PMS 2.0 1618 - CFB Week 1 Recap, Adam Schefter, Rece Davis, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

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I mean what all weekend week one of college football kicked off in a massive way had a absolute thriller last night as Ole Miss gets by a huge win over Louisville and then don't look now Wisconsin didn't look ass against Notre Dame in the first half until they turned it on and Saturday night obviously LSU played late late into the night as weather continued to delay all damn day after a college game day lightning delay the game kicks off at 8.49 40 local 10.40 Eastern that thing goes late into the night and I don't think LSU would have ever been stocked that game goes until 3.4 am against that Clemson team no pros no problem for Lane Kiffin now this makes you wonder about all of the jousting in public fighting in the ridicule and seemingly conjecture that was taken place about Lane Kiffin and his LSU tenure whatever you watch them just absolutely dismantle the Clemson Tigers now this was the first year that Clemson was not in the top 25 in the AP poll before the season started in a long time so maybe a lot of people knew that this was coming but just an absolute romping of a team in opening weekend of a whole new era you're dunking on a sideline you got reality TV stars and influencers walking in with the team you have the eyes of the entire college football world looking at injunctions in your courthouse and then you just go on a field and pound a team just absolutely demolish them in showcase at your bigger stronger faster than probably everybody you're gonna play against Sam Levitt the quarterback when he said Arizona State he can run he can run run and now he's all the way back after at least Frank injury took him out last year he's running all over the damn yard he's got weapons all over the place in this LSU team I think they want to kill people they have really bought into the fact that they are the villains they have really bought into how everybody hates us everybody hates us not just the team and obviously the coach the entire fan base the entire fan base loves that it was like that now they all got out of there pretty quickly okay whenever that game started getting a little bit out of control it was a long day down like that and Rouge I think Lane understood I think the team understood and I think everybody that watch that game live or on TV says wait is LSU potentially going to make our run at this title is this the reason why Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss is he go Donner so they can get more speed more size more physicality than maybe anybody else and he brings his offense a coordinator in from Ole Miss who's an absolute wizard who has a green dot who can tell Sam Levitt who has already made it to the college football playoff with Arizona State you can tell Sam Levitt in his head they got covered here and I look here I say go I'm just looking to us right they're playing video game stuff down there that's what Lane Kiffin and his offense has capability of doing especially if they have the weapons he looked they looked unbelievable they're not the only ones though there was great performances across the board there are some ass performances across the board and college football kicked off in a huge way what a wonderful time we got NFL game Wednesday night yes there we go Patriot Seahawks kick off the NFL season on Wednesday night I cannot wait to see what these teams look like after an offseason for the Seahawks that has been documented on hard knocks it has been phenomenal to learn about this team McDonald the head coach there young defensive guru obviously he gets hired as the defense coordinator for Baltimore Ravens what's he gonna do all the offensive geniuses have been hired as head coaches now a young defensive genius gets hired as a head coach is this guy gonna know game management because normally that's the offense side of the ball he's gonna be able to talk to the whole team is gonna be able to keep up on the offense aside because you're gonna have to lose offense coordinators if you have any success over there he's had to manage all of that here in the first couple years of him being a head coach and he wants to pull so I think the Seattle Seahawks are well on their way and this McDonald air to potentially be the next dynasty of the NFL and on the other side speaking of dynasty the greatest dynasty in the history of sports the New England Patriots have a brand new pack to that it's all around Drake May who was a second place MVP last year I should have been first but yes well there's some things coming out now with some voters saying some things and doing some things certainly looks like that they've added weapons this is a great way to kickoff this NFL season after a spectacular college football week one football's dominant and we're very lucky for that you know also dominant team USA women's national okay basketball right 32 consecutive feeble world cup wins we were in a close one with Gratzi I mean the Italian ladies were putting us through some hell felt like all USA couldn't make everybody in the United States of America uh-huh that was potentially gonna be on that team I think yesterday was a day couldn't make a shot okay it was just uh it was a real barn burner with Italy we sneak by I think was a nice wake-up call Chelsea Gray down the stretch wanted the ball give me the ball give me the ball by Beastoo what action it went to the old guard down the stretch there all the youngs basically off the court Aliyah Boston was really the only uh new time or two feeble world cup and she's obviously how one of the highest paid players in WNB been around a long time Caitlin Clark couldn't make a shot she's on a sideline pages on a sideline they went to the old guard out there and we got a big-time win over Italy this is happening USA is about to win another title over the rest of the world we definitely need to celebrate that now let's go to the talks of table at Boston Conner and at Thai Schmidt 40 nothing for Iowa how you doing keep it moving what a start for the big 10 in for the Hawkeyes and welcome back we missed your brother thank you very much yeah great weekend great weekend you know you you never know there's a lot of uh you know question marks in the air every time you go into a new college football season and listen I I'm not gonna act like Northern Illinois is the best team in the world but when you have an speeding like that and you dominate in all three phases of the game which Iowa typically dominates in two phases of the game not so much three but boy I'll tell you what you know it's start of the year I'm starting to feel like this might be the year the Hawks break through and make it to the college football play okay because we were talking about Iowa on college game day and I couldn't remember that man right there Tony Diaz's name in real time I apologize came from a smaller school but we were watching highlights all spring and also through training camp of Iowa throwing the football and completing it that is not happened first off I always been a big time rugby football team for a long time and it's Diaz guy we're doing body control and spring training in in training camp we're watching them make some real plays it's like is this what the team's gonna look like whenever push comes to shove and they did I think they did not look like that time what are you shaking your head for so I mean yeah he's unbelievable he's arguably the most talented receiver I was had in a long long time but I I personally believe Iowa has a top five if not the best offensive line in the country come over molten head 132 rushing yards and you know eight minutes of game time so they're gonna pound the rock they basically just need a quarterback who's not gonna turn the ball over but when you have a guy like that who you can confidently throw it to I'm third and long yeah it's it's gonna look a little bit different for Iowa maybe the Iowa Hawkeyes do pick up those big explosives that you need to continue to compete against the big time teams though that's a whole another conversation whenever you look at like LSU now LSU team on paper when you just look at size dims speed everything it's like is there gonna be a team that's more talented than them then they're able to piece it together now how deep are they this is the big thing this is like when you're constructing your roster how deep can you become whenever you have a lot of high-end type of town now we know there's no salary cap in college football we understand they can spend and will spend whatever down there for Lane Kiffon and his LSU team to get back to the national championship will they be able to withstand an entire season like this because if they are good for college football the villains which they have bought into oh yeah are shown up with some of the most explosion that they have they're not the only ones though join in saying one crazy archmaning one crazy let's go to one half of the hammer down Cowboys AP tone big spreads this weekend for college football what did the slate kind of tell us whenever we should maybe look ahead for gambling down the stretch with the best sports book on earth draft Kings if you're of age and agreed to gamble or trade responsibly and not like an asshole we'd love for you to join us on draft Kings available in all 50 states what did the slate tell us about going ahead here Tom yeah I mean there was a lot of huge spreads this weekend's a lot of these FPS top 10 teams playing lesser teams with 40 50 points spread you talked about Texas Ohio State IU all those teams situations so it's kind of hard it's hard to take away in situations like that like Julian saying in the first drive miss a couple throws but then after that sorry excuse me was unbelievable same with Indiana you can show up me too I was I was very lucky and thankful to do that pregame show alongside Des Joey Reese right on sideline yeah and I like looked around at one point it was live on air I obviously didn't have a mute button so I was pretty apologetic afterwards but I just looked around I saw like a hundred two thousand people that have kind of waited the entire day and I was like man this is beautiful like this is what life is supposed to be I got emotional just like you are here while you're talking about these spreads yeah but so like it's it's like what can you take away from week one because a lot of the like this is a preseason game for a lot of those top 10 teams are just kind of feeling it out they're playing base coverage is stuff like that running you know vanilla stuff on off and trying to figure out what their guys are in situations like that like even Oregon and boys it was super close game but Oregon outgamed by 250 yards so like how do you what do you take away from those situations I think you just want to see these teams be crisp and clean and there was a lot of that this weekend from a lot of the top teams and there was a lot of teams that you kind of have questions about now moving forward or was it just a week one thing so don't take it's hard not to take too much from there like last no day last night everyone's like oh this team sucks in the first half and then you know they kind of settle in and they win by 30 or whatever they cover the spread in that situation so it's kind of hard what do you take away from week one it's kind of the question for me from this week yeah if you fell asleep during the Wisconsin Notre Dame game you probably think Notre Dame asked yeah maybe they just had a half where they had to figure it out in the second half is who they are and then on you think about I mean it's it's hard not to be like Clemson is this what Clemson actually is or they just run into an actual buzz saw in the first week because they always talk about week one to week two being the biggest development of your team. I think we learned a lot more next weekend than we did this past weekend but you have to get off to a hot start debauch. Yeah, you want to. Tony just mentioned it with no preseason in college football, you do have to really find out a lot of things when the real bullets are firing. So a lot of teams that we know all the movement that happens in the offseason with coaches, coordinators, all the transfer portal guys. So a team like LSU coming out like yeah, you have the talent, you have the coaching staff, but actually putting together and showing up and putting belt to ass on the national stage is impressive. And then the teams that you have the question about it's like do you do they figured out going down the line team like Clemson you waited till you know the 11th hour to name a starter and then you changed the quarterback at halftime. So there's still questions there exactly so it's still questions there with dabbo and that's a team that it's not like you know FBS schools playing against these lower leaves. This is a big time college program with big time college recruits year in a year out. So what will they be going down the stretch but yeah just just having balled back with was electric that environment was electric game day being back. You guys I think did a great job obviously through all the the shit with the weather. So I'm just glad we're back man. That was LSU officials and ESPN safety. Sure. Saying that there was lightning within eight miles in a way was going that we had to go inside and with with eyes that I have I did not like that because I didn't see you know I didn't appear as if we were in danger but obviously people that are much smarter than us in this field. I grew up in denaters town. Yeah sure. I don't know you tell me but they were looking out for us which were very grateful. Shout to the LSU fans because we told them multiple times even dorm break as we're heading in there like hey we're being told to be safe like you guys obviously can do it and should do whatever you need. Yeah right. He said that thing out they didn't even leave. They didn't move. We go back out there. They're alive yet again. It was so cool to be back. It was it was a lot of fun. Obviously week one of the of the season so there's new stuff obviously it's getting rolled out and trying. But I think everybody did an incredible job. We got a hall of fans now. Shout out to old Crimson getting in there. He could be you. You show up and do something awesome. We get to hall of fans. Shout out to Master Sergeant Cliff and his wife Jennifer Valuci who traveled all last year. They made another appearance. Are they going to do that again? We should say and Bruce missed two million dollars. It looked like he was so close. Shout out to Hum Depot by the way. Yeah. Yeah that's incredible news. I wonder if they knew of week one. Okay we're going to do I just thought because a lot of people have said like that's not like my money. That's not your money you're doing. It's like what company you think is just going to let me go out there and say a million bucks if this random kid we've never met before makes a kick and we're going to give that to. It's like that no company is ever going to give them a bunch more chances if you've no company is ever going to actually do that especially you know like we'll do a five thousand dollar kick like a two twenty five hundred dollar kick I think is pretty good it's like the pressure of the money is what makes kicking you know kind of kicking so we get to add that added element so no company is just going to be open like yeah blank check buddy every single week whatever you want to do and I think that's what makes it is the we got to put the pressure on this it's got to be life changing forever like can you make the kick in that particular moment so Hum Depot coming in saying hey we understand we like it and we'll match whatever you put in there it's like thank you like that is so incredibly kind of you to do there's going to be a lot of people that are going to benefit from that we're obviously going to get into charity stuff as we continue to go but I thought he was going to make a million dollar kick start off season well next week be a million dollar kick probably not can't have that be every week no right start the season I won't start the season there okay let's pivot away from college we'll come back to it with Reese Davis here in about twenty five thirty minutes on his big takeaways we're going to call that the Reese's pieces all the week and excited to talk to him joining us now senior NFL insider from ESPN a Michigan man hmm uh interesting ladies and gentlemen Adam Shepker Hey Shepty just so we can all be on the same page here hummus seconds in a minute to see yeah I'll say this first of all there can't be too many people who were at the game in 1994 where Michael Westbrook caught that pass from a Cardinal Stewart I was there and I was at the game Saturday night now I left a little bit early I didn't see I wasn't there in the state you left when the game ended yeah okay that's what you're saying you left when the game ended when Western Michigan was celebrating the win and when clock hit zero hey when this clock hit zero we're all going to look up and see what we need one point of time don't look up do your job when that scoreboard hit zeros we will see where it all falls and then turns out from my understanding Adam you actually might know more about this because of your uh relationships and obviously Michigan being involved and I think there's a lot of Michigan people that are necessarily like uh I mean we will certainly take the win going forward but we don't know how that we just as football fans in general I think a lot of us are learning about a secret clock in real time do you know anything about this shifting what are your thoughts as somebody that's watched a lot of football we all have going yeah right like this game was certainly over big tens obviously come out transparently said we have this clock and match up with this if there was tens of seconds it would still have one second on but so it doesn't it's at zero that was released later so there's already a massive onslaught of yeah right I've watched football my whole life that thing was at zero bro this is obviously a work for the big ten what are your thoughts on it I know you're very close to the process but just how it's kind of all unfolded and the information you might have that we do not have you know my father was watching the game and he shook the game off after that play and went to bed and told my mother in the morning the Michigan lost and I said no no no they did not lose they won he's like they won so he had no idea after that play that seemingly was in the game right there we're watching it I'll just say this I guess they have to sink the clocks but we're going by the TV clock the TV clock and based on the TV clock that game looked over to me I mean it just did even as a Michigan fan I thought the game was over somehow they found a second I don't know how they did it I was not in charge of it it was very strange ruling to me but they put it not made the officials the big ten whoever it was yeah they put a second back on the clock and it results in that play and it was a big win for Michigan which did not play well at all and it was a terrible loss for Western Michigan which came into the big house and played a great game those guys played really hard and they played well enough to win the game and probably should have won the game I don't know where the second came from and the great part was I was watching my two kids and my daughter is like you know what people forget is two plays back two plays back that there were eight seconds left and I sent to my son and daughter to him like whoa he ran out of bounds there were nine seconds left and they put a second back on the clock two plays earlier so they added the one second that came into dispute on the play in the back of the end zone right and then that led to the Hail Mary at the end of the game so nobody's talked about the play from two plays ago where they added another second that became the second that became the difference in the game yeah so this is the video that the big ten was putting out behind the scenes that hey hey we have tens of seconds on our clocks and how ours are running all the way down to exactly zero and there was a showing of this I believe on one of the side challenge cameras that was trying to show a bunch of the Michigan fans as well about how it got there and there's like a video of that but I don't think any of us who have ever watched football for our entire lives knew that there was some secret tense of second clocks somewhere else because you keep talking about the TV camera TV camera or TV clock TV clock that used to be an actual just shot on the clock that's what it used to be before it was even like digitalized and everything like that they used to have the clock be the stadium clock and the refs always say can you please put blank back up there so I think every time they talk about the clock being an official timer of the game since I've watched football the one that is on the stands in there I just think it makes us all very hard to believe that there's some secret one behind the scenes but that's what Big 10 saying Big 10 didn't come out and say that though publicly until it was already gone that they're the most crooked and corrupt organization of all time right that is the conversation I was having I'm like there's just some very heavy accusations and allegations I don't know if everybody should be as loud as they are being with this there might be some repercussions potentially you're saying those in the microphones but I think we all got pretty worked up about how this seems like a big work here this seems like Western Michigan got absolutely jobbed in Michigan in the Big 10 and then this comes out later and then also Western Michigan came out and said we agree okay they explained him and then people are like they were told shut up you're getting paid a million half it was like it was never going to get enough information or evidence after the onsla already happened but now I guess we know at least the Big 10 has this we don't know who else has these types of things happening behind the scenes does the NFL have one of these because we saw some of the NFL guys come out and go yeah but the clock and the clock on TV and us are always kind of working to be in the same time because they operate it's just only time we do sit in the NFL is with the delay game calls and you it seems like they're always a little lenient towards the office or the quarterback where we will us as viewers even as players on the field we'll see the triple zero come up with a double zero in the back of the end zone and they kind of wait that beat until they blow the whistle for the delay game so that's the only kind of time I can remember refs kind of having their own clock that we don't see but yeah this was insane yeah I think we're all feeling the same way okay we all feel the same way yeah Big 10 rated that's how most of us feel would you have rushed a field shelter if you were still there and leaving no no no no no I was like again I got back to 1994 I couldn't be standing on the Michigan sideline when cordoned through that past the Michael Westbrook I was right there if you go back to the front page of the Rocky Mountain news the next day there was Michael Westbrook and Quiddell Hugging and I'm writing the background like completely stunned and flabberg as soon as my school just got beat by CEO I like to hear it be wildered out there about what happened in front of your face that is uh that's a wonderful here it is yeah yeah I was right I was reading the field for that game the Broncos were playing in Buffalo Monday night I had to go to Buffalo, so I stopped in Ann Arbor to take in that game and write about him. So Rocky Mountain News, he launches that Rocky right there. Go back to that place. Hold on, this is not being talked about enough, Shephard. He was on the 27 yard like this. Cordell Stewart, he going to be slashed. He was a puntler-turner, water-sever. I think he played corner at some point. And Cordell back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Five-yard throw, almost. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I never seen this. Yeah, he didn't see it. Oh my god. I didn't know that. He either, "Hey, Cordell, appreciate everything you did for the seat." He punted for us, too, and Pittsburgh as a stealer. I mean, he played every position. I didn't know he could 73 yard death in because of a game. I mean, that is outrageous. Good for him. And what a win. This obviously an iconic play that we need to revisit a little bit more often and put some respect on slash here. Cordell Stewart. OK, let's move along. Western Michigan, we all feel the same way, bro. We're all on your side. We have no idea how to fix it unless they start putting a tense of seconds clocks up publicly on TV. Hopefully, that'll be able to clarify things, but everybody on our thinks that the big 10 cook that for you. That's rude. That's how everybody feels. Even Michigan people. I mean, the amount of Michigan people that are texting me about how asked their team is and how they lost the Western Michigan and how this isn't worse than App State, but this isn't a good start to an entire era of anything. OK, let's move to football now, our NFL football Wednesday, Patriot Seahawks kicks off, and then obviously Rams and Niners down there in Australia. We were just a few days away from NFL season kicking off. When a Roger Dell got an extension, congrats to him. Let's go to Mitch. But there's also some news about some of the players. Puka will be playing, even though there's a lot going on. How is the exemption list play in play here? Is it not in play? How do you see these types of things kind of unfolding over the next couple weeks? I think there's a real possibility that Puka is going to go through the season unscathed and not face any discipline for his part in that off-the-field incident, with that woman where he was accused of allegedly fighting her, whether he did or didn't her, didn't do that. We'll see. But he's going to be out there on Thursday night against the 49ers. He doesn't sound like he's going to face any discipline this year right now. We'll see if anything comes of that. We're still waiting to hear about elaborate Jackson, the Rams offensive tackle as well. But right now, look, the lead plays, Josh Jacobs on Commissioner Exempt. They placed the Broncos' edge, Jonathan Cooper on Commissioner Exempt. It didn't do that with Puka. It didn't do that with a large Jackson. And so it looks like those guys right now are clear for the time being, and he'll be out there Thursday night. He's played through the sickness injury that he was having during camp. He'll be out there, and the Rams stole what they leave tomorrow. They leave tomorrow for Australia, but it's a bit there since last week, which is kind of wild. How about this one? You ready? Okay. Raheem Morris. I have to double check this, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate. Raheem Morris turned 50 years old last Wednesday. He turned 50 the day that they were in the air, and he lost his 50th birthday due to the travel that they had to Australia. So he didn't really have much of a 50th birthday, but that's the way it goes for the opener. Yeah, and when he flies back, he already missed it as well. So I think he's 49 still. I don't really do the math. It is like a time warp when you're in that plane over there. I'm eager to see the Rams reactions as they're in the sky, and they're told they have another 16 hours left, and the game is 24-48 hours away, just to see how the decision was made. But who knows who's right in this? This has never happened before in Australia, especially a legitimate game, pumped to see it unfold and wrap up. What we do know is, after it was reported by junior, you know, junior, you know, junior? Yeah. Junior reported that it would be impossible to start touring, you know, this guy. With this guy he's done, it's, I don't even know how you roll him out there. You might drag strand. Is that the guy? Yeah, drag strand, yeah. You might roll out jack strand over his, Tua has made it impossible to be a starter. Well, he's been named the starter. Tua has a question for you about that. Yeah, Chef, everyone's wondering, did Tua win the job, or is this just a penix was not ready from an injury standpoint, because I believe it was just a week ago that he was clear to do 11 on 11, he had been doing seven on seven and individuals in camp before that. So this was, was this a win for Tua, or was this just not ready for penix yet? I think it's a little bit of both to be honest with you. I think Tua was better than people have went on the media. I think they're pretty happy with him. And they also know that it didn't take all the reps with all the ones the way that he would have to get him ready. They were fine with Tua. They thought he did a good job, but, but penix also did not have a chance to really distinguish himself and it took him a while to get ready and he still has only gone through a week of practice. It's been one 11 on 11 week of practice for him. So he needs more time to get ready. And I think that penix at some point in time, you're probably sooner out in the later, will get his crack and get his turn to be the starter, but they did not feel comfortable putting him out there right now, so much so that he's not even going to be the back of this week. Cooper Russian will be the back up and two will be the starter. So that's how it's going to roll this week, where penix will be the number three. Cooper Russian will be the two. Two is the number one. And they liked it. He had a solid summer, but penix is just not enough time to get ready for that big danger. He suffered last year. And there you see, it'll be the sixth different starting quarterback and opening day for the Falcons in six years, the guy that's stored down. Yeah, just put your hand all over the speaker, yeah, just put your hand just right into it. Put your right hand. Is it on? No, yeah, I think you're just, if you could actually just, that'd be good. Can you hear it? Can we hear you now? Can you hear me now? Can you tell me? Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, we, you drop right back in. And we'll call you back. We'll call you back right now. Like there's a connection situation. What he was going to say though, they're the person that started this six different quarterback thing. Matt Ryan, he's not the president of football. Yeah, three. So he is now running the entire show there, brings in Stephansky straight out of Cleveland. Fire from Cleveland. It's been a cluster up there. You can now be our head coach down here in Atlanta. Well, what's going on with Stephansky? If he was so good, what happened in Cleveland? It's like, well, he was hamstrung by the deal, you know, the $230 million guarantee deal. He had people over his head that were doing stuff. Andrew Burr is kind of getting restarted this thing because everything that happened above it said, we'll give him relief. It's like clear that Stephansky's going with the veteran quarterbacks here. Cooper Kush has played a lot of football. Yeah. To a tongue the low has played a lot of football. Yeah. Michael Penix has not yet had a lot of football in him. Stephansky, how much time does he have down there? Who ends up going? How is it end up going? Certainly fascinating dilemma. You know, the commissioner's exemption list is fascinating because he's like, they see like evidence and they go, yeah, yeah. And then this one, not like, do players want to hear that or they have not even started because maybe there isn't a trial thing, that feels like a big deal. As we go forward into what matters, what doesn't matter. Puka playing though is a huge advantage for the Los Angeles Rams, I mean, and for me that tells me a lot of things about potentially what's coming for Puka, but I might be looking into it the wrong way. I think he's okay. I think the NFL would probably be safer than not safer in this particular situation with where the NFL is. So that's probably, I mean, we don't know it. We have not heard the exacts, but for me, if Puka starts a season like this with everything has already happened, that's seemingly them saying something about how they feel. So if Puka is able to get through in those season, I mean, sometimes I'm maybe offence of MVP type stuff here with what Puka and Koo is and that kind of gets lost up in the conversation because Aaron and Miles Garrett are on the defensive side. It's like on the offence side, they might have the best player in football. And I know nobody really wants to think that about a wide receiver, especially a guy that isn't like a 4-2-6-7 guy, but it's like Puka gets the ball catches everything. He's impossible to tackle, they use him a lot. McVeigh and he love each other. They're very close, very tight, not only as a football coach and player, but like as humans, they side by side seemingly through a lot of different stuff. It's like Puka's going to go crazy on Thursday. I mean, that is just an absolute fact it feels like. Yeah, and everything you try. I think believe he was second in offence of player of the year last year behind JSN. So yeah, being able to be on the field is huge for them, especially opposite Devonte and all those tight ends that they're going to use. Yeah, this is him not being on the commissioner's exemplest, is ginormous for them moving forward obviously. Yeah, I think it's huge for the Los Angeles Rams to have one of the best offensive weapons playing for them. Joining us back again, ladies and gentlemen, a man that was in a car. We don't know what happened to his speaker, but we do know his brain is still good. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Shaftar. Yeah, Shaftar. Got me now. Yeah, we know. You sound like a little bit like whatever you were talking about. We don't like because we need to hear your intel because you make ball better. Okay. As we head into obviously opening night D, but has a question for you, Shafti. Yeah, Shafti, I'm just looking forward to Wednesday, the injury report. You know, Nick and the warrior. I know he was banged up. Trevian Henderson has been some more reports coming out about him, maybe not playing or going Wednesday. What else do you have for his Wednesday with those big name guys potentially missing some time to start the season? But Trevian Henderson not in practice today again. So it's hard to imagine that he's going to play. He hasn't practiced since August 24. I believe Bar Mar was not out there. We'll see if he can go Nick Eman-Wari, at least was out there. So it doesn't sound like he's very far away, although I still think it's a little bit ambitious to think that he'll be back this early in the season. I think early in the summer, they were not counting on that at the very least. So we'll see if he can make it back up in the air at best right now, but it certainly seems like Trevian Henderson is the one guy that we're not counting on for Wednesday night's opener in Seattle. Okay, Wednesday night opener in Seattle has one of the best corners in all of ball. Is he happy? Conman has a question for you. Yeah, Shafty, the other thing up in the air is Krishnamann's always getting paid. Where are we at on that? It feels as though. So every single report I see is that Chris Gonzalez is probably not getting a deal at least unless it's going to happen within the next couple of hours. What is the situation here? Have they gotten any closer? Should I expect Chris Gonzalez to be disgruntled the entire season and not starting on Wednesday night? - Well, what I could say is that again, these things always can change. But as of right now, talks are nowhere. And again, they're always gonna be a last second push. And there always could be something that changes and we'll see how the two sides address it once the season's underway. But I think as of right now, it's hard to imagine that the two sides would be able to make up the difference to get a deal done by opening night. Again, we've seen crazy things happen. And I'm sure there could be another push to try to see if they could salvage it and get it done. But right now, as of yesterday, I was told it was not close. And we'll see if they could figure out anything by the start of the game. It didn't sound like that was going to be the case. - Then what is it specifically, chef? Because it feels like this should be pretty easy since Wither Spoon just got paid. Is it the years? Is it guaranteed money? Like, what is the reason they're not even close? - I don't know specifically, but I've never got the sense that they've gotten close here all along. And I mean, I guess usually when that's the case, it starts with money. And I think Gonzales want to be at or above where Wither Spoon was. The Patriots have never been there, have not gotten close to there. So I guess if you can't agree on the money, the years become secondary because money usually is the sticking point on all these things. And it certainly seems like for whatever reason, these two sides have not gotten close. And I remember when Wither Spoon was getting done, it was a Saturday morning on the phone with various people. At that time, Gonzales wasn't close. Nothing since then has changed that. And as of yesterday when I had checked in on it, I was told it wasn't close. So again, could something happen by tomorrow night? Sure, they can have some conversation. Tomorrow, Wednesday, that changes things. - It was a Saturday morning, I was having my coffee. There was a lot of you on the ground. I said, "Hey, this must be good for Gonzo." And they said, "Absolutely, nothing has happened over there." Speaking of good for football, feels like a hit stick is all the way back with the hitman, go ahead, Ty. - Yes, Shethie, we heard over the weekend. Harrison Smith's coming back to the Vikings on a one-year deal. Is this a situation where they don't necessarily love what they have back there? Or were they kind of just leaving the door open for him if he wanted to come back? And are they anticipating that he's going to start Sunday against the Packers? - I think they're planning for him to be back. And I think the door was always open when you have a guy with that character of that stature of that talent. He's always welcome back. And it always sounded like that that was a possibility that it was going to be back. Obviously, he just waited towards the end of the summer and for whatever reason decided to make it officially, he's going to be back. And I think that they think he's got a real chance to be ready. And we've seen this happen before, where you've got a guy that is so savvy and so seasoned, they step in. And it seems like they physically challenge themselves and play above and be out. Remember Phillip Rivers in Seattle last year, that first game, like nobody thought he might be able to do what he did and he exceeded expectations. And I think Harrison Smith is a pro. He knows where it takes. And I think that they're hoping and believing that he'll be out there. - Yeah, he certainly will. His disguises are what make him so special. His ability to be where he's supposed to be while appearing to not be anywhere near where he's supposed to be. Quite a heavy player. I think he'll probably be able to understand where his body's at, what the limitations are at the moment and figure it out in real time. We as a football community are happy you're back, Harrison. - Oh yeah. - Let's try to get him on the all DB team 'cause I know there's been some trails blazed over the last couple of years. Has that already been? - Certainly, him entering year 15, I mean, he's been playing at a high, high level for a very long time. And you have to kind of mention knowing the ins and outs of this defense as versatile as he is when it comes to disguising, fooling quarterbacks. Now obviously missing training camp and all that stuff, not playing football. That's obviously a question mark is something to look forward to, but he knows how to get his body ready to go. I'm sure he's been pushing himself in the off season, just like Aaron Donnell was. But I can't wait to see the hitman back on the field. - Hey, what did we miss, Chefty? What if we not brought up? What do you have? - A few things for you. First of all, we got Ameca Bucca back at practice today for the Bucs, which is good news. He's been dealing with a toe injury all along. Jonathan Brooks is running off to the side, not practicing with the team. We're waiting to see, again, what happens with him and I think his status for week one is up in the air. He said, soreness, the panthers running back, we've been waiting for to get back. And of course, we have the game Thursday night between the 49ers and the Rams. And I don't believe that there's still a final decision on George Kiddell yet. We're waiting to see whether or not he plays. I know he made the trip and look, he may be out there, but we do not know that yet. - Chefty? - So we're waiting to see. - Chefty? - Chefty? - If you're recovering from an injury. - Challenge. - Yep. - And you don't know, are you hopping on and signing up for 34 hours of airplane time instead of maybe doing recovery or rehab or something like that? Honestly, is a genuine question. Do we can, I know you're a super duper with what you say, how you say has to be, I get it. I understand you have a reputation and your career on the line with everything you say, but done that feel kind of like an ipso facto Pavlov's dogs type thing here, if you hop on a plane to Australia, you're probably playing. - Listen, I think that that was up in the air going in and he's look good and he looks ready and they still made the sound he's gonna play. All I'm saying is, I've got a couple of texts, it's not a lock yet that he's gonna play. Now again, I don't know what's gonna happen. I won't be surprised if he's a warrior. Like when the lights come on, are you gonna be surprised at George Kiddles playing not at all? Not at all. I just want to hear that it's official that he's playing. So I haven't heard that yet, that's all I'm saying. - Okay, I understand you're saying that you can't say it. I'm gonna say, there's nobody get on that fucking plane, that's not playing. - No. - Okay, 'cause if not, they're gonna do recovery and rehabilitation and unless they're out there for a week, I guess. - So him and both players. - They don't need it, maybe he has. - He's breaking? They're both playing? - I don't know. - They're not interested. - Yeah, they're playing. - I think he's playing for sure. - If you're getting on a plane to Australia and you're trying to recover, it's like in the altitude, the pressure, the dehydration, like all the things. - That'd be a real game time decision. - But that's even for like a cross-country flight. If they were playing the Giants and flying from San Francisco to New York, it might be like a pressure, the elevation, the flight, we don't know if we want to do that. And then you multiply that by four, getting to Australia. I don't know if. - Whatever the case, if you travel over there, just support the boys. Mad respect. - Great team here. - And make sure that that's a real thing. You're the best, Shafty, we appreciate you. All right guys, happy Labor Day. Happy to celebrate if I'm laboring his bill. Bo Shemak would say, he looked at the Michigan football team one time, he said, all right men, happy Labor Day and we're going to celebrate if I'm laboring. And I'm glad to see you guys just celebrating Labor Day the right way. - Football season bro. All right, we appreciate you. That's Adam Schaefter. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - Miss a lot of thanks, Givings. - Yeah. - Christmas. - Right. - There you are, Dave. - Hi. - Hi. - Those all just kind of disappear for a lot of football people. - Hell, there's pro, I mean Detroit Lions coaches that have been there for a long time that not even to head coaches or whatever. - Oh yeah. - Hey, I've been home with Thanksgiving ever. - Ever. - They're in their hole in the stadium. Try to figure out how to win a damn game. - Usually losing that game too. - I was gonna say, lucky for those guys. They're fired pretty quickly. - Oh, I hope you guys go home. - Well, I hate Thanksgiving. - I think it was my last season. We had Hall of Fame game, okay? Earlier than everybody. Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve I think is what we had. We hit the quadruple and I was like, "Buck this." - I'm not doing this, I'm staring down another surgery. I'm like, "I'm not doing this for the rest of my life. I can't." There's so many different reasons they were packing up to it. It was like, we hit all of them though. - Oh yeah. - And it was like, that was like a fun little game to experience like after retirement. - Mm-hmm. - And everybody's like, "So, jacked up." It's like, "Oh yeah, we do get to do Thanksgiving right now." Nice holiday. - Great. - Lovely. - One of the best. - Great holiday. - Yeah, but we would always have practice or something on those days. You know, even when you're not playing, you're at least in the building. - Yeah. - And shout it to the holiday season that's right around the corner. The best holiday is at its football season. - Yeah, there you go. - And this past weekend was spectacular. College football had their week one slate still finishing and wrapping up this evening. Who's Florida State? Who's SMU? We find out tonight as week one officially closes, but they're kind of recap what happened this past weekend. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Reese's Paces from the weekend with Reese Davis. - Yeah. - Hey, Reese, I just want to let you know, great work on game day. You handled a lot of different chaos. It was obviously happening that people know about and don't know about. It was an honor to get back into the saddle with you, pal. And we just hope that you would be able to tell the world what happened this past weekend from your mindset and then we'll pick you apart afterwards if that's okay with you. - Absolutely, man. It was a great weekend, a lot of fun. I think it starts where we were, Pat, in Baton Rouge with LSU. Now, we wondered what's it going to look like, got Pete Thamel out of the courthouse finally, and then LSU comes out there and they look like a championship contender from the jump. Great defense, wit, weeks. Principal and men, the Ellen sort of dominating things there for LSU. But the one question I had is great as Sam Levitt looked and he was outstanding running the football. Ran for over 100 yards in the first half. 100 yards plus in the game. Will he be able to do that and is that whatever you ask? do to be able to run the ball consistently. I don't know if it is. It's a weapon. I know this. They can extend plays. They can pick up first downs when everything looks broken with him. And that to me makes them look like a championship contender at the risk of overreacting the first week because Clemson might also just flat stink and it certainly looks like that at time. The other championship contender that I saw on the weekend and maybe I'm just trying to make a preseason prediction come true. Watching Notre Dame last night. I know there were a lot of Notre Dame people probably worried about the early part of the game and thinking back, you know, half of Marcus Freeman's losses have come in August or September. Here we go again. The mediocre was constant team. Instead, Notre Dame took advantage of the break. They got to turn over in special teams close at half time. They bided their time and when the opportunity was there, they seized it with DJ McKenney getting this pick six or seeing there that really broke Wisconsin's back, finished the game and CJ Carr put together some great drives. They were like a boa constrictor. They just waited, waited, waited, squeezed, squeezed, squeezed. And finally, squeezed the life out of them. That's what I want to see from a championship contender. I think the Irish are on track. The slow start. Not worried about it in the least. Another slow start. I don't know if I'm worried about or not. You got Boise State Wisconsin. First, let's start with Boise State lost by a touchdown in Austin Stadium to Oregon. Maybe we're all trying to get too cute about who the best team from the group of six is going to be at the end. Maybe Memphis, maybe Navy, you know, before the Memphis UNLV games and people at UNLV. Maybe it's just Boise and maybe Oregon. I don't know if there's good as we thought early on, but they don't have to be right now. When they've got guys like Dakota and more that can put on the brakes on your right at the end. They make big explosive plays, which really, to me, that was the difference in this game. It was easier for Oregon to score than it was for Boise State. Not worried about Oregon yet, but I did expect a little more dominance from them than I saw. I think Boise, you might be as good as anybody in the group of six, but it's still a little early there. Okay. Then the thing, I think, yeah. Yeah. So then, yeah. Okay, I'm excited for this. I'm pumped about this from you because you are-- Need you here, Reed? Yeah, you are-- Need you here, Reed. Authorities, I think, on college sports. I think you understand that positioning of who you are. I think you tried to uphold that as well. You're one of the representatives of all of college football and college basketball, but certainly for college football, you're one of the only people that get to speak to the people that are actually making decisions. It's like what you say carries a lot of weight for a lot of different things. And I'm excited for you to get into this. You're talking Michigan right now, right? I'm going to talk Michigan right now. Okay, listen, Price Underwood comes down that tunnel skipping. I think you were with me whenever I saw that. I was standing next to Desmond Howard and I go, is that 19-year quarterback, right? And he goes, yeah. I go, I've never seen that before from a quarterback ever in my life. Have I ever seen a quarterback do that? Now, was I pseudo-talking shit to Desmond Howard in real time as it was happening saying, wow, I've never seen a quarterback to did that prompt me to put a tweet out saying, wow, never seen a quarterback do this. He might go, what? He's going to go wild or whatever. You know, first drive, not terrible. Okay, then got in the pool, not good football anywhere, but not good football at all. Then he hits a 60 yard after regulation has ended potentially. Hail Mary. We don't think that's a wild afternoon in Ann Arbor. Okay, just for everybody that was killing me, but nonetheless, a lot of things I've never seen before at that Michigan game, how it was starting, how it went. And then certainly the ending, Reese, can you make some sense of this all please and kind of give us something to think about as we go forward with how we should view this? I don't know if I can make any sense of it because I don't remember anything quite like this. Now, I've seen games where seconds have been added to the clock. I sort of chuckled in our meeting this morning when Nick Saban talked about if we ever seen anything, I immediately thought, yeah, there was that whole kick six thing where you got the second at the end right before the attempted field goal, but it wasn't like this. And I understand everybody wants to get it right. I understand 18 split was out of bounds and technically the clock is over when, you know, when someone who's been out of bounds touches the ball. But there are a couple of things here, Pat, one, I feel like there ought to be a natural conclusion to a play that we get to before we start splitting hairs over a clock. But even bigger than that, we can't have some secret synchronized clock in cameras that nobody knows about. There has to be one clock now and then present it to the television audience. And in addition to that, and I think you brought this up in the meeting too, let's hear what if we're going to get down to this kind of thing and super synchronized secret strobe synced clocks. I need to hear what everybody's talking about in real time when it happens. So I need to hear, okay, hey, look, they're looking at this. Let's go live to the command center for whatever officiating body's running the show. And this is what they're looking at and why. Because, you know, it's one of these little things that's funny and football and I understand end of game situations are different. But throughout the course of the game, middle of the second quarter, maybe the ball spotted here on the 28, maybe it's the 28 and a half. I don't know somewhere in there. We'll put the ball down and play the next down. Then we get to other times when we're trying to look at a replay to spot the ball. And that we're trying to look at a replay to get a tenth of a second back on a clock when we don't even have tenths on the clock. We need to be more transparent in this. The other thing is you can't save definitively, but man, it is really hard to imagine if the roles were reversed at Western Michigan would have gotten another swing at that. I don't know. Look, you can't prove that. You know, and I heard you talking to Chef D about, you know, how you want to be balanced. You say things like that. But that's the first thought that comes to a lot of ends mine. I think the Broncos would have got another shot at that. No way, no way, especially you have to. What? Wittingham's