: that it's a talent issue and that we can't get

1681
01:42:30,320 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 5: people out to New Jersey to play any defense. But

1682
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:36,599
Speaker 5: if they get both sides of the ball figured out,

1683
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 5: We've seen what greg Ciano can do, so you know,

1684
01:42:40,479 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 5: I'm sure they got a little bit of hope to

1685
01:42:41,840 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 5: cling to. But that defense last year was so bad.

1686
01:42:45,240 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 5: Good enough to win a couple of games against bad

1687
01:42:47,080 --> 01:42:50,640
Speaker 5: teams in the Big Ten, but just putrid for the

1688
01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:53,240
Speaker 5: final I don't know, nine weeks of the season. It

1689
01:42:53,479 --> 01:42:58,160
Speaker 5: was objectively to me the worst defense in power for

1690
01:42:59,000 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 5: for sure.

1691
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Next team up, the UCLA Bruins. You see, eh, you

1692
01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:16,320
Speaker 1: see lay fight, fight fight. I've seen that way too

1693
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:17,679
Speaker 1: many times I've been away twenty games.

1694
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So.

1695
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: UCLA falls in the same category to me as Rutgers fans.

1696
01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:32,759
Speaker 1: There is nothing to be afraid of for this season.

1697
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 1: There is no boogeyman. You got a new head coach,

1698
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:40,000
Speaker 1: Bob Chesney, who came from James Madison. The last James

1699
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:44,200
Speaker 1: Madison coach, Kurt Signetty, just got a national championship.

1700
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:44,280
Speaker 5: In two years.

1701
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:46,600
Speaker 1: So if you're a UCLA fan, you should be like,

1702
01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 1: that's eve what happens. Let me set my water. Let's

1703
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 1: sit out in the hot Rose Bowl for where we

1704
01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 1: will be playing in twenty two despite people trying to

1705
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:04,400
Speaker 1: get us playing so far, there's nothing to be afraid of.

1706
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:08,800
Speaker 2: You're just sitting sitting back. There's nowhere to go but up.

1707
01:44:10,640 --> 01:44:13,040
Speaker 1: All you want as a UCLA fan is to have

1708
01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 1: some energy, some juice, some hope around the program.

1709
01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 2: That is all you want. There is nothing, there is

1710
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:21,759
Speaker 2: no outcomes.

1711
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 1: Outside of like that can make you more discouraged than

1712
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:31,880
Speaker 1: they were last year. In the first four weeks of

1713
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:36,639
Speaker 1: the season, there's nothing. There is nothing that can happen.

1714
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:44,599
Speaker 1: Everything's an opportunity. Everything's an opportunity. This schedule, they got

1715
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 1: there at Cal familiar team, taslup Poys, the head coach.

1716
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:49,320
Speaker 2: They're in a rebuild too.

1717
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:52,680
Speaker 1: Hell, you could win that game San Diego State, You're

1718
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:53,639
Speaker 1: gonna be more talented.

1719
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:54,599
Speaker 2: You can win that game.

1720
01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:56,240
Speaker 5: Uh.

1721
01:44:56,479 --> 01:44:59,840
Speaker 1: Then then you played Perdue. Oh that's a winnable game

1722
01:45:01,160 --> 01:45:06,280
Speaker 1: at Maryland. Damn winnable game two. Bro at Oregon, Wisconsin,

1723
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: Michigan State. Then you got Nevada in the middle of

1724
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:13,680
Speaker 1: the season. Like Ralph, they had a murderer's row at

1725
01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:18,000
Speaker 1: the end of last year. This this schedule has nothing

1726
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:23,600
Speaker 1: but hope and upside. There's nothing to be afraid of,

1727
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:27,559
Speaker 1: nothing to be afraid of. Oh, so what we gotta

1728
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 1: go to autin Stadium. We're going to lose that that

1729
01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 1: that game, there's nothing to be afraid of. If you

1730
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:40,720
Speaker 1: lose at Michigan. Okay, you would be disappointed if you

1731
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: lose to to USC but they've been nil and and

1732
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: having the same head coach and everything else. So but

1733
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 1: that's a winnable game too. So you're just like Bro,

1734
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: whatever happens this season, there's nothing for you cla to

1735
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: be afraid of. Bro.

1736
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:59,240
Speaker 5: Nothing I agree with you, I agree with you. So

1737
01:46:01,160 --> 01:46:04,960
Speaker 5: this is one of the best transfer classes in the country.

1738
01:46:05,000 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 5: It's I think it's top fifteen. I think it's top

1739
01:46:07,520 --> 01:46:11,240
Speaker 5: three in the Big ten. He got a lot of

1740
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:17,599
Speaker 5: his guys from James Madison. They were smaller guys. We'll

1741
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:19,840
Speaker 5: see how they perform in the in the Big ten.

1742
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:23,960
Speaker 5: But DJ Barksdale just an awesome, awesome dB. But he's

1743
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 5: only five to seven. He brought in one of his

1744
01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:31,160
Speaker 5: running backs I believe, who is only five to six

1745
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,800
Speaker 5: way Night. But they were stars at, you know, at

1746
01:46:34,800 --> 01:46:38,320
Speaker 5: their previous school. But you know he likes size because

1747
01:46:38,320 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 5: he went really really big on the O line, really

1748
01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 5: big on the D line. Brydon Lofton at tight end

1749
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 5: is six five two thirty. I think he got a

1750
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:47,960
Speaker 5: six to eight O lineman. And then he also got

1751
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 5: tyson Ford who's been at Notre Dame man Call at

1752
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:55,120
Speaker 5: six five three hundred on the D line. I'm with you.

1753
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:57,880
Speaker 5: I think UCLA fans should just enjoy the ride. This

1754
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:00,200
Speaker 5: is a very good transfer class. I think they're going

1755
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:05,120
Speaker 5: to be competitive immediately winning. I don't know, but these

1756
01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 5: games are going to be exciting. The other thing he

1757
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 5: did that I loved is I don't think Nico plays

1758
01:47:09,800 --> 01:47:12,720
Speaker 5: a full season. I really don't what I think he's

1759
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:14,600
Speaker 5: shown in his college career. I think he's shown in

1760
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 5: his college career gets banged up a little bit.

