Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey, what's up? This is Dean Blandino
Speaker 1: and this is a good call and we are on
Speaker 1: the road, coming at you from downtown New Orleans to
Speaker 1: place the site of tonight's CFP championship game between Clemson
Speaker 1: and l s U. We'll talk about that a little
Speaker 1: bit later. And uh and so as always joining me.
Speaker 1: Travis is not here with us, Joe is, but Travis
Speaker 1: is is calling in remotely. So let's see if we
Speaker 1: can make this any less awkward than it is when
Speaker 1: he doesn't in person. What's what's awkward here, Dean, is
Speaker 1: the fact that there wasn't enough budget in the show
Speaker 1: to get me on the road. If you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: back here in l A. This is right, you're right.
Speaker 1: This is We work on a we're working on a
Speaker 1: on a type budget, so we couldn't get you here.
Speaker 1: But so, Travis, what's up. What's happening in l A. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's sunny. It's a little bit chilly, but it's nice,
Speaker 1: you know. It's goods always goes at the weather. He
Speaker 1: goes with the weather, with the weather. It's very it's
Speaker 1: non confidence. Yeah, there was no traffic today driving It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening because just picture Travis and
Speaker 1: his Civic going, Hey, what's going on. There's new traffic today. No,
Speaker 1: there's a new news flash. I'm not driving a civic.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right with the turbo. That's thee can that
Speaker 1: hurts though. That's the question. And like I said, Joe
Speaker 1: is on audio, Joe's here, Joe, this is gonna test
Speaker 1: your where I'm in a different in a different location,
Speaker 1: different acoustics. Oh yeah, I heart. Guys are not going
Speaker 1: to be This is gonna test you. This is gonna
Speaker 1: test your skills. Here, we stop, y'all makes this. A
Speaker 1: lot of yalls, a lot of y'alls calls down here,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, use guys the other day, and
Speaker 1: they thought I was like, what is that? What language
Speaker 1: is that? So let's get to it. Let's talk divisional
Speaker 1: playoff playoff round and and a really good week from
Speaker 1: an officiating perspective. You know, there wasn't a ton Saturday,
Speaker 1: not a lot obviously, Um you know, Niners Niners one
Speaker 1: and uh and then the big upset obviously Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I mean, who saw that coming Titans the sixth seed,
Speaker 1: and uh and and going into Baltimore and and just
Speaker 1: you know, and I like, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I kind of I think I'm on the bandwagon. I
Speaker 1: think I'm on the Titans bandwagon. I don't know, They're
Speaker 1: They're just fun to watch. I just I I, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think Mike Rabel, I've always
Speaker 1: liked Mike. And I just think Derrick Henry's a beast
Speaker 1: and it's nice. I mean, Ryan Tannehill was left. You known,
Speaker 1: Hill played in Miami and the Super Bowl unbelievable, unbelievable,
Speaker 1: I mean, azing, st amazing. So anyway, those you know,
Speaker 1: those games were well officiated obviously, UM, no controversy. And
Speaker 1: then and then we get into the Sunday's Sunday's games,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with the last game first, because that
Speaker 1: that seemed to have the most people talking. And uh
Speaker 1: and so Seattle Green Bay and we'll start in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. And we had um a past complete to Seattle,
Speaker 1: had the football pass to complete to Hollister and uh
Speaker 1: and he was ruled down. The ball came loose and
Speaker 1: it and it kind of went into a pile. Green
Speaker 1: Bay came out of the pile with the football and UH,
Speaker 1: and replay showed that that he actually fumbled. Green Bay
Speaker 1: challenged and UH, and they lost the challenge because because
Speaker 1: they couldn't determine whether it was a clear recovery or not.
Speaker 1: And and and again, you have to win both. You have
Speaker 1: to it has to clearly be a fumble and you
Speaker 1: have to actually see the player recovering the football. And
Speaker 1: that's why Green Bay lost the challenge. So this had
Speaker 1: a lot of people talking and and I'm curious, I
Speaker 1: want to hear your guys thoughts on on the rule,
Speaker 1: because it it felt like, look, I would have I
Speaker 1: would have leaned towards making that I get it. I
Speaker 1: understand why it was not overturned. And I agree that
Speaker 1: you just you just never saw and I think it
Speaker 1: was green It was thirty nine on green Bay that
Speaker 1: ended up with the football and you kind of see
Speaker 1: the ball between his legs, then it goes into a
Speaker 1: kind of a sort of a pile. There were two
Speaker 1: green Bay players, one Seattle player and uh, and you
Speaker 1: never actually saw him recover it. I just you know,
Speaker 1: seeing it between his legs and then he ends up
Speaker 1: with the football at the end it just he recovered it.
Speaker 1: We just didn't have visual evidence that he recovered it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the answer is
Speaker 1: because it just feels like it should have been green
Speaker 1: Bay's ball. But I get it. That's the rule. You
Speaker 1: couldn't see it and and that's why the call stood
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're in there. I mean I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't understand the rule fully that if they don't have
Speaker 1: a clear recovery, the team who fumbled the ball automatically
Speaker 1: gets it back. And when we talked about I just
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel complete. Something felt off there because the
Speaker 1: guy from Green Bay clearly comes out of the pile
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, what happened before there was replay
Speaker 1: for this stuff? Did they? Whoever has at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the Survival of the fittest at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the pile. And the reason why you have to see
Speaker 1: a clear recovery is the theory is the officials are
Speaker 1: killing the play, they're ruling down, they're blowing whistles, and
Speaker 1: so that in theory, then you could have players stop,
Speaker 1: and you could have a player in the pile with
Speaker 1: the football and the officials saying it's over. It's over.
Speaker 1: It's over. And then he lets the ball go and
Speaker 1: another player takes it from him. So so that's the
Speaker 1: theory and and there's and that's there's good logic behind that.
