Buying Chambliss, Selling Ole Miss in the Top 10, Holding Carr, and More CFB Sunday Reactions

We were planning on having a lazy Monday afternoon show for you, but Trinidad Chambles just did what he did, and we had to get on the air right away, just 234 days until the NFL draft meant you good. I'm good man. All right, tuck a roll that thing. The McShay show is presented by Fandall. College football Saturdays are here, and it's your most rewarding season ever on Fandall. With the all-new Fandall Rewards Club, every eligible bet can earn you points, win or lose. The more points, the bigger the rewards you can unlock. Head to Fandall.com/McShay to start earning with Fandall Rewards Club. 21 plus select states, 18 plus DC Kentucky or Wyoming. Gambling problem called 1-800-Gambler, call 1-888-789-777-777 or visit ccpg.org/chap in Connecticut. That's the timer. You see it? Tuckers start your own clock. I don't trust them. I didn't have the beg bench, but bench is skeptical as our Dan and Tucker, and a boo, who does all those amazing clips for you, by the way. We don't give a boo enough love on the show. He's killing it right now. Yeah. Keeps getting better every week. I watch this stuff. So I call, I text a bench before I ask the crew, would you be willing to do it? This gamblest thing, we got to get on air. He's in offensive line. Have you ever lived through summer, like two days with an offensive line? They're like, everything's just miserable, man, you know, skeptical of everything. So now I'm like, I'm like Nick Nolti in 40 hours. I mean, yeah. I'm just eating an acids and smoking cigarettes. You're texting me. I got it. Here is the deal. We'll do it, and I promise you, men, we can do it. If it's for, this is exactly what I said. If we, if it's 40 minutes and one second, I will pay you $10,000 cash. It's been one minute and 16 seconds. So we better get to go. I said, you're burning, you're burning, uh, you burning oil here, man. Let's go. The day started off fun. It was interesting. It was a lot closer game. We had the, the Apple Cup, Washington, Washington state. Dimon Williams did some good things. Um, it was a kind of rough patches there. Then we get to tonight, 7 30 kickoff Eastern time, two big time programs, two big time games, uh, Louisville's ranked 24 coming in. We don't know what to expect, right? And then we get Ole Miss returning to that coming back. And we saw Lane with LSU and his new, his new get up in his whole, his whole whole orchestration that he's got going on down in Baton Rouge. What's he going to look like for Pete Cooling? And we got Notre Dame with CJ Carr. We lose two first round running backs. They were going to Lambo Field. Was that going to look like playing Wisconsin? It's going to be fun. Well, after the first quarter of both of these games tonight, I was like, this is ugly. I don't even know. I don't, we don't need to do a show tonight. We'll just talk, talk tomorrow afternoon, figure out what we want to do for the week. And then he kept building and quite frankly, things got close between Notre Dame and Louisville for a little while, a little longer than I maybe I expected. But then they're both Wisconsin. Notre Dame and Wisconsin, sorry. I was doing it all night. I had both games on. It was kind of the blue team versus the red team. Yeah. Anyway, but the story of the night is turning out chambles. Yeah, it is. And the story of the night is Ole Miss finding a way because of that young man. And they lose their running back key on Lacey, who for some people is running back one in the 2027 draft class for you when I, it's, I don't want to say one A1B, but Lacey's behind Jaden Baugh, the Florida running back a gun off from an awesome start to his season. But I want to throw it to you, Manch. If I said to you, what was your biggest takeaway from what we just watched? The game just ended and we popped on. Finals 41-38, the number one thing that stood out to you. Was it perfect? He had the two turnovers. I both think both were in the first half. He had the fumble in the interception. Both of them, you know, we got to clean that up. But I don't care, Dan. I don't care. I don't see a regression, Dan, because what have we been talking about? We've been talking about Mendoza moments. And you want a quarterback that went in, like matters the most, just doesn't have a pulse, doesn't care. His cold blooded is going to go out there and execute someone who's not just comfortable with the situation, but wants to be in it. The thrives on it. That is just, that's where he's at his best. That's where he's at his most comfortable. And you could just see time after time. This is a game that could have slipped away from Ole Miss. Their defense is giving up big plays. There's breakdowns all over the place. And he said not today. There's a great line in the