1761
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you're saying.

1762
01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 5: So I think I'm not saying no quish and I'm

1763
01:47:21,200 --> 01:47:21,799
Speaker 5: saying healthy.

1764
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:24,040
Speaker 2: I am hopeful.

1765
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:27,240
Speaker 1: I think that this could be the surprise team of

1766
01:47:27,400 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: the Big Big Ten, not a Big Ten winning team,

1767
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:32,600
Speaker 1: slow the hell down. I think that they could that

1768
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:35,320
Speaker 1: this could be an eight win team and surprise a

1769
01:47:35,400 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: lot of people real fast, which would then make the

1770
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:42,639
Speaker 1: James Madison head coaching job. If you win win there,

1771
01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:44,439
Speaker 1: then people are gonna be like that, that's gonna be

1772
01:47:44,479 --> 01:47:45,679
Speaker 1: the guy that they start to plow.

1773
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:50,080
Speaker 5: I just my whole thing is, I never understand why

1774
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,400
Speaker 5: gms don't do this, why coaches don't do this. If

1775
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:55,720
Speaker 5: you have a franchise quarterback, why is the backup not

1776
01:47:55,880 --> 01:47:59,479
Speaker 5: a similar mold so that not similar skill set. Clearly,

1777
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 5: the start is a starter for a reason. The backup

1778
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:03,080
Speaker 5: is the backup for a reason. But why do you

1779
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 5: have such a stylistic shift from your starting quarterback to

1780
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:08,560
Speaker 5: your backup quarterback. I've never understood that.

1781
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:11,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, like like having a pocket passer and a runner.

1782
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:15,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, the Cardinals fan we got Colt McCoy

1783
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:18,479
Speaker 5: was behind Kyler Murray for years. Like, this is not

1784
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:22,800
Speaker 5: what do you were calling? You were calling to Kobe

1785
01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 5: Kobe exactly. Kobe got sacked like forty times in ten games.

1786
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:31,439
Speaker 5: But but but but Uh there's a not well nine

1787
01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:34,680
Speaker 5: known guy that they brought into backup Nico named Ty Diefenbach,

1788
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 5: six foot six, two thirty guys, spent a year at

1789
01:48:38,160 --> 01:48:41,800
Speaker 5: pitt balled out at cal Poly. Uh, this is the

1790
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:45,600
Speaker 5: perfect fit for if Nico goes down, You're bringing in

1791
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 5: somebody who is very similar skill set, maybe not in talent,

1792
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 5: hard to be more talented than Nico, but there's not

1793
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 5: going to be this dramatic shift in how you call

1794
01:48:54,200 --> 01:48:54,719
Speaker 5: the offense.

1795
01:48:55,240 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: Can I tell you I am so happy that Nico

1796
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:01,680
Speaker 1: stayed at UCLA. Think that was the best decision for him,

1797
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 1: the best decision for how draft people see him and

1798
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:05,639
Speaker 1: everything else.

1799
01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 2: I think this was a quality decision.

1800
01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:12,840
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the guys across the street, the

1801
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: USC Trojans. This is put up or shut up time

1802
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 1: for the Trojans, for Lincoln Riley and the thing that UCLA,

1803
01:49:25,080 --> 01:49:27,720
Speaker 1: oh excuse me, the thing that USC needs to be

1804
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:31,720
Speaker 1: afraid of is that Lincoln Riley is not the guy

1805
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:34,759
Speaker 1: that they thought he was, that he's not the builder

1806
01:49:35,280 --> 01:49:36,360
Speaker 1: that they thought he was.

1807
01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 2: And now, mind you, this schedule, it was extremely tough.

1808
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 1: They got Notre Dame up off the schedule, which makes

1809
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 1: it a little more manageable. And without getting into that

1810
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 1: whole rigamarou, everybody knows how we feel about that about us.

1811
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:55,840
Speaker 2: He ducking the smoke.

1812
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:01,280
Speaker 1: But they replaced them, so Notre Dame place USC with

1813
01:50:02,200 --> 01:50:09,960
Speaker 1: byu USC replaced Notre Dame with with San Jose State.

1814
01:50:11,120 --> 01:50:15,599
Speaker 1: They replaced Notre Dame with San Jose State. So then

1815
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:19,760
Speaker 1: you got San Jose State Fresno State in Louisiana in

1816
01:50:19,920 --> 01:50:26,120
Speaker 1: your non conference, and then you play Rutgers at Rutgers.

1817
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:32,200
Speaker 2: Oregon and that's what you got.

1818
01:50:32,320 --> 01:50:35,400
Speaker 1: And then you get a nice oh actually you get

1819
01:50:35,479 --> 01:50:38,040
Speaker 1: a buy early off in the season after the Penn

1820
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:38,839
Speaker 1: State game.

1821
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:41,360
Speaker 2: They had.

1822
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:46,280
Speaker 1: They're the only Big Ten team with two buys. The

1823
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:48,320
Speaker 1: only thing that you need to be afraid of is

1824
01:50:48,400 --> 01:50:50,719
Speaker 1: that this is the season that you have been pointing

1825
01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:51,639
Speaker 1: to for years.

1826
01:50:52,200 --> 01:50:53,160
Speaker 2: This is our year.

1827
01:50:53,680 --> 01:50:57,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna win a Natty or we're gonna make the playoff.

1828
01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:03,000
Speaker 1: The schedule, you dropped rival to make it route. If

1829
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:05,439
Speaker 1: they missed the playoff, I don't care the fact that

1830
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:12,680
Speaker 1: they gotta play Oregon, Washington at Penn State at Camp Randall, Wisconsin,

1831
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 1: Ohio State at Indiana. I don't care about none of that.