Speaker 1: I was involved in all of this and when we
Speaker 1: were putting these rules in play, because remember when replay
Speaker 1: came back, when they ruled on the field the player
Speaker 1: down by contact, it wasn't even reviewable clear recovery or not.
Speaker 1: It was just over. And then there was a play
Speaker 1: green and involved green Bay, Green Bay, San Francisco and
Speaker 1: uh and where the officials old the player down and
Speaker 1: there was no there was no option. It was clearly
Speaker 1: a fumble and there was no option to even just
Speaker 1: give the defense the ball. So we added that rule,
Speaker 1: and the clear recovery came out of that, And so
Speaker 1: I get it. It's just, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if it's something where you
Speaker 1: you even if you rule the play dead, you ruled
Speaker 1: down by contact, do you still officiate the pile and
Speaker 1: and and officiate and and determined. Okay, if it is
Speaker 1: a fumble, we've ruled down. But if it is a fumble,
Speaker 1: then green Bay has the ball. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a perfect solution. I think there's issues with that as well,
Speaker 1: but but it's definitely this has come up. This has
Speaker 1: come up in years, um, you know, years past. I
Speaker 1: mean there was there was a game, there was a
Speaker 1: game last year with Dallas in Philadelphia where it was
Speaker 1: clearly a fumble and Philly thought they had the recovery,
Speaker 1: but there was no you know, there was no actual
Speaker 1: shot that showed the Philadelphia player recovering. And so this
Speaker 1: has definitely come up. But I don't know what the
Speaker 1: solution is or if or if it even is a
Speaker 1: problem to be able. It seems like there's there's this
Speaker 1: common sense rule, right like with the kickoff that we
Speaker 1: talked about last week's podcast, and it feels like this
Speaker 1: to me, they dude have the like, we know who
Speaker 1: recovered the ball? Yeah, and and can you kind of
Speaker 1: get that common sense rule into that into that no
Speaker 1: type of play. Yeah, No, it's hard because replay everything
Speaker 1: is predicated on what you see, right, you have to
Speaker 1: visually see it, and then that's the hard part. Like,
Speaker 1: so there wasn't like a clear recovery, like while you
Speaker 1: still had a shot of it, but the fact that
Speaker 1: there were only a couple of guys in the pile up,
Speaker 1: you know, almost makes you think that, Okay, so that
Speaker 1: guy did come up with it, so he did grab it.
Speaker 1: At that point when when he does get covered by
Speaker 1: the by the the player from from Seattle, it's like,
Speaker 1: so he comes in, you see him kind of cover
Speaker 1: that guy up, but at that point you see the
Speaker 1: ball kind of a you know, or between near his legs,
Speaker 1: and at that point then you'd have to think that
Speaker 1: he grabbed in and pulled it up. But without that
Speaker 1: video evidence that you just can't you can't guess like
Speaker 1: anything else. That's it. Yeah, I think that's what it
Speaker 1: comes down to. So so you have that play and
Speaker 1: then and then you have you know a little bit
Speaker 1: later in the half that was in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the second quarter, we had a
Speaker 1: call on Jadavian Clowney and we're gonna talk about Clowney
Speaker 1: a little bit later, but he where he grabbed he
Speaker 1: he was called for grabbing the helmet opening. So there's
Speaker 1: there's the face mask penalty, which we all know grabbing
Speaker 1: the face mask and you turn or twist the face mask.
Speaker 1: But then there's also a foul for grabbing a helmet opening,
Speaker 1: that could be the year hole, that could be under
Speaker 1: the helmet and uh, and it looked more like it
Speaker 1: was potentially helmet opening and um, but it was tough
Speaker 1: to tell if the fingers were actually hooked underneath. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about on our broadcast, and I
Speaker 1: know Praira, Um, you know he was he said, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was a good comment that I can
Speaker 1: see why it was called. But he didn't think it
Speaker 1: was necessarily a foul. It's it's tough, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people were questioning that. I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't see anything that said he didn't grab underneath the
Speaker 1: helmet opening. But it wasn't. It wasn't that clear cut
Speaker 1: either way. Um. And then and then we get into
Speaker 1: the play that there really this is this is the
Speaker 1: controversial play from the weekend, right. It's it's we're we're inside,
Speaker 1: We're just inside two minutes. It's third and nine and
Speaker 1: the Packers are trying to run out the clock. So
Speaker 1: Seattle has one time out left. If they get a
Speaker 1: first down, basically the game's over, and Rodgers throws a
Speaker 1: pass to Jimmy Graham. He gets hit right at he
Speaker 1: gets hit, tackled lands right at the line. The line
Speaker 1: of game was the thirty six and uh and and
Speaker 1: it's ruled the first down that to start. I I
Speaker 1: thought the spot was I didn't think it was a
Speaker 1: uh necessarily a bad spot. I thought it was somewhat generous. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought the spot was closer to the thirty six
Speaker 1: than where they put it. But I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything that led me to believe that it was
Speaker 1: obvious that he was short. I thought he was short.
Speaker 1: If if I had to guess, I'd say he was short.
Speaker 1: You know, you see the helmet. You see the helmet
Speaker 1: hit near the line. You know, forget about the yellow line,
Speaker 1: right the yellow line, it's not it's not exact. And
Speaker 1: if you watch the yellow line, I mean that's being
Speaker 1: super imposed onto the onto the broadcast. Yellow line moves
Speaker 1: like it moves it. It actually moves, you know, from
Speaker 1: time to time. And so forget about the yellow line.
Speaker 1: You gotta find the yard line to line the game.
Speaker 1: And and unfortunately there was no big line. We talked
Speaker 1: about a big line, the thirty five, the forty forty five,
Speaker 1: obviously the goal line, and they just didn't have a
Speaker 1: big line. There was nothing that the shot that was
Speaker 1: closest to down the line was that almost that camera
Speaker 1: that's on that on the front stick the steak, and
Speaker 1: it was really tough to tell. And uh, and so
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. Yeah, it was so far away.
