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The Next Round: College Football Chaos: Texas Beats Ohio State, Oregon Stunned & NFL Week 1 | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: We'll get into Drop City on Monday Night Football. All
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Speaker 1: the reaction from the NFL coming up momentarily here on
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Speaker 1: the next round. Presented by Hard Rock Bets on Sport
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Speaker 1: and State. A ton of college football. A ton of
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Speaker 1: college football to get to. Leading into Week 3, where
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Speaker 1: you have a great Friday night game. Houston, Texas Tech.
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Speaker 1: Got SMU, Louisville. Interesting Mississippi State, South Carolina, Florida, Auburn.
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Speaker 1: We'll find some SEC contenders maybe out of that. And,
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Speaker 1: of course, the circus that is LSU and Ole Miss.
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Speaker 1: Just a first blush as we get ready for LSU-Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss before we talk about the games this past week.
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Speaker 1: We've got a whole week to build up to that
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Speaker 1: game in Oxford. 64,000, I think, is the official, somewhere
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Speaker 1: in that neighborhood, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, 64,000. Wouldn't be surprised if
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Speaker 1: 164,000 is on the premises. Super excited for this game.
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Speaker 1: I think most people are. You know, the unfortunate thing.
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Speaker 2: Is you also have Florida-Auburn at 6 o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's too good. I'm not going to complain about
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Speaker 1: two good games, but I do wish we had some
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Speaker 1: separation there.
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Speaker 2: I just wonder how many people around the nation are
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Speaker 2: even going to see that game.
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Speaker 1: That's advantage Auburn. They're playing that game at night. But
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Speaker 1: from the TV standpoint, that game should have been 11
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Speaker 1: o'clock on ABC. That should have been Florida-Auburn, 11 a.m.
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Speaker 3: On ABC.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can bury Georgia-Arkansas wherever you want.
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Speaker 1: That is going to be a bloodbath.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that will be a massacre.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, that does, I mean, I am so
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Speaker 2: excited about Florida-Auburn, but the big screen will obviously be
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Speaker 2: LSU-Ole Miss. I think it probably will be for you
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Speaker 2: guys as well. This season through two weeks is already
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Speaker 2: on crack.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: It's so much fun. Well, let's start right there. Before
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Speaker 1: we get to Texas-Ohio State, which was just, it was
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Speaker 1: two different games, but it was It was a close,
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Speaker 1: exciting game, maybe the best game of the year so far.
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Speaker 1: But to your point, Michigan should have lost to Western Michigan.
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Speaker 1: They beat Oklahoma. But more on crack was Oklahoma State
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Speaker 1: losing to Tulsa and then beating Oregon, who was a
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Speaker 1: 23.5-point underdog. Make it make sense. That is an insane game.
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Speaker 2: Well, go back last year, the week before Mike Gundy
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Speaker 2: loses his job, they lose 69-3 in Autzen to Oregon.
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Speaker 2: It's a completely different roster, but still, when you go
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Speaker 2: from a 13.5-point favorite against Tulsa, you lose outright by
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Speaker 2: two touchdowns as a two-touchdown favorite. Then you're getting three-and-a-half
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Speaker 2: touchdowns at home to Oregon. Without the two, basically, Messermaker
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Speaker 2: was great. You know, threw the pick six on the tip.
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Speaker 2: By the way, one of the fastest defensive linemen I've
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Speaker 2: ever seen going down the sideline.
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Speaker 1: That was a big dude, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: And then Uyunglele almost had a second pick six and
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Speaker 2: gave him a first and goal with a two. So
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Speaker 2: they basically gave them 14 points and still won the game.
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Speaker 5: I know.
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Speaker 1: It makes no sense. And Oregon's defense has got massive questions.
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Speaker 1: We thought it was because Boise State was just that good.
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Speaker 1: I wrote it off to that, Jim. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Boise State's just a dang good football team. And again,
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Speaker 1: Boise State was good against Memphis this week. But it's
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Speaker 1: now two straight weeks where Oregon's defense cannot get lesser
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Speaker 1: teams off the field. It's not like they're playing, you know,
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Speaker 1: USC or Ohio State. They're playing lesser teams. You can't
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Speaker 1: get them off the field.
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Speaker 2: Let me go to Eric Morrison, what Mastemaker and Caleb Hawkins,
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Speaker 2: you know, from week one to week two. You know,
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Speaker 2: my observation this weekend is the Big 12 is going
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Speaker 2: to be insane.
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Speaker 4: Like insane, because Texas Tech ain't that good.
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Speaker 1: They are not that good. The best teams are BYU
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Speaker 1: and Utah right now.
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Speaker 2: They are the best teams, but I do think, you know, Arizona–
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Speaker 2: Had a fourth and four, and I don't know why
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Speaker 2: Brian Brennan didn't kick it with 10 minutes to go.
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Speaker 1: Arizona played BYU, for those that don't know.
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Speaker 2: And they end up going for it, and they give
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Speaker 2: them the first down, and then they overturn it on
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Speaker 2: the spot, which you never see. But then BYU goes
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Speaker 2: down and makes that game look a little further away
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Speaker 2: than it was. So I think Arizona's going to be
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Speaker 2: a player. Arizona State, I thought they had every opportunity
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Speaker 2: to beat A & M.
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Speaker 1: Open down the field with A & M. Arizona State
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Speaker 1: played Texas A & M, yep. We're bouncing around a lot.
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Speaker 1: And it pulled away late, but they were up and down.
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Speaker 2: I would hope everybody that's listening to us knows what's
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Speaker 2: going on in the world.
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Speaker 4: Of college football.
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Speaker 1: But let me go back real quick. Let me go
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Speaker 1: back real quick. Because you've got to help me remember
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Speaker 1: on the point spread. So in the first two weeks,
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Speaker 1: we've had a 29.5 point dog win outright.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And then Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: That was UMass.
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Speaker 1: That was UMass. Over Rutgers. Over Rutgers. And then Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: State was a.
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Speaker 6: 23.5, 24.5.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: In the first two weeks, we've already had a 29.5
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Speaker 1: dog and a 24-point dog win outright.
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Speaker 4: Giving out picks is tough.
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Speaker 2: We were 4-3 on Saturday, but man, it is an
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Speaker 2: absolute battle when you can get these kind of flip-arounds
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Speaker 2: from one week to the next. But I do think
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Speaker 2: the Big 12 is going to be amazing to watch
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Speaker 2: this year because Arizona State, and I tweeted this out,
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Speaker 2: they gave up a pick six. I've never seen this
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Speaker 2: many pick sixes, and I checked to see if it
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Speaker 2: was a record. It was a record this weekend. The
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Speaker 2: most pick sixes... Ever in the FBS, 19 pick sixes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, 21 if you count FBS versus FCS game, the
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Speaker 1: FCS getting against the FBS. True Media says it was
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Speaker 1: 17 was the old record in 2019. So 21, 19 FBS.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy. So in an FCS, FBS, two more. We
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Speaker 1: were talking to Oregon and Oklahoma State. Oregon's got some issues.
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Speaker 1: Let's listen to Dan Lanning here. Here's the Oregon coach
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Speaker 1: after barely beating Boise State at home. and then going
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Speaker 1: on and losing to a team that had lost 21
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Speaker 1: straight games to FBS. Here's the Oregon coach.
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Speaker 7: You know, the score was closer than it really was
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Speaker 7: because it wasn't close in a lot of ways. We
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Speaker 7: got our ass kicked in a lot of areas. Tons
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Speaker 7: of credit to Coach Morris and his staff. You know,
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Speaker 7: if it wasn't for the takeaways that we had on defense,
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Speaker 7: it doesn't even look like it looked. You know, that
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Speaker 7: being said, there's a lot of opportunity for improvement. There's
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Speaker 7: You look overall as a team, we didn't tackle well
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Speaker 7: in week one, we didn't tackle well in week two.
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Speaker 7: We didn't win the line of scrimmage on either side
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Speaker 7: of the ball. We had to do a better job there.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of things that you can look at
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Speaker 7: and evaluate and say, okay, let's go to work. Ultimately,
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Speaker 7: on the same note, every single goal is still in
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Speaker 7: front of us. We control our destiny, but this is
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Speaker 7: a game that we need to show improvement. We didn't
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Speaker 7: show improvement. So we have to see that now moving
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Speaker 7: forward with our team. We've got a locker room that's hurting, obviously.