first season of Game of Thrones, where the guy who's teaching source to Arya Stark says, what do we say to the God of death? Not today. And that's what he was saying today. Not today. We're not losing this one. We're not going on one. We're not dealing with the noise from Baton Rouge about how good they looked. And now we suck. We're not doing it. Just get on my back and I'm going to win this football game for you. It was remarkable to see, because the first half it did force you to ask some questions. And ask the question that you were referencing there. So I'll, I'll clue the audience in. Are we witnessing a year to regression from, from Chambles? It was a fair enough question at the time. And, and I think, I think the second question you have to ask, and I'll get to the first one, the second question, what's it going to look like without Lane Kipfin, without Charlie Weiss Jr. Because we just got to see in Baton Rouge a quarterback who was sensational in Sam Levit as a freshman last year, ups and downs before injury. Come out and he wasn't perfect. But my gosh, did he look like he fits in that offensive system? It's tailored around him. And it's probably going to keep getting better and better with his explosiveness and his loose like live arm that you have. Like they're going to channel that thing. And it's going to be a freight train if he's able to stay healthy with the way he plays. And now Chambles comes out and it doesn't look real pretty in the beginning. And they're mixing in some like rush three drop eights. And I'm seeing Chambles kind of pat the ball a little bit here and try to force it through there. And it didn't feel as natural. And I'm not seeing the tempo as much. And the tempo we watch with LSU the other night last night Saturday night against Clemson, you could see the impact it was having. Like all these little things that Lane and Charlie West Jr. now are doing, we weren't seeing in tonight's game. And so you start to ask yourself some of these questions and you're saying, like, you know, is is John David Baker, like, is this all going to work the same way it did last year? But then there were there were some really good throws in the first half, but there also were some moments. You talked first of all that like this Southern heat wave thing, man. If I see one more quarterback with painted on liquid chalk and and snaps going not like just like a little bit errant, but like 10 yards over. But both teams had a bad snap that was costly early in the game. Old Miss fumbled twice. Chambles had one fumble that lost it. Q on Lacey had a fun. By the way, both of them, Clev Lubeon, an interesting edge from Louisville, who is in the top six, seven edge prospects and another really good edge class. But he's off to a great start. He had another pressure in that game. But bad snaps fumbles kind of sloppy early on. Second half was a totally different deal, man. Louisville opened the second half, 77 yard touchdown drive. And by the way, I've got a new I'm not saying NFL draft or anything like that. All I'm saying is that this Lincoln keen holds. Yeah. Blood dripping off. Like you just got better as the night went on. You could see the confidence. Like out of like coming out of like his face mask, like looking inside his face mask and his feet. You could tell ripping it off on the sideline, getting the guys going like that. That was a fun one to watch. So they come out Louisville does 77 yard touchdown drive. And what you say, all right. All right. What what now? Chambles. The answer is like three or four plays hits do sell, exander better monster night. By the way, we might want to put him monster high, a little higher on the radar. Like I can scoot. He hits him on an in cutting route, which chambles his best throws run in cutters, in cutting route in stride gone. So that's that about three minutes left in third quarter. I'm looking up and Louisville's they're starting to add up. And I'm like scores just about equal. I think it was like 17, 17, 16, 222 222 left. And Louisville, I think had 228 yards total offense. Ole Miss had 227, but [BLANK_AUDIO] and tell we're just warming up. Right, we're just warming. It was like the 17 minute mark in this game. I'm like, we're just warming up. I got, I got a feeling. And here we go. Chambliss answers immediately, right? So Louisville kicked a field goal to make it 17-16s, that's what it was. And then Chambliss answers immediately. First, there was a two-throw sequence, early fourth quarter when I was kind of chuckling it, Dan, for asking that question. Yes. It was this in-cutting route, it was only a nine-yard game, but my gosh, it was under pressure. Horatio fields, I think, yeah. Fucking drills it. And I'm like, that's the guy. There he is. It's like, it almost like it took the pressure of the game, like the moment