already on the field, hold up at W. Wittingham's already on the field, like they were celebrating it all. Alumni and everybody associated with Michigan is putting out, man, we suck. Okay, that's what they're putting out. And then everybody has to delete. Oh, actually, let's delete that. We're actually undefeated. So don't know how to tell you that this is not the case at all. I just, to your point about the transparency of the replays, the XFL did it. They had a guy on an Xbox remote controller. And he was directly to the ref and we watched him fast forward, slow it down, fast forward, stop and saying, looks like he's down at about the 32. Let me look at the other angle. Yeah, we're not seeing anything that does. He isn't down to 32. I think that's third down, ball into 32 first down. And for all of us, he was like, hey, at least we know the why here. Then the ACC, I think he's trying it now, right? Don't have a little bit of that happening. But the ACC is starting to do it Friday nights, maybe. People love it. Yeah, big fan of it. I think XFL was very good because then one of you presented, it's like, well, they're not going to want you to hear it, you know, the NFL or any of these big schools because, you know, if they're wrong and then it's a big deal. It's like, well, if you're wrong, there's a chance of narrative, just get started about your entire leak, basically, that's basically saying you screwed a smaller school to take care of one of your bigger schools. It's like, that's a worse narrative that can come out about you being a crooked organization. So if we hear this in real time, and at least it's a part of this story, as opposed to a defense of the story later, maybe people could say, well, you heard what they said about the blah, blah, blah. And it's like, at this point, the narrative's already gone to what you said about Western Michigan's never going to get it. And it's like, you run this back. It's like, what? Okay. Okay, dude. This sounds like something you would say if you were trying to cook it a little bit. It's just a lot of bobbles, I think. A lot of different bobbles. And you could also make the defense get Western Michigan. He went and jumped aside. He knew he was out of bounds. He saw the clock hit zero. I'm just like, I want to get my hands on the ball. You know, he saw that in real time. He would have potentially just kind of let that go. So then that second ends because it hits something back there. He could in theory say that like, well, I saw the clock. So the clock in the stadium that is resink to the refs. Doesn't matter. Is that what we're hearing? Yes. Kind of. Yeah. They wanted to be the same, but apparently they say they have a strobe synced clock with all of the cameras that they have access to that may or may not be precisely synced with the television clock. At least that's. I can't even trust the day of clock anymore. After all the refs says, can you put 47 seconds back off on that clock? We should all say why? Doesn't matter. Please just give us a guess. The nation about a minute. Yeah. It's doing like soccer. Just run it off sometimes. No, start breaking out words like strobe synced clock. You know, they're just. Maybe I should have known this. And this is probably on me that I didn't. Yes. I didn't know that there were separate synchronizations of the clock. I didn't know. You know, I didn't realize that there were two different things we were working with. I'm 39. I don't know what age you start remembering stuff. Like, I'm hoping my daughter. She's three right now. I'm hoping she remembers everything. I know that's probably not likely. There'll only be a couple of moments. So I don't know the exact age I started watching ball, but I'm from Pittsburgh and my dad, Die Heart Steelers fan. I feel like we've all been watching football for a long-ass fucking time. Yeah. We all everybody that's ever watched ball was like, Oh, okay, to the new clock thing. I don't think we're the like, I don't think we're forgiving society whenever it comes to this type of thing at all. So they're going to be bad on against this for the rest of the season. And then Michigan's got Oklahoma next week. So we're going to find out if bow don't lie or not. Yeah, we are. We certainly are. Anything that reset in there that you have a couple of questions about tone will start with you. Yeah, I do. I wanted to look ahead this upcoming weekend, Reese, the Ohio State and Texas. What were your thoughts on those two teams this weekend? Obviously playing lesser competition. Both of of them blew them out. You know, the quarterbacks looked okay. There was, there was some stuff here in there, but what were your thoughts on those two teams going into the huge matchup this next weekend? I thought they were biting their time for this week. They flexed some weapons. Texas showed off a lot of their new weapons. I know our cheddar had a tough pick, but I thought that overall they probably opened up a little bit more offense to him. I mean, he was really good, you know, the last month or so of last season. Thought by and large, he picked up where he left off, having Cam Coleman out there in Hollywood, smothers in the backfield. Just going to make them terrific Ohio States as advertised, but we're not going to really find out about Ohio State's rebuilt defense. I know there, I know they've got great players, but maturing into those positions and producing at least close to the level of those guys last year, we'll know a lot more about that Saturday. I don't like it all. What happened to arch before that game started? Because you remember when the Oregon duck came running down and lost the tag last year? Crazy. See how Oregon season ended? Yeah, you're right. Okay. You saw that end. It was not good. Okay. That might have been all the way back to that. I don't want to blame said duck, but hey, they made some rules to change that. Hopefully that doesn't happen again. Do you see arch running on the field? Boom. Not bad. Can't happen. And that person just disappeared. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. That's the start play, B. That's the worst, worst stumble of the season. That's a tough one though. Who's gravity's or somebody? I think it's chords, right? Probably chords are he's hitting under there because he got to make sure the smoke is good. It's like anybody but arch. This can happen to I think would be the sentiment. Hey, we're going to need you to run down the middle of the court. Okay. We got chords on the right side. We got some shit on the left side. We got camera people over here. We got some people that are a little handy too. Okay. They're going to want to grab you a little bit because you're archmaning. We need you in the middle of the tunnel. Just something about as we go. It's first weekend. It's got on. Oh, I can't. Look, you can't try. Stop trying to be one of the guys. Exactly. Get up front. Get your ass up front. Let the boys out. Amen. Camera guys a little too close. Okay. Well, the social media people making themselves a part of the entrance is certainly something I love too. Yeah. You've worked your ass off to get in there to be able to earn yourself to run out of the fucking tunnel. Okay. Let's uh, and uh, make sure every shot has, you know, I get the hell we're not using it. You know, I don't, I don't look sick. Get to the front. Drain access. Yes. But yeah, we need to get up there. Aren't you? Yeah. You'll see Bryce Underwood tripping from way up front. Yeah. No, he's flying around. Hey, Desmond. And I'll say it's Desmond Howard. I was bewildered about how Bryce Underwood played after this entrance. Why don't you be bewildered as well? Good job. Reese. I, I, I sensed a lot of bewilderment from the, uh, from the All Mays uniforms. Uh, there was bewilderment all over the big houses. See Desmond Howard, described something as bewildered. And I laughed. We all had a big laugh. And, uh, I'll say what? Desmond is batting about, uh, a thousand right now. Just in all aspects. And, uh, I think everybody from Michigan's pretty eager to see how this team ends up doing. Yeah. We're going to find out. Yeah. I think, I think Oklahoma might end up pooping on them. But that looked, that was, that was terrible. We will find out what terrible outing. I know it's week one and they could get it rolling. But I'm very, very concerned about Bryce Underwood. Okay. So then definitely not then. But there has to be a team that race like somewhere. Actually, I know it's very early in the season. Week one, we talked about Arches team. We talked about, uh, Miami, we talked about LSU. Who is your number one team coming out of week one? No, it's not completely finished yet. But who's your number one team right now based on what you see? You mean just, I'm still ranking Notre Dame number one because I think they're the best. But I, I don't think there is much, there's much doubt that the best week one performance was LSU. I mean, at least to me. I mean, it was a great win for Ole Miss. There were some great wins for a lot of other teams. Even I think Oregon had a really solid win in a voice. He said it turns out to be really good this year. But I think the best performance, if you were doing a power rating, you know, week to week, LSU would have to be on top, I think. Yeah. That was outrageous to watch them. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your pregame and halftime show alongside Joey and you guys. I had a blast with you guys. That was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was, there might be a happy medium time wise. The thing that's frustrating is when you get those in there like two minutes and you don't really get to capture the moment. But I mean, what we were on for probably close to an hour, it was a blast. I mean, we, I felt like we were just letting people experience what we were experiencing in Death Valley. Yeah, and thank you for hanging out in that room for six, seven hours as you were literally in a holding pattern as they were getting delays because he's supposed to do the halftime first game. Yeah, supposed to fill time this time. You know, him, Joey and Death is supposed to do this entire thing. I was very lucky to join them and they were just sitting there. Hold up in an office, basically just on, on standby. And then they get a 30 minute heads up that there's been another delay. Oh, we're going on another delay. By the time I got into the room, I was drenched. I was absolutely drenched. Trench with downpour had no coverage. We were out there just walking through and Gumpy was great to be out there and be a part of it. I walk in, Reese Davis is sitting sideways on one of the seats with his head up on a table like this. He looked as if he had been sitting on that chair for three, four hours. He's trying to find every comfortable way. And it was like, yeah, we've been here all day, bro. So thank you for doing that. Thank you for the hospitality. Great start to the season. And thank you for joining us today, Reese. You bet, guys, always a pleasure. Hey, that was Reese's pieces from the weekend with Reese Davis. Yeah, we just say weakened. Yeah, like not strength and weakened. We sure, you know what I'm saying? But it is weakened like the other two days that we get there last two because Reese's piece is weakened. You see it all kind of blends in. He's the right guy for the job for that. Oh, yeah, big time. Yeah, because by the time we get to Monday morning, there's a game day meeting. Reese already has about 400 thoughts. He's not the only one on that call that already is thought I had completely and already digested it all. But he was also doing us open, I think, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Good moment with Alchorize. Absolutely. Yeah, whenever Alchorize had no idea who he was playing. No clue. That he just focused right here. Okay, here's the moment. Maybe just a quick word on the challenges that both of them might could bring to whether I mean, say again, say you, you might, you're either going to play Shelton or Citsipus, maybe just a word on both of them and the challenges. I thought, oh my God, I thought I was playing, you know, my best. Oh my God. That's surprised. Yeah. He had no idea who's taking that. That's how in the moment people are. You got to remember that. Be where your feet are. What's happening now? That's kind of how Mr. Alperaz looks at it. He's locked in. Yeah. You know who else is? Who? Ben Shelton. Yeah, he better be. Yeah. Let's go. Big one tomorrow night. Yeah, we got big service coming. Don't you worry about that. Our two be on the other side. We have our lofts. Keep joining us, AJ Hawk, a bunch of headlines we have to cover and life is good. Be a friend to other friends. Have a nice and my change of life. We'll see you then. 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And obviously they potentially do have the dogs as Coach Lashley has a high-powered offense that he certainly favored as he travels down to Tallahassee. It take all Florida State. Now, Florida State with Coach Norvel certainly in a breaking point potentially. Got a win. Now there's been some money talk about what his contract owes him and why they haven't potentially moved on in years past. Maybe this year the Florida State breaks through and Norvel gets back to the point which he was almost making it to the national championship if he didn't have three different quarterbacks or two different quarterbacks get hurt and up on their third string. So we'll certainly be fascinated by this. The weekend was spectacular. The story lines in abundance. The NFL kicks off on Wednesday night. Then we got a game on Thursday night. Then we got Friday. Then we got Saturday. We got a couple massive games. Michigan, Oklahoma, obviously Texas. Ohio State this weekend. That's big for the slate. And then he got an entire Sunday NFL slate coming. Yeah. Made it, boys. We're here. You have done it. And then what Monday night football? That's right. Holy hell. Talks to tables here at Bossa Conor and that Thai Schmidt. One half of the hammer down. Cowboys AP Tonus here and nine year NFL vet looking very cool. So cool, sir. Is that checkered board? I just saw it. Yeah. Got it. chess board. chess for him. Oh, yeah. You guys been playing chess. I heard a lot of nine year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler. Good to see you, D. Butch. What a weekend of ball, man. Great weekend. It felt good to be back. Absolutely. We got through the first hour. I hate that I didn't mention, but I was always reping. One of them. No, no, 56 seven lacking of Lafayette. Candle is underwind stores. What was the spread for that one? I almost picked. Oh, they come when Connecticut come in a half or no. Yeah, I know, but I almost picked it. So thank God that I did. And I'm learning now and real time that you guys dominated them. That was almost my super dog just so I could bury you. I just want to let you know, I almost did that. I didn't do it, but I almost did it. I'm going to stick away from that. Yeah, certainly did say me. So you. it was mostly for Dan O'Loskey. - Sure. - You look like Dan O'Los. - Yeah, fair. - That was kind of the thought he'll be joining us here in a few moments, you know that. But I thought maybe you guys have kind of turned page, maybe you guys aren't a terrible football team. And it turns out maybe you're not. - Yep, Osborne, obviously Jason Kendall here coached new quarterback as well, counted for four touchdowns. So speaking of Dan O, who trailblazed that position, we got Joey, Joey, May the 53 is an undrafted free agent. And then we got Osborne leading away down there to Rinchlerville. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, Rinchler, if you're joining us, yeah, I get it, yeah. Hey, a lot of greats played there. - Yeah. - Donald Brown, first round draft pick, running back Indianapolis coach, legend. Yukon used to have dogs everywhere, hopefully, you'll be able to get back in. It feels like there's some have and have nots in college football. - Yep. - The average margin of victory this past weekend is at least larger since 1994, something like that. - That would make sense. - 31 or 1944, sorry, 31.7 points. - That's WW2. - The average margin of victory. And obviously, great generation, what's going on. - I mean, you got to run up the score. You want to be ranked high and have a cool resume. You can't just win anymore. You got to win by a lot. - And also, when you're winning, you put in maybe some backups. A lot of these places that are really, they have a second person that's getting paid, probably a lot of money as well, who is probably better than the other team's starters. Definitely. You could almost get down into maybe a third. Now, they're talking about how teams aren't able to just stack five stars anymore because those five stars are going to go somewhere else to get playing time. But there are certainly guys that are too deep in places that are trying to figure out whether or not they're going to stay for the next year or not. Whenever they get in their third, fourth quarter, it's like, this is a six-star guy. - Bill Thief. - Chris and Julia. - Exactly. - God amp. - Oh, touch though. - How are you doing, Bill? - Legend Bay. - Yup, and absurd touchdown for Oz. - Yeah, legend B, I believe. I saw them tweeting about him. Great name. - Yeah. - Almost want to go back in time. Might also a legendary name, but legend back if he certainly something that we could look to as being awesome. And let's not get crazy though here. It's fourth quarter, it's 42-3. Ball stayed at a couple of first downs. It made me wonder about this Ohio State defense. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is an Ohio State legend. A college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hall. (audience clapping) - Hawker, I saw a couple of first downs. I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all. What was your takeaway from the Ohio State Buckeyes? As we, the program, we'll get into our, best weekend yet, okay? Potentially was, I think it was. AJ, you'll lead us off with this entire thing. Your thoughts and your best weekend yet, your favorite part of it? - Yeah, obviously I think Reese was right. You know, Ohio State seems to be as advertised. And you're in a kind of a weird spot when you're such a huge favor. Like if a team gets one first down, they make one play, people freak out and think they, you know, oh, what are we doing? We're not, we're not what we thought we were, but I think they are who we thought they were. Jeremiah Smith, obviously. This is all, okay, he holds that ball on one hand. Like, all right, here we go. Let me catch this on my helmet and then stick it out there. But all the attention that he grabs, it's fun to watch this Ohio State offense. I think they'll continue to get better and better. But I, I'll tell you what, I'm excited about some of these young bucks on the defense, man. Some of these guys we have not seen play yet and getting some of their first action. It'll go at number 34 right there. You see Wilder, absolute fresh. I'm just, he, I don't think he has any stats on the stat sheet. He just absolutely is a destructor. Like this guy, you talk about like a block destruction when they're trying to block and split in double teams. Hump moves. It's like Reggie White at times in the back field. So guy like him, I am very, very high on him and I'd love to see him pop up on the film when he turned it on. - I like that new coordinator on the offensive side were able to get it done. New players on the defensive side able to get it done. It does feel like maybe the best part of the best weekend yet for AJ should be that the Ohio State buck guys. Maybe are who we thought they were. Let's continue to bounce around our favorite moments at the best weekend yet. Dee, what was your favorite part of the week? - Yeah, you just mentioned new coordinators. I'm just going to same coordinator Shannon Dawson down there in Miami with new quarterback. This is the third time in a row now. Ward, Beck and Lauderia Missa going to Malachai Tony going absolutely off against Stanford Friday night. 230 plus yards, three touchdowns. Basically rewriting the record books when it comes to the Wild receiver position at the University of Miami, Mensa Malachai. You thought, hey, how long would it take to get on the same page? Did not take long at all. It looked unguardable the way he runs these routes. They call them baby Jesus for reasons for it twice right there. Make guys running to each other. Unbelievable. One future brought Hall of Fame right there in Malachai. And then another one, Ohio State Jeremiah Smith. I love him kind of answering the bill because anytime Malachai does something, at least it's South Florida, the conversation will be okay. What's Jeremiah going to do now? What's he going to do? He's on right. Great player. You'll be a top three or four pick. Next season, just unbelievable start to the season as well. Dominate, didn't even play the second half. Malachai played 51 snap. I believe Jeremiah played like 36. Once again, dominating. Now you think, okay, top two probably guys in the bulletin call for race? No, these guys are thinking about the Hyzen. First game Friday night, boom, touchdown. Hyzen pose. Once again, Saturday afternoon, boom, touchdown. Hyzen pose. Just love seeing the star guys going up. Both Miami guys, but played at high school football, throughout County, so I love to see that. I am very worried for both of them that the person throwing them the ball might get the credit for the touchdown. The high's been voting, but I do appreciate that these two might be the best football players in the United States of America and obviously both from where, where they from? Miami, Florida. I thought Pennsylvania Pittsburgh was going to have the two best water seasons this March. Turns out South Florida. We were the DBs. We created DBs to defend these Florida boys. Quarterbacks, DBs, okay. We'll get you some offensive lamin if you need it, but it does feel as if the explosion out of South Florida is certainly benefiting both the canes were all the way back and Ohio State. Malachite Tony, seemingly. He's on say, so Ryan Paganetti, football genius, football nerd, through and through. You know, I put out the tweet that, "Baby Jesus is about to have a biblical season." Like this is about to be crazy 'cause this first 20 minutes and if Mens is going to be able to play like that, I mean, this is going to be a problem for a lot of people. Obviously, certainly in the ACC, if you pick somebody else, what a decision. He was on pace to have 102 touchdowns for that first quarter. - I mean, it's on my tweet. (laughs) I mean, you look at him and you see obviously the explosion, you see the route running. But the things that don't show up, AJ was just talking about in the '34 Ohio State, the things that don't show up on the stat sheet. Like you watch it, we were boosting the ground, watch this scene last year in the playoff room. You watch him block. You watch him do the other things. There was a clip that came out early in the game where he was wide open down the field, didn't get the ball thrown to him. Somebody else made a plan. He's still dancing to celebrate. So that's kind of who this guy is behind the scenes in the locker room, I mean, this is unbelievable. - Hey Wavell, good luck. - D1 guys out there looking absolutely ridiculous. Now that's terrible, terrible technique. Terrible effort by number 40. But Dominace Romanoca, Tony. - Yeah, that's the tough guy. It's gonna be like that sometime, baby Jesus on the other side. And I think we're all excited that they seemingly found another trigger man. You know what, the way they've gone through quarterbacks down there, we talk about Signetti being able to evaluate talent, which we'll certainly talk about here in a little bit. But also, Christopher Ball has been good at finding out who he needs for his particular system. And they went through a lot to get men's out of Duke. Obviously Duke, reigning ACC champions, right? - That's right. - Miami has never won the ACC, okay? Miami has never been the ACC champions, okay? Never won it. I think they're the best team in the ACC. And when I was asked to pick the ACC champion, I picked UNC just because like the ACC has chaos. Like the ACC does not make a lot of sense. The Duke is the reigning ACC champion. I don't think people really remember that or think about that. Their quarterback is now the guy spinning at the baby Jesus right there. There was a couple lawsuits. I think there was a voting stuff that took place. They really wanted them. And it was obvious why. - Yeah, I mean, he might be the best quarterback in the entire country. Now, speaking of quarterbacks, quarterbacks throw football forward. Ty Schmidt, what was your favorite part of the best weekend yet? - Yeah, I mentioned this at the top of the show, but the Iowa Hawkeyes are all the way back. And that's what it was. All off season is, hey, we got two quarterbacks here. Both these guys might stink. They don't really know who is going to start. And then income's tone DS. You mentioned DS is it. You mentioned him on game day. And a lot of Iowa fans were thinking, you know, this guy's got an offer from Alabama. Basically every big time program wants him. What the hell is this guy committing to Iowa? What the hell is wrong with him? Does he have mental issues? Potentially, because if you have Alabama and all these other schools coming after you, why are you going to Iowa? What are you doing? And maybe that's why. Right away, on his first possession as a Hawkeye, he has three catches for over 50 yards. Catches a touchdown. They haven't had a guy do that in, I don't know, 15 years. Something like that. And maybe that's what he was thinking is I can go and kind of be the change I want to see in this program. But it's more than that. You know, you were mentioned, you know, Pennsylvania, you know, offensive lineman. All offensive lineman are built in bread in Iowa and at the University of Iowa. Everyone knows it. We saw it again over the weekend. Again, Northern Illinois is not great, but boy, Iowa just beat the shit out of those boys. They didn't have, and we're talking, you know, they're offensive lineman in their run game. I get it, but we also talk about Phil Parker's defense. They lost a lot of starters. Northern Illinois didn't have a first down until like seven minutes left in the third quarter. And it was because of, you know, kind of a Phantom PI call. And, you know, special teams, we saw it up there again. They run another pump back for a touchdown. Evan James, just kind of another guy. It's all these things that you expect from Iowa and they just continue to do them. We continue to do them with new people. And if they have a quarterback who's just like half a worth of shit, I'm not, I'm not expecting a guy to go out there and win a husband. I wanted to raise heck, just average play. Yeah, just average play. You do want to raise heck? I want to raise heck. No, okay. What can Brian do for you? I'm a Hank Brown guy. It was the heck. Hey, it was great. It was great. I'm done with that. I want Hank Brown in there moving forward. So I'm, I'm feeling great. And, you know, after a weekend where the big 10 was kind of, I don't want to say that. they went 14 and two, but I'm coming out of that weekend thinking I was one of the best four teams in the big 10 without a doubt. Okay. I'm excited for you. So you're saying it's a lot of staleys across the list. A lot of staleys out there for the Hawks and you know, that's what we expect and boy, what a treat it was on Saturday. I love that now you guys have a wide receiver. So this amplifies it even more about not being able to have a guy that can get a ball to him. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so I didn't even that touchdown you saw. I mean, what a cat. But 12 yard slant 8,000 miles an hour as high as he can really made Tony Diaz go up and get it for his first one. So we'll see. You know, there's going to be all there's going to be plenty of Saturdays where I'm going to be screaming till I'm blue in the face because Hank Brown is 12 of 26 for 143 yards and a touchdown in interception. But that's okay because that's my that's what I've come to expect. I know that's the case. Yeah, but you guys are going to have the staleys that you have. We're going to rush for 250 yards a week. And if we sprinkle in Tony Diaz, I mean, there's a chance this is a new year without a doubt. And that's why that was your best. Yeah. I mean, it was the best weekend yet. Yeah, certainly was. Let's go into I think we're staying in the big 10 tone. What is your best of the weekend yet? Yeah. Let's go out. Let's go to the rating defending big 10 champions. Oh, I am the rating defending national champions, the Indiana Hoosiers. They took on North Texas and Neil Brot this weekend. You know, everyone had questions about the quarterback, Josh Hoover coming from TCU. This man was beaten and bloodied after he had his helmet twisted around his neck. It's down his jersey, down his pants. He can barely see. And he throws another touchdown to Charlie Becker. That answered all the questions I had to see about Josh Hoover in this one just. And I bet his teammates absolutely love this. Him taking a beating just so bloody looking like JJ what throwing the touchdown to Charlie Becker. Just questions about Josh Hoover, yeah, it was North Texas, but he played a great game through a touchdown to Nick Marsh on the first drive as well. I think IU is going to be just fine on offense. Yeah, I think there are. And you saw it sold out stadium. It's amazing what football can do to an entire community, entire state, incredible catch, incredible throw back shoulder there. No coverage can stop that no matter who you're playing against. If they're going to be like that all year, that's certainly going to be problematic. Charlie Becker, two touchdowns, $2,000 donation by us and also by him. And I believe Joe Buck has confirmed he'll be donating as well. There we go. Yeah, kind of put him in a, remember we publicly pressured him and joining us. And then I got him when he had a couple drinks at him and I said, hey, said you're going to donate. Could you do that? He said, I'm in. Text me the other days. There's a thousand and he said, there's another thousand. I think he knows. So we're all pumped to kind of help out with Charlie. But it does appear as if Indiana does have the capability of being able to run it back. They're going to have to figure things out. Coach Signetti said, I don't really know what these guys are. We're going to find out what these guys are. We're going to see their mental toughness. We're going to see if they're going to be able to bounce back. Hoover, I saw a couple of tweets. Head that as I had to confirm to look at it, you know, because adult supervision needs to see this photo. Yeah. Just blood all over him. Signetti's going to love that. Yeah. Yeah. It got a, it got a bigger issue. I think it's not on the football field. It's on the sideline. I'm not sure who. And I might have been coming to you about six, I got to take the ball camp ball. It was. Oh, yeah. He's got. He's not a ball camp. He said it was time. He doesn't have to do shit. He can do whatever the hell he can wear a fedora on the side of it. We kind of wish he would be cool too. That's what we're talking about. Maybe fedora will be good. Not a ball. Yeah. No. Well, he said no shade at my face. Exactly. I was getting burned up. I couldn't see anything on it. It's week one. I want to see what the guys look like. I got no shade. So what if he comes out? I black next time. Instead of the cap. I approve. I approve. On the outside of the doctor hat. Okay. Let's let's continue the best weekend yet. We bounce back to the NFL as we are just days away from the NFL season kicking off Conor. What's the best of the weekend yet? Yeah. I mean, we can stay in the big 10 and unfortunately we're going to go to Rutgers because we mentioned the margin of victories being huge and one of the teams I contributed to that was UMass except they were about 20 point dogs. William Popp Watson the third played like William Wallace the third. He led the UMass minimum all the way to victory and it wasn't just him. That is a high school teammate of his Joseph Griffin. The pride of Springfield Central. I mean, it was just remarkable. This started the weekend off. By the way, this is on Thursday night. So it's hard to remember all the amazing things that happened from then to now. But watching the UMass minimum win a football game on the road against a big 10 team was just pure joy. Elation. We are not that far away from last year where they were down 45 to nothing. Hit a field goal and then set off fireworks at home and now not just one season later. Popp Watson the third is leading these boys on the road to a victory against a big 10 school. The zoo UMass was probably ballistic. I'm not so sure that you in game day and all the boys are going to be visiting UMass. Maybe week eight when there's seven and no playing some other school and it would be pure madness. I'm hoping that's what happens. I don't know how many UMass games when we catch in this year, just on a week to week basis. But Popp Watson the third is electrifying just to get his stat line out there, 19 to 22, 197 yards, three tuts, 40 rush yards. He is a legitimate ball player. He might be either in the NFL next year or the quarterback of your favorite team because he was a stud for that entire game and I just can't believe the UMass minimum ended up winning a game against a big 10 opponent in week one. Richiano, Davos Swinney, both staples at their places. What's going on? Bit long in the tooth. You see potentially potentially the longest of them all around there, especially with the way it started. But it's just open and weak. Nobody knows. Yeah, you're right. They might want to know what I know. What's that? Punners. Do it. Punners doing it. Let's go to West Virginia, shall we? Okay. This guy is an absolute lad. His name is Brian Hansen. Okay. No relation to any of the other Hansen that you potentially just thought of right there. Obviously the ball is being snapped from their own 15-16. Absolute nuke. Coast Carolina kid can't catch it. Rolls all the way down. Seag. Gets a big time save down at the one. How you doing? Keep it moving. That ended up being a huge deal. Now, the Coast Carolina shant clears will go on a 99-yard touchdown scoring drive right now for this punt. But a lot of clock was eaten up and if you looked at it, yeah, nobody was happy about that. But a lot of clock was eaten up, obviously. That's good. Yeah. It's 24-0/2 time. Let's not ask any other part of the first. There's a three-four star freshman out of the Whip Hill. Incredible punt here by Brian Hansen. Proud of him actually getting a bomb off there. West Virginia tough place to punt and kick. It is breezy there early in the season. Took advantage of it. Now let's go to Oregon, shall we? Oregon punner. Bailey Etridge. Okay. I believe Bailey. Etridge is his name. It's a beauty here. Turns this thing over. It's in the sun. It's not in the sun. Let me go ahead and check this thing upright. The half-yard line, wonderful special team. Special teams can bite you in the ass opening week or it can be of an asset. If it's an asset, you're probably going to win the games. If it's an ass hole, you're going to lose the games, okay? And that's certainly something can happen early. Special team is always tough to get on the same page. And then obviously the punt from last night, that is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in so far. The whole thing. Man. Absolute beast. Sean West. 69, 70 yard, absolute bomb. Now I saw some people saying he actually hit that thing a lot longer because where he actually kicked the ball, I agree. They tracked the stats from line of scrimmage. It's a nice golf swing because the checkup was righteous. Sean West, absolute thing, a beauty pal. Love the way he took two steps. NFL style punt. And obviously the returner, who's probably going to be an NFL, potentially an NFL, Notre Dame's returner, couldn't even handle it. So this is the thing, a beauty helps out your team. Obviously the second half would go how the second half won, but Wisconsin was rolling. And that was the thing, a beauty that had everybody talking. And I can't wait to watch him and the rest of the guys, the rest of the year, because you know there's an award for a best punter in the country and one of these guys going with it. And also it feels like punters are better than they've ever been right now. Have you kind of come back to the, I guess, American punter style, because I'm going for a while. We're not doing the running day right now. I like it. All three. Louisville was Louisville doing the roll out, who shot it over someone's head last night? It was Louisville. Yeah, Louisville. They were doing the roll out. Yeah. But it does feel like we had a little. Does that come back? Yeah. Well, what's the purpose of having it? Okay. So now I don't want to counter it. I like what we're doing. Uh-huh. But what? Let's take some time here. There was also a couple of these guys take snap, weight, weight, weight, somebody gets there and then they kick it. There's still a little bit of that, but yeah, the complete run to the side seemingly stopped. So not as much of it as I feel like every 90% of the team doing it at some point. Yeah. Yeah. I even did it. I've never been Australia one time. I ain't going to need you to learn how to kind of hit that thing on the road. Sure. First time I did it. Live action. Thank you. Sarah Keece at home, somebody of them. Day game. Little rainy. I run to my rights. My first time punting in a game. Another game of punting it. I did pun it plum. Yeah. My senior year of punting. So it was like first time punting long time. Boom. Catch it. Run to my right. I've never been doing this. Hit this thing just trying to get on the ground bounce right on my ass. I'm going to just pull it back, but speaking of, I saw your highlights. It's a weekend. Two sports center. Hey, it was nice. Thank you for getting it. People get it. I was there. I saw a lot of people saying this guy played. That's crazy. People think I talked away. I talked about just never played. Seriously. I mean, you're doing something right? I guess. I hope. Or not doing it right at all, you know, if people don't even know. Joining us now is a man who played a long time. Nobody gives him credit for it. He was on a cover of Playboy magazine. That's right. Whenever he was in college, as one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time, ladies and gentlemen, full trailblazer for the UConn. In the state of Connecticut as a whole we know a lot about him. Yeah, it's a gentleman the face of ESPN coverage This guy's gonna be everywhere. They say about me. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, Dan O'lovsky. Yeah Dan Oh, what up, man? What's going on? How are you guys? What's going on? It was the cover of playboy. Is that right? Do I have that right? Maxim okay That's time. I mean that was crazy. I'll tell you what Dan Oh Being able to be on the cover of East Bay, too, wasn't he on a cover of East Bay? Yeah, and Maxim and with a little dabble of playboy Is it all American in there? You got good range. Let's talk about some of your range We'll obviously dive in the NFL in a matter of moments But this Michigan thing fascinating. I just I think our platform Should be utilized from football people saying they've never seen this before and they all think it's crazy as we move forward Do you want to kind of check that box on our show saying that you think it's absurd what happened and how did it happen or how do you view with the whole Extra second on the clock situation Yeah, it's probably the most embarrassing win. I've ever seen in college football. I know that. I had As a viewer, I have no skin in the game Supposed to just trust that that clock is synced up with the actual play like I'm just supposed to trust it even though the game clock that I'm watching Also, I can't see the ball. I don't I can't see the ball from that back angle So with all due respect to the big 10 because I can see the ball in the this angle I can't see the ball So I don't know exactly when the player touches it I can make the guests and the assumption is it there. I have no idea But you go from the other angle The ball when the ball is going towards the defender and you can see clearly that the clock It's zero before not this angle not this angle Foxy you go to the one where you see From the field perspective essentially you see the defender go up you see the ball the clock clearly is at zero before it touches The defender at that angle so I don't know like how I'm supposed to just Believe that the reverse angle is the reverse angle like the clock clearly hit zero before it touches it there You slow it down even more we did it on yeah, so I don't I don't get it. Yeah, none of us understand it And we've been watching ball a long time and now we're being told about a different clock It's like well, so does any clock matter? And then why is the ref going off that clock then ever? Yeah, right so like then that clock should mean nothing to the ref ever right? We should be going off the actual clock like well that one syncs up with the actual clock It's like but it doesn't though because we just found out and then look where the ball on this angle This is the one Foxy. No, that's the game winner. Yeah, the first one look at the look at where the The ball goes with the defender on this one. It's not like he goes in, you know, touches it at its highest point It's basically waste before he touches it. So that's why that reverse angle. It's like I have no idea where the ball is And you're trying to tell me a tenth of a second matters here, so yeah I think we all feel that same way and then Reese Davis said you think western Michigan's getting that extra 10th of a second back on the clock If it's on reverse and it's like well, that's immediately what everybody thinks so that's gonna be a little bit of a Feels like a cloud western Michigan did come out after they saw the angle with the clock and a tenth of a second and a super duper clock This is a real clock. You guys don't have this clock. You're the Mac with big 10. We have real clocks around here It's like is anybody else have this clock and we need to know about this for any other leagues or conferences or Is the XFL using this who all who all has the super duper secret clocks and it fell better and when do we get to know about them And how if they work or not we just trust that the one we're looking at in real time? Yeah, I don't do the refs have somebody in their ear saying super duper clocks two seconds off and then they have to read is that when they have to recalibrate the clock No, when he pushes the bull. Yeah, none of us there. Dan. Let's move along. Let's talk about football. Shall we Matthew Stafford? Obviously Dan in Australia taking on Brock Pertie down in Australia We haven't really chitchat about much about you know how this affects the offense how this affects the game the travel and when they travel and how they travel Can you just poke his plane? Should we just expect prime time Pro Bowl Matthew Stafford week one there MVP Matthew Stafford week one or is there a rollout process that has to happen for every single team? No, I think that you expect this offense to kind of pick up where it was last year this offensive line is intact The perimeter players are healthy both backs are healthy and Matthew Obviously, it's had a healthy offseason in comparison the last year. So yeah, I fully expect this offense To play the way we're accustomed to it now San Francisco. Obviously a very good defense and very talented defense We'll see what bosses like coming back from the injury Michael Williams his impact on their defense Fred Warner being back But yeah, I expect this Rams offense. They kind of click on all cylinders the travel thing I can't tell you whether that'll impact them or not. I know this. I've you guys probably have as well I've gone to London a couple times. I'm not saying they're the same I remember a time we went to London and we were playing the chiefs so this is probably Like 2015 maybe maybe 16 and we went out there I was with Detroit. This was our third or fourth time going out there We went out there five or six days before did the whole get him a getting a custom to thing we stayed blah blah blah all that the chiefs flew in and landed Sometime like Saturday night at like six. They did a walk through at Wembley and I was thinking to myself We're gonna destroy them to my morning. They just flew over here. They have no shot They beat us like 45 to 10 It was an absolute beatdown and they were they were significantly crisper than us So, you know my brain at that moment was like oh our travel advantage is you know big and that was the alternative So I don't know how much it'll impact your not impact at no clue you talk about the London trips There isn't a hundred percent science or either because then there'll be another team that travels out there earlier They got a they'd played well, so it's like yeah, I don't know if there is a right answer All I do know is coming back you still have 16 more games So coming back I think it's what everybody is probably more worried about them Maybe just one game here to lead this whole thing off But what should we expect from Brock party in the offense? Nobody really talks about that shifter said he can't put his name In reputation on the line and say the George Kittles point said I can't say that. It's like well, he flew to Australia Okay, if he was worried about recovery or rehab maybe hey, what's up lad? What's up lad? Who's behind you right there? There's a boy. There's a boy behind you other side other side. That's the go. That's madden madden want to oh, I took a shirt Madden Mr. Patsy to law Hello, mr. Madden. He said hey Oh, yeah, man. You're doing good mr. Madden. What are you looking for bro? Yeah, what's going on? What do we got going on, man? A father who's around maybe For that Well, I mean you're gonna take a shot of me there as well. We don't need to do it. We do What are you saying is you don't pay attention to your kids and I know you do. Okay, so we know you do But uh, certainly an angle that could be had as we had as we had to football season here obviously all You know trying to do we're trying to do okay. Let's get to San Francisco 49ers We haven't really heard much about the offense We talked to Brock party about his John Deere partnership. Yep. Okay, which is obviously a huge deal that Deere isn't being stamped on anybody Brock party now considered a vet and a league I think all the questions about whether or not he's going to be able to make it even whenever he was playing good Kind of been answered. What should we expect from this particular offense? Debo's back over there We assume Kettle's in the play Yeah, Bernie's a stud. Let's live in the world. We'll kiddo live in the world where Kettle plays Obviously Kettle's their go-to guy. The guy that you guys are watching Stribling is an absolute stud I remember watching him in the college football playoff last year I think it was was it the Georgia game that he was just absolutely dominant in and just going This Stribling guy is phenomenal. I mean just the way he plugs the football the strength that he plays when He's got a little watching them in San Francisco and maybe it's the number There's a little crab tree to him and we're in regards to just the strength that he plays with So I think he's going to be their go-to wide receiver pass catcher remember Ricky Piersle know Jennings is gone, so he's kind of their go-to pass catcher I would say I think Debo and McCaffrey still going to be a bunch of touches guys The big question mark for me and maybe isn't going to be the biggest answer Week one against if Donald plays this defensive line, but they really have to get back to running the football better in San Francisco That offense aligned for years had been a strength. I would tell you had become a weakness over the last two seasons It was a little bit better last year than it was in 24 I would also tell you Kyle always always does a good job against the Rams because they know each other so well So there might be people going into this game thinking one sided You know question marks health-wise for the 49ers Rams are loaded I don't brought by to that guy think college and it's too good of a coach Okay, that's Thursday 820 on Netflix live from the Melbourne cricket grounds the home of the Cullingwood Magpies You see the boys walked into yeah the other night got a chance to experience it I thought a chance to go to one of those games an Aussie rules football game has a soccer atmosphere You know because it's a lot of passive stuff and then there's Not a lot of beers. I mean a lot of beers. I forget the name of the beer that I was drinking down, but I know Fosters maybe is it clusters the I'll show you for Bay. I don't think they're drinking it. They don't mess with floss. Yeah, I don't think they're drinking that day And I think that's where I think that's where the Americans did you say I've been down under You know, it's so far away they thought nobody would ever find out I don't I don't think it is getting dry I'm not where I was at at least in Brisbane But yeah, the labs got a chance to experience it that the Melbourne cricket grounds gigantic a lot of investment And I think it's gonna provide a great environment for American football Yeah, now I am worried about how wide and big the field is or the guys gonna be like are the fans too far away almost I don't know how they're gonna be like a baseball like we're in college Exactly. Like an awkwardly placed game, you know, and like when a hockey plays inside of a stadium How there's a lot of space between the crowd. I'll be intrigued to see what that spacing looks like, but it should be Electrifying eight 20 on Thursday now Wednesday night is one the season kicks off with the Super Bowl champs and go hit Conban Yeah, Dan, I know you think the Patriots are gonna go nine and eight or ten and seven and the bills are gonna win the division But it all starts on Wednesday and they can kind of flip that narrative around how do you see you know Wednesday night go And I know for the Seahawks. They have first time OC and play caller Brian Flurry. Nobody seems to know anything about this guy So that'll be interesting to see what are kind of the biggest things you're looking at on both sides of the ball for a New England Anciadil as they both start their new campaigns back to the Super Bowl Yeah, number one does Gonzalez play I would assume he does and chef He might know more, but I would assume he does and if he does because in Let's say they do not get a contract done by Wednesday. I think the number one thing I'm doing if I'm Seattle offensively is How much are you willing to tackle on the perimeter knowing you haven't gotten your money yet and because I grew up with a coach that Subscribe to the philosophy that if you were playing against a premier cover corner The first thing you do to start those games is see how much that cover corner wants to tackle So I'm taking that same philosophy. We used to do this with like Antonio Cromardi all the time great corner How much do you want to tackle today and so how many different ways can we kick screens out there and have a tackle go to block him How many different ways can we go crack toss and so I think that's something to pay attention to in this game Number one is how Seattle treats him. I think the second thing Connor and I would say going back I watched I really went last week and rewatched the Super Bowl We probably didn't give enough credit that defense in New England that game was sensational And it got overshadowed by how good Seattle's defense wasn't that game But you watch that game and you're like my goodness New England's defense was sensational man And they flew to the football they gave up obviously those two big runs versus some Motion look that was a little bit different but that they were great man And so I fully expect this defense to play a similar style I'm with you on flurry. I it's something. I've talked about all offseason He's been around football a long time. He's been around the Shanahan tree a long time never called place And you're replacing a guy that got the head coaching job for the organization who had the number one pick looking for quarterback Because he was so good at calling plays. I just don't think that happens like that And so I think there's big question marks for Seattle's offense in regards to that Um, and I like I like that this I haven't picked made a pick yet But I absolutely could see New England going out there and win this football game. It's interesting can Sam donor with Koc great Kubiak great new OC. We shall see right like what Sam donors. We assume that he's Incredible debauch has something. Yeah, not a new OC Josh McDaniel's was one of the ton of Super Bowl had ton of success How does how do you think this Patriots offense looks with a J Bragg as soon as that sign that was made You instantly compared them to Gromp and those matchups with McDaniel's kind of came out and said the same thing So how do you envision this offense working with the addition AJ Brown? Yeah I want to get your perspective on this again rewatching