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Speaker 7: But on the same note, Oklahoma State went and won
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Speaker 7: that game, and we didn't do the things that you
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Speaker 7: have to do to win that game, right? And we
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Speaker 7: owe that result to ourself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the surprising part, put the offense aside, because they
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Speaker 1: lost Will Stein. Dan Lanning's a defensive guy, and they
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Speaker 1: give up 39 points. Mestemaker was responsible for 426 total yards.
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Speaker 1: They give up a 27 to Boise State at home
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Speaker 1: the week before. This isn't the defense we thought Oregon
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Speaker 1: and what Dan Lanning's used to putting out there. This
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Speaker 1: isn't the defense we were expecting. And for Oregon, with
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Speaker 1: their playoff hopes now, you already mentioned pretty soon they
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Speaker 1: go to USC, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so before the season, I would have said there's
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Speaker 2: two losable games on this schedule. At SC, which they
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Speaker 2: play 9-26, so in two weeks, and then at Ohio
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Speaker 2: State when they're in Columbus the first week of November.
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Speaker 4: When you start to look at the schedule now, UCLA
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Speaker 4: is in play.
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Speaker 1: I know. Anybody that's got any sort of offense.
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Speaker 2: At Illinois is trouble. I doubt Michigan is. I doubt
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Speaker 2: Washington is. But if they lose just the two you're
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Speaker 2: talking about that were losable before the season. They're not
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Speaker 2: a playoff team.
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Speaker 1: They're a three loss with a loss to Oklahoma State.
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Speaker 1: So they're out. They're out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, right now, this moment in time,
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Speaker 1: as crazy as this sounds. They actually look like the
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Speaker 1: team that might start in the top 10 and finish unranked.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, but
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Speaker 1: that defense is that bad, Jim. They cannot get stopped.
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Speaker 2: To your point, I mean, right now they're 21st. Like
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Speaker 2: if you would have said middle of September, Oregon's going
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Speaker 2: to be 21, like what happened?
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Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. Did Dante Moore go down? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And he's not the same guy we thought he was
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Speaker 1: going to be, by the way. We'll talk Ohio State
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Speaker 1: in a moment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they gave up 554 yards, and Dante
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Speaker 2: was 14 of 29, completed less than 50% of his passes.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't good. I can put that more on Will
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Speaker 1: Stein leaving, got a new offensive coordinator, learning the play calls,
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Speaker 1: all that, because Dan Lanning's a defensive guy. I can't
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Speaker 1: explain the defense.
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Speaker 4: Tosh Lapoi, I guess.
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Speaker 1: You lose Lapoi, but Dan Lanning's the defensive mind. How
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Speaker 1: can that not be more tuned in? I can't put
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Speaker 1: that on Tosh Lapoi, like leaving. That just doesn't make
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Speaker 1: sense because of what you say. The head coach is
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Speaker 1: one of the more respected defensive coaches in America.
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Speaker 2: It's a serious question to you guys, kind of a
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Speaker 2: four downs on the fly. But better chance Oregon wins
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten or Oak State wins– The Big 12.
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Speaker 1: I would say Oaks State wins the Big 12. Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: Better chance Oregon wins the Big 10. There's no chance
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State's winning the Big 10. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: there's a chance Oregon wins the Big 10. Well, there
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Speaker 1: may not be.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time it's neither. Yeah, most four downs
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Speaker 1: questions are neither. Here's Eric Morris on Oklahoma State bouncing
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Speaker 1: back because here's where I'm pissed off.
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Speaker 4: They can beat anybody in their conference now. I really
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Speaker 4: believe that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, here's Oklahoma State coach Eric Morris.
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Speaker 6: We had some meetings that weren't very pleasant in here
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Speaker 6: and they had to listen to how bad they were
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Speaker 6: after hearing how good they were for such a long
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Speaker 6: time and And to see them practice this last week,
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Speaker 6: the intensity, I mean, without the two tip passes that
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Speaker 6: end up being interceptions in that first half, I mean,
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Speaker 6: you know, we might have won the game by 25-plus points.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I just thought that physically, like, we played
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Speaker 6: so much faster and we were more aggressive. And the
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Speaker 6: guys went out there and competed their tails off. Like,
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Speaker 6: we're going to have to be really good as coaches
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Speaker 6: this week. Because everybody's going to tell them how good
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Speaker 6: they are now all of a sudden. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: all this stuff switches and, you know, we're in Stillwater.
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Speaker 6: They're going to have a great night tonight and wish
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Speaker 6: they should.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 6: But then, you know, the narrative change. And this is
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Speaker 6: like this is why everybody loves college football.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I've done this before. Like I'm built for this.
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Speaker 6: Just I've been in these situations, you know, and actually.
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Speaker 6: this is better than my first two games at Incarnate Word.
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Speaker 6: I lost my first two games at North Texas.
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Speaker 5: I lost.
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Speaker 6: So one and one is actually an improvement for me.
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Speaker 1: My question is, why did you look so bad? I'm
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Speaker 1: glad you did, because it was my upset alert. I
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Speaker 1: got a nice lead. But why did you look so
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Speaker 1: bad against Tulsa? in week one.
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Speaker 2: I said this on the show, and I I think
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Speaker 2: you guys were listening. Their offensive tackle, their left tackle
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Speaker 2: goes down.
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Speaker 1: You're right. You did bring that up.
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Speaker 2: On the first freaking drive, Mestemaker was under duress the
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Speaker 2: entire game against Tulsa, which sounds so weird.
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Speaker 1: That kid must be the best offensive tackle in the
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Speaker 1: world because it cost him a game against Tulsa, and
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Speaker 1: then they beat Oregon.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, they had four turnovers against Tulsa. They
10:39
Speaker 2: got to clean that up. That's six turnovers in two
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Speaker 2: games for Oklahoma State. For them to be one and
10:43
Speaker 2: one right now is pretty amazing. By the way, he's
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Speaker 2: a mix between a young Robert De Niro and Peyton Manning.
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Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, I do see it, that forehead of Peyton
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Speaker 1: Manning in the face of the narrow. Yeah, I do
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Speaker 1: see that.
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Speaker 2: But, Dunaway, you don't think they can win a lot
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Speaker 2: of games in the Big 12?
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Speaker 1: I don't know their schedule in front of me, but
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Speaker 1: BYU's better than them. Utah's better than them. Arizona's better
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Speaker 1: than them. I mean, Oregon's better than them. I mean,
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Speaker 1: to Lance's point, you get hot on offense. Guess what?
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Speaker 4: They don't play Utah or BYU.
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Speaker 1: That's a win. All right. I mean, they could be
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Speaker 1: a bowl team.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I do not think they'll factor into the big, what's
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Speaker 1: a heck of a coaching job by him. If he
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Speaker 1: gets them to a bowl, you'd agree with that, right?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. They were, they were, they were, they lost
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Speaker 1: 21 straight FBS.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't there over under six and a half wins coming
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Speaker 2: into the season?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Which seemed odd. It seems crazy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But everybody was expecting this team when they got there
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Speaker 1: and they lost to Tulsa. So my question would be,
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Speaker 1: why was your team not ready last week?
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Speaker 2: Um, Yeah, I mean, that's what's crazy because when you
11:44
Speaker 2: look at this, Murray State this week, they've got to
11:45
Speaker 2: go to West Virginia.
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Speaker 4: That'll be a really difficult game.
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Speaker 2: UCF at home, at Houston, Colorado, at Iowa State.
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Speaker 4: I mean, these are all winnable games.
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Speaker 1: it a lot closer. I thought Sark had lost the
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Speaker 1: field goal. They get the touchdown, and now they're up
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Speaker 1: 20-3 going to the locker room. I thought you just
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Speaker 1: were going to go into the locker room Well, is
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Speaker 1: it 13-3 right there? 13-3. You're going to go into
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Speaker 1: the locker room 13-3 if you don't do something stupid.
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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, it's easy to say this
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Speaker 1: in hindsight, Lance. But I was thinking in real time,
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Speaker 1: the way that game started, if you'd have gotten the
14:08
Speaker 1: locker room down 10, you'd have felt like, all right,
14:10
Speaker 1: we have survived the best Ohio State has for us.