Speaker 1: I didn't think there was enough to change it. And
Speaker 1: I know obviously, Um Seattle, you know, Pete Carroll was upset,
Speaker 1: and I think Pete was probably be more upset with
Speaker 1: the initial spot, not not the fact that they couldn't
Speaker 1: change it in replay at least that's you know, my assumption, Um,
Speaker 1: isn't this where trackers and the balls will come in.
Speaker 1: We knew exactly what at what point he was down
Speaker 1: his elbow touchdown, first down? Why throw resources out that
Speaker 1: if it's so controversial and important to the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the tracker technology they do put trackers in
Speaker 1: the football and and and that, and that measures things
Speaker 1: like speed and distance traveled and all of those things.
Speaker 1: But it's it's hard. I think the technology that the
Speaker 1: challenge is combining the location of the football with the
Speaker 1: moment in time when the players actually down. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that's the hard part. It's not as simple
Speaker 1: as the ball crossing the line there there's wended across
Speaker 1: the line, and and so you'd have to and I
Speaker 1: don't know all the all the tracker technology and you
Speaker 1: know the intimate details, but you know what, what part
Speaker 1: of the football is breaking that plane of the line
Speaker 1: to gain and and and again when the player was down.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely it's Look, it's something that's gonna continue
Speaker 1: to be a discussion point. And if the technology gets there,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long that would take, but it's
Speaker 1: not there's no simple solution in terms of technology and
Speaker 1: and the just for your team. Like so, so you
Speaker 1: see the the official come running in here from behind
Speaker 1: the play. You know, I don't know exactly what his
Speaker 1: role is. You can probably get into that a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But what about the guy who's holding the
Speaker 1: yard marker on that side? Couldn't he'd be like an
Speaker 1: added official, like give you a better idea of exactly
Speaker 1: where he thought the ball was when the guy that's
Speaker 1: because the other guy's kind of behind the play and
Speaker 1: that and that's typically gonna be those are your line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage officials are for the most part, gonna gonna
Speaker 1: gonna have those spots and so that's either the down
Speaker 1: judge or the line judge, depending on the side of
Speaker 1: the field. And and that was the line judges call.
Speaker 1: And and uh, and they're typically going to be trailing
Speaker 1: the play and right, so they're not gonna have the
Speaker 1: exact So yeah, they're they're they're not, and but they do.
Speaker 1: They're really good at it, and they have they can
Speaker 1: they can see where that player, you know, either hits
Speaker 1: the ground where his progress is stop. But most of
Speaker 1: the time, you know, unless it's like a fourth and
Speaker 1: one type situation, third and one, there, they are going
Speaker 1: to be somewhat behind the play when and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna come up and make that spot and uh, they're Look,
Speaker 1: they're really really good at it, but it's not it's
Speaker 1: not a perfect science. They are really good at it.
Speaker 1: But in these big situations like this reminds me of
Speaker 1: Ram Saints last year, right, a big enough call. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Dean, my car drives itself. You can
Speaker 1: figure out a way. We heard people wanted more Tesla.
Speaker 1: They missed it in last week. It's almost like a
Speaker 1: fourth person on the show. Tesla is in and we
Speaker 1: can say, you know, um, I don't even like, I'm
Speaker 1: so upset now, I don't even want to talk. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's all I'm saying, is a technology, let's make it happen.
Speaker 1: I just but no, Dean, is there is there no
Speaker 1: way to get that that line Judge was holding the
Speaker 1: yard market to be. It's yeah, And you know we
Speaker 1: talked to me. Remember we talked to Warren Sapp earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. He came on the show and that
Speaker 1: was his idea, his and he he texted me yesterday
Speaker 1: during the game He's like, remember what I was saying,
Speaker 1: officials on the line of game? Right, I want an
Speaker 1: official on the line of game. So there's there's there's
Speaker 1: definitely something there. Um, you know, you're adding a couple
Speaker 1: of you know, you're adding another body or two and
Speaker 1: right now that's a chain crew members. So they're not
Speaker 1: an official, but not someone that's going to make that call.
Speaker 1: And uh and and look at the NFL is experimented
Speaker 1: with going from a seven official crew to an aid
Speaker 1: official crew. You know, do you put that official on
Speaker 1: the line of game. There's a lot of different things
Speaker 1: that that go into it. Obviously you have replay that
Speaker 1: can help, but without a without a camera down the line,
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to overturn those calls. And and that
Speaker 1: Baseball adds the extra umpire. Football could also, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and there are alternate officials for for every post season game,
Speaker 1: you know, so there were four alternate officials. Again, they
Speaker 1: don't have flag responsibility, or they can't. They can't help
Speaker 1: on spots and things, but they can help an administrative issues.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, it's it's an interesting argument. I think
Speaker 1: it's something that continue continue to look at. The thing
Speaker 1: that was unusual about that whole situation is that Cleet Blake,
Speaker 1: when the referee comes out, starts to make the announcement
Speaker 1: and then he goes back to look at more video
Speaker 1: and he makes a second announcement saying there was additional
Speaker 1: footage that was provided, but the call in the field
Speaker 1: still stood, which was unusual. Look, there's no there's no
Speaker 1: rule that well, so so what happened is there was
Speaker 1: there's no there's no rule that says if once you
Speaker 1: make the announcement, it's over right. They have them up
Speaker 1: until the next snap to review the play. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: not ideal to have it to have multiple because you're
Speaker 1: supposed to have a sixty second time period, right, that's
Speaker 1: the rule. That's it's not like at sixty seconds the
Speaker 1: whole screen goes black and everybody stops and and somebody says,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't you you can't review it any further.
Speaker 1: But it was so there was one angle that was
Speaker 1: shown as Cleet was making his an announcement, and it
Speaker 1: was like the elbow down, and they seemed like there
Speaker 1: was a good look at where the problem is. I
Speaker 1: it gave the appearance that maybe he was down short.