1832
01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:22,240
Speaker 1: If they cannot win, because to get to the playoffs,

1833
01:51:22,280 --> 01:51:27,280
Speaker 1: they gotta be out of Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Ohio State,

1834
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:27,879
Speaker 1: and Indiana.

1835
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:32,160
Speaker 2: Out of those five games, mind them up, they have.

1836
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:34,840
Speaker 1: To win three of them. They have to win three

1837
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:37,720
Speaker 1: of them, assuming they don't drop any other game.

1838
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:44,240
Speaker 2: If they lose three of those games, it's over. It's over,

1839
01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:45,400
Speaker 2: and they'll.

1840
01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:47,880
Speaker 1: Probably drop another one as well if they if they're

1841
01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:50,400
Speaker 1: the type of team that does that.

1842
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:52,759
Speaker 2: They got their quarterback coming back.

1843
01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:58,280
Speaker 1: Jamva, but then they lose Jakobe Lane and he likes

1844
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:02,800
Speaker 1: to just throw reckless jump to him. Makai Lemon was

1845
01:52:03,240 --> 01:52:08,559
Speaker 1: a devastating wide receiver, get open against anybody. Still traps

1846
01:52:08,640 --> 01:52:14,400
Speaker 1: for hands. They lost their best defender in their safety.

1847
01:52:15,560 --> 01:52:18,479
Speaker 1: They lost their defensive coordinator. Yes, they got a new

1848
01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:24,800
Speaker 1: one in former head coach at TCU, but what are

1849
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:29,240
Speaker 1: we doing, Ralph? Are we going to in Gary Patterson?

1850
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:33,040
Speaker 1: I just don't see a world Ralph where this team

1851
01:52:33,120 --> 01:52:37,080
Speaker 1: makes the college Football Playoff next year, and that's going

1852
01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:42,120
Speaker 1: to devastate USC fans. But I just think that's the

1853
01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:45,479
Speaker 1: reality of the world that we live in. And like

1854
01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,200
Speaker 1: they pointed to twenty twenty six, for the last couple

1855
01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:50,799
Speaker 1: of years, this is the year. But then their schedule

1856
01:52:50,920 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 1: was like ooh ooh, this is gonna be tough. So

1857
01:52:53,840 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 1: this is gonna put Lincoln Riley to every bit of

1858
01:52:56,880 --> 01:53:00,920
Speaker 1: the test, and if they lose four games this year,

1859
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:07,679
Speaker 1: it is going to absolutely devastate the the the donor base.

1860
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna want him out of there, but he's got

1861
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:13,479
Speaker 1: too much guaranteed money, so they better try to go

1862
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:15,639
Speaker 1: all in again for twenty twenty seven.

1863
01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:22,519
Speaker 5: I'm high on USC this year. I don't know about

1864
01:53:22,520 --> 01:53:24,559
Speaker 5: the Gary Patterson thing. I really don't. I thought they

1865
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 5: had a great defensive coordinator in the building. I do

1866
01:53:27,400 --> 01:53:34,040
Speaker 5: think that hurts. I wish if and maybe this is

1867
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 5: what I would say, like my fear. If I'm a

1868
01:53:36,600 --> 01:53:40,040
Speaker 5: USC fan, I have plenty of fears and anxieties, namely

1869
01:53:40,080 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 5: that you're gonna keep bringing my school up because you

1870
01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 5: never are anything nice to say. You know, George is

1871
01:53:46,160 --> 01:53:49,160
Speaker 5: talking about the Tropans. It's not gonna be glowing. Listen,

1872
01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 5: it's a Reggie Bush story or something like that. But

1873
01:53:52,720 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 5: I will say that my fear is that Jacoby Lane

1874
01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 5: ruined my chances at a college foot Playoffs appearance, because

1875
01:54:03,040 --> 01:54:07,840
Speaker 5: you're bringing back your quarterback and your entire offensive line,

1876
01:54:08,160 --> 01:54:11,200
Speaker 5: and it's a good offensive line. I like this offensive line.

1877
01:54:11,439 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 5: Elani Noah and Tobias Raymond at guard are great, Killian

1878
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:19,720
Speaker 5: O'Connor at center. Elijah Page is fantastic for how tall

1879
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:25,880
Speaker 5: he is. When he's healthy, you have an experienced offensive line.

1880
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:29,680
Speaker 5: Everybody's returning, you got your quarterback returning, You're gonna be

1881
01:54:29,760 --> 01:54:32,800
Speaker 5: healthier at running back. And they already showed some dedication

1882
01:54:32,920 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 5: to running the ball a little bit. They are trying

1883
01:54:37,200 --> 01:54:41,480
Speaker 5: to replace Jacoby Lane with Terrell Anderson from NC State,

1884
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 5: who is maybe he's a deep ball guy, maybe not

1885
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:47,840
Speaker 5: a jump ball guy, but they are trying to replace

1886
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,000
Speaker 5: Jacoby Lane with Terrell Anderson average sixteen yards to catch

1887
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:54,640
Speaker 5: at NC State last year. It's not it's just not

1888
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 5: in the same world. And then the McKay lemon thing,

1889
01:54:59,640 --> 01:55:01,600
Speaker 5: like you're always going to have your wide receiver one

1890
01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:04,600
Speaker 5: move on. That's tough to replace, regardless, but they got

1891
01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:08,600
Speaker 5: bailed out of a lot of uh long down situations

1892
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 5: through the ability of these receivers. If Trell Anderson can't

1893
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:17,360
Speaker 5: come in and just replace that production replaced.

1894
01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:22,920
Speaker 1: Who's a who's a good player as well. He was

1895
01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:25,440
Speaker 1: a true he was a true freshman. But it was

1896
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:30,760
Speaker 1: the combination of Jacobe Lane and Makai Lemon, even though

1897
01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:34,080
Speaker 1: Dacobe missed some time last last last year. But then

1898
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:37,640
Speaker 1: they're also excited about their true freshman tight end.

1899
01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:39,000
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this.