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Speaker 1: Let's go win the second half now, and we'll win
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Speaker 1: the game. They didn't get in. They did win the
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Speaker 1: second half. But you see what I'm saying right there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, everybody's going to dog John Mateer out, and
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Speaker 2: they've been dogging him out all weekend. Like, I don't
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Speaker 2: really know what the difference was. Now, Arch did lead
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter comeback. But if Arch hits Cam Coleman
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Speaker 2: in stride early– Instead of overthrowing that where Cam has
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Speaker 2: to make the adjustment and the ball bounces up weird
14:37
Speaker 2: and you get the pick there, that game might play
14:40
Speaker 2: out differently. Talking to an Ohio State fan, he said
14:44
Speaker 2: the big problem right now is.
14:47
Speaker 2: Ryan Day needs a guy like Chip Kelly that is
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Speaker 2: opposite his personality. Arthur Smith, being an NFL guy, got
14:53
Speaker 2: way too conservative in the second half, and I think
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Speaker 2: he did. I didn't think there was any way that
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Speaker 2: that defense could blow a 20-3 lead at halftime the
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Speaker 2: way they were playing.
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Speaker 1: Completely agree.
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Speaker 2: But they did go into a hole in the second
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Speaker 2: half offensively.
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Speaker 1: Especially when Wingo and Coleman couldn't catch a cold in
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Speaker 1: the first half. They had some big drops. One that
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Speaker 1: the weirdest interception I may have ever seen. where Coleman's
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Speaker 1: diving and it bounces up off his chest.
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Speaker 2: That was a bad, bad throw for Manning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't remember the end. It's like, Manning put
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Speaker 1: it on the money. I was like, no, he didn't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Cam Coleman had to contort himself.
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Speaker 4: He had it by six, seven yards.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cam Coleman had to contort himself just to get
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Speaker 1: the ball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the offense.
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Speaker 1: They had some drops. So Wingo had a drop for
15:29
Speaker 1: a touchdown.
15:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Manning missed some easy passes in.
15:32
Speaker 1: The first half. Here is Ryan Day afterwards on the
15:35
Speaker 1: loss to Texas. It's not a three-quarter game. They play four, right,
15:40
Speaker 1: Ryan Day? Yeah.
15:43
Speaker 3: I think today we really played well for three quarters
15:46
Speaker 3: and then didn't play well enough in the fourth quarter.
15:49
Speaker 3: That's the bottom line. We stalled on some offensive drives.
15:55
Speaker 3: I felt we had them on the ropes and didn't finish.
15:59
Speaker 3: We've got to go back and figure out why that was.
16:02
Speaker 3: I think once that happened and they sustained some drives
16:06
Speaker 3: and then converted those fourth downs, kept us on the
16:10
Speaker 3: field on defense and Then certainly we had a chance
16:13
Speaker 3: to kick the field goal to make it a two-score
16:14
Speaker 3: game and didn't do that. This one hurts. I think
16:22
Speaker 3: that was the message of the guys in the locker room.
16:24
Speaker 3: We won the first three quarters and did not obviously
16:27
Speaker 3: win the fourth quarter. We know that that's the biggest
16:31
Speaker 3: part of the season. We have to win the fourth quarter,
16:34
Speaker 3: especially on the road. I can't sit here and tell
16:38
Speaker 3: you exactly. I know why that happened, but We all
16:41
Speaker 3: got to take accountability and get this thing corrected and
16:44
Speaker 3: fixed moving forward.
16:46
Speaker 1: Now, real quickly, if I can finish this up here
16:49
Speaker 1: with what he's saying, getting accountable. We were talking about Oregon.
16:52
Speaker 1: Ohio State's schedule is tougher than Oregon's.
16:54
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
16:55
Speaker 1: So now they've got one loss. Now, we factored the
16:58
Speaker 1: possibility of them losing to Texas into our preseason.
17:01
Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
17:02
Speaker 1: But with one loss now. They can be 9-3 and
17:06
Speaker 1: still get in. Yeah, I would agree. The counter to that, though,
17:09
Speaker 1: is how does they play Oregon, right? How does that
17:12
Speaker 1: feel now? I mean, when you looked at that, you're like,
17:14
Speaker 1: if they lose to Texas, my God, they've still got
17:16
Speaker 1: to play Oregon. Yeah. You know, now Ohio State's the
17:19
Speaker 1: better team. I mean, they're an obviously better team than Oregon.
17:21
Speaker 1: I think I'm right about this, Lance. They still play
17:22
Speaker 1: at Indiana, at USC. Yep, yep, yep.
17:25
Speaker 2: And you've still got Michigan, who he's always had a
17:27
Speaker 2: problem with. He cannot leave it in the hands of
17:29
Speaker 2: a kicker. Connor Hawkins is a really good college kicker.
17:33
Speaker 2: who was three of three before he misses the 45-yarder.
17:35
Speaker 2: But again, you've got to get a little aggressive. You
17:38
Speaker 2: put in a touchdown there, you win the game. And
17:43
Speaker 2: that's twice that he's lost massive games based on kicks.
17:46
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And he got real conservative
17:48
Speaker 1: on one. I guess on both, really. But you're right
17:52
Speaker 1: in what you say, is that Arthur Smith coached that
17:54
Speaker 1: second half very NFL-like. Boy, you get up. Three scores
17:57
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you can burn a ton of clock
17:59
Speaker 1: running the football. And he coached actually the first half
18:01
Speaker 1: that way, too. He did, but it was working then.
18:03
Speaker 1: The pace of play was very NFL.
18:06
Speaker 4: Very NFL.
18:07
Speaker 2: And I give Muschamp a lot of credit for the
18:08
Speaker 2: adjustments they made for Jeremiah Smith in the second half.
18:11
Speaker 1: And for just holding him to field goals a couple
18:13
Speaker 1: of times. There were a couple of times that it
18:17
Speaker 1: was just three points instead of. you know, seven, and
18:20
Speaker 1: that makes the game very different as well. What do
18:22
Speaker 1: you make of Texas? How good is Texas? It's funny,
18:25
Speaker 1: everybody's going to make that argument, but boy, through three quarters,
18:29
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have had them number one. Do we put
18:30
Speaker 1: them number one based on one quarter of football?
18:32
Speaker 2: Again, I think it's hilarious, the hate for John Mateer.
18:37
Speaker 2: Arch Manning did leave a fourth quarter comeback, but I
18:40
Speaker 2: thought Arch was very shaky throughout the game.
18:43
Speaker 1: He was. I knew this was going to happen, and
18:46
Speaker 1: let me just say, If I were an AP voter today,
18:49
Speaker 1: I would have Texas number one. And I'm not saying
18:51
Speaker 1: you shouldn't vote them number one. And again, the whole
18:54
Speaker 1: thing about the AP poll is you can adjust week
18:55
Speaker 1: to week. The only one that really mattered back in
18:57
Speaker 1: the day, and none of it matters anymore, the only
18:59
Speaker 1: one that mattered back in the day was the last one.
19:00
Speaker 1: As long as you get it right at the last one,
19:02
Speaker 1: you're fine. But I knew everybody was going to put
19:05
Speaker 1: Texas number one. I'm fine with it, but you're doing
19:06
Speaker 1: it based on one quarter. Like one quarter of football
19:09
Speaker 1: made Texas number one. Yeah, I would not have them
19:10
Speaker 1: number one. I didn't have them number one in our
19:12
Speaker 1: SEC power ranking. Here's Sark. Here's Sark with the... SEC
19:17
Speaker 1: power rating, we'll, I think, do that on Tuesday coming up.
19:20
Speaker 1: Here's Sark after the Ohio State game. I mean, he'd
19:25
Speaker 1: had a lot of questions by the time he got
19:26
Speaker 1: to this one, but this was about at one point
19:29
Speaker 1: when it was, you know, 23-3. Do you think about
19:32
Speaker 1: punting instead of going for it on fourth down? Weird question,
19:35
Speaker 1: but because you're trying to win the game, he'll say,
19:38
Speaker 1: but listen to the gravitas, if you will, that Sark
19:42
Speaker 1: answers this with.
19:44
Speaker 5: Steve, the fourth and nine in the third quarter, you're
19:48
Speaker 5: down 20. There's 17 minutes left in the game. Does
19:51
Speaker 5: it ever cross your mind to want to punt just
19:55
Speaker 5: so it doesn't get any worse? Did you think about that?
19:58
Speaker 6: No, that's how losers think.