Speaker 1: But again, it wasn't from right down the line. It
Speaker 1: was in front of the action. And we when we
Speaker 1: talked about this, when the cameras in front of the action,
Speaker 1: it's going to push the action back. And so I
Speaker 1: think it gave the appearance. And I think that what
Speaker 1: happened is the replay official and the people in New
Speaker 1: York saw that, like, well, wait a minute, we need
Speaker 1: to look at this, so they brought Cleet back. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna change either way. I
Speaker 1: thought I thought basically they were just delaying the inevitable
Speaker 1: and it was gonna stand. And uh. But again it's
Speaker 1: it's you want to get it right, and you want
Speaker 1: to use all the resources that you that you have.
Speaker 1: Um I just didn't think that that that additional angle
Speaker 1: was was going to sway the decision either way, and
Speaker 1: it and it didn't. But I thought the additional angle
Speaker 1: was a kid on the sideline doing an Instagram story.
Speaker 1: Um all right, don't encourage him, Travis, go see if
Speaker 1: only please. I'm not gonna lie. That's a big game.
Speaker 1: This is a big game, kid with your phone. So anyway,
Speaker 1: um so then let's go to Let's go to the
Speaker 1: other game on Sunday, and this is Houston and Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I'm glad Houston. You know, I don't have to say
Speaker 1: it anymore, basically, but uh what, they're up twenty four nothing.
Speaker 1: So you're you're feeling as a Texans fan, you're feeling
Speaker 1: really good, and then kan City reels off forty one
Speaker 1: straight points like it's insane, insane. It was insane, but
Speaker 1: so but there wasn't much. Imagine if you're gambling in
Speaker 1: that game and you got you got the Texans in
Speaker 1: that ten points, like you're just laughing, You're laughing all
Speaker 1: in the bank with that, and you're probably taking bets
Speaker 1: on the other side. But anyway, do what Travis now
Speaker 1: you're like a betting guy. What no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: And that's just more for Joe. Travis is going for
Speaker 1: the live betting. You're trying to Texas. Travis is going
Speaker 1: big time. Travis was on the he's on the Hurt's
Speaker 1: website and he's looking at the gold collection and he's
Speaker 1: gonna baby, pick one, pick one. Why is my car
Speaker 1: in a rental car? Now? So it was the one
Speaker 1: play and you asked me about this, Travis, and it
Speaker 1: talked about and it wasn't it was it was Mahomestro
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass late in the second quarter where he
Speaker 1: was close, he was scrambling. Line of scrimmage was the five.
Speaker 1: He he definitely was was part of his body was
Speaker 1: across the five when he when he released the ball,
Speaker 1: but but not all of his body. And so it
Speaker 1: was legal. And you asked me the question, why is it?
Speaker 1: Why is it the entire body? And I think the
Speaker 1: reason is is is it's it's easier to officiate. You
Speaker 1: know everything, you know the entire body and the football.
Speaker 1: So you're not trying to say you know, oh it's
Speaker 1: the ball and now it's it's just it's a bright line.
Speaker 1: You have everything is either over um. And if everything
Speaker 1: isn't over, it's not it's not a foul. So that
Speaker 1: helps the officials, um, you know, be more consistent on
Speaker 1: that call and uh, and it you know, it just
Speaker 1: makes sense because again you you can't throw a forward
Speaker 1: pass from beyond the line of scrimmage, and so in
Speaker 1: order to to to not kind of nitpick it. Look,
Speaker 1: it's either either all of you all of it, the
Speaker 1: ball the body is beyond it, or it's legal. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, nothing, you know, nothing, Like I said, pretty
Speaker 1: clean weekend. I think, you know, still some still some
Speaker 1: kind of lingering fallout from the wild card round and
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion. You know, we talked about the
Speaker 1: hit on on Carson Wentz by jadeveon Clowney and uh
Speaker 1: and how that wasn't flagged. And then we had the
Speaker 1: blind side block against against the Bills, I think it
Speaker 1: was Cody Ford late in the game against the Texans
Speaker 1: that was flagged. In the league ended up doubling down
Speaker 1: and finding Ford like twenty eight thousand and change for
Speaker 1: the blindside block, and then no fine for Clowney, which
Speaker 1: I was I was surprised it. Look, I can, I
Speaker 1: can somewhat see, they said that they thought it was
Speaker 1: incidental contact, so they didn't think it was a foul
Speaker 1: So I didn't expect Clowning to get fined, but I
Speaker 1: was somewhat surprised that Ford got fined. I think letter
Speaker 1: of the law, it's a foul um, you know, based
Speaker 1: on the way the rule is written. I just didn't
Speaker 1: think that was a finable offense. I agree with you
Speaker 1: on that, but I thought I thought Clowney should have
Speaker 1: gotten fined on that one. After the fact, you can
Speaker 1: look at it again. It seemed like I seemed like
Speaker 1: the league was just covering their their uh, their button stick.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna if you're gonna take if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get this controversial and you're gonna have a hot take,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you some advice, all right. You
Speaker 1: that was good, Like that was you were like fired up,
Speaker 1: You like the league. Just you lose me when you
Speaker 1: say covering your butt, Just say they're covering their ass.
Speaker 1: Just you know, just say, look, the league is covering
Speaker 1: its ass. A bunch of high paid a bunch of
Speaker 1: high paid buffoons not doing anything, sitting on their asses
Speaker 1: like go go go big, go bigger. Go in on it.
Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, not Whitlock. I'm not the herd. I
Speaker 1: that's not me. Be my brother. But I keep working
Speaker 1: on it. I keep working on it. Has some fun
Speaker 1: text with my brother this weekend. Oh I bet all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna preview the college football championship, talk about how the
Speaker 1: officials are chosen, and then, uh, what's all a little?