1900
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:44,400
Speaker 1: True freshman tight end that that Mark Mark Bowman. Obviously

1901
01:55:44,400 --> 01:55:46,120
Speaker 1: he can run it, run a catch, which he'll be

1902
01:55:46,200 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 1: able to do early on in his career. But being

1903
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:53,480
Speaker 1: able to block, that's a whole different that's a whole

1904
01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:57,480
Speaker 1: different animal. And and he's not his jam right now.

1905
01:55:57,960 --> 01:56:01,280
Speaker 5: That is blocking. Could you been blocking in the Big

1906
01:56:01,320 --> 01:56:03,920
Speaker 5: ten as a as a freshman, as a true freshman?

1907
01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:05,720
Speaker 2: Hell no, listen, listen.

1908
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 1: I faced Kevin. I don't mean car Kevin Carter. Uh

1909
01:56:11,240 --> 01:56:14,760
Speaker 1: oh gosh, the Andre Carter when he was at Cal

1910
01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:17,320
Speaker 1: he was a senior. I was a freshman, dude. He

1911
01:56:17,600 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 1: man handled me, man handled me. It wasn't even a

1912
01:56:22,200 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: fair fight. So no, when he gets against you know

1913
01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:31,680
Speaker 1: them them Oregon d Ns, Oh, it's gonna be a problem.

1914
01:56:32,040 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 2: It is gonna be.

1915
01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:34,320
Speaker 1: He might not even be able to be on the

1916
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:38,000
Speaker 1: on the field attached. You better be sending them out

1917
01:56:38,080 --> 01:56:40,280
Speaker 1: for a past a pass play because you tried to

1918
01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: block him in the run game. You better be using

1919
01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:44,400
Speaker 1: some smoking mirrors because that ain't happening.

1920
01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:50,040
Speaker 5: Was was Mark? Did Mark Andrews play under stoops or

1921
01:56:50,080 --> 01:56:51,440
Speaker 5: did he have any Lincoln Riley time?

1922
01:56:53,280 --> 01:56:55,720
Speaker 1: I think he did have Lincoln Riley time, But but

1923
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:57,120
Speaker 1: I think Riley was the OC.

1924
01:57:00,920 --> 01:57:05,200
Speaker 5: Okay, because that Mark Andrews six foot two hundred coming

1925
01:57:05,200 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 5: out of high school. I think he appeared in one

1926
01:57:09,800 --> 01:57:13,760
Speaker 5: game as a freshman. Yeah, but but and he only

1927
01:57:13,800 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 5: had nineteen catches his second year there. So it does

1928
01:57:17,040 --> 01:57:17,480
Speaker 5: take time.

1929
01:57:18,160 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 1: It does, especially a tight end, because you gotta you know,

1930
01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 1: you gotta put your put put your big boy pants on.

1931
01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:25,480
Speaker 2: All right.

1932
01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:28,200
Speaker 1: The next team that we got up the Washington Huskies.

1933
01:57:29,120 --> 01:57:32,480
Speaker 1: Washington's biggest The thing that the Washington Huskies need to

1934
01:57:32,520 --> 01:57:38,480
Speaker 1: be afraid of Ralph in twenty twenty six, Yes, is

1935
01:57:38,640 --> 01:57:45,600
Speaker 1: the road. They have been arocious on the road. I

1936
01:57:45,680 --> 01:57:50,440
Speaker 1: mean it's not even the same team that they need

1937
01:57:50,520 --> 01:57:52,480
Speaker 1: to be afraid of. And then the other thing is

1938
01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 1: them just having like continuity. Their quarterback tried to leave,

1939
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:02,320
Speaker 1: was like I don't want to be here. He had

1940
01:58:02,400 --> 01:58:06,320
Speaker 1: to be forced back. So even though he got forced

1941
01:58:06,400 --> 01:58:09,080
Speaker 1: back to Washington, even if he was like, okay, cool,

1942
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:11,240
Speaker 1: this is a smart move, I'll go back, there's still

1943
01:58:11,280 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 1: a little part of him that wanted to leave, and

1944
01:58:14,480 --> 01:58:18,040
Speaker 1: that is upset that he got forced back. Yes, he

1945
01:58:18,120 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: got and you got a raise after he got forced

1946
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 1: forced back, but still his teammates got a little bit

1947
01:58:24,120 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 1: of resentment. Even if there's forgiveness there, it still ain't there.

1948
01:58:29,480 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: Because Washington fans Ralph, as much as they are like

1949
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:37,240
Speaker 1: this is our quarterback, they secretly hate their quarterback. Because

1950
01:58:37,280 --> 01:58:40,400
Speaker 1: as soon as he got ready to leave and said

1951
01:58:40,440 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 1: he wanted out, oh he was a little they called

1952
01:58:43,120 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: him everything under the sun, Oh he sucks, he's bad

1953
01:58:46,520 --> 01:58:49,360
Speaker 1: and big games they oh, they let all of it out,

1954
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, I'm sorry, did I

1955
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: did I say that out loud?

1956
01:58:53,840 --> 01:58:58,800
Speaker 2: Should I delete those tweets? So, yeah, that's what Washington

1957
01:58:58,840 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 2: needs to be afraid of.

1958
01:59:01,400 --> 01:59:05,360
Speaker 5: They were mean, dude, you know, I love Demond. They

1959
01:59:05,400 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 5: were just they calling, you know, a bright light's avoidant midget. Yes,

1960
01:59:09,640 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 5: they were harsh, dude, they were harsh, and it's like

1961
01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:17,600
Speaker 5: and at the same time it's like, but that the

1962
01:59:17,760 --> 01:59:22,440
Speaker 5: team wasn't built to be that just yet they're building

1963
01:59:22,520 --> 01:59:26,160
Speaker 5: towards something. Year three of Jed we saw it in Arizona.

1964
01:59:26,280 --> 01:59:32,280
Speaker 5: But you know, I forgot kind of all about that.