20:00
Speaker 1: Winners win, baby.
20:00
Speaker 7: You got to go for it.
20:01
Speaker 4: Sark, you know, a year ago.
20:04
Speaker 1: They didn't hire me to keep it close. They hired
20:06
Speaker 1: me to win.
20:08
Speaker 4: I hate to call it a dumb question.
20:10
Speaker 1: It was a dumb question.
20:12
Speaker 2: But Sark, I know he's taking a lot of heat for...
20:14
Speaker 2: The halftime, Laura Rutledge, I guess, kind of explained what
20:17
Speaker 2: happened there. They made him wait, and he finally had
20:19
Speaker 2: to go into the tunnel. And then Holly, I loved
20:21
Speaker 2: Holly pouting.
20:22
Speaker 1: Oh, she rolled her eyes. Oh, my gosh. I don't
20:24
Speaker 1: know what happened at the end there. That was weird.
20:26
Speaker 1: The halftime, I get.
20:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get the halftime, too.
20:29
Speaker 1: He's had to stand there through Ryan Day being interviewed
20:31
Speaker 1: on the other side of the field. Same thing happened
20:33
Speaker 1: at the end. Is that what happened? He had been
20:35
Speaker 1: standing there for a long, long time already. Yeah.
20:38
Speaker 4: You would think they would go immediately.
20:40
Speaker 1: You would think. But they didn't. They didn't. But it
20:43
Speaker 1: was just a weird. It was a bad look for both.
20:45
Speaker 1: It really was. All right, so that's the Ohio State-Texas game,
20:49
Speaker 1: a little postgame, the interviews there. So that's our opening segment,
20:52
Speaker 1: two big games. We'll jump into Alabama on the road
20:55
Speaker 1: to Kentucky. Some people saying that's a statement win for Alabama,
20:58
Speaker 1: the way they played in the second half. And a
21:00
Speaker 1: lot more of the movement in college football and the
21:04
Speaker 1: NFL through the opening weekend. When we come back on
21:07
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22:33
Speaker 1: Biggest takeaway from the NFL in week one. We'll go
22:38
Speaker 1: to what we saw last night first. Giants look good
22:41
Speaker 1: enough maybe to win the NFC East. I think you
22:45
Speaker 1: and I had them as playoff teams.
22:48
Speaker 4: I did not have them as a playoff team.
22:50
Speaker 1: I had them as the last wildcard team. Jackson Dart
22:53
Speaker 1: looked the part last night. So did that Giants defense.
22:56
Speaker 4: I believe they looked the best in the NFC East yesterday.
22:59
Speaker 2: Obviously, they beat Dallas. And watching the Commanders, they are awful.
23:03
Speaker 2: The Eagles are not going to be nearly as good
23:06
Speaker 2: as they've been over the last couple of years. Yeah,
23:08
Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm a New York Giants fan, I'm excited.
23:11
Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors is back a little sooner than most people thought. Scataboo,
23:15
Speaker 2: obviously the leg is not a problem. You saw when
23:17
Speaker 2: he scored his first touchdown. You can't contain that son
23:21
Speaker 2: of a bitch. He's going to just do what he
23:22
Speaker 2: wants to do. And then the defense, I thought really limited.
23:25
Speaker 2: I didn't like the play calling for Dallas. I thought
23:29
Speaker 2: that was really weird. I thought they'd be much more explosive.
23:31
Speaker 2: But I mean, the New York Giants look really, really.
23:33
Speaker 4: Good last night.
23:34
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys have a defensive problem. And some of
23:36
Speaker 1: the They were pointing it out on the broadcast, some
23:39
Speaker 1: of those crucial drives before the half and at the
23:41
Speaker 1: end of the game when maybe you can get the
23:44
Speaker 1: Giants off the field. Their secondary is leaving wide open receivers. Well,
23:47
Speaker 1: you know, and this guy may end up being a
23:50
Speaker 1: great coach, which you saw. You know, they've got, I
23:52
Speaker 1: think it's the youngest defensive coordinator in the NFL or
23:54
Speaker 1: one of. Is he 34? Is that how old he is?
23:57
Speaker 4: 35 or 36, but he is the youngest D.C. in
24:00
Speaker 4: the league.
24:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, so an inexperienced guy. You would think with the
24:03
Speaker 1: issues they've had, they would, Maybe you found some guy
24:06
Speaker 1: that had a little more experience than that. Maybe this
24:08
Speaker 1: guy ends up being great. I don't know. But through
24:10
Speaker 1: one game, it wasn't exactly a great resume day for him.
24:13
Speaker 1: I don't know if you played in the NFL, Ryan,
24:15
Speaker 1: but they give us 16 more games to decide whether
24:17
Speaker 1: or not we make the playoffs.
24:18
Speaker 4: Thank God they do.
24:19
Speaker 2: The NFC West, every team's 1-0 except for the Rams.
24:22
Speaker 2: They own the bottom themselves.
24:23
Speaker 1: 1970 is when the merger happened. So most stats are
24:29
Speaker 1: kept back through 1970 as far as any modern-day NFL football.
24:34
Speaker 1: Most points scored in the opening weekend since the merger, 1970.
24:38
Speaker 1: And I thought Mike Tomlin did a good job of
24:41
Speaker 1: explaining this on Sunday Night Football. We just don't practice
24:44
Speaker 1: the way we used to, so you don't do a
24:45
Speaker 1: lot of tackling, and you don't play in the preseason.
24:49
Speaker 1: So the defense, most times you'd say the defense is
24:52
Speaker 1: there before the offense. Not in the NFL, not the
24:54
Speaker 1: way you practice anymore. The offense is ready to go.
24:57
Speaker 1: And the defense has looked behind the eight ball yesterday.
24:59
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, they did yesterday.
25:01
Speaker 2: But, I mean, you go back to Wednesday and Thursday nights,
25:03
Speaker 2: the offenses were horrible. I know Sam Darnold goes down.
25:06
Speaker 2: Drew Locke takes over. But, you know, New England couldn't
25:08
Speaker 2: do anything offensively. The Rams were terrible. You talk about
25:12
Speaker 2: the most points since the merger in 1970. The Rams
25:15
Speaker 2: and Chargers combined for 21 points. It's pretty crazy because
25:18
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, everybody talked about this offense, including me. I
25:22
Speaker 2: thought it would pop, and you get a rookie head
25:23
Speaker 2: coach coming in, and the Cardinals were scrappy with a
25:27
Speaker 2: backup quarterback in Jacoby Brissett.
25:29
Speaker 4: I guess not a backup anymore.
25:30
Speaker 1: The flip side of that, the Bears were the most
25:34
Speaker 1: impressive thing I saw all Sunday. Yep. And Ben Johnson
25:37
Speaker 1: says there's another gear for that offense. I can't imagine
25:40
Speaker 1: there is because Buddy Carolina had no clue how to
25:43
Speaker 1: slow them down. Up and down the field.
25:45
Speaker 2: Going into the season, he wanted to break the all-time
25:49
Speaker 2: scoring record.
25:49
Speaker 1: He's well on his way.
25:51
Speaker 4: Do you guys know who has it?
25:52
Speaker 1: I have no clue. I would say the... Is it
25:57
Speaker 1: the greatest show on turf? The greatest show on turf,
25:59
Speaker 1: the Rams.
25:59
Speaker 2: The 2013 Denver Broncos averaged 38 points a game. And
26:04
Speaker 2: 59 points from the Berries yesterday.
26:06
Speaker 4: And how about this? Colston Loveland, your leading receiver, had
26:09
Speaker 4: zero catches.
26:09
Speaker 3: I know.
26:10
Speaker 4: So, I mean, this offense can be really, really good.
26:12
Speaker 1: That works because you can tell he's trying to set
26:15
Speaker 1: the record because he didn't let his defense stay out
26:18
Speaker 1: there very long because they were letting Carolina score quickly.
26:22
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
26:23
Speaker 2: Carolina ended up tying that game in the first half.
26:25
Speaker 2: I had the Panthers plus the points. Obviously, it looks
26:27
Speaker 2: like a terrible play. The first half was tremendous to watch.
26:30
Speaker 4: It was great.