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman Julie, Julian had an interesting weekend. Next on
Speaker 1: good calls. All right, we're back on good calls. Let's
Speaker 1: switch gears. Let's go college football playoff Championship game tonight
Speaker 1: Clempson LSU. Travis has been on the Clipson family and
Speaker 1: all year. Yeah, and I feel like everyone's jumping on
Speaker 1: it with me now at this point, saying they're the
Speaker 1: experience in team, they have the better head coach, they
Speaker 1: have the quarterbacks, they have players who've been there. Don't
Speaker 1: get on board. I'm a coach, oh fan, don't it's
Speaker 1: he's the only He's the only coach that I have
Speaker 1: to put on the close captioning when he speaks. Just understand,
Speaker 1: he's amazing. So I want to hear the coach from
Speaker 1: the water boy, I'll tell you what these these Clemsons
Speaker 1: they travel, man, there's a there's a lot of orange. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the game is a lot, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot. We met a lot of nice people. Um,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that. But we met some. I
Speaker 1: met a couple, We met some Clemson fans, one of
Speaker 1: guy from New Jersey. Um, yeah, really cool people. L
Speaker 1: s U people are awesome. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great game. But I just want to talk about
Speaker 1: the officiating for a second and how that works. So
Speaker 1: so tonight's crew will be a pack twelve officiating crew
Speaker 1: and uh, and so how that's decided is there's a
Speaker 1: national Coordinator of officials and and Rogers reading is the
Speaker 1: is the current national coordinator of officials. And he was
Speaker 1: a long time referee in the SEC. He was a cordinate.
Speaker 1: This is this is basically he's yeah, he's done basically
Speaker 1: after this game, and Steve shaw is going to take
Speaker 1: over for him. Um, Steve Sharre was coordinating officials for
Speaker 1: the SEC and he's gonna now be the national coordinator.
Speaker 1: And so what Rogers does is he looks at all
Speaker 1: so he looks at all the bowl games and he
Speaker 1: assigns that the officials to all the bowl games by conference,
Speaker 1: and and what the restrictions are is that if there's
Speaker 1: a team from that conference playing in that game, then
Speaker 1: those officials can't work that game. So if you have
Speaker 1: a bowl game, say the Rose Bowl, that's between the
Speaker 1: Pack twelve and a Big ten team like this year,
Speaker 1: which was Oregon in Wisconsin, then you won't have either
Speaker 1: a Big Ten crew or a Pack twelve crew. It
Speaker 1: would be what's considered a neutral crew and UH and
Speaker 1: so from a different conference. So so tonight it's because
Speaker 1: you had going into the playoff right, our four teams
Speaker 1: were Clemson, House State, uh L, Shoe, and Oklahoma. The
Speaker 1: only conference that was missing of the autonomy five was
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. And so the PAC twelve, because they
Speaker 1: didn't have a team, they will a school in the game,
Speaker 1: in the in the in the semifinals, they will work
Speaker 1: the game tonight UM referee Chris quit. Replay will be
Speaker 1: done the way the PAC twelve has done replay all year.
Speaker 1: So they will have a replay official at the stadium
Speaker 1: and UH and then they will have a command center
Speaker 1: back at the PAC twelve office in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: they will be able to collaborate with replay and and
Speaker 1: make those decisions. So that's that's happening UM tonight and
Speaker 1: that's how those uh, those assignments are made. UM. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, it's gonna be. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great game. I think, you know, hopefully the officiating.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about officiating tomorrow and uh and we'll go
Speaker 1: from there. UM. Something people are talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: UH today is the Astros. Uh you know from what
Speaker 1: they from the Houston Astros um and the penalties that
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball handled handed down today for the sign
Speaker 1: stealing operation that they had going and what a you know,
Speaker 1: I think Baseball sent a very strong message, UM, this
Speaker 1: this appos this goes to the integrity of the game.
Speaker 1: And we've seen this with with the NFL. Right, We've
Speaker 1: seen this with whether it was Spygate, all these gates, right,
Speaker 1: the flake Gate, bounty gate, um and and severe penalties
Speaker 1: in those. But this was this was serious and so
Speaker 1: you had you had um the Astros gm LA now
Speaker 1: getting suspended for a year, a j Hinge the manager
Speaker 1: getting suspended for the year, five million dollar fine, loss
Speaker 1: of the first and second round draft picks in one draft,
Speaker 1: so so significant significant penalties. And then Travis, I think
Speaker 1: there's some breaking news. Um that should before Yeah, right
Speaker 1: before we started taking the show. We uh, there was
Speaker 1: a press conference with the owner. He even wanting farther
Speaker 1: with that with a penalty, and he says, I don't
Speaker 1: want those guys here, and he fired the GM in
Speaker 1: the coach, which is pretty craol. Um, it's pretty wild, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, they just they don't want to cheat him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's say they dropped the hammer on the track,
Speaker 1: can on that or no on these you gotta give me,
Speaker 1: you gotta let me know so I can give you
Speaker 1: a Travis is I think I like I like remote Travis.
Speaker 1: He's more like he's more he's so much more uncomfortable
Speaker 1: in person because you could just like make him uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Now that you can't like you can't like look at
Speaker 1: him or kind of being arms reach. He's he's now
Speaker 1: you're pretty intimidate. You just stare me down. And now
Speaker 1: he's like people are covering their butts and all this
Speaker 1: stuff and so um yeah, but pretty serious, pretty serious
Speaker 1: allegations and obviously the league, the league, you know, handed
Speaker 1: down those um severe penalties. But you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about that then I think, you know, I'm a Dodger fan,
Speaker 1: so I feel like the Dodgers should be awarded the
Speaker 1: World Series and uh until so I brand, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to l A. We'll go downtown l A.