the Super Bowl We're going to touch on this a little bit with live and some tape. So one of the things that You I saw in that game and the Super Bowl was Um, the pressures the blitzes that witherspoon and and all those sacks are coming from a lot of them came from the field And so they would blitz the field debut and then they would kind of shade to the boundary So they would play some tight coverage to the boundary receiver and that safety would shade It was a lot of times in this case on booty shade towards that side And so you're pressuring from the field You're almost double teaming back side, which is a lot of times the easier throw for the quarterback get the bottom My hands shorter throw and so I'm interested to see If that is something see out of those again like this new England put AJ to the field And so that gives him a because if you're going to shade back side to a Romeo dobs Can AJ win to the field of the ton versus some one-on-one coverage with maybe not as much help So I think that'll be interesting for me the number one thing I'll look for from a New England perspective Um, is where they're putting AJ and maybe some of those pressure situations to see how see out of defensively reacts How would you do it? I mean yeah, go ahead. I mean that that's what kind of been always make Daniel super You say how would I do it defensively or from offense defensively yeah, well like yeah exactly defensively You got it you got to take away AJ one first and foremost and whether that's put my the highest paid corner in the league on them And having been good and living with that matchup or doubling the old-school bellichek double AJ and then you know put a one-on-one away So that's that's how I would do it, but you got to take away AJ You got to make Romeo beat you you got to make hunter Henry beat you and then without the He understood I don't expect him to be out there. You got to make the other backs beat you as well when it comes to coverage And those matchups, but you have to have to take away AJ But he's an absolute game record and coming into that game. You got to come in and say hey, we can't let this guy beat us I love that we're starting to season with a Super Bowl rematch So many question marks and I appreciated your take on how we should maybe see how gonzo How gonzo is feeling about beating a new England Patriot right now. That's a good point Set hot. Yeah, we're running right outside bro. We're running way outside Way out there bro. You're going fucking straight out. No upset. Yep. Good. How much you want to tackle, bud? Go ahead. Go ahead. That here comes Bobby's blade. Set on Big pitch out there. Let's just go actually then we run what's that called bucket when you run uh or When you have all the on screen? What's it called? When like the offensive lineman are pulling yeah, no, when the offensive lineman are lined up out there. It's like Yeah, like diamond. My don't know set up Let's see if this guy because he is an active participant when it comes to tackling. Yeah He's always been unbelievable and everything like that like he will come up and hold like the wood Whenever it needs to be done, but it is a question, you know That's a real thing that I didn't really consider Dan. Yeah, and so Dan said it. I was like, oh my god This is how this carries into actual football here now, you know, this kind of pay him his money damn it It'd be flurry Adjust the gameplay right now. Yeah, that's how that's how we used to do it would like You know, we used to play against Revis Yeah, it's from Arty. Yeah, be like right here a lot of times who would be the offensive lineman going out first like we We would like send perimeter screens out there tackle would go and be like all right you Can't buy really good. Oh great night. Gonzo. It's gonna show off Gonzo is gonna show up and he's going and he's always been pretty adamant like hey Every single day you're just mentioning be where your feet are he is in it every single day And that's been his answer to everything and also they have added some really really good pieces on defense Kevin bired hopefully he can fill that hole, but just pay that man his money He deserves 130 whatever millions that he wants to have just give it to him now you guys have that do you have it available? Well, we have a quarterback who's getting paid like the eighth least amount in the entire league Because he's still on his rookie contract and he's getting paid a ton of money probably coming up Soon here. So yeah, we have the money to pay him. So just freaking do it already bar. Okay, those are the opening two nights of the NFL season We can't wait to watch. We're thankful. It's here obviously college football has done a great job But storyline still kind of bringing it It was announced that two will be the starting quarterback for Atlanta. AJ has a question about that Yeah, Dan obviously two is traveling to Pittsburgh to take on the steers. I guess what are your expectations from two? How long do you think he is in the lineup and I guess yeah, what what would you do if you are decordinated playing against two? Yeah, I would play everything short to deep If you watched to a last year and then certainly in the preseason The balls coming out quickly and there's not a willingness to push the ball down field that much I think part of it is just because there's a reality and I have been a two a supporter and I love them But these hits and these injuries add up, you know, and so We've seen some older quarterbacks get to the point where they never want to get touched. I get it I think two is probably in that world right now So, no, Patrick Graham was the defensive coordinator for the best dealers He's a guy that has kind of played defense in so many different styles. He's been a zone guy He's been an aggressive guy. He's been a match guy So there's a little bit of trying to figure out exactly who who be in Pittsburgh with their personnel from You know how they'll attack Atlantis offensive group, but I think it's this was the inevitable I would tell you this is probably feels like it's a week-to-week thing until Michael Penex fully Like fully says yes, I can I can go out there and play a football game on that knee And if two was playing well enough you'll keep the job, but if he's not the job will go to Michael Penex. I've been adamant I don't Either of these guys has to play so far above their skis To be part of the conversation of the future in Atlanta that You know, I think it's more than likely. We see at least both of them in Atlanta and we'll see kind of who can do the most with the opportunity Too well starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. I guess this puts the bed the final quarterback Competition I was taking place Cooper Kush Cooper Rush will be the backup quarterback Penix, we assume third. Jack Strand lingering obviously down there. Obviously it's been six different quarterbacks and six different seasons for the Atlanta Falcons. Obviously looking for some stability. The other quarterback competition of the off season that garnered a lot of headlines in conversation, Kyle Murray, starting quarterback of the Vikings. Where do you sit right now with this? Because it was loud at the time and then, you know, who knows, who ends up where. But Kyle Murray being named starting quarterback for the minutes out of Vikings. Where do you sit as we're just days away from getting to watch that for the first time? Yeah, if Carla is able to put some consistency together that resembled the start of his 2024 season, the Vikings are contenders to win the division. They're that good of a football team. They're three deep at wide receiver. Hawkinson's is stud. I've said this. I believe this is the easiest place to play quarterback in the NFC outside of Los Angeles Rams. Because of those pieces I mentioned, the play caller, the run game. Flores his defense will be great. Harrison Smith, I heard you guys talking about before, somehow still playing football and probably playing at high level, dude, so good at ball. My question mark with Kyler, I've kind of talked about this is how much Kyler's willing to allow the scheme to be the star and not him to be the playmaker. He's obviously going to make plays at times. But this scheme is built upon just allow the play design to get the guy open. I'll get him open. You know why I'm getting him open, but it loose and how much they can build some of those throwing lanes in. You can't run an offense that wants to attack the middle of the field. Okay, let me, I'll say it this way. Yeah, please, please say it this way. Okay, when you have an offense that is I play action pass center golf fence and it's predicated upon the run and that run action looking similar. You have to be able to work the middle of the field in the past game. You have to have the people, you have to have the quarterback, you have to have the protection. And so if you are going to have that be your foundational part, throwing the ball to just a perimeter is not real life. Those two things do not exist at the same time. And so I think how comfortable Okano gets with building some passing lanes in in that play action pass world. How comfortable Kyler gets seeing it and it's a little bit in the pretty world. Perdi's got the capability of it because of the touch he has on his throws. Rock and throw to guys before they're there. He throws to blind spots. Kyler doesn't have a ton in his game of throwing blind, throwing to blind spots. And that's something that just takes a ton of comfort level. We've talked about it with Stroud. You know, when you're throwing the ball over the middle of the field, you're margin for errors small because I sail it, it's picked, I'm low, it's picked. Outside I can sail it, it's incomplete, low, it's incomplete. And so how comfortable Kyler gets with that and how well they can build some vision or throwing lanes in I think is really the biggest question mark. Tyler and Kevin Okano operating in offense as opposed to star operating plays and Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, right? Are we all kind of watching the same thing here? Caleb Williams is able to win games for him at the end just because he's Caleb Williams. He's so talented. Is he going to, to your, the way you described it? Will Caleb let the offense be the star and then him be the operator of it? Because that's what Jared Gothel is in the Ben Johnson offense. And we saw maybe the best offense in all of ball. Ben Johnson was hired to be the head coach because of how great he was at offense. Everybody wanted to hire him as a head coach because of that. So if we can see Caleb Williams get into that offense, we can assume potential record breaking numbers, like he said, we would like to be the high scoring offense in history. That would be the offense taking lead there, right? And Caleb just kind of being the, the choo choo conductor of that entire thing. 100%. You know, and that's, I've said this with Caleb, it's, it is a fine line with these guys because you never want to get them to be statue, just pocket quarterbacks that aren't creative. And so you never want to take that stinger away from them. But there is a rhythm to the offense. And a lot of times you can fall in love with some of the splash plays and think they're going to be sustainable. And, you know, you're the, you're the Patrick Mahomes of the world because Patrick did it, but it's a different game than when Patrick was doing it as well. Five, six years ago. And I think some of the things that gets lost in it is when we're talking about the timing and rhythm of the play, it's not just the quarterback. There's a timing and rhythm of it for the offensive line. The offensive line, those, there's a very specific place the quarterback is going to throw the footballs from. So like, they know that where they can get beat and where they can't get beat. When should they expect the ball to the quarterback's hands? The spacing of the routes. If I'm starting front side with the route, the spacing of those backside concepts and how the timing of that matters, if a receiver gets, if he's supposed to be 18 yards on the in route backside and you, the quarterback are still on the front side, he's crossing the field at 18 yards already. Well, we've lost the timing and the spacing of the play. So, you know, I think that there's, that those are all things when we talk about like timing and rhythm, it's not just about quarterback and only throw. A lot of phenomenal offensive systems in that MMC North. And if Chicago just keeps going away, it's going. Run games. It might be, what's up? You got to have the run, Ben Johnson, he has like his run game design. It's crazy. And Mary had up with the past because Dan just kind of mentioned defensive has changed. Defences have become more patient. They've kind of become more dynamic as well. So to kind of throw you off that rhythm or get you kind of more early into that second reaction playing, yeah, you can run a whole, you know, b-roll of highlights run, but it'll also be a b-roll of turnovers or big time plays. It's kind of just ruined games. So the more you can stand and assist, but once again, with Collar and Caleb, you don't want to take away that sting. It's the reason why these guys are number one overall picks. They have the arm talent. They have to believe with their legs. So it is kind of like a, you know, finding that perfect balance where, you know, getting yourself in position to win ball game. Man, the NFC North could be explosive. I mean, there is a lot of great offensive minds up there. If you count MCDC as well because. Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, here's part of the offense. And I would like to let you know that like if Chicago becomes the sports town again, that could be tough for the rest of the United States of America to have to kind of deal with. Caleb's out there with Chicago Bulls PCA. They're there for the next 15 years, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, I mean, this is a long time, but eventually, if a lot of success, things absolutely love this. This is a great one. This is why I like the Taiwanese Haliburton charity softball game because there was like Daniel Jones is out there. Tyrese was out there. Kelsey Mitchell was out there. It's like the entire city coming together for something. Tyrese was Tyrese here for this one? Uh, he threw a great pitch. Yes, he did. He was wearing his Michael Jackson loafers out there. And he, he went for the best pitching shoes you could wear. He went from the mount and he delivered that thing. And I think he was pretty pumped up about that. He should be. Yeah, especially with the entire storyline about the brewers. Yeah. How that whole thing went down. I guess he was supposed to do it that he was rescinded, got the loafers with. This is the most average haliburton look I've ever seen. And he throws a little bit high, but I think the better swing at that a strike. So shout out to Tyrese. That the Cubs are kind of the fun, the fun bunch to follow along with. Yeah, five W and this PCA character. Yeah, right, dude. 40 homers out there. Yeah, for the MVP. Yes. He has 40 and 30. I think it's first time obviously in Cubs history or something like that. But it's like the shit that's happening every every night. He's just doing something that like is a once a week type highlight. He's doing it every single night somewhere. The ball is a magnet to him somehow. Well, he's just making it. We need to fill that space there. I don't understand this. Yeah, the LZR gap right there between the LAD and the wall. Home filled advantage. Well, and you also got to remember that extra strip right there from our understanding of LAD prices. That's maybe about $750. We might have literally ran out of the budget there. We just hope nobody went up directly in there. Oh, maybe the MVP will a special to watch and then can the Cubs are in an L or a L? No, no, come on. Anybody who would be the contender for MVP up against him? Show him Tony, but that's done. He's not. He hasn't played like two weeks. So PCA is going to be the MVP. I think. And then who's the AL MVP favorite? Probably you're on it. You're on Alvarez. You're on Alvarez minus 5,000 junior Kamenero plus 1,400 Bobby Wolt Jr plus 7,500. Here's Peter Lonzo, the polar bear. He's in started to rake a bit lately. He's an MVP conversations. It's 2026. Now let's go. He's on the list. I mean, yeah, but he's not giving an MVP day, you know, 500 team. He just can't do that. Yo, Ty, how come a doesn't Shorber have like 500 home runs? Yeah. He he had a bunch early and then he kind of cool. PCA is having just a he's having a ridiculous season and what he does in the field too. I mean, they don't really give a shit about that, but like he's he's on he's on. He's having a historic season. Yeah, almost like Cal Raleigh was having last year. Yeah. How's he doing this year? He's coming on. He's coming on. He's coming on. He's like, you know, 20 of his last like 28 and you know, it raises average from the 143 to 161. Okay. Hey, Ty, I did not want this guy to win the MVP last year, even he he was doing all this historic stuff. One because Judgy was involved, but also Ty was like, can't just have like one year, good year rest of career bad MVP winners. Well, he had the basically the same stats as judge and judge has batting averages 90 points higher. That was kind of my point of contention. But also you didn't like the one hit wonder potential possibility here for an MVP award. No, my big thing was people were starting to put him in the same category as judge and I said, well, you know, judge has done it for about a decade in a row. So I'd like to see this guy do it, you know, again, next year because for his career, he's about a 220 hitter. So I'd like to see him replicate it. And he had the worst drop off in the history of baseball. But he's bounce back. He's bounce back a little bit. First 94 games, he batted 156. Holy shit. two seven three two nine and then which I certainly know what all three of those numbers are and then the last 13 games He's batting 320. Well, that's a pretty good disparity and you know 94 games 13 games, you know You pay this guy a bunch of money you expect him to kind of be a driving force. They went to the ALC Hey, good two weeks though. Yeah great two weeks even though you're not gonna make the playoffs and you know You kind of tanked the whole season I like how Raleigh you should have dapped up his boy at the World Baseball You're wrong. I love that. Oh, oh, you're pulling for America. I'm sorry Okay, that's world baseball classic fodder for sure Cal Raleigh We appreciate everything you did for sport last year in for our show. Thank you, dude But tie was tie was pretty excited to see him not play good after I said he was judgey You were I wouldn't say I you were pretty judgey about Cal Raleigh being judgey I think I was I think I was more patting myself on the back like okay Yeah, I actually I do know ball a little bit when it comes to baseball talking about air and judge the greatest right hand Hitter of all time and Cal Raleigh has one good year and we're saying this guy's the best player ever said let's pump the brakes Let's pump the brakes a little bit. He had a great year. Let's see him do it again next year and you know We saw what he did 13 games. Oh Speaking of knowing ball it is nice college game days back You know got a lot of people tell me in real time. I don't know ball for the things I'm saying and then all of a sudden as the day rolls on It's like hold the phone now hold the phone. Maybe we have a great game day. Great. I believe great game If that's how it's going to be every single week first of all shout out to all of us Diving in a college football a lot more, you know because of everything tone research Unbelievable that you're you're providing all of us and to me But that was fun to get back in there and just take the heat again, you know, you pick against a team It's like oh my god. This is a very very very upset and it's like I gotta remember that whenever I'm talking that I I like both teams But I am I am picking one to beat the other with no clue what's gonna actually happen That's an interesting predicament to be back in I enjoyed it. It's for you Dan. Oh it's football season again Take your swings man. Take your swings. Hop in take your swings. Got a hop in there How about lady Wilson coming on the show in six you might have fancied some of the music. Hey, how about that Blake Shelton Laney some other people They're pretty good. That's very nice. Yeah, that was a nice boost Laney new ball - yes good new ball I got a call night before from duck, you know nice FaceTime from duck. He says hey, you're looking for a what here now Group of six is you need six teams. What do you what do you need here duck is awesome? It was great to see him Theo was there Jordan Davis was there. I mean you talk about everybody in the lads Everybody actually everybody was there it was it was good. Yeah, it was a long day work for you guys man fun Though, you know football is back. That's what everybody talks about like You know people were either excited for all the opportunities that we're getting You know, which is very cool of people to be like that. We're all living our dreams obviously in real time no matter how often It happens and doesn't happen or there's people they think you know I hate seeing this guy everywhere and then there's people think I'm gonna die. It's like man the energy I got from football happening is just a completely different level We are so thankful and lucky to be in the middle of football season and to cover it the way that we do That's Dan Arlovsky. That's AJ Hawk. We'll be back tomorrow here on ESPN. We hope you have the incredible labor day As football continues to be Fantastic be a friend telephone. Some nice might change your life. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye Way to go, Dan. That was a good throw in the wall. Hey 10, bro And I think you have that we're still alive. We're still alive, Dan. Oh, I think you have a golf club Is that a golf course on your hat feels like these people are infiltrating the show? Right. The onion. Yeah, we had someone else with the onion thing on really. Yeah, the shirt. It's a golf course, right? That's a ohoopie. Yeah, it's called the ohoopie match club down The Dahlia Georgia. Yeah, so everybody's backwards. Yeah, yeah, everybody's got that's right Okay, so you guys went on the same trip down there or different you guys play together? I don't believe I've been down there with Greg now. Oh, you don't like Greg? Did you win your match? Did I win my match against Gregor when I was down there? No, no, you weren't down there Now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've played well down there for the most part I've lost a couple of times down there as well, but I've never played with macaroni now. Okay I was gonna say you guys played great dude like places very fun golf experience Very fun. Yeah, we didn't know it existed for last week. No, everybody's coming on here just propagandizing it on to everybody, so The guy has like African safari animals on property. It's the guy who The guy who founded the place his name is Mike Walrath He loves golf and safaris and so he has like African safari animal on property and then If I hold on hold the phone hold the phone. Let's not move along anymore. What's up right here? Okay, it's up right here. So it's only match play. They don't keep score. Okay, uh, you're just playing against somebody I won this whole you won this whole that is and you get to add every hole to clear Like there's there's teas, but there's no team markers So you could put the ball down on the t-box and you say we're playing this as a part three from three hundred and forty yards Love that okay, so you're kind of picking and choosing what you want to compete against. Okay, let's do this We're all doing the same thing that is awesome and then you pick your head up from point your teeth out King of the fucking jungles right here. Is that is that that's what happened or how do I because we got a couple of them around Indiana I think still Is that another Ziraya? All right, baby Rhonda right there. Okay, that's cool giraffe Yeah, I'm seeing Zebra's on the internet Yeah, the giraffe thing is interesting because if I'm correct, they have like sporadically placed out on the property I believe like 50-foot tall metal poles Because of the weather and the thunderstorms that come through they needed things higher than the draft that when the lightning comes It grabs the pull and not the draft. Oh, we're looking out for the drafts. It's still grab the giraffe. Yeah, yeah, yeah I mean, I've seen videos of somebody just sitting down on a ground getting. Yeah, a lot of the stuff got this weekend Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's about the rest of the weekend in the hospital. I have a teammate college got hit twice bad luck In the same day what and and where it sums up with him we're like we were well Yeah, by his skin it was a little bit different but I think I think he got hit twice once in high school before I met him And then once after a lucky guy what a legend. Yeah, did it change him did it change him at all He's I think if I work if I superhero no, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like truck man. He can fly Yeah, fantastic board. I mean just the percentages of that potentially happening are obviously It's scars, but to your point it does scarier. Yeah, I think your body gets a little bit I think it does change your skin or something. Do people hunt those animals down there then they pay a bunch of money and shoot those Things all right. I'll play golf and I need a shotgun or I don't know that answer I don't know if it's a yes or no dangerous game all right. I want 36 holes And I need bone arrow okay, and I would like a What are those wide tip What do they have I mean this is real what is down there roaming the process like I saw zebra's actually I'd just cool Because it's so fast thing. I don't think you're killing him. He loves he's like so far. He's our picture-taking member hunter trips are Yeah, hippos in the water hazard. Oh the hippos will fuck you up too. They kill pork you for the year the sharks all back Hey, you getting put the bone water to the right. You're dancing with destiny there or it could spit it the ball out into the hole Oh, like it likes you. Yeah, thank you many golf. Yeah. Yeah Hungry hippos. Maybe you hit it off a drafts head bang rose down neck right off shoulder Into whole mini golf that piece of the trees. Yeah, I'm out of balance. No, that's your whole fairway. Yeah. Oh, I have a food at the place man The food is just yeah, we're feeding Of course, we gotta have a lunch. Yeah, we understand this place is awesome We didn't get to the onion did I know I did existed just a few days ago now like What's it called that down Georgia Oh, whoopee whoopee match play Oh, whoopee is it public? Are we supposed to be talking about as much as we're talking about it? I don't know Private okay, huh? I don't know that answer. Hopefully. It's okay. It sounds like a you problem should not have been doing that You got the to oh whoopee was the order of Moots the room. Yeah, privacy kind of illustrious golf courses in Georgia. That's how it's done We'd like to let everybody know that Dan O'lovsky's the one that started talking about. Yeah And on that note Dan, we can't wait to listen to you talk about everything this fall football season has arrived Happy Labor Day. Please tell the family say hello, and we will talk to you soon, Dano Maybe unless the whoopee people yeah true. Yeah, it's kind of tiger to your house. I love you whoopee Love you. Thank you, Dano. Are you done? You know, it's like what do tigers dream of when they take a little tigers yeah Do they dream of Or Dan or loves key in a cat woman suit We don't know duh Don't you worry pretty tiger head we're gonna get you back to dancing in your cozy tiger bed And then we're gonna find a best friend And we're gonna give him a best friend hug DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD DOOOOOOD What about you? How's Laney Wolfs? And if you get murdered - Yeah. ♪ I'm the best of math tweekers ♪ ♪ Then we're shitin' out of luck ♪ - Great movie. - Great movie. - Hangover? - I heard of it. - Definitely watch "Hango" right in the song. - Yeah. - Between Tyson's Tiger. - Yep. - Yep. - Wow. - After they give him all the-- - Got that too on his face. - Mm-hmm. - He's pissed off. - Give him all the trouble. - Got to watch that again. - Yeah. - Great movie. - Great movie. - And Holmes. - Rady Cooper. - Yep. - Galfanansky. - Galfanansky. - Yeah. - Cooper. - Galfanansky. - We'll be back on the other side. Galfanansky. Still one of the best stand-up things I've ever seen is him at the purple thing. - Yeah. - Cheeseburger. - Guy in the front row. - You're not supposed to be here. - Why'd you come here? (laughs) - Two people on some free tickets to the show. They had no idea who he was. And if you did not know who he was, and you were to show up at a comedy place, and the shit he does, he's just fucking outrageous. Got a piano out there. Drinking. You know, people are just two old people thought he got tickets to a free comedy show. They walked in there. - Good time. - Front fucking row. - Fast-spotted beat. - Well, for him too, he said they were killing him. Just no reaction. He said, "I usually kill you're killing the entire show." And they kept it all in. It was unbelievable. Guy's a genius. Where's he, Ben? - He does a gardening show on Netflix. - Exactly. - Okay. - Yes, he does. - You need to check that out. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Goes around with different farms and gardens. - Galafanakis got a huge brain in there. - Yeah, it does. - Gigantic brain in there, we're looking forward to. - See that? - His cousin. - Blue. Colts mascot. - No shit. - What? - What's that? - Galafanakis. - The mascot are the guy inside of it. - The guy that's the mascot. - The mascot. - What do you mean? - They're about the same, bro. What are you talking about? - Oh, what truth? - Like the character or the. - Black, both, you know, the flesh and bones. - I'm talking blue. The Colts mascot. Yeah. Galafanakis is just cousin. - Man, I learn something new every day. That's awesome. - That's right, big brain there as well. - Sure. - So many ideas. 13 years of them, right? - Yeah. - I'm really 10 years. - Blue created blue. Like came off with the concept. - Yeah. - Pitched. - Blue. - Now. Trickshot artist. - Was there no mascot before blue? - No. - That's okay, man, really? - Life was better then. - Yeah, it's not true. - Not true, sad. - That's actually very wrong. - And you're talking about stealing McBean. That's what you're talking about. - He's not real either. - Stealing McBean came into Pittsburgh at a time where Pittsburgh, what? Yeah, right. Fuck this guy. Like, no, we got a mascot now. It's like, no, we don't. - I think we threw him off a bridge, to be honest. - Was blue the. - No, stealing McBean's still around. - No, I'm pretty sure we threw him off a bridge. - No. - He came into the suite when we went to that steward's band. - That duck started. - Here he is. Pittsburgh dad, Stealing McBean. - That's a good car. - He's a wilder. - I don't know if I've ever seen that guy. - Me either. - Well, he's talking about you never seen Stealing McBean? - No. - He's a great mascot. No, he's not Jack's him, Deville. - No. - He's always carrying those beams around. - He always. - He doesn't have a very large game day presence. I will say that. They kind of keep him in the back. - Somebody pitched Stealing McBean and the Steelers having a mascot. Then it was passed somehow. - I don't know. And then it does feel like a lot of people that are probably within the Steelers organization. Everybody we surround ourselves away from this building have told us that they're pissed that there's a fucking mascot for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So it's hide this guy. - Yeah. - Okay, we got him, but it's hide him. He's out there doing it though. - He can do corporate events and bullshit like that, but he's not their own game day. - I think they're actually having him do the. The Blessed Water gimmick. - Oh, sure. - Oh, that's Father McLean-A-Hahn. - That will steal his brother. - That's not his name. - Have the Colts won a division since Gloo's been introduced? - Yeah, Gloo's been to a couple good times. - No, that. - It's been longer than 12 years. It's been longer than that. - He was not. - He had a part of it. - Yeah, long time T-shirt, okay. For sure. - Yeah, well, have he won it? - Yes. - I don't think so if you just do the quick math. - He's longer than 12 years. I gave the wrong number. He was around six. - Okay. - Might have won a Super Black for that. - Pre-RCA dough. - Yeah. - He ages well. - Gloo and crap. - His name's blue. I mean, let's get a little more creative. What are we doing? - Jesus, dude. - What are you, what are you doing? - Created the character. - Yeah. - He'd call him blue or white. We got two options at it. What are we doing? - I can't call him white. - I don't know. - I'm in Indiana. - We would call him Mr. Creme Pie. - Can't do that either. - I guess that's what he invented. - He is a Creme Pire now. I will say he's Creme Pire. - Whoa! - He was on Creme Pire. - Creme Pire in the face. Creme Pire. - Get them all. - Creme Pire. - Anybody can get it. - Did one preseason game. - People just walk and stand there like this. And then somehow I guess you have a good aura whenever you're about to get Creme Pire. Because everybody kind of flinches right beforehand and then boom, he gets them. And they never move. - No. - He's so good at it. He's sneaky. - Yeah. - He's sneaky. - Sneaky blue. - What do you want him to be called? AJ, you have any names? - I don't know. I mean, steal it. He's like something like that. Something a little more involved. - Blue has like 245 appearances a year. Okay. - He dominates every single one. - Steeley McBeam should be taken from blue. Not the other way around. - Steeley said he sounds a little lazy. - Well, now he's stealing his full-time job at the mill. And then on Sundays he goes down to the field and represents for this guy. - He might be able to get an interception. - Thank you. - On Sunday. - That's the beam in his head? - Yes. - That's who he is. - Yeah. - He's superienter. Steeley McBeam. - Big Mike could bring him back, for sure. Big Mike's bringing him back. - What if they have-- - First question, Big Mike lead the team up together. - That's what I'm saying. Because they have a terrible towel twirler. - What's this thing? - Brett Michaels. - What the hell is stealing McBeam? - What the hell is this thing? - What's your deal? - Get him in here now. - What's this guy's deal? - Imagine him asking what he can do. Like, what can you do? - I'm talking to me. - Talk to me, bud. We're trying to communicate. - It's stealing McBeam doesn't talk. So it's tough. I didn't talk to him. It's handlers. Handlers have a bunch of ideas. - What the hell? - What is that? - What is that? - That's what it is. - That's what it is. - I don't know. - Oh, that's a good story. - I've never seen this. - He works every day at that. - Oh, my God. - This is here? - I don't know how to do this anymore. - It's a music commercial. - I don't want to do this anymore. - Oh, there's his dad. - This is Tim Robinson. Take this off. - Carl has. - He knows. - He knows again, dad. - Look at him though. Every step forward takes you closer. - That's the guy from Hank Gilmore. - Is that Hanky McHinds? - Yeah, what's his dad's name? - Julien McBeam. - Julien McBeam. - Second. - Yeah. - Metal McBeam. - Hey, Julien takes his nut from Bertis. So I got to understand this. - Oh, good one. You were thinking about that one. - No. - He's only come together though. Pretty good. I don't know when he started. Stealing McBeam though, still doing it. Let's remember that represent Best Boss We Can. And Baloo. - He's not doing it. - He's in Hall of Fame. I think Blue's in Hall of Fame. - Who's? - Yeah. - The Coltrigg of Otter? - Yeah, he probably is in the Coltrigg of Otter. - Okay. See, that's what the internet does. - What the hell is that? - He's in a mascot Hall of Fame. - You want a Super Bowl, too, though? - Exactly. - Where's that one? - So he came after Super Bowl and then we-- - Have not won it since? - No, he won. He was there. - We should check his origin story. Because he came after the Super Bowl. - That's why you lost Super Bowl. - And then you lost Super Bowl and they have-- - No, I didn't lose shit. The team I was on lost. I was just lucky to be there. Let's make sure that is known. I do not have my name mentioned a lot. - Kick off? - My day was pretty cool. - Was Blue there for that? - He fucked it up. - Definitely was. - Wow. - Let's get to a break. - Blue. - I was very lucky to be on those teams. And I think Blue thinks the same way about the Coltrigg. I think he has pretty good rules. I think he's got good rules. Spread. I think Blue has really-- - He started like a 17-year-older thing. - He started like a 17-year-older thing. 85 now. - I want to Auburn, I think, which has a mascot school. - Of course. - From my understanding. - Where are you going? - I think they got a lot of the mascots that you see are coming out of Auburn's mascot school. And then created and then started. But Coltrigg was a Super Bowl champs in 2006. The same year, the Blue started. - Yeah. - So maybe Blue brought a Super Bowl at the time. - We gotta see. Did he come after-- - Oh. - I love him out there. - The Coltrigg won the Super Bowl in Blue's first season. - Okay. - Okay. - There we have it. - So let's back-- - Do you have anything to say? - Any video evidence? Any video evidence of Blue anywhere near the Super Bowl or anywhere near the celebration? - Is that what it's going to take for you to back off? - Maybe. - Maybe, yeah. - Sounds like Blue should be the fucking GM. - That's what it sounds like. - Yeah. - Longest 10-year Colt. Blue. - Well, you also got the equipment lads. - Sure. - And the training room lads. - And they probably would give Blue the-- - I don't think so. - The cosine to get up into the front off. - I don't know. I don't know. I think everybody's all aboard the Coltrigg train this year that's in that building. I think everybody feels good about where we're at. Daniel Jones-Bullen. Alex Pierce is back. Keenan Allen, not giving up the number-- not getting the number 13. - Don't know of that. - Not at all. - But Keenan Allen was found inside of his car while intoxicated. So he gets charged with a-- - Sure. - Operating while intoxicated. So he's not allowed to say he wants the number 13. - Okay. - Because you immediately got into trouble. As soon as you got to the city, it doesn't matter if you're a first-bound Hall Famer or not. That's kind of how that all goes, I think. - A consecutive starter at quarterback in week one for the first time in what? 10 years? - Let's go Colt. - That's huge. - And guess who's back? - Oh. - Blue. - All right. - And my change of life we're back on the other side. Take-- - Fight! - Fight! [MUSIC PLAYING] - Absolutely best. That's AJ Hawk, the toxic tip is here at Boston Conner, and at Thai Schmidt, great to have you back, Thai. - Great to be back here. - You are a styleie, Paul. - Thank you. - Thank you very much. - On every saw, Tony had picked up the toxicity as he sang your seat for a couple of days. It felt like he felt it a little bit. I hope you felt our love to you and everybody else. One half of the hammer, down. Cowboys, AP, Tony's here. Tony, what's the spread tonight? What are we looking at? Obviously, Mike Norvell, a lot to do this year for FSU. And then lastly, still on an incredible build of this SMU squad that is normally pretty high-powering, fast pace on the offensive side. Definitely, this ACC battle, what should we be looking at as SMU are three point favorites? - Yeah, it's actually ticked down to two and a half. - Oh, which is interesting because all of the money is on SMU. A lot of the, as far as the public perception right now, SMU is high and Florida State is low coming off the last couple of years. Kevin Jennings, the quarterback for SMU has been really, really good. They have already named a athletic facility at SMU after Kevin Jennings. I don't know if he's the first athlete. - What? - Yes, they have already named a facility after Kevin Jennings. - A lot of records broke. - Yeah. And he hasn't even finished his senior season there yet. So that's sweet. - That's what we like to call a bit of a trap line in this situation, even though Retlashley said this week that he has no idea why they're the favorites. He would expect them to be seven to 10 point underdogs coming in tonight. FSU has already played a game this year. They didn't look great last week, but we will see you here in their ACC debut for these two teams. - Are we expecting points or not? - I took the over for SMU points. They have obviously, like I just said, have Kevin Jennings and they return a lot of offense, but they do not return a ton on defense. And Florida State's defense didn't look incredible last week. They couldn't get any pressure against New Mexico State. I think that's who it was either New Mexico or Mexico State. So yeah, I'm expecting points tonight. - 54 and a half, I believe is now the current line. It was 53 and a half when shows started. It goes up a point. The spread goes down a half a point. Interesting numbers as week one of college football season wraps up with Florida State SMU. Nine year NFL Vett Darius J Butler is here. - Yes, sir. - D-Butch, it was great to have football back. It was great to see Stutz. Was there any defenses across the college landscape that deserved to be talked about a little bit more than maybe they were? How about what LSU's defense was able to do? And what was going on with the blocking there, Clemson? - I don't understand. I was shocked. I honestly expected a decent game. I expected a Clemson at least to be in it in the fourth quarter. But we expected LSU defense to be good. It kept the defensive coordinator had returned a bunch of players. But I mean, they just looked horrible on that offense. Like they haven't practiced. Obviously, your name's just starting quarterback at the 11th out of you. You bench them, then you go back to them. But if you can't block them up in the trenches, you can't get anything done. And it looked like for both quarterbacks, just like it was 13 guys on defense that they were facing. Those white jerseys moving so fast, the environment. I mean, they were unbelievable right now. Obviously, you know, reset. He will have them as their number one team right now in the power rankings. It's hard to disagree with them coming out, hitting the ground running week one like they did. - They were big, strong and fast. They've received one-third of practice. I believe on Thursday, and he came up to me. He was just like, oh, I'm like, what's that? He goes, that practice, I just watch from LSU. He was like, they are so big, so fast. Everything is just so everywhere. He said, you see, freaks everywhere. Every single position, they got guys. And it's not just one guy. There's two guys at every single position. He was like, I don't know how you beat him. I don't know how you beat this team. He was actually multiple times said that. And Stanford see if it gets a chance and does, thankful that he does this. He goes and watches these practices for all of us. He gives it, that is literally what he's doing. And we appreciate him. He spends a lot of time doing a lot of this stuff for a lot of other people to be good at their jobs. So we appreciate the hell out of them. But he was drooling over LSU's practice. Just like so excited to watch what they were. And he on his pick, he said, he picks Clemson to cover. And as soon as he said that, I actually looked at him and I'm like, man, you're the one that swayed me. You're the one that swayed me and to think that they were gonna kill. 'Cause everything else I'd been reading about this LSU team and then the Clemson team. It was like everything that we worked on, you put together, everything that we've been talking about. It's like every position was like, they got an answer. They got an answer, they got an answer, they're faster, they're faster, they're bigger. They got more experience in the quarterback. I mean, Trinidad Chambers Cannon. Absolut Cannon, fun to watch. - It's so great throws last time. - Unbelievable, bucket, bucket shot. There was another one for the field goal where he puts it on a line for like 35 yards. If you fell asleep, you missed an electrifying finish to Ole Miss Louisville and Apple right there. That's getting field goal ranked basically. An absolute hose and then they get a 48 yard field goal from, I mean, look at that ball. That spiral, absolutely tight, on a dark runner's ball. He is, he's a weapon. Trinidad Chambers, he was a Ferris State, okay? So Ferris State, obviously, he won the Heisman for D, whatever that is. - He too good. - Then he gets into Charlie Weiss Jr. and Lane, that's the one to get in the field goal or to keep the chains moving or whatever. He plays great in big moments. He has an incredible arm. He can move. Everything you see Trinidad Chambers do, we know, great kick here by Karnero, by the way. He missed one early, he pulled one, very abnormal for him. Every time we watch him kick live in person, he had a pure ball, I mean, just an absolute pure ball. But if you look at just strictly what Lane, Kiffin and Charlie Weiss Jr. were able to do with Trinidad Chambers in Ole Miss. And I'm not saying that Trinidad wasn't his own talent and everything. If you were to pair him with Sam Levitt, it's like Sam Levitt can do everything that Trinidad can do. And he's already taken a team to a CFP by himself with Skataboo at Arizona State. So I was really eager to see Sam Levitt in a Lane Kiffin offense with all the weapons that they have. So I thought LSU was going to win, not in a dominant fashion. But then whenever Steve comes and tells me, they got him out, because I thought they're limited at the top. I thought like roster, like a crust on a cake. I thought it was really good. And then everything was going to be soft underneath it. And he was like, nah, everybody's unbelievable. And it's like, he swayed me in the thing and they were going to kill him. I thought he had a 40 or 50. This is what I was debating in between in the moment when I was talking there. Went with 50 just because it sounded a little bit more dramatic, I guess. Should have stuck with 40, but it felt like obvious after Steve told me they looked the part. They certainly did. They certainly looked the part across the board. Me and Gumpy got to be there taking a knee in the end zone. So we don't block everybody's view. Then we're told by Miss Princess Erica at halftime or at the end of first quarter that we're going to have taken in. We say, hey, we've already done it. We respect these people. The people that are in the stands, they've been drunk for 13, 14 hours. They're waiting there in unbelief. But we got to see it. And from our perspective, they were giants, man. They all look the part. Oh, yeah. Jordan Seaton's, he was unbelievable, left tackle. Straight out of Colorado. Good transfer. How's he going to do? Great. There was obviously bobble deflection, interception early. But that was basically the only time they were stopped. And anytime Sam needed to get the edge or get a run, he did. I think I forgot how fast he was. It was-- there were problems, it's crazy to be like, is that unless you're going to win the fucking national championship? And it got hard SEC, obviously, as you see is difficult. They want perfect this weekend, by the way. SEC had a perfect weekend. So there's going to be a lot of conversations about that as we get afforded about who has a deeper conference and everything like that. But it's hard not to think that after watching them do what they just did to Clemson. Yeah, because all the bullshit that was happening off season with the pros and the court case, you forget that Lane Kiffin is the hell of a ball coach. Now, you think about the quarterback, you think about these high-powered offense when you think Lane Kiffin, but he always wins in the trenches. That's how he builds his team, the rank game, the trenches. And then looking at them, but on the flip side, you're talking about these defenses, LSU great. Where he left, Ole Miss, I was surprised at their defense throughout that game, especially down the stretch with Paul Golden being the defensive guy. How the guys were running wide ass open from Louisville. And yet, they have talented receivers. Obviously, they're telling the play-caller head coach, talented quarterback, but I did not expect them to give up 38 points against that Louisville team. Yeah, Golden has some of the latest things to say afterwards. I think he understands that as well. They've got a huge one here in a couple of weeks. Not that every game is an important, but LSU traveling into Oxford, Lane traveling in there. They look like they're mid-season form right now. Ole Miss still has some stuff to figure out, but they're taking on a very good Louisville team, Braum, one at Purdue. Yeah. The guy that's a head coach at Louisville was winning at Purdue. So this guy is an actual coach. College had a spectacular weekend. Obviously, the LSU dominance at prime time. Midday though, Baylor, Auburn came down to a two-point conversion. Nine seconds left. You scored a touchdown. You could tie. Go for two. What a tackle. What a tackle. The decision was made by Oranda and Baylor and DJ Lagoa's quarterback after scoring a touchdown. Sick drive, great comeback, wonderful game. Do you go for two or do you kick the extra point? Everybody I was with, which was Des Ries, Joey Gumpsch. You name it. Red the whole crew, as we were waiting to do our show. Go for two. Go for two. Got to do it. You got a chance here. Half inch, D-butt. What do you think? I'm in unbelievable. If you pause this play, when he caught the ball, I would have bet $10 million. Look at this. Usually on defense, too, D-butt. Yeah. The pre-snap. They got them there. Mazzacca where they want to pre-snap as well. Got the edge. Just two-point play. Anytime you're in that low red area. Any defenders thinking, sprint, right? Option. You give the quarterback a two-head. You got an option to run it. You got an option to throw it. You have the leverage. You beat them. It stopped, and we always talk about defending every blade of grass, and this will be played, you know, on repeat in that defensive meeting room. I mean, it's an unbelievable finish. Great tackle left. No doubt the goal line. Just a great, great play for winters. That man's name is Eric Winters. He tackled Matthew Kloppenstein. Okay. You're a baler. Classic. Great comeback by DJ Lagway and baler cut off short, incredible tackle. And then after you see it, you watch it live, you're like, he had to have got it. He had to have gotten it. They go to the replay. Wow! What a finish and what a start to the golech era down there in Auburn. Yeah, and for Winters 2, I think on the touchdown he was the guy that was covering the inside slot because they kind of did a similar thing where he couldn't get around to the wide receivers. Then they scored that touchdown that next play. Obviously he kind of I don't know if he learned anything from it, but he got around on the second one and made that tackle. How about a blocked kick to win a game? That happened in week one. It's Colorado. Thursday. Beach Georgia Tech on a block kick after having a late comeback, Ju-Ju Lewis's first start back in his home state of Georgia ends with Colorado beating Georgia Tech and Colorado pounding the rock and stopping the ride. Hey, they were pounding the rock. They were actually playing big boy, tough football, and I appreciated them all saying, I thought we're soft. I thought we're soft because we even said, how are they going to stop Justice Haines? How are they going to stop Georgia Tech who's just going to want to pound him in his new era? He didn't believe it, didn't know if it was going to happen. Watching that game unfold, it's like, wow, Colorado looks different than they've ever looked before. This is a different style than they've ever really had before. And they just beat Georgia Tech on the road in prime time. What a start for prime in another year to try and to win that Colorado. Of course. What do you mean? What do you mean? I sound like a question. Well, I just don't know what the standard or how we should talk about this. Colorado, I think since he's got there, has a lot of hype, but the expectations have never been like, they're going to win the national championship. It was like, hey, they're building a program, building a program, building a program, selling out stadiums. They are the show. What is it? How should we be talking about? Colorado. I mean, we talk about an NFL year, all 32 teams going into the season and have this idea within their building like, hey, we can go and win a football. We take care of our business, blah, blah. We know from the outside looking in, it's like, okay, maybe it's eight to ten teams that can actually do it. It's kind of the same thing with Colorado, but you got to play and win what's on your schedule. And this is a great, great start, a completely new identity