26:30
Speaker 2: I thought Bryce Young and Dave Canales, they're on the
26:32
Speaker 2: same page. I just didn't realize how good this Bears
26:35
Speaker 2: offense is because the back end of Carolina's defense, that secondary–
26:39
Speaker 2: is really, really good. But the Bears, I mean, they
26:42
Speaker 2: just absolutely gashed them. 291 rushing yards?
26:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, 200-yard rushers in an NFL game? That's crazy. That's
26:48
Speaker 1: pretty hard to do. You mentioned LaFleur, the head coach
26:51
Speaker 1: at Arizona. He becomes the first Cardinals head coach since
26:54
Speaker 1: 1973 to win his first game as the Cardinals head coach,
26:59
Speaker 1: and they beat a really good Chargers team. I guess.
27:03
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, they're supposed to be. They wiped out
27:08
Speaker 1: a lot of survivor pools, I'll tell you that. That
27:10
Speaker 1: was you. You were the only one that lost in
27:11
Speaker 1: our survivor pool. Bills and Texans was supposed to be
27:15
Speaker 1: the marquee game on Sunday of the weekend, and it
27:19
Speaker 1: was an entertaining game. I'm surprised that D'Amico's Ryan's defense
27:23
Speaker 1: looked the way it looked for the Texans.
27:24
Speaker 2: This is what Josh Allen does, though. I mean, Josh
27:26
Speaker 2: Allen to go out on the road against this defense, 20-29,
27:28
Speaker 2: 334 yards, four total touchdowns. What a fun game. And then,
27:34
Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately for C.J. Stroud, he played a really,
27:37
Speaker 2: really good game against what is probably an average Bills defense.
27:42
Speaker 2: But he was 26 of 38, a couple of touches,
27:45
Speaker 2: no picks, and then he had the strip sack to
27:47
Speaker 2: end the game.
27:48
Speaker 1: I mean, on the final meaningful possession for the Bills,
27:51
Speaker 1: they actually got the ball back at the end there.
27:53
Speaker 1: But the final meaningful possession for the Bills, the defense
27:57
Speaker 1: actually had a chance to maybe win that game. Josh
27:59
Speaker 1: Allen just throws one up for grabs in the end zone.
28:02
Speaker 5: Yep.
28:03
Speaker 1: And one of the better DBs in the game drops it.
28:06
Speaker 1: I think every part of his body touched it, and
28:07
Speaker 1: it finally hits the ground. And if you intercept that,
28:10
Speaker 1: the Bills still have their timeouts. I think there was
28:12
Speaker 1: 140 to go. It's more than likely over, though. Yeah,
28:15
Speaker 1: there's a chance they can get the ball back and
28:17
Speaker 1: would only need a field goal. But still, you've got
28:20
Speaker 1: a chance to close the game out if you're Houston
28:22
Speaker 1: right there.
28:22
Speaker 4: But that very well could be a preview for the
28:24
Speaker 4: AFC championship.
28:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a fantastic game. Yeah, that is my
28:28
Speaker 1: AFC championship. I had the Texans making the Super Bowl.
28:32
Speaker 1: Defense will have to get better. Don't know if the
28:33
Speaker 1: offense can continue to do it. Continue with our NFL
28:37
Speaker 1: conversation here. Derrick Henry, who played at Alabama just down
28:42
Speaker 1: the road from where our show originates here, became the
28:45
Speaker 1: third all-time touchdown rusher, 125 now, behind only Emmett and
28:51
Speaker 1: LaDainian Tomlinson. He doesn't seem to be slowing down yet.
28:57
Speaker 1: He's beating time, it looks like.
29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy that Derrick Henry yesterday was absolutely— I mean,
29:04
Speaker 2: it looked like Derrick Henry with the Titans 10 years ago.
29:07
Speaker 2: I mean, 24 carries, which is a lot of carries—
29:10
Speaker 2: 144 yards, 6 yards per carry, and 3 touchdowns.
29:14
Speaker 4: And we're talking about a dude that is 32. You
29:16
Speaker 4: guys remember.
29:17
Speaker 2: I mean, really, it was like Bermuda Triangle for running
29:20
Speaker 2: backs when they hit that age of 30. But I
29:22
Speaker 2: don't think anybody's going to question his work ethic offseason,
29:26
Speaker 2: what he does, and his diet, and his training, and everything.
29:30
Speaker 4: But man, what a weapon to have for Baltimore. They
29:32
Speaker 4: need it.
29:33
Speaker 2: Jacoby Lane goes out with the wrist injury you got
29:35
Speaker 2: a bunch of no names outside of Zay Flowers and
29:37
Speaker 2: Rashad Bateman running routes so you know it was a
29:41
Speaker 2: impressive debut for Jesse Mender as a head coach but
29:45
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry's gonna be a big part of.
29:46
Speaker 1: This so Henry's at 125 now to get to number
29:50
Speaker 1: two he's got 20 more touchdowns to get 145 He
29:54
Speaker 1: can get there, you think? I think so, because that
29:56
Speaker 1: would probably be the rest of this season and part
29:58
Speaker 1: of next season.
29:58
Speaker 4: It would be next year, yeah.
29:59
Speaker 1: But, I mean, does he look like he's close to retirement?
30:02
Speaker 1: Do you? It certainly does not look like the end
30:04
Speaker 1: of his career.
30:04
Speaker 4: I think he still enjoys it.
30:06
Speaker 1: And then Emmitt played some cardinal years after the Cowboys
30:10
Speaker 1: and got to 164. He's 164 on the table. How
30:14
Speaker 1: far behind is he from that? That would be 25, 35.
30:16
Speaker 3: Hmm.
30:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be basically 34.
30:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he would need this season 27 and 28.
30:28
Speaker 4: I mean, is he going to play until he's 35?
30:30
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, I mean, Emmitt had some years
30:34
Speaker 1: where he wasn't running back one, really. He was still
30:37
Speaker 1: in a Cardinals uniform, still productive. But when you're chasing
30:42
Speaker 1: a record like that, I wonder how long Henry will
30:44
Speaker 1: hold on. So just a quick answer, do you think
30:46
Speaker 1: he gets to Emmitt or not? No, I think he'll
30:47
Speaker 1: finish second all time. You think he'll pass Tomlinson? Yeah,
30:50
Speaker 1: I would think he passes LT, but he does not
30:53
Speaker 1: get it. That is a first ballot in Canton when
30:55
Speaker 1: you do that, by the way, and he's probably already there. Yeah,
30:57
Speaker 1: I would say so. Okay, first time in 16 years
31:01
Speaker 1: Jets and Giants win. Giants look good. Geno back with
31:04
Speaker 1: the Jets, and finally they're getting their money's worth out
31:07
Speaker 1: of Geno.
31:08
Speaker 2: Well, not only is it an upgrade for the Jets
31:11
Speaker 2: at quarterback with Geno, But you're also playing the Titans.
31:15
Speaker 2: And the Titans, when it's all said and done outside
31:17
Speaker 2: of the Dolphins, might be the worst team in the league.
31:19
Speaker 4: We'll see.
31:20
Speaker 2: Cam Ward struggles yesterday. But Brees Hall, Garrett Wilson, nice games.
31:25
Speaker 2: And the Jets are going to be better offensively with Geno.
31:28
Speaker 1: That was one of the more surprising outcomes of the weekend.
31:30
Speaker 1: Not necessarily that the Jets won, but that they won
31:32
Speaker 1: by that margin. And that was a charity touchdown at
31:34
Speaker 1: the end for the Titans. That game was not close.
31:35
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jets worked the Titans. And that was very,
31:39
Speaker 1: very surprising to me.
31:41
Speaker 2: I mean, under 200 yards of offense at home.
31:43
Speaker 1: I mean, explain that. Terrible. I mean, I'm with Lance.
31:48
Speaker 1: You know the Dolphins are the worst team in the NFL,
31:50
Speaker 1: but the Titans are going to be right there with them.
31:52
Speaker 1: Way too early to start questioning whether Cam Ward was
31:54
Speaker 1: a mistake or not. You know it's awful. Yeah.
31:57
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what. You go out and
31:58
Speaker 2: you get Cornell Tate. At least Cornell Tate finally had
32:01
Speaker 2: some reception.
32:02
Speaker 3: It's true.
32:02
Speaker 1: Didn't do that in the preseason. It wasn't a lot.
32:03
Speaker 2: You don't have what you would consider one of the
32:07
Speaker 2: top 20, 25 running backs in the league.