1965
01:59:32,320 --> 01:59:34,640
Speaker 5: I did see the Jed Fish interview the other day

1966
01:59:34,880 --> 01:59:36,600
Speaker 5: and he got clipped and it was kind of unfair

1967
01:59:36,680 --> 01:59:38,920
Speaker 5: the way they framed the quote when he said, like

1968
01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:41,560
Speaker 5: a lot of people's quarterbacks left this year, ours didn't.

1969
01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:47,280
Speaker 5: But he did go in depth of like they tried. Yeah,

1970
01:59:48,120 --> 01:59:51,040
Speaker 5: but he did go in depth about how like, you know,

1971
01:59:51,160 --> 01:59:54,400
Speaker 5: when you're being recruited, you're turning down schools that you

1972
01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:57,720
Speaker 5: do want to to go to. And I saw somebody

1973
01:59:57,720 --> 02:00:00,720
Speaker 5: else give it who has said, like who was a

1974
02:00:01,200 --> 02:00:02,960
Speaker 5: stay at one school all four years? And they're like,

1975
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:05,280
Speaker 5: if the portal had been there when I was there,

1976
02:00:05,720 --> 02:00:08,360
Speaker 5: I probably would have tried to attend every school that

1977
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:12,000
Speaker 5: I official visited because I loved them so much. And

1978
02:00:12,120 --> 02:00:14,640
Speaker 5: so when you're a guy like Demond who was loyal

1979
02:00:14,720 --> 02:00:17,120
Speaker 5: to his high school who was loyal to his college

1980
02:00:17,200 --> 02:00:19,160
Speaker 5: up to a certain point. People are in his ear

1981
02:00:19,240 --> 02:00:21,760
Speaker 5: trying to get him to come out, enticing him to

1982
02:00:21,800 --> 02:00:25,160
Speaker 5: come out. You know, that's a hard thing to ignore.

1983
02:00:25,600 --> 02:00:27,720
Speaker 5: I'm not asking people to have empathy for these athletes.

1984
02:00:27,760 --> 02:00:31,240
Speaker 5: I'm just saying that, if you believe Chris Rock's whole thing,

1985
02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:34,160
Speaker 5: that a man's only as faithful as his options. There's

1986
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:35,840
Speaker 5: a lot of options out there right now for a

1987
02:00:35,920 --> 02:00:38,920
Speaker 5: lot of these guys. And they're not just great places

1988
02:00:38,920 --> 02:00:43,360
Speaker 5: to play college football, they're highly paid. But yeah, like

1989
02:00:43,480 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 5: you said, Washington has lost eight games away from Seattle

1990
02:00:46,880 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 5: the last two years. It was much worse two years

1991
02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:53,000
Speaker 5: ago than it was last year. But they've had some ugly,

1992
02:00:53,800 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 5: ugly losses away from Seattle, namely at Rutgers, at Iowa.

1993
02:01:02,520 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 5: What was there? Really bad? One last year Wisconsin? The

1994
02:01:07,320 --> 02:01:10,560
Speaker 5: oh gosh, you have the ten points at Wisconsin against

1995
02:01:11,480 --> 02:01:14,040
Speaker 5: one of the worst Wisconsin teams we've ever seen.

1996
02:01:14,920 --> 02:01:15,080
Speaker 4: Yep.

1997
02:01:15,240 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah that year.

1998
02:01:18,280 --> 02:01:21,640
Speaker 1: This year on the road, they're at USC, oh accidentally

1999
02:01:21,680 --> 02:01:27,120
Speaker 1: pulled USC schedule back up, at USC, at Purdue, at Nebraska,

2000
02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:30,839
Speaker 1: at Michigan State, and at Oregon.

2001
02:01:31,520 --> 02:01:32,800
Speaker 2: That's five away games.

2002
02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:37,960
Speaker 1: Ralph they'll lose three of those because they're terrible away

2003
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:44,080
Speaker 1: from home, and like, yeah, so I just don't see

2004
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:48,400
Speaker 1: how they get past eight wins again, their their non

2005
02:01:48,520 --> 02:01:51,360
Speaker 1: conference Washington State, Utah State, Eastern Washington.

2006
02:01:51,440 --> 02:01:52,520
Speaker 2: They will breeze through that.

2007
02:01:53,560 --> 02:01:56,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is and mind you, they are recruiting better.

2008
02:01:57,080 --> 02:02:00,920
Speaker 1: I believe the Jetfish is a good football coach. This

2009
02:02:01,120 --> 02:02:03,360
Speaker 1: is probably this is an eight to nine win team again,

2010
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:06,200
Speaker 1: and they don't have Ohio State on the schedule. They

2011
02:02:06,280 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: don't have Michigan on this on the schedule, so that

2012
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:13,840
Speaker 1: vodes well for them. But even even then with Indiana

2013
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:17,000
Speaker 1: and Oregon to finish the season though the two losses

2014
02:02:17,840 --> 02:02:19,720
Speaker 1: and then you got a bunch of toss up games

2015
02:02:19,920 --> 02:02:23,400
Speaker 1: you got at USC Ralph. This feels like a like

2016
02:02:23,480 --> 02:02:25,839
Speaker 1: a N nine and three, eight and fourteen.

2017
02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:34,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I I'm gonna make a very early prediction, very early,

2018
02:02:34,400 --> 02:02:39,800
Speaker 5: maybe too early, uh des Roebuck Blittnikoff conversation. At some

2019
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 5: point this season, Oh okay, at some point in this season,

2020
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:48,680
Speaker 5: maybe by the bye week, we're gonna be talking about

2021
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:51,680
Speaker 5: a sophomore receiver at Washington being on the on the

2022
02:02:51,720 --> 02:02:52,600
Speaker 5: Blittnant cough list.

2023
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:54,880
Speaker 4: He is a dog. I will say that.

2024
02:02:55,120 --> 02:02:55,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.