Speaker 1: Why all those guys driving in a rented you know,
Speaker 1: Baron from Avis throwing throwing stuff at people? After this
Speaker 1: a few days in New Orleans, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: an expert in paraise. Yes, that's true. We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the house New Orleans. How about the
Speaker 1: guy that had the most interesting weekend in California in
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Julian Edelman? What was that? What was that about?
Speaker 1: I was reading the story today. So he was arrested
Speaker 1: for jumping on the hood of a car, but he
Speaker 1: was he was at dinner with Paul Pierce and Danny Amondola.
Speaker 1: Like what, like what and then what leads you to
Speaker 1: after dinner in Beverly Hills to then go jump on cars? Like?
Speaker 1: Was that? Like? He's like Paul was like, hey man,
Speaker 1: let's go to the club. He's like now I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go, you know what, I'm gonna go jump on
Speaker 1: some cars. I'll meet you guys over there. And then
Speaker 1: was yeah he does. Yeah. Everything was like, Julia, don't
Speaker 1: are you gonna go jump on cars again? You know?
Speaker 1: You know West Welker never did this exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: if we're going back, if we're going back to the
Speaker 1: to the white possession receiver, the godfather of white possession
Speaker 1: receivers or one of them, I wouldn't say that. But
Speaker 1: Wayne Carbet, my guy from Hofstra. Wayne wasn't jumping on cars.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was getting into fights and there
Speaker 1: was some bars. And I find it amazing that you
Speaker 1: can say Hofstra. Hofstra has an ancient it, I know,
Speaker 1: but you can't say Houston. But there's no use. Sound
Speaker 1: You after you is a very strong it's a very
Speaker 1: strong sounding thing, and it belongs. It belongs up front.
Speaker 1: You do you watch you on Netflix? I've been everyone's
Speaker 1: talking about this, yeah, watching It's so it's ridiculous. Season
Speaker 1: one was ridiculous. Season two was even more ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: the dudes like a homicidal maniac and I'm like rooting
Speaker 1: for him. It's insane. Why I just want to know
Speaker 1: why Paul Pierce wasn't jumping on the car. But Paulpius
Speaker 1: isn't gonna do no. Paulpius is like, let's, you know,
Speaker 1: let's hang out, let's go somewhere. It's like a gentleman's
Speaker 1: gotta go jump on a car first, all right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I don't like Paul Pierce, not personally,
Speaker 1: but because the celt Is they beat the Lakers right well,
Speaker 1: were the game that we talked about. We've referenced, Yes,
Speaker 1: when Joe wore a full uniform, a grown man were
Speaker 1: a full uniform. There's a lot of people doing that
Speaker 1: here by the No, nobody and they're even they're spelling
Speaker 1: Burrow incorrectly. Nobody's wearing a fat Yes, very good. No
Speaker 1: one's wearing a full uniform. Like like the equivalent, the
Speaker 1: football equivalent to what you did would be helmet, shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: football pants, pads, all of it. I didn't have a
Speaker 1: basket mouthpiece, I didn't have a basketball. You had a
Speaker 1: head band. Can here about have wearing I have long
Speaker 1: beautiful lot. You were wearing a headband. I was wearing
Speaker 1: a headband Saturday night as well. So let's say a
Speaker 1: quick break and come back. We'll talk about highlights from
Speaker 1: New Orleans. We'll do brain of blind Meat. We'll wrap
Speaker 1: it up next. Alright, we're back on the road. Was
Speaker 1: a good call skin New Orleans. Nice championship game for
Speaker 1: a couple of hours away. And it's been an interesting
Speaker 1: it's been a fun weekend in New Orleans. I was here,
Speaker 1: had some meetings. Um, we had meetings with the college
Speaker 1: commissioners and and just preparing giving them an update on
Speaker 1: on rules committee agenda. You know what what is happening,
Speaker 1: reviewing what happened last year, targeting obviously a big change
Speaker 1: in terms of reofficiating the play and and so that
Speaker 1: did result in more calls being overturned and that was
Speaker 1: the intended result. And uh, and so it was a good,
Speaker 1: good session with them. We we we have rules meetings
Speaker 1: in February and uh, and then that process really kicks
Speaker 1: off at that point. But you know what a fun
Speaker 1: it's just a fun city. And it's one of these
Speaker 1: places where everybody seems to be having a good time
Speaker 1: and you meet people from all over like we've met
Speaker 1: I mean it met so many cool people from all over,
Speaker 1: whether they live here in Louisiana, met a lot of
Speaker 1: Clemson people. Um, just really nice, down to earth people
Speaker 1: that like to have a good time and and there
Speaker 1: are good times being had everywhere in the city. You
Speaker 1: don't know where Clemson is. He didn't do he asked me, now,
Speaker 1: where Clemson was? You know what? I do know? They
Speaker 1: don't nobody here, Like yeah, that's the other thing Joe
Speaker 1: has been doing. Like he's been like it's like funny
Speaker 1: like the first two times and then um so, but
Speaker 1: the one the one thing that stood out, um that
Speaker 1: happened to me. Like I was walking down I was
Speaker 1: going to get my credential for the game and at
Speaker 1: another hotel and this guy stopped me and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback. And I was like, well, who what
Speaker 1: what he said you? What's your name? You were the quarterback?
Speaker 1: You played for the Cardinals. And I'm like Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, Kurt Warner. You're Kurt Warner. And
Speaker 1: he had his son, his son was probably eight or nine,
Speaker 1: and uh, and I started laughing and I was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not Kurt Warner. I've been mistaken for
Speaker 1: him before. And he's like no, you're Kurt Warner. Like
Speaker 1: he wasn't taking no for an answer, and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you're Kurt Warner. And I was like, I'm not. I
Speaker 1: can show you my d I'm not Kurt Warner. He's like,
Speaker 1: come on, you're and then his son goes, Dad, Kurt
Speaker 1: Warner wouldn't lie. And I was like, listen to your kids.