every time we look at him, it's a, hey, they're too small, they're too little to that. And then you look at this team that they got absolutely ran over last year. It's kind of similar to the redemption of the revenge that Bella check got week one against TCU. So we saw Bella check, we saw Prime, and now he gets this win. I love the juju, you know, he ever running the ball, obviously kind of keeping him out of harm's way. So making this greed, making this throw, that was a great route by the tight end as well. And then we were talking, we talk about it probably more than any show, the operation with the field goal blocks. We talked about him, you know, Vinny going to Hall of Fame and, hey, what's that time? It's a 1.2 seconds of this. We talk, who can block it? See the regard, the middle out and forget what it was at this game, where it's six nine guy. Yeah, right up the block the game and then him coming off the edge, getting there, making this block to win this game in a walkoff fashion, man. The type of energy is puts into a locker room, you know, just to prepare you throughout the rest of the season. Unbelievable. So, yeah, I think definitely, you know, I don't get the same eyes without your door and Travis Hunter there, even Jordan Seaton, you know, going on to let you, but you got to build this program kind of from the ground up and you talk about the halves and the halves knots. I think Colorado will still kind of be in that half knots conversation. Yeah. And you talk about building it from the ground up prime kind of switched his NIL approach this year. He was going for five stars and four stars that didn't work out and bring him into the program and that hadn't worked. This year, he kind of went with more of guys who were proven kind of like, has SIG has done in the portal and other successful teams have done in the portal where they go for production, maybe not so much upside their proven calls for football players instead of, hey, like this could be the best football player in the world. It seems to have worked out week one so far. Boo Carter on the block there of Aiden Burr. What a start to the season for them. And yeah, if you find your guys, you know, your culture, not scared to adapt. I like that at a coach prime, especially with how the off season went. Let's head up to West Virginia, Morgan Town. They're retired Pat White's 5th. There you go. That was cool. That was pregame. Right before the game kicked off, they celebrated coach Pat White for what legendary player, all American, all everything Pat White did back whenever he was playing. I was so lucky to be a teammate of his. He was red-shirted, so he was one year above me in the recruiting class. But I came in, played immediately and got to ride his coattails to so many massive moments. I mean, just things that I did not deserve to be a part of. I was a part of because him and Steve Slayton and Owen Schmidt and the entire crew across the board were so good at football. So I'm very thankful for Pat White. I'm very thankful for West Virginia retiring the 5th because obviously his professional career did not work out exactly how we at all hoped it would have worked out. Both in baseball and in football. If he was like 10 years later, I have no idea what his NFL career would be. I mean, you can go ahead and put that as just a bottomless bowl of success. We're a bit top-by-pick. Yeah. Just ahead of his time, incredible teammate, incredible leader was great for the state of West Virginia. What you see of that stadium right now is not what it looked like before Pat White got there. What the locker room looked like before Pat White got there and after Pat White got there. What the university looked like before and after Pat White got there. Everything that he kind of brought to that state warrants, I think, the retirement. And I'm happy he got celebrated. I'm happy he got celebrated. Yeah, you talk about being lucky to be his teammate. I was very unlucky to be his opponent every year in that Big East. And I saw that he was the only quarterback to start and win for bowl games. Just unbelievable. What that offense was. Every year, teams that played Navy, it was like, okay, this is the one week we're trying to assimilate into practice. Just something you never see. That rich Rod and what he had with the offense with Pat White slating in the offensive line, it was just something that off of video game. He was so fast, so explosive. And then as soon as you were locking and having eight nine guys committed to run, boom, he'll put it over top of the head to Darius Ray and all the somebody. So he was just an unbelievable player. It seemed like he was an unbelievable teammate. So I'm glad they honor him. I'm glad, you know, he's still in the program, a part of the program as well. But I love seeing guys like this get their flowers. Every McCord, he put out a tweet like, yeah, I was definitely on that tribute video. Any defender in the Big East was definitely on there multiple times. I'm sure. Yeah, he was fun to watch, man. And obviously I was kicker and punner. I was going out on the field pretty much every single time. I was very lucky to be on a team that Pat White was on. And yeah, I mean, that was my real introduction to the football world and it was like just watching these two dudes. Okay. Okay. I think we're pretty good. I feel like we are pretty good. AJ, was this style much in the big tent for us? I think whenever we would play a team that was like very fast. Like we were a very fast team. I don't know. Oh, yeah. We trained speed. Barrow has had us working, we were trying to be a very fast team. But if we happen to run into a fast team, it felt like they were able to reach with us. They were a penetration was able to happen. Big 10 football, you know, Rich Rod goes up to Michigan. I think he, if you were to ask him, if he had another couple of years and got his people in there, I think he thinks they would have done well anywhere, goes Arizona, Jacksonville State, back at West Virginia. And we kind of have a similar thing right now with Hawkins a quarterback. He was a starter. Obviously we get out to a great camp, cook our running back. First play of the game, this felt like Noo divine Steve Slate. This is the first play of the game, 15 minutes left on the clock right there. This guy just gets the ball. First conference USA player of the year last year transfers into West Virginia from Jacksonville State. First time he touches the ball for West Virginia is a 72 yard run or something like that. It was like, wait, this does feel kind of like it used to be back in the day. Rick trickets back on the offensive line, coaching them. We got a couple highest recruits. I think we've signed in some time or offense alignment that are playing at a very young age. And Carolina obviously gave us a little bit of a test in the second half. But we start out and it felt good. Do you think this style of offense will always be able to work, AJ? If you have the right people, and why do you think Pat White was so successful back in the day? Yeah. I mean, the offense can absolutely work. Well, you mentioned though, if you have the right people, like we know when you have dynamic playmakers that have just unbelievable speed and vision and everything, it makes it's always going to be tough for a defense to stop them. But going back to Pat White, like, when I think of West Virginia, I think a guy is like Pac-Man, Pac-White, Slate, and I think of those guys putting them on the map and thinking I never was able to actually-- actually, I'm very lucky that I didn't have to play against Pat White because that's an absolute nightmare, especially as a linebacker, thinking like, if you ever play man coverage, like, I feel like I can never play man coverage against a guy like Pac-White. I know I can't beat you with this arm. But the second I turn my back, he's going to turn-- he's going to pick up that ball and he's going to run for a 65-yard run on me and it's going to be an absolute backbreak of your coach is going to kill you and your whole defense is going to turn on each other. That's kind of how it goes when you play a guy like him. Yeah, he did demoralized teams. You kind of see it right in front of your eyes. I didn't even think about it from your perspective where everybody's blaming everybody else. So that's-- And everyone does their job too. Man, I have my-- you know, I got to-- I got to do running a 4-4. I'm running with them down the seam. Everyone's covered and then I don't have to say, like, wait, how'd they score? My back was turned. This dude just ran right up my back and it ran to the end zone and when you do that, you're right. It is, like, it's demoralizing for a team because you're like, what else can we do to get this guy on the ground? Coach, you're so-- you're talking about players. And the conversation is that you just never heard on a football side. Like, yeah, talking to D-Line, hey, when they snapped the ball, just run sideways. All right. We're just-- I've never heard that since I've been about penetration, moving the line and scrimmage. But with those guys, they would go kind of sideways lateral and then, you know, everybody runs a version of a RPO. Now, if you're a satchee quarterback, you do that. But Pat White, it was always like-- and he would hold it like-- so he's riding. So if you're a D-Line, and a linebacker, like AJ's talking about, you're right with 10 and then five pulls and he's gone, or five pulls it, and then 10's going to complete opposite way. Everybody's going this way and 10's out of the gate. So, yeah, it's an absolute nightmare. And then we had Owen. Yeah. And we had Owen. Yeah. Run away. We're on a track, bro. Yeah. He was-- he was handling like 590-- I forget what the number was. Whatever the case was, the bar was bending completely, hitting the ground. Two months. Never seen anything like it before. It was a bouncer at West Virginia, a semester before he got on the team. He was a walk on out of Wisconsin Whitewater, I think. Great program. It was-- Wisconsin White-- yeah, it was Wisconsin Whitewater. Played great. I think he was-- uh Virginia high school goes out to Wisconsin whitewater. There may be the only ones that gave him an opportunity. Then decides he wants to walk on at West Virginia 'cause seeing like the Ritchard offense and getting back closer to home, I think is the origin story. Doesn't have a chance to try out whenever he gets there. So he's working at a bar as a bouncer. Good luck. I mean, honestly. - Because you don't have any people. - Oh my god. You go into the wrong bar, just stir some wrong shit and then that guy's standing behind you just in the absolute, his head. - That button in your head. - His head is just what it is. You know, then he gets to West Virginia and he gets on the football team. And in Barrow's his weight room, this guy was lifting all of the weights. Like we took a lot of pride in how we worked and Boris obviously kicked our ass on a regular basis. And I say hour 'cause I was just lucky to be in there alongside of it and unlucky to be in there as well on certain mornings that were just an absolute nightmare. But like what this dude did in the weight room and his story about betting on himself and going forward, it's like he was unbelievable. Just an absolute unbelievable athlete who would run through your face. I mean, and was looking to do that and could also punt. You know, he's a great athlete, and he missed his first start. He got drafted to see how to see Hawks late. He missed his first start because as they introed him and the thing, he took his helmet, which he had done 10,000 times before and bashes the helmet off his forehead. Place goes absolutely ape shit obviously. And then he just keeps trying to obviously bust bash open, leave it there. They're gonna have to seal that before. Yeah, we got the ball first. Six out of a draw. I think he missed first play of, yeah, here he is. Bang, bang, bang, bang, I mean, yeah, yeah. We're gonna have to fill that one in there. I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, I mean, he had done that 10,000 times, I would say, in his life he was. So you got him, could run your ass over. Your hand was fast. You got Steve Slayton, who was fast fast. I mean, like track star fast. And then Pat White is available. And then, oh yeah, if not that, we'll dump it to Darius Reynaud. Tito Gonzalez, booby miles going deep as well. It was, it was fun to watch. That was my introduction of football. That was basically my introduction of football full time. That fucking locker room was awesome. What a cast of characters in there. Richard's back, baby. Yep, let's go. We need that first half. Keep it going, yeah. We need it first. We need some covers. Right. I believe more people will like it. - What's that? - What's that? - What's that? - Doing. ESPN Classic footage, something like that. I mean, Reggie Bush the second, you know, Tito Ayhill and son. - Tito Ayhill and son. - Boy, Wisconsin. - Wisconsin. - Jesus, if it dies, you're like your son. - I'd say that LSU. - Yeah, very fit. - We are old, bro. We are old. And that film of us, damn, you're unwatching this crazy. - Yeah, it makes my eyes hurt. - Yeah. - I mean, another day he's got Larry Fitz's kid and Jerome but his kid. - Michael. - Yeah, plus his kid. - You know, it's only a matter of time. Baby modest son somewhere. So we gotta enjoy every moment. We gotta enjoy every first. Like James Franklin. He's first. (singing in foreign language) They're entering a sound demand with Metallica down there. As James Franklin, in the Virginia Tech Hokies, take the field for the first time in this particular era. Now, obviously, a lot of people chitchat and about what James Franklin can bring there. Look at that place. Look at that place. We've had the opportunity to be down there whenever we were on the bar stool tailgate show. We did a Virginia Tech game down there in Blacksburg. We stayed in another town that had a saloon we went to. I mean, we had this place. - It was so fun. - This place is out in the hills. This place is bought into everything. I am a huge fan of the Virginia Tech culture. And if James Franklin can bring them back to the national forefront, and if game day can get down there, man, it would be so sweet. Now, long road, obviously, try to build an entire organization. But can you do that if you get the right transfer portals? Like he brought some guys in from Penn State. Obviously, you have a lot of experience, start. You have an incredible fan base. You have the ACC now as opposed to the big 10 conference and schedule. What a realistic expectations for James Franklin and Virginia Tech Town. That's their over under. - I believe it's seven and a half. Preseason was seven and a half, I believe. They dominated a week one. It wasn't even close. And like when you look at their schedules, it's really not bad at all. They're going out to cow, which will be tough. They have to go to SMU in Miami, which, but those are all later in the season. This could be a team that could be, you know, four, five, and oh, to start. They got to go. They host Pitt and Mason Heichel, who had seven touchdown passes this weekend. So that'll be their first probably real test after Maryland and BC, who are a little bit farther down in the ACC schedule. But seven and a half, I like them to go over that number this year, just because of everything they did bring in or bring in. I like what they have down there. 'Cause, you know, Franklin's weakness is top five teams, and they're only going to play one of those this year. - There you go. - Shout out, not a bad plan. If you have any Achilles heel, stay away from it. - Yeah. - Just go ahead and walk the other way. - D-butt, you know where bam, ni, ni, ni, ni, ni, ni, ni, - Tyler. - What's up? - Tyler. - Oh, yeah. - Okay. - Good pull. - Hell yeah. - Is that a best interest in ball? - That's C. I'm thinking. - It's out there. - It's very cool. - I'm gonna be honest, I was down there with LSU. - That one. - That was awesome. - I'm leaving. - I mean, all these are incredible. I don't know how you judge them against each other. I guess you get a judge buy-in from crowd. Virginia Tech, everybody is in. - Yeah, they're all so good. A&M, Tennessee's great. - A&M is awesome. A&M is so power, right? - Yeah, Kanye. - He's doing-- - Yeah, that shit looks awesome. - Elco's the fucking man. - Well, it's not Kanye. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - It's not so many quotes from it. Yeah, Kanye's all the way back. - Yeah, it does feel like it's all the way back. - Yeah, he's all the way back, but Elco too. Like, I'll be excited to see him this year. - Yeah. - Have we seen him? - He looked pretty trim. - Oh! - And the video's eye-woked. - If you saw him at the press conference table, he looked trim. - If you saw him on the side, mine still brings. - Football season. - Yeah, I think Elco. Elco is evidently just football. - Where that big tarp-- - Yeah. - What a perfect tarp. - It's got a tarp. - Him walking down with the boys. It's a hoodie, thank you. - Gee. - I love Elco. Not a lot of talk about Texas A&M. - They fucking dominated, though, after half time. The Michigan, I mean, I know Underwood took a lot for the Michigan kind of antics. The lights changing from, you know, gold or mate, to maize or whatever, going to soak that. - That I thought was really, really cool. And that's the one thing A&M has as well, is the lights. Virginia Tech, they got the song and everything, but that tunnel's just an old-school tunnel. Like the actual LED lights and some of these tunnels are next love. - Yeah, I was-- - Bama. - Very lucky to be down there at LSU this past weekend. Gumpy, that place was alive, that place was alive. Torrential downpour, okay? Not a lot of coverage. Torrential downpour on everybody outside the stadium. While everybody outside the stadium is being told to leave, I'll go find cover. So the fact that they filled that place up still, after hour and a half, the lays, two-hour delays, with what was happening weather-wise throughout the day. I think it was really special. In the way that all dried up the field, I guess they have an irrigation system that is like very good for the field. It didn't appear to be super sloppy, even though the rain was absurd. And that place was packed out third quarter. There was a, maybe it was second quarter. Lil Wayne, a milley, whole place, blacked out lights, light show for coming in. And I believe that's a part of it. Like I think Lane lights this-- - Oh, yeah. - Like, hey, let's do show. - Yeah. - I'll tell you, it's worth being there. It was worth experiencing. So hot. - Sure, I mean-- - So hot. - That was awesome though. - It was-- - I think everywhere this weekend too, that's why it's hard to maybe like, you know what I mean? Shit, Texas, Texas State, they said people, like during the game, there's that picture of all the people sitting in the concourse because it was just so fucking hot. I know like Iowa, they said, with the, how hot the turf was, it was like 115 degrees on the field. Like, so a lot of those games, it's like how much of that goes into it too, where it's like, it's too humanly hot to be playing football. - USC last week. - Yeah, exactly. - Hey, listen, that heat ain't nothing to fuck with. My jacket. - Yeah, no, you do exactly. - Yeah, Peter Schrager called out immediately upon seeing the picture that it was a Wu-Tang symbol on my back right there. And what an honor it is for Chateau Wu-Tang. But yeah, it was really hot. So once, Chate stand for Steve telling me, by the way. Okay, so obviously you don't see your back. Everything was sticking to me since the beginning. So I didn't know when it was gonna happen, but in the front it wasn't going through the jacket. And I just put this jacket on, shout David Allen. I cut the tag off at 20 minutes before I go. I've seen that thing for like 30 minutes, baby. So I put that thing on, David Allen literally just sends me jackets, I put them on, I appreciate him doing that. So I haven't seen my back. Steve comes up to me and goes, hey, you're back. And I'm like, what, we got like a little run. He goes, no, no, no, it's the most of the back. He's the one who took this photo. He goes, turn around, I'll take a picture for you. And I take it and I look at it, I go, ooh, geez, that's everywhere. So that was early in the show. We still had another hour and a half, two hours left to show at this point. So the next time we go down out to the crowd, crowd was spectacular. Next time we go out to the crowd, I ask him, I go, hey, is my back still wet? They go, what, I go, is my back still wet? And they go, what? And I turn around and hear him go, oh, like literally. Like everybody yelling about it. So it was a little bit of a scene down there with how hot it was. It wasn't the only scene. Did you guys see Eastern Michigan? You know what they say, run through a brick wall? They're actually doing that. Okay, coach got to talk him up big time, water pressure on coach to get them to want to run through a wall of bricks They certainly took the sledgehammer knocked off the edges a little bit left about half an in middle run around sides You kind of get the point now was it the coach talking to the Eastern Michigan folks or was it Joey? Josh chestnut what yeah hot dog eating American icon Joey chestnut made appearance with the emus and had a doughnut eating contest with the Lads to kick off the season fun fact about this it feels like America kind of all the way back because the American icon was asked not only to visit Emu whenever they run through the brick wall day before they said hey wants to come to Illinois Matter of fact the last yeah Joey Josh test dogs kind of coming into lock rooms letting him know that American greatness is upon us And we could potentially do that ourselves out on a football field. AJ. How do you feel about Joey jaws to and I want a weekend? Obviously done on eating contest happening down there at Eastern Michigan and obviously the brick wall situation that happened before the game I love everything about this I would assume that Joey chestnut is going to be at a one or two coach football games every single Saturday this year, right? He might be the shameless of this year. Yeah every now if he's the shameless But I like that Joey jaws is potentially going in there and say hey, let's see you want to be the best in the world There's certain things you got to commit to okay. Take it from me Joey Josh chestnut. I've won Thousand eating contest whatever the case when you can find inspiration and motivation you certainly take it Joey jaws chestnuts kind of making the rounds as he should be deep. I'm glad he's all the way back And he's still bringing it and you know look. I like these gimmicks, you know, sideline gimmicks. Oh, yes, you know post game locker room Give me try like your toe right now, but that that fucking brick wall. That was the dumbest what another word I won't say on here. That was this was very stupid AJ you're lying through your TV. You don't like this bullshit It's amazing. It's all about grit but it's all if you actually want to throw a brick wall Yeah, if you started from the beginning again, folks the guy on the right the tackle He loses his sledgehammer hits the guy in the middle in the leg Guy in the middle actually it limped on to the field couldn't really move after that He's holding the sledgehammer that took him out there 42 71 loses handle of the sledgehammer hits 42 skipping back there a little bit He grabs it runs around it and says I'm happy. We did this gimmick. We proved the law here sledge to the leg before your first game How do you how do you feel about yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, and oh they lost They lost of course they do look at his bullshit Let's you got fucking the only way this works if you got fucking got like always smit running through They used to have mad Max fucking Jagger, not well. It's a matter was we see yeah, I know That's Matt Max van used to line up in a three-point stance and run through that. I thought they won I thought they won was mad Max van not with Joey Chester So Joey Chester he won in Eastern Michigan did he win an Illinois because I saw a hail Mary So he won so he won they lost that Eastern Michigan. I thought if you see him in the if you see him in the booth with He has the San Jose state shirt on here's the oh really. Okay. Oh god. So he just traveled up to Eastern Michigan because Okay, hang out just watching a game. I like he's just watching a game power and through some mini corn dogs with the boys up into both Let me go ahead and showcase what this garlic can do. I've seen them do a lot of different stuff both with food spicy stuff liquid stuff and alcohol he's Unbelievable. I don't know how he is able to take down the things that he does But that's what happens when he commit to greatness. I'd like to see him in the doughnut. Those are pegs in a blanket. Those are pegs Yeah, yeah many corn dogs. Yeah, yeah 250 What's his workout region? He does his stomach stuff. He does the whole whole Wim hop. Yeah, it's crazy. He's jacked. Yeah, he does. He I don't know if he's jacked, but I think he does exercise some stuff and Smells like hot dog juice just all the time. Oh Well, that's the thing about it is I Think he does He doesn't just puke it all up. No seats from his poor. That shit lives with them That shit lives with them and he has to live with it as well. Go ahead Bruce. He talked about it in this in game Interview I watched the entire thing. He he said that he knows if it's going to be a good or bad experience coming out pretty soon after each hot Hot dog or other food eating content. Yeah, we actually I got a chance to kind of experience that at the Colts game at halftime when he tried when they did the St. Elmo's cocktail sauce You know at halftime of course that's kind of the time you leave the sweet to go use the restroom I wait at halftime just because it's so packed in there So I wait at probably five minutes into the third quarter hashtag hashtag life hack life hack and As I open the door to go to the bathroom I see a guy shut out of a cannon running in front of me to go to the bathroom turns out Joey Joss post All that cost St. Elmo's cocktail sauce. I get in there both stalls are Unfortunately occupied in Joey Joss is in a panic. He bayed on the first door No, nobody's there bait on the second door. Nope. Still sorry man. Someone's in here and you just hear a Hurry up hurry up quick and of course it this was the game I believe and you know, I take I do my business just take a piss and on my way out I hear just a bad just oh And I think at that point Someone realized what was happening and finished up quickly in the stall