32:09
Speaker 4: And Tony Pollard. I don't know what to expect from
32:11
Speaker 4: the Titans.
32:12
Speaker 1: We expected the Jags to go away this year because
32:15
Speaker 1: they seem to be a franchise that rides a roller coaster. Now,
32:18
Speaker 1: they were benefited by playing the Cleveland Browns with Deshaun Watson,
32:22
Speaker 1: but the Jags took a belt to the ass of
32:25
Speaker 1: the Browns.
32:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't really think they would go away just
32:28
Speaker 2: because of how good Trevor Lawrence was in the second
32:30
Speaker 2: half with Liam Cohen, and that continued. I mean, he was, again,
32:34
Speaker 2: as you said, it was the Browns. Deshaun Watson is awful,
32:38
Speaker 2: but Trevor was really, really good. I mean, Almost had
32:41
Speaker 2: as many touchdowns as drops. 18 of 23, four touchdowns.
32:44
Speaker 1: And I cannot imagine how loud the noise is in
32:46
Speaker 1: Cleveland right now because Deshaun Watson already is... We discussed
32:50
Speaker 1: in the offseason. I know, and I thought about this.
32:52
Speaker 3: That.
32:53
Speaker 1: You let Deshaun look the way he looked these first
32:55
Speaker 1: two games in Shurdur Day's view in the Cleveland opener
32:58
Speaker 1: week three. And I would say it's trending that way
33:00
Speaker 1: right now.
33:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:01
Speaker 1: I mean, there's another game to go, obviously.
33:03
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's an upgrade.
33:04
Speaker 2: I think they've got the same situation week in, week out. Yeah,
33:08
Speaker 2: the Browns are going to be really bad.
33:09
Speaker 1: But that would be a way to get your fan
33:11
Speaker 1: base back on your side.
33:12
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
33:12
Speaker 4: You can't start.
33:14
Speaker 2: After they lose to Tampa more than likely this week,
33:16
Speaker 2: they can't go 0-2 and have Deshaun Watson roll out
33:19
Speaker 2: in front of the fans that absolutely hate him.
33:22
Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson, you're leading Russia yesterday for Cleveland.
33:24
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I'm concerned about Cincinnati, speaking of Tampa.
33:30
Speaker 1: I watch that game probably more than anybody else. Bengals
33:33
Speaker 1: beat the Buccaneers. The Bucs turn it over four times, fumbles.
33:38
Speaker 1: giving short fields for Cincinnati. Two of their first half
33:42
Speaker 1: touchdown drives were 32 and 28 yards. In the end,
33:46
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had a horrible interception that he threw. He did.
33:49
Speaker 1: Pick six that allowed that game to be in doubt.
33:52
Speaker 1: It ended up being like a 33-27 game, but I
33:57
Speaker 1: don't know if that Cincinnati team is, I mean, this
34:00
Speaker 1: is as healthy as they're going to be. That's my
34:02
Speaker 1: team to win that division, and it looks like Baltimore is,
34:06
Speaker 1: is the cream of the crop again.
34:07
Speaker 2: Well, it does right now. But again, if Baltimore continues
34:10
Speaker 2: to get beat up offensively, can Derrick Henry really keep
34:13
Speaker 2: that going for 17 games? We know the Browns are
34:15
Speaker 2: going to be bad. The Steelers, they play a backup
34:18
Speaker 2: in Cooper Russ. They didn't get much going offensively. Aaron
34:21
Speaker 2: Rodgers said after the game that he thinks that this
34:24
Speaker 2: could end up being a really explosive offense. I'll believe
34:27
Speaker 2: it when I see it. But to your point with
34:29
Speaker 2: the Bengals, Jamar Chase, only two grabs. Chase Brown wasn't
34:32
Speaker 2: really good yesterday. Burrow was off. That game should have
34:35
Speaker 2: been a double-digit win easily for the Bengals, but to
34:37
Speaker 2: pick six, I don't know.
34:41
Speaker 1: See, I watch it, and to me it should have
34:43
Speaker 1: been a Buccaneers win. If you don't turn the ball
34:45
Speaker 1: over four times, they're driving for touchdowns on a couple
34:48
Speaker 1: of those. To your point, if you're the Buccaneer, or
34:50
Speaker 1: anybody playing Cincinnati, how often are you going to get
34:52
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase two catches, 12 yards? That's right. And if
34:54
Speaker 1: you can't win that game, I don't know how you're
34:56
Speaker 1: going to beat Cincinnati.
34:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:59
Speaker 1: You know, I picked him in the Super Bowl, and
35:01
Speaker 1: watching that game, I was like, man, did I miss
35:04
Speaker 1: this pickup. And I watched it, too, because you had
35:05
Speaker 1: Tampa in the survivor pool, and for a minute it
35:08
Speaker 1: looked like a good play, and then as Tampa kept
35:10
Speaker 1: coming back, kept coming back, and then that interception, I'm like, geez,
35:12
Speaker 1: Tampa could win this game now. And then the Vikings
35:15
Speaker 1: and Packers, before we talk about tonight's game, Vikings and Packers,
35:19
Speaker 1: Kylo gets knocked out early on, and Minnesota still wins
35:22
Speaker 1: the game.
35:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you go back, and I've never been
35:25
Speaker 2: a Matt LaFleur guy. They completely dominated the game. Carson
35:29
Speaker 2: Wentz came in and couldn't do anything, and then he
35:32
Speaker 2: got into rhythm in the fourth quarter. But you guys
35:35
Speaker 2: probably saw this. Green Bay kicks the field goal to
35:37
Speaker 2: go up eight. It's an offsides penalty in the floor.
35:41
Speaker 4: I get it.
35:42
Speaker 2: Take the points off the board if you've got a
35:43
Speaker 2: first and ten, but it's a fourth and one at
35:46
Speaker 2: that point. You run a quarterback sneak with Jordan Love,
35:48
Speaker 2: which these quarterback sneaks with guys that aren't Josh Allen
35:52
Speaker 2: or Jalen Hurts don't work. And you get shut down
35:55
Speaker 2: there and everything flipped around. The penalties were awful yesterday
35:58
Speaker 2: for Green Bay. Carson Wentz, again, played a really, really
36:01
Speaker 2: good fourth quarter. But Jordan Love was carving up Brian Flores' defense. Like,
36:06
Speaker 2: that game was over.
36:07
Speaker 6: That is.
36:08
Speaker 1: I'm with you. When you're up eight, taking points off
36:11
Speaker 1: the board just seems like a... If it's first and ten...
36:14
Speaker 1: I think about it.
36:15
Speaker 4: But taking points off to go for a fourth and one,
36:18
Speaker 4: and you're up eight.
36:19
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing that can cost you the lead
36:22
Speaker 1: at that point, and you take points off the board.
36:24
Speaker 2: I did think the officiating was home field for Minnesota.
36:27
Speaker 2: Some of the calls, the roughing the passer, that should
36:31
Speaker 2: have been a flip over for Green Bay on a turnover.
36:34
Speaker 2: Then they had a holding in the end zone that
36:36
Speaker 2: wasn't a hold on a pick. Like, they got some awful,
36:38
Speaker 2: awful calls, but they shouldn't have been in that situation.
36:40
Speaker 1: Tonight we get Denver and Kansas City, and surprising if
36:44
Speaker 1: you were with us in June or July, we were
36:46
Speaker 1: questioning whether or not we would get Bo Nix and
36:48
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. So it looks like we're getting Bo Nix
36:50
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes tonight. Mahomes coming back. 7-15 Central on ESPN,
36:55
Speaker 1: 8-15 Eastern there in Kansas City. What are you expecting tonight?
36:59
Speaker 4: Khalil Benson. Do you guys know the name?
37:01
Speaker 1: I do not, Lance. He's a— great baker who lives
37:05
Speaker 1: in kansas.
37:06
Speaker 2: City i didn't know his name either he is going
37:08
Speaker 2: to be your starting left tackle tonight for kansas city's
37:10
Speaker 2: an undrafted rookie they have more.
37:12
Speaker 1: Tackle issues than anybody i've ever seen well this.
37:14
Speaker 2: Is a problem like josh simmons is out now with
37:17
Speaker 2: the back you're starting left tackle so you've got an
37:19
Speaker 2: undrafted rookie that is going to start tonight against a
37:23
Speaker 2: broncos defense that led the league in sacks and your
37:26
Speaker 2: quarterback's coming off an acl yeah and their right.