Speaker 1: So good, but uh, but yeah, he's right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have been mistaken for Kurt Warner. Actually signed an autograph
Speaker 1: and at the Pro Bowl one years and as Kurt
Speaker 1: is Kurt. Yeah, so that's You're the Quarterback show. So
Speaker 1: that there that we've been waiting for. We were even
Speaker 1: talking about it. So while I was getting recognized or
Speaker 1: or accused of being Kurt Warner, Joe was trying to
Speaker 1: reenact the scene from Dirty Dancing Patrick's Crazy, the scene
Speaker 1: that they were working on, you know, the big the
Speaker 1: big ends to the dance, the dance routine where Jennifer
Speaker 1: or something like the big Finish whatever, and and it
Speaker 1: was this is the Big Easy. So he was trying
Speaker 1: to complete the big finish in the Big Easy and
Speaker 1: he so so this girl was going to run up
Speaker 1: and it you remember the first like a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and it was that montage they were trying to do
Speaker 1: it in the movie and they just couldn't get They
Speaker 1: were in water. I was standing this hardwood. This did
Speaker 1: not go well, Like he didn't drop her, but it
Speaker 1: did not go well. I thought I did pretty well.
Speaker 1: It was you got it was like a half lift.
Speaker 1: I'd take it like, yeah, it was. If I went
Speaker 1: for a hundred, then there's a huge chance of me
Speaker 1: dropping her. Yes, and there's liability it would have been
Speaker 1: it would have been. Yeah. It was actually a fun week.
Speaker 1: Our friend Steve was with us. He he took part
Speaker 1: in a dance off on the in the strong Bourbon
Speaker 1: Bourbon Street, a dance off. He think he thinks he won,
Speaker 1: but he were just saying that he took part of it.
Speaker 1: He definitely did not. You guys know this, I have one. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're aware that you have won grad fifth grade Wyoming
Speaker 1: in Wyoming. Wyoming is the what's the what's what state
Speaker 1: is Wyoming? Travis? What is I just learned the equality state?
Speaker 1: Equality equality state, and the state to give women the
Speaker 1: right to vote? Full of white people and it's known. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're we're all equal, We're all, we're all equal. So
Speaker 1: so we did get exactly we did get the Wyoming shirts,
Speaker 1: Like I got Joe and Travish Wyoming shirts, so thank you.
Speaker 1: They're great. I wore mine on Saturday. Did you That's
Speaker 1: what I'm wearing to the to the National title game.
Speaker 1: You're bringing the Wyoming I want people to know. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, let's uh just been fun, but
Speaker 1: let's let's bring them. Do we have predictions for the game? UM?
Speaker 1: I think I I like L s U. In a
Speaker 1: close game. I think it's gonna be close. I think
Speaker 1: this is why I think could be a field goal
Speaker 1: game either way. I could certainly see Clemson winning. Um,
Speaker 1: but I you know, I'm rooting for L s U.
Speaker 1: I like the the Joe Burrow coach. Oh, the city
Speaker 1: of New Orleans, Louisiana, Baton rouge. Like I just I
Speaker 1: like the whole I like that whole storyline. Clemson one
Speaker 1: last year, they've won two out of what the last four.
Speaker 1: Some real interesting stats on Clemson, uh with their what
Speaker 1: was it? We just saw it on their defense, I
Speaker 1: mean they wondering defense, right, and then the other one
Speaker 1: was like they've won seven of the last they have
Speaker 1: the longest winning streak in the nation. They've won. I
Speaker 1: think they've won fifteen straight neutral site games. That they're
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're they're legit. Like we made fund
Speaker 1: of Travis whole year, but but they're they're legit. Look
Speaker 1: they beat Ohiose State. They deserve to be here. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't envision l s U blowing them
Speaker 1: out like what they did to Oklahoma. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a close game either way.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to Travis. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm going Clemson.
Speaker 1: I'm going Clemson. Um So, if if you're a betting
Speaker 1: guy and you're you're getting that five and a half
Speaker 1: with Clemson, I'd say take Clempson. Do you think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win, you gotta take the money line and take
Speaker 1: that extra dough. See this is why I don't gamble,
Speaker 1: and I don't understand how it works. So here's my prediction.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I don't have a score like you,
Speaker 1: but Burrow is gonna lead them to a win last
Speaker 1: drive and they will win by three or four point it.
Speaker 1: So last week I said that l s will cover.
Speaker 1: I'm taking that back Clemson's gonna cover l is gonna
Speaker 1: win by three or four? Alright, how do I do this?
Speaker 1: How does he do? How about? I want to throw
Speaker 1: one out for you. Before we do that, I got
Speaker 1: to shout out to the of the NBFU North Dakota State.
Speaker 1: You know what's another championships seven games in a row
Speaker 1: this year? They so when they that game, right the
Speaker 1: FCS championship game, where do they play that? Travis, Texas,
Speaker 1: Frisco Test Texas right here, this is true story. They
Speaker 1: they book their hotel as they're leaving the hotel the
Speaker 1: year this year, they're booking the hotel for next year.
Speaker 1: That's that's how many of these championship games in North
Speaker 1: dako To State, it's like eight out of nine they've won.
Speaker 1: They just they had three different head coaches. If the
Speaker 1: off chance we have to cancel, will cancel. But there's
Speaker 1: a there's chance we're in this game next year. It's
Speaker 1: it's great fun, facts sane, it's insane band and bad
Speaker 1: breathalyzer with your friends. Okay, so okay, so breathalyzer with
Speaker 1: your friends. Obviously this is this this town would definitely
Speaker 1: be so let me let me start off. Let me
Speaker 1: preface this with like, don't drink and drive. Just just
Speaker 1: let's kid, don't drink and drive. Um, but a breathalyzer.