2025
02:02:56,040 --> 02:02:57,960
Speaker 1: Last team that we got to talk about the wis

2026
02:02:58,280 --> 02:03:04,120
Speaker 1: Constant Badgers Ralph. This has been the unluckiest football team

2027
02:03:04,320 --> 02:03:10,280
Speaker 1: in terms of quarterback health. Wisconsin needs to be afraid

2028
02:03:10,600 --> 02:03:13,800
Speaker 1: of health. They need to wrap their quarterback up in

2029
02:03:14,080 --> 02:03:18,760
Speaker 1: bubble wrap. This has been their undoing. They did not

2030
02:03:18,960 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 1: fire Luke Fickle because they said they were gonna go

2031
02:03:21,400 --> 02:03:26,160
Speaker 1: all in Ralph. This is their opportunity. This is their

2032
02:03:26,240 --> 02:03:30,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to show that they got something there, that they

2033
02:03:30,840 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: got the right head coach. And we saw from that

2034
02:03:34,880 --> 02:03:37,640
Speaker 1: Pete Nakos article that they have won a lot of

2035
02:03:37,720 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: recruiting battles. So they got something going over there, and

2036
02:03:41,120 --> 02:03:42,680
Speaker 1: this is their opportunity to show it.

2037
02:03:46,400 --> 02:03:51,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, I if Okay, So here's my question for you.

2038
02:03:51,960 --> 02:04:00,400
Speaker 5: If the Manning curse was irrefutably real, right, okay, to

2039
02:04:00,520 --> 02:04:02,520
Speaker 5: the point where you like, we didn't know what the

2040
02:04:02,600 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 5: curse was, and we didn't know why there was a curse,

2041
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:09,000
Speaker 5: But six years in a row, whoever's on the cover

2042
02:04:09,080 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 5: of Madden goes down, okay, dude, and it comes to

2043
02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:17,240
Speaker 5: like you right like you're having a great year in

2044
02:04:17,240 --> 02:04:19,480
Speaker 5: the NFL, and EA comes to you and they're like,

2045
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:22,800
Speaker 5: all right, like that everything that comes along with it.

2046
02:04:23,400 --> 02:04:26,840
Speaker 5: We want you on the cover of Madden. Are you

2047
02:04:26,920 --> 02:04:30,160
Speaker 5: taking it? Is every athlete?

2048
02:04:30,400 --> 02:04:33,640
Speaker 2: So like much money?

2049
02:04:33,880 --> 02:04:39,600
Speaker 1: Are we talking? And am I in a contract year?

2050
02:04:40,040 --> 02:04:43,000
Speaker 1: If I just signed a bit contract a year before cool,

2051
02:04:43,160 --> 02:04:46,560
Speaker 1: I will take the cover. If I'm going into my

2052
02:04:46,720 --> 02:04:48,960
Speaker 1: senior season at Wisconsin.

2053
02:04:48,600 --> 02:04:49,240
Speaker 2: Now I don't want it.

2054
02:04:49,920 --> 02:04:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna take that chance. Or if I'm

2055
02:04:52,200 --> 02:04:54,520
Speaker 1: going into a contract year, nah, now I ain't gonna

2056
02:04:54,520 --> 02:04:54,760
Speaker 1: take it.

2057
02:04:55,680 --> 02:04:58,480
Speaker 5: Nah. Okay. This is kind of where I'm at with

2058
02:04:58,560 --> 02:05:03,120
Speaker 5: Colton Joseph because he number one. A lot of people

2059
02:05:03,120 --> 02:05:04,720
Speaker 5: are going to talk about Brandon Sorosby. We're a pro

2060
02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 5: Brndon Soresby podcast, YouTube show, We Love Brandon Sorosby. A

2061
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:11,880
Speaker 5: lot of people are going to talk about Sam Levit

2062
02:05:11,920 --> 02:05:14,000
Speaker 5: in the marriage between him and Link Kiffin. A lot

2063
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:15,680
Speaker 5: of people are gonna talk about a lot of these quarterbacks.

2064
02:05:15,720 --> 02:05:18,920
Speaker 5: The guy I wanted, the guy I think every school

2065
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:23,000
Speaker 5: should have won it is Colton Joseph. He's your prototypical

2066
02:05:23,360 --> 02:05:29,440
Speaker 5: college football star. Yeah, he could run, he could throw,

2067
02:05:29,760 --> 02:05:32,640
Speaker 5: he could do whatever. He's a gamer, he's a dog,

2068
02:05:36,240 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 5: and Wisconsin got him. And my immediate thought was like, damn,

2069
02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:44,480
Speaker 5: I was looking forward to watching him this year. Well,

2070
02:05:45,280 --> 02:05:46,720
Speaker 5: but now I don't know if he's gonna make it

2071
02:05:46,760 --> 02:05:49,320
Speaker 5: out of week two. I hope he does though, he's

2072
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 5: so good.

2073
02:05:51,080 --> 02:05:52,400
Speaker 4: Oh that's Washington schedule.

2074
02:05:54,640 --> 02:05:56,800
Speaker 5: What a steal though, What a steal for Wisconsin. And

2075
02:05:56,880 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 5: if it works out, I mean, I if I'm a

2076
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:02,760
Speaker 5: Wisconsin I know that we're probably in the last year

2077
02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:05,160
Speaker 5: of our head coach if it doesn't go well, So

2078
02:06:06,200 --> 02:06:10,880
Speaker 5: I'm I'm kind of protected against the idea of my

2079
02:06:11,040 --> 02:06:15,680
Speaker 5: season being a disappointment, right because if it goes bad,

2080
02:06:15,760 --> 02:06:18,680
Speaker 5: then you got the renewal of hope in going back

2081
02:06:18,760 --> 02:06:22,840
Speaker 5: in new head coach. Yeah, maybe you bring Jim Leonard back.