37:28
Speaker 1: Tackle is always a mystery so you're telling me they've
37:31
Speaker 1: got uh undrafted The guy they just picked up at
37:34
Speaker 1: left tackle. And their right tackle is always a swinging gate.
37:37
Speaker 4: But they're only going against the Broncos.
37:39
Speaker 1: Right tackle is a swinging gate all the time. They
37:42
Speaker 1: won Super Bowls with a problem at right tackle. And
37:45
Speaker 1: a quarterback that is the least healthy he's ever been.
37:47
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's completely unhealthy. I'm just saying that's
37:49
Speaker 1: the least he's ever been. To your point, we don't
37:50
Speaker 1: know how mobile he's gotten.
37:51
Speaker 5: That's right.
37:52
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw some stuff in the preseason. I'm like,
37:54
Speaker 1: he just does not look the same. Yeah, it was
37:56
Speaker 1: in Achilles, right? It was.
37:57
Speaker 2: And we don't know about Bo Nixon, that ankle. Like,
38:00
Speaker 2: you know, he's cleared, but I mean... You know, how
38:02
Speaker 2: efficient are these quarterbacks going to be?
38:04
Speaker 1: Well, the good news for Bo, he's not behind the
38:06
Speaker 1: two Chiefs tackles.
38:07
Speaker 4: Chiefs are in Arrowhead tonight. We've got a seven-star on
38:10
Speaker 4: this game.
38:10
Speaker 3: By the way.
38:11
Speaker 1: Oh, minus two and a half. Back to a seven-star.
38:13
Speaker 1: Thought maybe that would have been an eight or a nine-star. LanceIsLike.com.
38:16
Speaker 1: LanceIsLike.com if you want to see what that seven-star play
38:18
Speaker 1: is on Monday Night Football. Two quick other NFL thoughts
38:22
Speaker 1: from me here. One, of all the things you can
38:25
Speaker 1: do in the National Football League during dances and celebration,
38:29
Speaker 1: I'm with Stephon Diggs. Dick says it was his fault
38:33
Speaker 1: that he's been in the league so long that it
38:36
Speaker 1: used to not be a rule, but it is now. Apparently,
38:38
Speaker 1: you can't go and jump on the goalpost cushion that
38:43
Speaker 1: cost them a chance to, he thinks, win the football game.
38:47
Speaker 1: He says, my bad on that one. So the commanders
38:50
Speaker 1: end up losing that game 24-22 to Philadelphia. And then
38:54
Speaker 1: the whole Monday night football, when you're calling out, Your
38:58
Speaker 1: names when you're introduced, you know, I'm Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma.
39:01
Speaker 1: I'm Jalen Hurts, Alabama, whichever way you want to go there.
39:04
Speaker 1: I've got no problem with Quinn and Williams saying Winona
39:08
Speaker 1: High School, not Alabama. Give your high school a shout-out.
39:13
Speaker 1: That's great. That's your roots. That's where you came from.
39:15
Speaker 3: No doubt.
39:15
Speaker 1: There's more Alabama football players in the NFL than any
39:18
Speaker 1: other school, so Alabama gets plenty of pub there. I
39:22
Speaker 1: don't understand George Pickens, though, and he's a local guy
39:24
Speaker 1: here in Birmingham. Drip City. to say that when everyone
39:30
Speaker 1: else is saying to college or their neighborhood, their high
39:34
Speaker 1: school or something. He goes Drip City. And then you
39:37
Speaker 1: go out and you have two pretty big drops early
39:40
Speaker 1: in that game for the Cowboys. And it's just too
39:43
Speaker 1: easy to go Drip City to Drop City on social media.
39:47
Speaker 1: I would drop literally, the drip city until the Cowboys
39:52
Speaker 1: start winning again.
39:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember, he's playing for a contract. He's on that
39:55
Speaker 2: franchise tag right now, so he's making a lot of
39:57
Speaker 2: money for this year. But it's super important that he's
40:00
Speaker 2: as productive as he was last year. It does look
40:03
Speaker 2: like Dak– I mean, his go-to guy is George Pickens.
40:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, CeeDee Lamb just doesn't get the targets he used to.
40:09
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
40:10
Speaker 2: I mean, George Pickens did get six targets. CeeDee did
40:13
Speaker 2: get eight last night. But it was just some weird
40:15
Speaker 2: play calling for the Cowboys.
40:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I thought the Cowboys would
40:19
Speaker 1: look a lot better. Giants look great. And we'll put
40:21
Speaker 1: the end of week one that started back on Wednesday
40:25
Speaker 1: to bed tonight with the Broncos and the Chiefs. Back
40:28
Speaker 1: to college football. Alabama's win in Lexington to start SEC play. Hey,
40:33
Speaker 1: right now, number one team in the SEC in the standings, Alabama.
40:37
Speaker 1: We'll talk about them the next part of the next round,
40:41
Speaker 1: presented by Hard Rock Bets on Sporting State. Boy, I
40:44
Speaker 1: watched Oklahoma and Michigan in the big noon kickoff, and
40:49
Speaker 1: I thought two things. One, thank God Joel Klatt finally
40:53
Speaker 1: had a meaningful logo game to do on the big
40:56
Speaker 1: noon kickoff. Joel will be with us at 1230 Eastern,
40:57
Speaker 1: 1130 Central. On the next round part of the show
41:01
Speaker 1: at next round live on all the platforms. Because they
41:04
Speaker 1: had a horrible game in week one. They get Kent
41:07
Speaker 1: State and Ohio State this week. Jeez, I'm pissed off
41:10
Speaker 1: at Ohio State team too.
41:11
Speaker 4: God, you got to listen to Gus.
41:15
Speaker 1: Kent State, Ohio State this week. Joel will be with
41:19
Speaker 1: us later on. But Oklahoma, Michigan, I'm watching that game.
41:22
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be sold by everyone who watches
41:28
Speaker 1: college football that Those were two good teams. Were those
41:32
Speaker 1: two good teams?
41:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think Oklahoma's good.
41:35
Speaker 1: I really do.
41:36
Speaker 4: The offense has got problems.
41:37
Speaker 2: Satania has got to have more than five touches, especially
41:41
Speaker 2: on the road in a situation like that.
41:43
Speaker 1: Okay, first, so you're saying play calling is a problem.
41:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben Arbuckle is a problem.
41:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a problem. I think Mateer is a good,
41:52
Speaker 1: solid college quarterback. You were getting in the chat room
41:55
Speaker 1: today on Monday Morning Live. which airs before our show
41:59
Speaker 1: that's on now, every Monday with Tom Luganville. The chat
42:03
Speaker 1: room wanted to know, will Lance, when the next round starts,
42:07
Speaker 1: give up his love of John Matera? It does not
42:09
Speaker 1: sound like you are.
42:10
Speaker 2: Well, it was never love. I thought he would be improved. Like,
42:13
Speaker 2: how was he not improved? I think their offensive line
42:16
Speaker 2: is bad. They still can't really run the football, so
42:18
Speaker 2: there's a lot of pressure on Matera. He made the
42:20
Speaker 2: one horrible read on the Jair Hill pick there. I mean,
42:25
Speaker 2: that was the difference in the game.
42:27
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter interception in your own go zone.
42:29
Speaker 4: But I thought he hit Rocky.
42:30
Speaker 2: Beers in stride. Like, if Beers makes that grab, and
42:33
Speaker 2: you've got to continue to go to Beers. Beers and
42:35
Speaker 2: Satania have got to be the offense. But if he
42:37
Speaker 2: makes that grab and Klatt pointed that out with his
42:40
Speaker 2: athleticism and his size, there's a good chance he takes
42:42
Speaker 2: it to the house.
42:43
Speaker 1: But the flip side of that, and this Oklahoma team
42:45
Speaker 1: is why I did not buy into them in the preseason,
42:47
Speaker 1: why I said they would be the team that would
42:49
Speaker 1: start in the top ten and fall out. Ben Arbuckle
42:51
Speaker 1: and John Mateer, I've never been a believer in them. Well,
42:54
Speaker 1: hold that bucket because that may happen. I continue not
42:56
Speaker 1: to be a believer in them. That is a bad offense.