Speaker 1: So that was a concept that I thought of, or
Speaker 1: it came to mind of if you had to, if
Speaker 1: you could take a breathalyzer with you, and then you
Speaker 1: could just continue as you're drinking with your friends and
Speaker 1: give everybody the breathalyzer test, because because you have you,
Speaker 1: we all have our friends, like and we've all done this,
Speaker 1: Like there's a point where we're you're good, yes, Like
Speaker 1: you're your best you. Like that you're you're and you're
Speaker 1: now like yeah, now your personality is coming out. You're
Speaker 1: your best you, you're fun, You're not standing in the corner.
Speaker 1: And so it's I want to I want to pinpoint
Speaker 1: when that happens. And so I want you right, and
Speaker 1: I want you I want to track it. So if
Speaker 1: it's a point zero eight, right, which is the legal limit,
Speaker 1: If if it's if it's at point zero five, if
Speaker 1: it's at what is it when you're your best you?
Speaker 1: And then you have to start it's like, bro, you're
Speaker 1: moving into the red zone. You might want to get
Speaker 1: a water on the next and the water on the
Speaker 1: next one, because you're right now, you're peaking, and we
Speaker 1: don't want you to go over the edge. And exactly
Speaker 1: to promote, you know, to promote, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: responsible fun. It's responsible fun. And everybody has different tolerance levels,
Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be drinking driving at sleeping number right
Speaker 1: to sleep like we all have. I'm a seventy two,
Speaker 1: you're an eighty. We you know, we're more married. I
Speaker 1: sleep prone, she sleeps with head up, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: This is your this is your drinking number, and this
Speaker 1: is where you need to be. Everybody has one. I
Speaker 1: think there's an app you can plug into your phone
Speaker 1: and you can blow right into the phone. We got
Speaker 1: we gotta find and it's like, bro're starting to get
Speaker 1: a little jo. Pull up, pull up the alcohol blood
Speaker 1: content and so point zero two to point zero three nine,
Speaker 1: no loss of coordinations, slight euphoria, and loss of shyness.
Speaker 1: So that's that's that's like a good that's like the
Speaker 1: first drink. That's like the maybe maybe you're into your
Speaker 1: second drink and you're starting to feel that's a great loss.
Speaker 1: You're not anymore. We're not We're not saying you can't
Speaker 1: have fun without drinking, all right that My mom used
Speaker 1: to say, you do have to drink to have fun.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I have more fun, but and so
Speaker 1: you can't. You don't have to drink to have fun.
Speaker 1: I get it, but we're just saying, if you do,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Response point zero four to point zero
Speaker 1: five nine. Feeling of well being, relaxation, lower inhibitions, and
Speaker 1: sensation of warmth. All good. Like that is a sweet
Speaker 1: spot from most people. Some minor impairment of judgment and memory. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now this is where we start getting into the
Speaker 1: danger zone when you start talking about minor impairment of judgment. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with you being more open and more forward.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're single and you you don't you don't
Speaker 1: have enough courage to go talk to whoever you're attracted to.
Speaker 1: That gives you that at least yet. Right, So but
Speaker 1: now we start to go in now zero six point
Speaker 1: zero nine nine, slight impairment of balance, speech, vision, reaction
Speaker 1: time and hearing, douce judgment and self control, which I
Speaker 1: which I know people are gonna like that all the time.
Speaker 1: So there are people like that that don't like you
Speaker 1: know who don't have to drink to be like that.
Speaker 1: But now you're getting you're starting to get to that.
Speaker 1: Like I'd be like, dude, don't drive at this point.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't drive it after one. I mean that with
Speaker 1: uber and lift and everything else, too easy to knock.
Speaker 1: But now that range right there, that's the that's where
Speaker 1: the night could go one of two ways. Right there,
Speaker 1: not across, we're a crossroads, and then I can go
Speaker 1: one of two ways. You can either you can either
Speaker 1: keep it they're based on our breath of lives or concept,
Speaker 1: or you can keep drinking. Just just throw caution to
Speaker 1: the wind and you end up with no shirt on
Speaker 1: on Bourbon Street having a dance off with someone that
Speaker 1: was a much better dancer than much better dancer, much
Speaker 1: better dancer. Point one to point one to nine. Now
Speaker 1: we're we moved from point zero two. Now we're in
Speaker 1: the point one. Significant impairment of significant impairment of motor coordination,
Speaker 1: loss of good judgments, speech may be slurred, balanced, peripheral vision,
Speaker 1: reaction time, and hearing will be impaired. So you're starting, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't starting to come down on the other and
Speaker 1: I really feel like the point one for most people,
Speaker 1: that's where that should be the cut off. That should
Speaker 1: be the cut off point. Like you're good up until
Speaker 1: that point and if you can maintain it, but once
Speaker 1: you go beyond that, now you start doing dumb things.
Speaker 1: Point one three to point one five nine gross motor
Speaker 1: impairment and lack of physical control, blurred vision and major
Speaker 1: loss of balance. Euphoria you just said is reducing and
Speaker 1: that's turning into the angry or your slash emotional you're
Speaker 1: angry drunk, or your emotional drunk guy, Like now you're
Speaker 1: you're like I know you love me. You tell Joe
Speaker 1: stop telling me you love me? Like I get it okay,
Speaker 1: or like that guy just bumped into me. He's nowhere
Speaker 1: do you bump into me? I want to see your brother.
Speaker 1: At a point one six, dysphoria predominates. Nausea may appear.
Speaker 1: The drinker has the appearance of a sloppy drunk. No
Speaker 1: that's not an appearance. It's you are a sloppy drunk,
Speaker 1: and we don't want that, so so we feel like
Speaker 1: the breath of line is the thing. I always thought
Speaker 1: that if I had that, then I could stop people
Speaker 1: and everyone could have a good time and there's no problems.
Speaker 1: You know what it is, it becomes you know what happens.
Speaker 1: It becomes clear and obvious. Oh wow, that's right. I
Speaker 1: like that. Good call Joe on that note. So that's
Speaker 1: Brandon Blondino. This has been good calls with me Deep Left,
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