to, like more to be at stake for him to come alive, right? Yes. And then the very next-throw, right rail shot, you guessed it, Duce Alexander, and dropped like a good trajectory, not high, but like right in perfect ball, touchdown. Now we're rolling. Yeah, I texted Dan regression my ass after that one. And then that other throw, the 33-yarder to Odom, to Caleb Odom, 35-yarder. On the left seam, pressure in his face, I couldn't even finish his delivery, puts it right there. It finishes with 300, what was it? 336 yards, three touchdowns in the interception. And mind you, he didn't have a two-turn-over game all last season, Chambles. In that first half, when we're starting to ask questions, a little bit where he had two turnovers. He had more turnovers, more turnovers in a single half in the first game this year than he did in a single game all of last year as the point I'm trying to make. But he finishes with 336, three touchdowns and interceptions, complete 21 of 36, which is like 60 something percent. Also rush for 60 yards on nine carries. Could you see it on Pete Goulding's face, though? When that son of a bitch drives them down the field, Kleinholz or Keenholz. Keenholz, yeah. Keenholz, I looked it up, but I just put on a Keenholz. Okay, yeah, I believe. Yes, it is. Could you see it on Goulding's face? Like, oh, no. Yeah, everything's been, I read his lips. It was not good and it was not good. Everything's been roses for this man. You know, like Lane Kiffin's gone, good. Don't let the door hit you. We got our guy, for an ad staying. That's my guy. A lot less drama here, a lot less stuff going on. I'm happy here. This is my home. Everyone loves him and I've met with him a dozen times. I think the world of him. Like, I'm not saying that we should have had anything, but like high expectations and excitement for him getting this job. But I am saying, you could just start to feel it like the opener and especially after watching Lane and what they did to Clemson less than 24 hours ago. You could just kind of feel it and then turn it at the way he answered. He gets the ball back after Keenholz drives them down, runs it in for the touchdown. They go for one, didn't matter. Kind of agreed with it. If it was like 25, 30 seconds left, I think you go for two in that situation. They go for one. We're doing it live by the way. We're live on Instagram every Saturday. We were last night and we were again tonight. We're calling it the final five. Watch the final five games of this. For those who have been with us for two plus years. You know, we used to do it with a chat feature and we're first night. Mentioned, I took a seven to 12 minutes to get mentioned on and involved tonight. We were flawless. It's gonna keep getting better and keeps growing. So anyway, but we're watching it together and it's like, all right, this is the pressure moment and Chandler finds a way to get him in the spot. But like I didn't think, is it Canaro? Canaro? Carnaro? I think. I had a bad feeling about it, but he just drilled it. Killed it. Just drilled it. From what, 48 or something like that. 48, man, 48 yarder drilled it. They went in the game. They get out of Nashville, unscathed and now we're looking at two weeks until Lane and that fucking circus comes roaring into town. (laughs) I'm so excited. Oh, I'm so excited. Next week since I started picking up too. But, you know, some of this stuff I feel like is to be expected because we talk about Lane leaving, but he also gutted the staff. Like, you have the continuity of Pete staying there, like Golden Staying there. But like, a lot of guys left, man. Like, there's a little. The strength in conditioning coach. Strength in conditioning coach. Yeah, it wasn't one general manager. The general manager. The offensive coordinator, the passing game coordinator, the run game, the offensive, like, the inside of the locker off of her coach. Yeah. Yeah, we saw the graphic just 24 hours ago on ABC, right, of all the coaches he brought with him. Yeah. There was a lot of other good stuff in this game too, man. I told you about Clev Lube and the edge. Lincoln, that, this Lincoln kind of holds. Keen holds. I try to tell you about this kid, man. You did? Yeah, I told you in this game. This kid, he can move around a little bit. Did he has mobility? Well, we're, we're 21 yard lane. You and your week ends late. I wasn't listening to a word you said. But it turns out you, you skunked me in that. Is that Michigan game? Is the story of the week and the, and the other story of the week is the game we just watched, and those are your two things. I had ordered, boys. Stay, too. I just let you know. But what about, what about Keen holds real quick? 