2082
02:06:22,880 --> 02:06:25,000
Speaker 5: I think what he's running things for the Bills defense

2083
02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:27,480
Speaker 5: this year. Maybe he'll be ready by that point. Maybe

2084
02:06:27,520 --> 02:06:28,680
Speaker 5: he doesn't want to come back. Maybe, but a lot

2085
02:06:28,720 --> 02:06:30,920
Speaker 5: of people are going to want to coach Wisconsin. A

2086
02:06:30,960 --> 02:06:32,360
Speaker 5: lot of people are going to pitch the idea of

2087
02:06:32,400 --> 02:06:35,080
Speaker 5: bringing Wisconsin back to great of the old school greatness.

2088
02:06:35,320 --> 02:06:37,480
Speaker 5: Maybe Brett Bielam will be the guy. You don't you

2089
02:06:37,560 --> 02:06:41,400
Speaker 5: never know, but like you have the hope of a

2090
02:06:41,560 --> 02:06:44,600
Speaker 5: new situation. If Luke Fickle didn't work out this year.

2091
02:06:44,920 --> 02:06:50,160
Speaker 5: So I think you're indemnified really against the against things

2092
02:06:50,240 --> 02:06:53,280
Speaker 5: being truly truly bad. But if my quarterback gets hurt,

2093
02:06:53,320 --> 02:06:56,960
Speaker 5: if I'm a Wisconsin fan and my quarterback gets seriously injured.

2094
02:06:56,680 --> 02:06:58,560
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just time to give up.

2095
02:06:58,800 --> 02:07:02,440
Speaker 1: It is time to just yeah jecause the season's over,

2096
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:06,520
Speaker 1: because then then you're gonna So you play Notre Dame

2097
02:07:06,600 --> 02:07:11,240
Speaker 1: to start the season in lambeau Field, Western Illinois, Eastern Michigan,

2098
02:07:11,440 --> 02:07:15,240
Speaker 1: Penn State, Michigan State, all of those are home games.

2099
02:07:15,720 --> 02:07:19,040
Speaker 1: Then you go on the road to UCLA. Then you're

2100
02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 1: playing USC. So you got a long stretching games like

2101
02:07:24,240 --> 02:07:28,600
Speaker 1: you're in the state of Wisconsin every game except for

2102
02:07:30,760 --> 02:07:38,760
Speaker 1: two weeks between September second and October twenty October thirty first,

2103
02:07:41,880 --> 02:07:47,200
Speaker 1: So you got a shot man. You avoid Oreguido, Ohio State,

2104
02:07:47,800 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: this is a this is the dream, and you avoid Michigan.

2105
02:07:52,200 --> 02:07:55,320
Speaker 2: This is your opportunity here to get.

2106
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:58,280
Speaker 5: To those back to backs off the by the three

2107
02:07:58,320 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 5: weeks off the buy that's so important for this team.

2108
02:08:02,200 --> 02:08:04,080
Speaker 5: They gotta go at least two and one coming off

2109
02:08:04,120 --> 02:08:04,520
Speaker 5: the by.

2110
02:08:05,560 --> 02:08:09,640
Speaker 1: Oh against U c L, A USC and Iowa. Yeah, yeah,

2111
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:16,440
Speaker 1: I think that's fir yeah. Yeah, well everybody, we.

2112
02:08:16,560 --> 02:08:19,920
Speaker 2: Went deep in. We went deep in today. We went

2113
02:08:20,040 --> 02:08:20,400
Speaker 2: deep in.

2114
02:08:21,120 --> 02:08:23,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did. I was prepared to give like one

2115
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:25,840
Speaker 5: word responses to all these and we did a whole show.

2116
02:08:28,240 --> 02:08:32,800
Speaker 1: But uh, those are the big ten what everybody needs

2117
02:08:32,840 --> 02:08:35,600
Speaker 1: to be afraid of. We went deep in on the schedule.

2118
02:08:35,920 --> 02:08:39,520
Speaker 1: Make sure that you guys like share, subscribe, tell a

2119
02:08:39,640 --> 02:08:42,640
Speaker 1: friend about the show, and uh, we gotta finish up

2120
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:45,760
Speaker 1: because I got something fun for you. But uh but

2121
02:08:46,160 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: well we'll catch you next week.

2122
02:08:47,600 --> 02:08:49,560
Speaker 5: Ralph, appreciate you.

2123
02:08:52,720 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: Last thing that we got to talk about. I'm excited,

2124
02:08:56,000 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 1: but this is also very sad. This is tremendously he said.

2125
02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:05,040
Speaker 1: We got two past their prime fighters, Manny pac Man,

2126
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:10,200
Speaker 1: Mackiau Pakiout Floyd Money Mayweather. They are going to be

2127
02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:13,120
Speaker 1: running it back and fighting again for a second time,

2128
02:09:13,880 --> 02:09:18,400
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be fighting at the sphere. This is

2129
02:09:18,760 --> 02:09:24,480
Speaker 1: a rematch of their twenty fifteen fight, eleven years after

2130
02:09:24,600 --> 02:09:28,240
Speaker 1: they waited six years too long to fight. And now

2131
02:09:28,320 --> 02:09:31,200
Speaker 1: this second fight is gonna be held September nineteenth in

2132
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:35,640
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, which will which better not be during the

2133
02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:39,560
Speaker 1: old Miss LSU game or the Florida State Alabama rematch.

2134
02:09:39,920 --> 02:09:43,120
Speaker 1: I promise you that because the ratings will be down.

2135
02:09:43,800 --> 02:09:47,560
Speaker 1: But this rematch, which is gonna be on Netflix, is

2136
02:09:47,600 --> 02:09:49,680
Speaker 1: gonna be the first boxing event to be held at

2137
02:09:49,720 --> 02:09:54,160
Speaker 1: the Sphere, and it's going to have you know, Floyd Mayweather,

2138
02:09:54,160 --> 02:09:56,240
Speaker 1: who's gonna be I think forty nine at the time

2139
02:09:58,000 --> 02:10:01,840
Speaker 1: and nine years away from his left as real official fight.