But yeah, it doesn't just he doesn't just sit in there and it's all hunky-dory. No, it comes out He doesn't throw it up, but he comes down The basement gets flooded we appreciate him battling for the good of our society. I think you know Like I think it's good for our society to be able to see things like that happen because then you can really understand what the body can do Yes, yeah, he takes down way too many dogs to be able to operate every day Especially with what we are told about all this food and what it does to your body And he's just taking in a entire life worth every single time. I love I love the candy paint Okay, I love what happened down in Houston. Okay, and obviously the The rims there class accused and I do believe for my understanding I've never seen anywhere else, but I have driven in Houston a few times and see those things popping out And I think both hilarious and you got to really pay attentioners Yeah, the people driving these need to be better drivers than maybe most of us love the Houston's all-in and bought into the culture and the community and also Maybe starting a new tradition that can lead them to a national championship down there in Houston Yeah, maybe maybe I mean listen, it's cool anytime you can wheel you know a nice vehicle like that on the field I absolutely love it. That is really neat And you imagine what would happen if one of their players would have got their legs, you know, yeah song off or something like that Those things are on the side of like SUVs. Oh, yeah, SUVs take up the entirety of the lane, you know like twisted metal exactly like cars are Built to fit the lanes. Yes, that's why European cars are like smaller because their roads are smaller Down there. I mean, they're gonna have perfect precision It's unbelievable Three spots at least for that the driving is phenomenal with them. I also like the fact that they you know, it's a lot of people can put a little someone on a tailpipe You know we can get a little bit of that. We can certainly put some Hydraulics and this thing make this bitch dance a little bit. We can certainly do that. Where does nobody else really do take these rims and take this? Yeah, yeah point them. Okay, let's let's say I like the innovation. I like Houston's always seemingly ahead of everybody else with everything But for me, I'll be a little bit nervous driving it. Certainly. I think a little bit nervous driving. I don't know if I but that's why I'm not from from Pittsburgh I can't drive that that you got a really you'd be able to What about if there's just That I'm hitting everything if I'm driving that car Everything if you if you even nick someone's tire. Oh, yeah, that thing's exploiting I mean, you know, and then that car is fucking you know, you're causing a 15 car pile up if you I have too much anxiety I think the drive one of those but I do appreciate that they're out there on the roads doing it And I like to use some brought them in to show them to the game. She's what I did. What's that I believe I believe the bison drove a Indy car out of a field what yeah, it was awesome. Oh, you know, Kurt signati actually was a peace car driver for any He was last year. So his relationship obviously with the Indy car family has obviously grown I assume over the last couple of months. I did not know they took an Indy car out onto the field. Yeah, who's your as name? Yeah, right there bison. Mm-hmm. He's new. He's good now. He's old. Well, you brought him back. They brought him back. He's retro And I thought it was AI at first But I'm pretty sure he drove an Indy. He did. I saw that as well. Who's car was a car daily? Here it is right here Mike Schumann at the daily user run out led by Hoosier the bison in an Indy car Okay, I wonder if Hoosier the bison went through Auburn thought amount of driving Indy car look at his right over a player right on the I mean, it's going pretty slow This is the end he was he was going 150 at the beginning peels out here Kind of an old model obviously had those laying around pending for Indy, and I like the idea they better be Oh, yeah, they were That place was rocking as well The environments man college football has them, you know like obviously Patriot Seahawks will be showcasing maybe the best environment at the NFL has So I like that that's happening over there in Seattle my NFC team Love that big one coming up big star. I'll start for your first game as a fan. Yeah, just got kicking off the season That's what my NFC team does, you know what I mean? We need the M. E. M. Warrior to play. That's gonna be good. - Sounds like you're gonna be out there. - Sounds like it. - Chef, it wasn't willing to say that the man flew all the way to Australia. That would be crazy. But maybe all the trainers won over to Australia, so you had to go over there to train. - Oh. - That's a whole nother follow-up. - Oh, yeah. - You did go over there a lot of things beforehand. So maybe all the trainers over there as well that he's training with. So if he was to stay back in train, everybody's over there. But you could leave somebody back to control. - Yeah, he's a pretty important piece. I feel like if they really didn't want him to play, he's not getting on that long flight to go over there. He's certainly not practicing today with zero limitations. I think it's safe to assume that he's probably gonna play. - I think so too. - I don't know how much he's gonna play, but I think it's safe to assume we will see him on the field. - How about the NFC West being celebrated here the opening two nights? That is very real. A lot of incredible teams cannot wait for that to start. Do you think the, well, they could be showcased in a way as well. You never know, if they win a few games, don't let them get out. - Watch out. - They'll let them get hot down there. New Brax facility coming. Remember new era, potentially in Arizona. We shall see. You're gonna have to see it to actually believe it. Do you think McDonald with his tough culture that he's been out there? He would maybe want his equipment manager taking on some, some sheds of some blocks and warm up. This guy is the best. We need him on our team. If somebody's willing to step bang. Get right back into the fire. Yeah, let me get right back in there. Do it again. Do it a good leverage boom. Let me get back up here. Let me go it. Bunch. - Yeah. - Yeah, for the good of the team. For the good of the team. - You think he's in that role next week? - I think what he says, I think he said, hey, don't hold back on me that you guys got to do it. You got to do it. - Oh, the boys are right. - He's in pads next week. - Yeah, I think there's a chance maybe he's playing for the team. Maybe he's on the other side. And they got some story bum there. But him getting right back in there, I would like to say. It's not about how many times you get pancake. It is about how many times you get right back into the same exact spot, standing the exact same way you get pancake again. Shout out to this guy. - Shout out to this guy. (clapping) - Talk about commitment to ball. - Absolute commitment. Commitment to ball, the Urlacker family. Start it Notre Dame. Let's go ahead and transfer. Let's pick up a safety. Fresno State, USC. Who's back here? Boom. Go ahead, get the hell out of here. Thank you. Shout out to the defense making some plays. There's a couple of safeties this weekend, I do believe. - Yeah. - I'll tell you, the defenses that can move are seemingly pretty problematic. That LSU defense, watching Clemson try to get to the edge. And once again, I know I'm just referring to this game a lot strictly because I was there boots on a ground watching. It's hard not to just go from your own personal experiences. Watching them try to get the edge on LSU's defense. It was like, yeah, right. That's never gonna happen. And then the video you showed, feels like potentially LSU is doing something new. - Cool. Wow, that was just a tough play call on the third and long. Okay, and people were killing this guy. Love Tackle. - What guy are you talking about? - The Love Tackle for Clemson. - Who's that? - I want to say his name's Haynes Bryant or something along those lines. I don't know. - I think it's 74. - 74 exactly. - Yeah, I think it's Jacob's. - Jacob's? - Jacob's boy? - Yeah. - Oh, it is. - Oh, yeah. - Well, that sucks because this was not the point. I didn't even say anything about him. It was just the- - Just a corner posted his video. How did you corner? What was your caption? - My caption was bold scheme on third down to run this play 'cause the guy that he's clearly supposed to be blocking is outside, like right there, if you pause at the beginning, the guy's outside of the tight end who's lined up behind him. So he's clearly responsible for that guy way out there. But then because of the way the plate develops that guy doesn't really do a pass rush and then what weeks come through the big gap. It was just one of those things where it's like, man, this guy got screwed by whatever play call this was. - That's not like he wasn't his fault at all. - I think that was a ripple effect of the video going very, very, very, very, very, very, very viral that a lot of people were kind of attacking the player. And I think what you were saying is that was not the intent of the video. - No, not at all. It was just one of those things where you see it and it's like, this is fucking hilarious. This is what they're wheeling out there. Davos Wiener is calling this up, down this up. And that also kind of not in a similar vein with the offense, but the venable stuff that we were talking about kind of before the show about Clemson, like, it might be over for Davos Wiener and Clemson. I think it's just time to accept that when he comes to that team. - And it's last 10 games versus the SEC. Clemson is three and seven out right. Two and eight against number. Negative 88 scoring margin. Minus 88 and a half cover margin. - Means they got fucking blown out. Close the cover of the number. - And then go cut. - Yeah, but that one's tough because that is 30 points just off Saturday night. So have you removed, you know, on average? - Well, and last year. - Oh, George? - Well, yeah, that was two years ago. - Yeah, so 31. - Yeah, I don't fully, I don't know, man, 'cause they were tall. - Well, they're not going the right direction. - Let's do a half pass. - It seems like you have the half of the number. - Like they have. - Their recruiting classes have gone the wrong way as well. - Wiener, the two best quarterbacks. They went from the show in Washington College, who was a great player and then the Trevor Lawrence. Like Kay Kubrick was supposed to be really, really good and kind of continue that, and they never did. Clubson used to be the best. - He beat Bam and Nick Saban twice. - Bingo. - Four years of the National Champion. - Yeah, they were all. - That was a good time. - And they'll always have that. - True. - Dabbo might not have that drip anymore. (laughs) - I forgot. - Great career, tonight. - Some people were coming after me, pretty good. Pretty good, tell me, you know. - Well, you made the pick? - Yeah. - Yeah. - I forgot, you gotta stay off the, yes, stay off the internet on college game day Saturdays. - Yeah, you were right. So, yeah, but that never, it's always the. - No, I know. But, you know, for anyone from Clubson out there, boy, you gotta add guy on your face today, don't you? - Yeah, but they, I think they know. - I think they know now. I think they, that was pretty fucking embarrassing on Saturday night. - So I can stand for Steve, said. (gasps) - Took 'em. How could he do that? - That's because he, he does the stupid gambler thing that we do sometimes where it's like 99% on LSU, and it's 10 points. Can't take LSU. - Yeah, maybe. - I do too. - I was kind of fading the internet. - You did the same thing. - Oh, yeah. - You said, you got kind of, maybe, Swindle or Bamboo? - Yeah, I got, I got, yeah, I got Swindle. I got full, I got some of the bad bill of bullets, but look, I have faith in the coach. I'm like, hey, you know, Lane, all this other outside noise, all these distractions, 48 transfers. How do you get everybody on the same page? That bogey, you know, culture, you know, bunker mentality, you know, by believes in us, but boy, where are you right? - Yeah. - I have one with Wisconsin, too. - Yeah. It was fun to say that at LSU, I will say though. Like, that was kind of a fun thing to do. - Yeah. - That was kind of a fun thing to say. Like, they're gonna win by 50. But I did think was a very aggressive way to start the year. Like, if that is not right, Clemson comes out and wins that one. And you heard me say that to me, like, boy, if they lose that, that was me realizing in real time, and I'm about to get murdered. We got another, what, 13 weeks of the regular season? There's so many things they're about to play out in front of our eyes. Who's gonna get lucky? Who's gonna be able to stay healthy? Who's gonna be able to take it the long haul? We shall see. I believe West Virginia just added a player, or potentially added. - Yeah, so safety from Georgia. - So what's going on? What did he happen? - I believe he was one of the five for five guys that tried out for a team, but never signed an NFL contract, so. - He just went and worked out for it. - Yeah. - Worked out for a team now is at West Virginia. - Yeah. - Boom. - Are we the first teams to sign somebody? - No. - No, Texas did. - Yeah. - Got it, so we're not, the Texas did this. - Correct. - And I, you had some guys play this weekend that never went and even tried out for a team, but they were part of the five for five teams. There's like three different sections. Did you never even go try out? Did you try out? And did you sign an NFL contract? And those are the ones that LSU did not play, but they are there. - Got it. - I think working out is one thing for a team, which is kind of those like, I guess you would say, try out. - Try out. - Yeah. - But training camps more so try out. - Yeah. - So then that goes back to, like others, you know. - It's only, there's the only time. - Well, the flight wasn't such a, we're never gonna deal with this again. - Maybe. - We will. - If it's five for five, that's three. - What if somebody, three years eligible to class with a draft, goes through the entire thing, okay? They still have two years left in the five for five. Are they gonna come back to college? - It's good. - If they're not good enough though to make, if they take three years and they declare for the draft and they're not good enough to make a team or be on that roster, they would probably make more money in college. So they'll stay all five years. - Okay, so let's say four years. A guy starts for four years. He thinks projected to be okay in the NFL. Maybe back half of a draft. Gonna potentially go do this. Ends up not drafted. Goes a, gets signed, undrafted, free agent or whatever. Goes to a place, goes a training camp. That person still has one year left. Gets cut from the end of training camp, right? Trying to make team wants to make team. - Yeah. - Still has one year left. Is he going back? - Probably. - It just feels like the money in college football is so great that, and this is why the draft has become a little more watered down because the guys are just staying in college that if you-- - Back half of a draft, do you think it's staying for five? - Yeah, like you would assume that those guys who are in the back half of the draft now will be those dudes who play five, four years of college. And that's the same thing as the year after that. You know, like those dudes who play four years, no. Hey, I'm gonna make probably two, maybe three times more money staying in college for my fifth year because of how great I'll be. And then next year, I'll hopefully rise a little bit [BLANK_AUDIO] draft. Yeah, it could certainly happen again though. Yes. And I I thought this was the last year for it. And then something was said in the game day meeting. I was like, Oh, I didn't think about somebody after maybe four starting years thinking they're good. Maybe get some wrong information on how they are something happened right before the draft. They do this entire thing. They will they be the ones that do it now. And I guess with the amount of money in college, if you're back half of the draft guy, you're definitely going to want to get all five years of college ball into potentially work your way up. I don't know. I genuinely don't know if there's not rules that say you explicitly can't do it. This is going to happen until they say you can. That's why it needs to be. Yeah. Well, they need to do what the NBA does. That's why we need to pass college sports. The NBA don't do it anymore. Well, the NBA combine. You're allowed to declare go and do the NBA combine. And then there's a two week period after that where like you taught the NBA teams. You get like some maybe realistic expectations. And then you can go back. Yeah, but then there's also G League guys playing. How's that work? Well, I don't understand that aspect of I'm just talking about like declaring from college that going to NFL like in the NBA, if you're a college player, you can declare go and do the combine. And then after the combine, not make it to the draft thing get undrafted, you know, and all that and then decide to go back like legitimately after the combine. That used to be you couldn't sign with an agent. Yeah. Yeah. So you can do that, but you couldn't sign with an agent. But now we got G League guys coming back. Yeah. So like is that still a is that still a thing that we like we always always understood this. But now does it even matter because if they even sign with a G League team, they can still come back. Yeah. Well within the five to five, that would right. Like if they're 22 in the G League, because if your clock starts at 90, I don't know college basketball fucking sucks. So who cares? In comparison. But all these injunctions kind of go with each other, you know, like shit kind of affects multiple things. Football obviously in the forefront of it. It's just it has to be some sort of rules. You know, and I appreciate it getting a chance to talk about the Protect College Sports Act. And there's a bunch of people coming out saying how none of us want against it. It's like because all of us like we have to have something like if you want to rewrite these things cool, but we got to fucking if we're going to make adjustments to things to make them better, cool. Like if you want to talk about what the cap is on the amount of money or how the cap isn't, whatever the case is, more money less money because you want to take away money. Cool. Let's do it. Let's have that conversation. But we need to continue to push something here. And you're like, look at the crowds looking at all this. It's like, yeah, look at the spreads of the games. That's only going to continue of like what's happening and who's going to be where? Well, this continue. It's like at some point we have to decide that we're going to figure something out here, you know, because we're all just kind of kicking a can down the road. And it's like, are we close enough with this Protect College Sports Act to get enough done? Or do we need to scrap this and start three years from now? A lot of really smart people that care a lot say like, hey, this could help at least a little bit. But I guess there's a lot of people saying there's some shit in the back of that that we don't want either. It's like, okay, breaking house leadership is canceling the last two weeks of September. House will be out more recess. What? That's cool. I wish I could when we're in school. I wish I could say you know what, more recess. Yeah, I think there's why this game is fucking football is bad. Yeah, I don't want to do it. You see it up in fucking. Yeah, it really feels like an offseason thing, doesn't it? It's like, well, our offseason is going to be a lot of like election stuff, you know, conversation. It's like, well, I guess we'll catch it the next one, which is kind of the worry. Kind of worry is that this thing's just going to get, you know, and then we're never going to have anything. And then the teams at the top are going to stay at the top and probably go even more. And then they're going to knock out the middle class. You say he's going to knock out. It's going to knock out the middle class. And then it's just going to be feeder system for big schools and other schools. That's just what it will end up being is where everybody's projecting. Then there will there be enough money for, you know, Olympic programs as well, which is a big part of this entire thing, women's sports, like what sports end up getting cut if there becomes a massive financial deficit from all the potential money being spent in one particular sport versus all the other sports, which is happening now. There's no real. So it feels like a lot of chaos. Good luck to everybody has to figure that out. Go get them. Ross Dalinger says this impacts the Protect College Sports Act. The House originally scheduled to be in session for four weeks in September is now scheduled for just two. This means the House would not consider the Congressional bill until it returns in mid November and then what is election season, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's saying it's saying happening. So nothing's not this year. Yeah, but then they say not next year either because that's first. Oh, yeah, no, no, I don't give a shit about this. Well, I don't give a shit about this at all. Who cares? College football is great the way it is, you know, actually is pretty awesome. Exactly, which is kind of the defense of it, but like you said, then that's that's what comes next is the same 12 teams who have all the money make the playoffs every single year and then yeah, maybe these couple of these group of five teams get in, they get their asses beat. And then the middle class kind of just very slowly kind of gets weeded out because a lot of these, you know, even like massive schools and massive conferences, like their athletic departments are operating at a massive, massive deficit. And it's like, how long can you do that? Well, hopefully forever. Yeah, exactly. Hopefully, hopefully it'll be able to last forever because we're incredibly lucky and thankful for all of it. All right, let's get to hell out of here. Let's get back tomorrow. Happy Labor Day, everybody. Happy Labor Day. AJ, do you hear what Shafty said about laboring on Labor Day? No, but I did hear Shafty. He was all up in arms about Rahim missing his birthday on the flight, breaking, breaking, I got a nugget for you, Pat. It turned 50, but he didn't. Yeah, didn't get a chance to experience it. It was a good nugget. It wasn't nugget. Yeah, I stood next to AJ. He showed me that about it. How about it? Hey, Shafty, anything we missed? Yeah, you'll love AJ's past that he even thought about bringing it up. 49ers defense corner Rahim Morris, turned 50 years old Thursday, September 3rd. It also happened to be the day the 49ers flew to Australia, leaving Wednesday, September 2nd and arriving Friday morning the 4th. The 49ers lost today. But Morris loses 50th birthday. Someone told them they're all so cool. God, it's like a leap year, but not really. I don't tweet this out. Need to see the Atlanta Falcons Twitter group what they responded to that because I'm sure it was great. Yeah, I'm sure they had some ideas on whether or not we should be celebrating birthdays. I think Rahim Morris is going to do great at his new gig. I think his 50th birthday is going to be hanging out in Australia for two weeks. How long have they been down a long time? Forever. That's a long time being completely different. You know, Accolimate. Accolimate back here. That's the problem. Like after the game, how do you get back back on track in America? If this goes in, they're all going to get accolimate. Tough game week two as well. Yeah. People were joking about who they have to play week two. That's how they won at Miami. The Niners. They're flying to Miami. I thought it was Miami in San Francisco. Either way, it's a tough game. Oh, he's making them fly to Miami after I'll show you would be quite the decision. No, that's in for him. Yeah. We'll give Miami the furthest they can possibly have for you. Does that make you feel better? All right. If this goes in, everybody's accolimate. Okay. It's pretty big for two teams before the game or are coming back. On the other side. Okay. Oh, did that go in? I think it did. I think it looked like it did. It looked because the net's broken on that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They got accolimate. Yeah. Hey, taclimation. I'm so happy for them. Somebody send that to them. Let them know. It's all good. Don't worry about it. Football gods just told us that that's yeah. Wow. That's not good. I need that. Remember last week, there was a lot of shots going up there. Yeah. Big, big throw stuff. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's trained it. I don't know. What? I mean, I'm going to zoom in too. Actually, could you pull on this wall as well? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe a pause. That one. Yeah. That's a bucket. That's a bucket. Definitely one. Yeah. That's back. Yeah. That went in. That thing turned over too. I'm pretty pumped up about that. Okay. Yeah. All right. Great week one. Yeah. I'm like full acclimation. I'm so happy for the guys. I know. I mean, to the lads out there. Happy that could happen. What's that? You think about last week? Yeah. I've said that. Yeah. Yeah. Born that. But I'm glad to know that we're automated. You gave me stuck. We gave you stuck in the past. That was a world piece. You worked for last week. But hey, acclimation. Hey, it's fucking reality. Kids. Yeah. This is fucking reality. Football sees. Who gives a fuck about all that shit right now. Okay. Well, we hope that football maybe brings that. Yeah. Actually, some acclimation. Be a friend tolle friend. Something nice in my changing life. We're interested in together. We can't thank all of the. And no, for allowing us to do this. We're doing the universe balls on world peace one week. And then sleep schedule. Acclimation. The next week. Nobody gives us the respect for the range in which we operate. Talked a little bit about the middle class, dude. Didn't we? Yup. Yup. That's right. Trickled on economics. We fucking love all of you. Wasn't for all of you. We wouldn't be able to do what we do. And we love what we do because it's the most ridiculous thing of all time. And it's strictly and genuinely just because all of you. All right. We're understanding together. Team on me. Team on three. It's week one, baby. Yeah, we made it. Yeah. Let's go. One, two, three, team. Good bye.