'Cause I know no one cares. Let's talk about, turn it at. But now, first of all, through the Brom brother, like, is. When are we gonna start giving Brom his due? And I get it last year, like, it wasn't as great with Riley Moss, the USC transfer. He had been in a bunch of places, started out at USC. But we saw Tyler Schuckwood, he's, I mean, throughout his career, developing quarterbacks. And this guy, he looked like he was in over his head to start, he missed that wide open. I mean, it just. It was. The Trey Richards, what's his name? Trey Richards. You might have been, I forget who it was. But, I mean, that was one of those throws. You're like, okay, this is gonna be, it's gonna be one of those nights for Louisville. Like, this kid's not ready yet. He's gonna be good. He's talented, but not yet. And that offensive line from Louisville is rebuilt from a year ago. And as you said on the live show, what was it, like, remodel? Like, please ignore our parents. Please ignore our parents, yeah. As we remodel our offensive line, yeah. But just for a little background, in case you didn't know, 'cause I didn't know all the background this kid. He's a Ohio State transfer, but you know, he hasn't played since 2022. That's wild to me. Keenholz is, he. Keenholz is. We're going, this is like the. He went three full seasons without playing. He hasn't played at college. He hasn't started a college game. He was at Ohio State. He, to this day, is the record holder. The passing, I think the passing yard's record holder in the state of South Dakota, legend in South Dakota. Goes to Ohio State, transfers here. This is what they do. They bring in a quarterback for their last year. Seems to always be a good story, and it's certainly a good opportunity. And the way he improved throughout that game, especially, I said to you on the show, in the first half of the game, the Louisville running back had been contacted at the line of scrimmage or behind the line of scrimmage on half of the carries. Like, they were getting blown up up front and to hang in there for four quarters. I think the only takeaway is, like, yeah, Miami's the cream of the crop. But Clemson's down, like, who else did NC States not what I thought? They got SMU soon. That'll be a good game. But I and SMU plays Monday night Florida State. If you're watching on Monday, they play night against Florida State. We might get a little bit of a feel. But that's going to be a tough team because that defensive front is outstanding. And Trey Richardson is a burner. They got SMU in two weeks. So, so they're a team to watch out for in the bigger picture of things. Let me just round off the stuff really quick. They got SMU and then they got Wake Forest. NC State, Florida State, Syracuse, Stanford, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, pick Kentucky. This is a team that I think they could. They might not lose another game before the ACC championship game. >> I think they're that good. >> You're doing what I did to Georgia Tech last year. Let them play. >> Maybe. >> Let them get their first win before you got them going. >> Maybe. >> Maybe defeated the rest of the year. I'm talking about the schedule though. I mean, that's a favorable schedule for them. >> Yeah, it is. But Georgia Tech's going to be a lot better. hit with Hineshell. is a threat. I hear you. - Whatever. I'm not doing an ACC game by game projection tonight. Son Tareen Perkins, I thought, had a really nice night. He's an undersized edge who's been doing it for a couple of years. Finished with five tackles, half a sack. This Blake Purchase who came in from the Oregon transfer, I felt like he was in on every big defensive play. Eccles was kind of quiet. Your boy Will Eccles, but he's just part of the group that controlled the front, he had two tackles tonight. That group up front defensively for all misses, really good, but the depth is a little concerning or something, whatever, or they just got, or Goulding just got outcoached in the second half by one of the best offensive coaches in the game. So time will tell. Here's my question to you though. Shoot. After watching tonight, Ole Miss, awesome story. Chamblis is awesome in the second half. We'll get to the QB rankings and throw in, we'll start talking about CJ Carr and even a little bit DeMont Williams and all that's great. After watching that game with all the excitement and what Chamblis did in the second half, buy, sell or hold on Ole Miss being as good. If the bar was set here for Ole Miss coming in the year, whatever your thought was, what was your thought of Ole Miss coming in the year? What, nine wins, 10 wins, regular season, saying? Yeah, around there. I thought they were ranked right where they were. I mean, it's tough to say the win projections are tough with these some of these. A.P. poll, they were number, okay, so let's go off of that. A.P. poll, they were number nine. If I say to you, Ole Miss is the ninth best team in the