2140
02:10:03,280 --> 02:10:05,200
Speaker 1: And then you got Pakia, I was gonna be forty

2141
02:10:05,240 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 1: seven or forty eight as well, who's gonna only have

2142
02:10:08,600 --> 02:10:10,880
Speaker 1: fought twice in the last five years by the time

2143
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:14,360
Speaker 1: September rolls around. So then that got me to thinking

2144
02:10:14,360 --> 02:10:18,360
Speaker 1: about college football. Got me to thinking about which teams

2145
02:10:19,080 --> 02:10:22,120
Speaker 1: would I actually like to see them suit up their

2146
02:10:22,240 --> 02:10:26,640
Speaker 1: gear in the modern day rematch? Like which games would

2147
02:10:26,680 --> 02:10:29,360
Speaker 1: you actually sit down and watch. I'm not talking about

2148
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:34,480
Speaker 1: a rewatch of the old games. I'm talking about players

2149
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:38,200
Speaker 1: my age and some of them older and some of

2150
02:10:38,200 --> 02:10:41,360
Speaker 1: them younger. Which ones do you want to see lineup?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 1: Which ones would you pay money to see on the

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Speaker 1: tube right now? And I got a couple for you,

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Speaker 1: My first matchup that I would like to see again,

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Speaker 1: which the old guys play again? I want to see

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02:10:53,920 --> 02:10:58,400
Speaker 1: twenty ten Auburn with Nick Fairley, Cam Newton, who's still

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02:10:58,440 --> 02:11:02,040
Speaker 1: in very good shape. To see them play against Lemichael

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Speaker 1: James and that twenty ten Oregon game. I want to

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Speaker 1: see that that game that I watched in in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Dwyer was down. Oregon lost that game by three points,

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Speaker 1: could have won their first national championship.

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Speaker 2: I want to see the old dudes playing in that game.

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Speaker 5: Who do you have?

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Speaker 2: Put it in the comments.

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Speaker 1: I also want to see two thousand and five USC

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Speaker 1: versus two thousand and five Texas. You got Matt Lioner,

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Speaker 1: Lyndale White, Vince Young, but most important, you got Reggie Bush.

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Speaker 1: And even though Texas won that game, I'm taking USC

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Speaker 1: because I've seen the type of shape that Reggie Bush

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Speaker 1: is in right right now, Reggie Bush would still be

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Speaker 1: the best player on that football field. He'd be better

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Speaker 1: than Bench Young, who's not in the greatest shape right now.

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Speaker 1: He would be better than He's in better shape than

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Speaker 1: anybody else. Probably that's on either one of them teams.

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Speaker 2: That's about it.

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Speaker 1: You might have like Taylor Taylor Mays and you know,

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Speaker 1: because he's still coaching, he's playing or coaching. Might be

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Speaker 1: about it. That's about it. Another game that I would

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Speaker 1: love to see the old dudes playing. Now this game

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Speaker 1: would give you a totally different outcome. Probably is the

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Alabama that had OJ Howard, Derrick Henry versus

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Speaker 1: Clemson with you had Deshaun Watson, Renfro and crew. So

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Speaker 1: remember Watson, they won the game at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game on on the little sprintout. They won that game.

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Speaker 1: But you got Dereck Henry, who's still a very good

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Speaker 1: NFL player in this game. Watson still the best quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the game. That might be a hell of a matchup.

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Speaker 1: And the last game that I want to see this

2189
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Speaker 1: is a fictional game because this game never happened. I

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Speaker 1: want to see my two thousand and one, two thousand,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one Oregon Ducks versus that O one

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Speaker 1: Miami two thousand, two thousand and one Miami team that

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Speaker 1: went to the Rose Bowl and played against Nebraska. We

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Speaker 1: were supposed to be playing them in the National Championship.

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Speaker 1: And this is exactly what this Floyd Mayweather Pacquiao feels

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Speaker 1: like to me, watching two old dudes fight two dudes

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Speaker 1: that got no business. The only reason why they are

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Speaker 1: fighting this for money, and it is sad. They're not

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Speaker 1: fighting for the love of the game anymore. Pakiow's made

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Speaker 1: over five hundred and seventy five million dollars in persis.

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Speaker 2: There have been reports.

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Speaker 1: About him having financial problems before Mayweather clearly is he's

2203
02:13:50,800 --> 02:13:57,080
Speaker 1: around talking Vodkas and this dude don't even drink. So

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02:13:57,360 --> 02:14:01,400
Speaker 1: you got Mayweather made over a billion dollars and granted,

2205
02:14:01,640 --> 02:14:03,680
Speaker 1: what you making, what you take home because you gotta

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02:14:03,680 --> 02:14:05,360
Speaker 1: pay other people and all this stuff is not is

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02:14:05,760 --> 02:14:09,000
Speaker 1: not the same. But they should not be having financial problems.

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Speaker 1: And yes, there's a difference between being cash poor and

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Speaker 1: having investments and all that stuff. Been there, done that

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02:14:15,640 --> 02:14:18,800
Speaker 1: got the T shirt path, but that still means that

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02:14:18,920 --> 02:14:20,640
Speaker 1: you mismanaged.

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Speaker 4: What you had.

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Speaker 2: And it is sad.

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Speaker 1: When it was sad when we watched Muhammad al Lei

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Speaker 1: come out of retirement. Granted I was still very young,

2216
02:14:27,880 --> 02:14:31,040
Speaker 1: but I've seen the old fights. That's probably how he

2217
02:14:31,160 --> 02:14:33,680
Speaker 1: ended up with with with the parkinsonian symptoms that he

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02:14:33,760 --> 02:14:35,320
Speaker 1: had getting hit in the head too many times.

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Speaker 2: So there's plenty of people who are.

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Speaker 1: In that situation and it stinks and it sucks, and

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Speaker 1: but I am going to watch I'm not gonna lie,

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Speaker 1: Not gonna lie, but which games would you like to

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Speaker 1: see the old fuddy duddies play again? And you guys,

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Speaker 1: that's Been Unafraid Show George Reichel's college football podcast today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for sharing, Tell a friend, peace out,

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Speaker 1: Catch you guys later