country. Are you buying, selling or holding on that? Off after just go. I'm selling, but I'd not that much. I'm not moving them. I'm not panicking. But I don't think they're quite as good as I thought. And the biggest issue for me is you gotta clean up some of these mistakes defensively. Like this kid played really well and the Brahms are really good at that. You can't give up 38 in that game. That's a problem. Now Trinidad's gonna give you a chance in every game. I get that, but that defense is gotta get better. It's gotta get better because they're gonna see better, better offices. I totally agree. I was mildly underwhelmed by the team in terms of four quarters. I was thrilled with the defense in the first half, thrilled. I was like, this group, this is for real. Coolings have the whole offseason. He gets to kind of build this in his image. Man, do they look good? That secondary showed some holes in the second half, I thought. And I wonder about the depth, although I get to go back and study the tapence and kind of figure out what the rotation was and all of that. And then the flip flop of it, but I still don't know and Lacey gets injured. They didn't run over it either. I was just gonna say, I don't get the sense they were controlling things up front, but I also want to give Louisville a lot of credit. But they're gonna mean it is interesting though, right? 'Cause everyone's now gonna go into, in two weeks from now, oh, LSU big, that spread could be like nine or something. It's that Ole Miss, so maybe it's, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see where Fandall puts that. But there will be a strong lean on LSU, but are we overstating what happened against Clemson? Are we overstating how good Louisville could be? All of that and that happens a lot in college football after the first week, I mean, who would guess it? We overreact. The McShay show is brought to you by Fandall. The NFL is back and Fandall is making this your most rewarding season ever by kicking off football with a super boost. Patriots, Seahawks, one game and all you need is one point. Here's how it works. Opt in and use your token on Patriots versus Seahawks with the kickoff super boost. Then once either team puts the first point on the board, you can win up to $25. Guaranteed, I'm going to tell you this. There's two plays I kind of like in this game. They're individual player props. I think Romeo Dobbs is going to be the key for the Patriots this year with all the attention on AJ Brown. I like five plus catches for him and coming off that Notre Dame win week one. I'm going with Dary and Price over 51 and a half rushing yards against the Pats. 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I really like-- Oh, Dominion transfer. Yeah. I'm sorry. What dominion transfer? I guess in Deanna last year. Yes. Yes. Colton Joseph. He finishes 19 to 30, 217 yards. Didn't run as much. Didn't run as much as we've seen in the past. But I actually went and watched his tape a little bit. The summer was trying to figure out what he was going to be. Anyway. No, I actually watched it for Archie Manning, the Manning passing Academy to see. I would have tried to-- that's what it was. I knew I watched some of his tape. But watching this game, I don't know. I guess I'm just going to throw it to you, because it's interesting what I saw in C.J. Car in this offense, versus what everyone in the public saw. But before I share what I saw-- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, what did you say? I want to hear what you-- that's quite the statement. Let's not bury the lead here. Roll with that. I want to hear what you have to say. Everyone on social media is like, it's mid. It's mid. Yeah. I should have expected more of the car than-- I was just reading all these things before. And it's like, that's exactly what I thought Car was. Yeah, he's like, he's made it best. Overhyped, all that stuff, right? Yeah, I watched it. And I saw a guy who was kind of taking exactly what was given to him. It was not a spectacular effort. It didn't require a spectacular effort. I thought some of my notes were, love the way he's maneuvering inside the pocket, the calmness to his game, not forcing throws. And I'm watching Trinidad, who at the same time was kind of forcing some things and trying to get things going. He never showed that he felt like he had to. Did I see as many big time throws out of him? No. Did I see some of the slop that I saw out of Trinidad tonight? No. Did I see him make C.J. Carr make some throws where I'm like, that's it. And did I see a bunch of like check downs and easy throws? Yep, saw those. But I saw some throws where I'm like, he just, he looks like he's in control. And the other shit that people don't see when they're watching is like, how many times do you check him out of a bad play? How many situations did he get them out of? The efficiency with which Notre Dame runs, yeah, Mike Dembrox, an awesome offensive coordinator. But there's a guy who's at the line of scrimmage surveying. So there's a lot of like nuance to it. And I hate when people try to like, the smartest guy in the room and I see something you don't see. And I'm not trying to do that. This game didn't require a heroic effort from C.J. Carr. They'll be down in some games, maybe with that schedule. But there'll be a game or two where they're down. There'll be some moments where he has to. But he came out and he was, he was mostly efficient for the night. Like, I think he was 19 to 29, was that the fun? 19 of 29, 29, 29, two touchdowns, no interceptions. Like, just did his job. The thing I appreciated about him too, he literally was like, as Dembrock and I'm sure everyone who's played that position, it's like, would you please, like, don't force this? Take, we have, we're trying to stay on schedule ahead of the sticks, take what the defense has given you. And there's all these cliches that make me, it's like, they're cringey, but it's also, like it matters. Yeah, he completed, he completed, passes the nine different targets tonight. - And I get news for you. He doesn't. have a docile exander sure shit doesn't have a Jeremiah Smith he sure is shit doesn't have cam Coleman and Wingo rolling out there he doesn't have Nick Marsh and Charlie Becker rolling out there he's got a bunch of serviceable guys and it was also interesting like the Quincy Porter and the Miling guy Porter I read reports had an injury it was probably not going to play early in the season or maybe it would be a game or two and he's the guy that everyone's excited about they're both Bama transfers right is it Bama or Ohio State one of the Bama state you're right sorry oh Ohio State yeah both Ohio yeah both Ohio State transfers and Porter's like a six forward cat and like showed a lot of stuff in in camp but then he got nicked up so we'll see we'll see how it plays out but I was surprised when I got on because I was like head did his job it was efficient it was fine yeah and I think that's really important for a guy who at times last year which drive you nuts with some of that decision-making I mean he would get in the red zone and start doing things that were you're pulling your hair out we can't have that don't do it you know one thing I'd really point out is this big bad offensive line from Notre Dame I thought was okay I thought they were all right yeah I think they can be great and there's a lot of talent up front and I know they've been dealing with some injuries moving guys around but they weren't leaning on Wisconsin certainly not the first half they didn't run the ball all that well I mean they averaged three and a half car three and a half yards per carry like a lot of this like as we expected we fell on cars shoulders and I thought it was great and I'll say things to like when I'm watching him not all check downs look the same and would he's under control and putting the ball in front of his running back so the running that doesn't have to make a tough catch can catch it in stride get up field and get eight yards those are plays that win football games like that's that's the kind of stuff that's going to it's going to just keep the chains moving and win a football game for you and I agree with you about some other things about he seemed very under control it felt like there's a couple times where there's some alignment issues some things going on and he was very calm about getting things corrected before he ran the play I thought he wanted to play in early there was some of that you can see that on the on the broadcast to like get me to play so I can get to the line of scrimmage and make some reads here I thought he looked in control and you can look at the numbers and I guess that's that's fine I would also argue with you that some of these other stat lines that we're seeing from this weekend are insane insane it's kind of skewing it so this looks like it's not that great of a game it's not a bad game and it was conscious not north Texas with the 34 transfers and Luke fickle's like life life and coaching life career yes certainly just job it feels like it's on the line and and and finally Wisconsin donors are like let's go let's go chase this thing and let's I know you're an old school coach we're not going down in the the dabbo flames like let's go and and there's been a big push and you can see it's like that that cheek scan that's a bastion cheeks that they brought in he's a player North Carolina transfer like they get they've got I'm not saying they're full of dudes but they got a lot more dudes than the team that was second to last in the FPS and total offense last year and and was like a hundred plus and almost every statistical I mean they were they were hard to watch last year so it isn't an improved team um yeah I mean it's kind of a home game to playing a limbo right yeah um but I don't know the Notre Dame ever plays a true away game like some of the others too but it was it was it was cool to see because cars started out and there were some frustrations and I and I agree with you I thought the offensive line was not they didn't come out and bully I said Wisconsin I'll play the physicality wise in the first quarter and in the first quarter they can't they're not running the ball well um and he is Williams at one point I wrote down he just scored that touchdown he had two carries on that on the touchdown I want to say is the third quarter he was out he had he had 10 carries for 27 yards at that point and I was like I feel like he's finally getting in rhythm right now I'm excited to see and from that point on he had 27 he had 10 for 27 and then in his final 10 carries he wound up with 90 90 yards for 63 on those final so his average he averaged 6.3 on his last 10 carries compared to 2.7 on his first 10 how about that Matt yeah quickly huh that was pretty good and also early in the game cars starts off the out the game and he's what was he for for I've got it here he for for seven 37 yards they're old for four Notre Dame is on third down conversions they had that one situation they're now backed in their own end zone they don't convert that they got a punt and Wisconsin gets the ball in the 48 so I like to see a little early adversity versus you know when you're playing Texas state and and some of the other opponents that we saw you know I guess you could put this on the level of Stanford and my image is absolute boat raced Stanford but the end of the day what do I think Wisconsin's on the same level as Stanford no I said I I don't think was I don't like Wisconsin's better than Stanford yeah this is a way tougher test a way tougher test I don't know that it's okay we'll see I yeah I'm not I'm not here to argue that I'm just saying I hear you western Michigan's really good in the Mac yeah we learned we learned about Michigan when kind of like you know this could be a this could be a rough ride this year as a transition I don't know I'm getting off topic my point is I like to see adversity early on we certainly saw it from Chambles and we saw some of that from car but never got the sense that anything was rattled or or concerning no by the way they put up 34 they had don't know anyone 41 to 13 but the offense had 34 like where I think we're okay I think that's the point I think the point is to score more points in the other team I thought that's it it is I'm not yeah so I get on social media for a few minutes because I'm trying to send out things for live show and a couple other and and it's like banging on so I guess that I'm reacting to the reaction of CJ car and yeah I'm going to be in a play I'm never going to be an apologist for anyone but I will be in an explainest for for any quarterback or any player that I think is getting not getting properly represented somewhere and but I will admit like he's one of the guys I'm really high on and Levitt's one lever and honestly Levitt is the guy I'm probably most in on vert going against the grain I had a scout text me yesterday and said I think he's gimmicky you can have him huh I know how talented he is I just I worry about guys like that I think he's gimmicky gimmicky you can have him and I think John Mathieu I would take John Mathieu over him that was a scout wow let's talk to other guys who are absolutely like head over heels so we all have different opinions on guys I've gone all in on Sam Levitt and what he can be whether it's the end of this year or at the end of 2027 for the 28 draft and I kind of I don't want to say I'm all in on CJ car but I want to remind people too this could be year two of three but there's nothing I'm seeing in his game where it's like he's going to need another year this is like I think he's in control if not more in control of the line of scrimmage his offense the concepts where the ball needs to go the situational football down distance what is my team need in this moment than any other quarterback in all of college football as good yeah he's not better yeah as good who's better Mensa and maybe Hoover that like I'm so over is no that's Mike that's going to be Mike Shanahan who overstone the fucking ball like 27 times the opponents the last two years like what are you talking you said are you talking about being in control of their offense yeah I could go being you could go being controlled the Indian offense because you don't have a choice because it's going to be a gun to your head you're a hot when you play quarterback in India like that and let's just a fourth and let's just a fourth quarter and you're trailing and you've got to do something like Mendoza was freed up to go do you're a hostage and I mean that in the best possible I think that's true in all college programs man they are expectations of you to operate within the structure do you think my father's a hostage tonight no no but he he does have to operate with it yeah he's a little bit of course yes yeah he's a little different I guess anyway we digress my my my point in all of this is yeah I'm in on I'm in on car but I'm not in a rush but I also like when I watch Levit I'm like it may take two years and I'm cool with that I just want to see the best product of Levit when he's ready to come out with cards like he doesn't have Levit's mobility or and he's got a really good arm but he doesn't have Levit's ability to you know so I think he's gonna be ready at the end of this year should he choose to go on to the NFL there's nothing I see in CJ's car car CJ cars game there's nothing I see in cars game that says that this guy isn't ready to lead Notre Dame to an undefeated season so long as everyone around him does the job that he's supposed to do. Yeah. Look, it was, it's been eight. But I don't think, but I don't know that what I did take from tonight, I'm not so sure about Notre Dame anymore. Those running backs are good, and there's obviously going to be a drop off from from Jeremiah Love and Jadarian price. I'm excited to see as the season progresses, and I liked what I saw out of Nias Williams. And I liked what I saw from from the backup who catch in the ball a little bit. No, little thing. Okay. But I don't see a run game right now that's dominant and tracking to be that. So that's, that's going to be a factor. And there's some, there's some good pieces where the fuck is great house again, by the way. I know. I know. He shows up. You're like, he's the next guy. But then he disappears for six games. And then I'll say this. What? I'll say this. Notre Dame's offense and their mentality of their physicality with the running game and all that is only gotten them so far. And they're at Killie's Hill. I think in the past has been, they haven't had an elite defense. I agree. They might, they might, they might have an elite defense. Oh my gosh. That secondary is the best secondary in the country. I mean, let her more. It's not even close. It's DJ McKinney was awesome tonight. How physical he was. The picks. I hope that yeah. This is okay. Yep. But all these other guys, man. I mean, that that secondary is loaded. Oregon secondary is really good. Yeah, but it's not this. Nope, it's not this. It's not this. No, and they're good at the, they're good on the defensive line. They're good at linebacker. I mean, they are this, that has been I think in a Killie's Hill for these, these really good Notre Dame teams that haven't been able to get over the hump. And that in the past, the passing game, man. And that's my true too. I would say in reverse order, I think the inability to stretch a, an elite caliber defense out and force them to actually respect you vertically. Whether is that team against Alabama eight, 10 years ago in the national championship, whatever it was, whether it was just a couple of years back, they've always lacked. In the last two decades, their best teams have lacked. Like, we got to respect the vertical. Yeah. And I don't face on's great after the catch. And, and Michael Gilbert 6205, he had that key 18 yard catch in the second quarter. They've got guys, but they don't have, I don't know. I mean, guys, but let's put it this way. They have these, their receivers would have a hard time getting on the field at Texas, Indiana. Like, they would have a heart. Oh, how state. These guys aren't, they're not those guys. Right. So that's kind of my takeaway. Car was fine. Car was everything he needed to be tonight. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe a little bit more to be honest with you. I'm a progress guy. I'm a progress guy. The fact that he didn't force things. The fact that this was a tight, this was a tight game in the first half, and he didn't force anything. I don't have $10,000 cash. What are we at? What are we at? I've been more well. Shit. I had no, you, you did it. You baited me on that last. Yeah, I did. The Mont Williams had some ups and downs, but he by gosh, he's explosive. We'll get to him later. Mench five stars. Thanks, man. Must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas, Stark, Casino or 18 plus and present in DC, Kentucky or Wyoming. Gambling problem called 1-800 gambler or 1-800-my-reset. Call 1-888-789-77777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit gamblinghelplinema.org or call 1-800-327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8 Hope NY or text Hope NY in New York. For Louisiana, call 1-877-770-7867.