42:59
Speaker 1: When the chips are down, that can be a very
43:00
Speaker 1: bad offense. Oklahoma's not even in that game without those
43:04
Speaker 1: two knucklehead 15-yard penalties. I mean, they have got Oklahoma
43:08
Speaker 1: pinned down, Michigan does. Oklahoma's about to have to punt
43:11
Speaker 1: it back to them at midfield. and you get a
43:14
Speaker 1: knucklehead 15-yard personal foul penalty. I mean, just stupid. But
43:19
Speaker 1: it was a legitimate penalty. You tell me it gives
43:23
Speaker 1: us that it is the SEC crew, which you have
43:25
Speaker 1: to do, but I thought that was a spectacularly officiated game. Yeah,
43:29
Speaker 1: but that was a penalty.
43:31
Speaker 2: This won't be a popular comment, but you guys tell
43:33
Speaker 2: me outside of Georgia, who in the SEC, with the
43:38
Speaker 2: hornet's nest they were rolling into, With Michigan having so
43:42
Speaker 2: much to prove, that is a really, really good Michigan defense.
43:45
Speaker 4: Who in the SEC would have gone in there and
43:46
Speaker 4: had no problem? Everybody would have struggled.
43:49
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say nobody has no problem, but
43:50
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
43:51
Speaker 4: Alabama loses that game.
43:53
Speaker 1: Oh, Alabama doesn't lose that game. Are you kidding me?
43:57
Speaker 1: Alabama doesn't lose to Michigan? Yeah.
44:00
Speaker 3: No.
44:00
Speaker 1: Michigan doesn't get the points they got against Alabama's defense.
44:02
Speaker 4: Alabama was down to Kentucky at half.
44:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.
44:05
Speaker 4: Kentucky is not a good team.
44:06
Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:07
Speaker 4: They're on the road, just like you would have been
44:08
Speaker 4: up there. Michigan's on the road.
44:10
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
44:10
Speaker 4: That's a difficult place to play.
44:11
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I agree with Lance. There's a lot
44:14
Speaker 1: of SEC teams that would have struggled in there. But
44:16
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has not fixed offense. Arkansas would have struggled. Well, Arkansas.
44:19
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt would have struggled. Okay. 14 other teams walk out
44:23
Speaker 1: of there with a win. 14 other teams. You are crazy.
44:26
Speaker 1: Michigan is not a good football team. They're not, but
44:30
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say 14 other teams walk out
44:31
Speaker 1: of there with a win.
44:32
Speaker 2: I mean, they've got a hell of a coach, and
44:34
Speaker 2: they're struggling offensively, no doubt. I mean, I think Michigan's
44:37
Speaker 2: a 7 or 8 win team.
44:38
Speaker 1: And on the Mateer thing, Mateer, early in the first half,
44:41
Speaker 1: he's throwing over receivers left and right.
44:44
Speaker 4: He looked like Archman in the first half.
44:46
Speaker 1: Mateer's not a good quarterback. He's not. And Arbuckle, I think,
44:49
Speaker 1: is in over his head. And that's my concern for Oklahoma.
44:52
Speaker 1: They're going to have good enough defense always to win.
44:54
Speaker 1: Venables can coach defense. But I just don't think they're
44:56
Speaker 1: going to have the offense they need. Again, it's why
44:58
Speaker 1: I put them where I put them in the preseason.
45:01
Speaker 1: And through one week, I thought, OK, maybe I've gotten
45:04
Speaker 1: too negative. Maybe I'm wrong. But then I watch them Saturday.
45:07
Speaker 1: I'm like, nope, that's exactly what I think they are.
45:08
Speaker 2: Who do you feel like is 100% better than Oklahoma
45:11
Speaker 2: in the SEC.
45:12
Speaker 1: Let's listen to Brent Bittables first on the John Mateer conversation. John,
45:17
Speaker 1: when he has a performance like today, he's obviously going
45:19
Speaker 1: to receive some negativity or criticism from people, but what
45:23
Speaker 1: do you see in him?
45:23
Speaker 8: He's been criticized all offseason. It's not going to be
45:26
Speaker 8: any worse and any louder than it was before. He's
45:29
Speaker 8: got to be inside out. He's got to focus on
45:31
Speaker 8: the things that he can control, and we've got to
45:34
Speaker 8: focus on the things that we can control and find
45:36
Speaker 8: the ways.
45:37
Speaker 3: Again, the.
45:40
Speaker 8: Magnifying glass the right way to find out, again, incrementally,
45:44
Speaker 8: how can we get better? And I know he'll do that,
45:47
Speaker 8: and we'll do that.
45:48
Speaker 1: Who do I think is better in Oklahoma, your question?
45:51
Speaker 1: A lot of coaches speak right there. Georgia, Texas, LSU, Alabama,
45:55
Speaker 1: Ole Miss, Texas A & M, Tennessee, Florida. And then
45:59
Speaker 1: I debate Missouri and South Carolina.
46:01
Speaker 4: Were you watching games this weekend?
46:02
Speaker 1: I watched every one. I watched every second of that
46:04
Speaker 1: Oklahoma game. I watched almost every second of Western Michigan
46:08
Speaker 1: and Michigan.
46:09
Speaker 4: I mean, I told you.
46:10
Speaker 1: So to me, I'm watching Oklahoma lose to an 0-1
46:14
Speaker 1: Michigan team.
46:15
Speaker 4: You can't compare. You know that.
46:18
Speaker 2: With all that said, I told you Oklahoma was going
46:20
Speaker 2: to lose this game. You did say that, and you
46:22
Speaker 2: stuck by it on Saturday. I think they're still going
46:24
Speaker 2: to win. I mean, their schedule is brutal, but I
46:26
Speaker 2: still think they win nine games.
46:27
Speaker 1: I may not go as deep as Jim, but Oklahoma
46:30
Speaker 1: is not one of the three or four or five
46:31
Speaker 1: best teams in the SEC.
46:32
Speaker 2: I've got them at five right now. I think there's
46:34
Speaker 2: definitely three better.
46:36
Speaker 1: So there's four you will definitely say.
46:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, the offense is more of a
46:40
Speaker 4: problem than I thought it would be.
46:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and here's where Arbuckle, I'm like, you guys were
46:45
Speaker 1: both watching, just like I was. End of the first half,
46:48
Speaker 1: you're out near midfield. You've got a third down. And
46:51
Speaker 1: even Klatt was like, what are they doing here? And
46:54
Speaker 1: I texted Klatt. I was, as Klatt is saying it,
46:57
Speaker 1: I texted Klatt and I'm like, what is Oklahoma doing?
47:00
Speaker 1: And Klatt responded at halftime. He was like, it was
47:02
Speaker 1: almost like they were playing. not to make a mistake
47:06
Speaker 1: that let's don't make a mistake and give up a
47:07
Speaker 1: score and you're like this is the best field position
47:10
Speaker 1: you've had all game it's right at the half yeah
47:13
Speaker 1: it's easily the best field position because michigan was keeping
47:15
Speaker 1: them pinned down their starting position yeah was uh 30
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Speaker 1: or are closer to their goal line yeah and this
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Speaker 1: is the best field position you had lansing you're right
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Speaker 1: at the half so even if you do make a
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Speaker 1: mistake chances michigan takes advantage of it pretty low with
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Speaker 1: bryce underwood playing quarterback he was remarkably the worst quarterback
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Speaker 1: in the game.
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Speaker 2: Cetania bailed them out of so many bad spots last
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Speaker 2: year en route to go into a college football playoff
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Speaker 2: when they didn't have any offense. I'm just surprised because
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Speaker 2: he's like Malachi, Tony, like light, light, light, light, light
47:42
Speaker 2: as Cetania.
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Speaker 4: But if you're Arbuckle, five touches? Like that guy.
47:46
Speaker 1: But here's where Cetania helps you too is in punt returns.
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Speaker 1: And he could never return one because Oklahoma was constantly
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Speaker 1: getting pinned down on the lines. And here's your problem
47:54
Speaker 1: if you're an Oklahoma fan. You had Lincoln Riley. For
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Speaker 1: years and years and years. And what did Lincoln Riley
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Speaker 1: not care about?
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Speaker 4: Defense.
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Speaker 1: Defense. And now you've got Brent Venables. Not that Brent
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about offense. But you flipped the script. But
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Speaker 1: now you've got the anti-Lincoln Riley. That's right. It's like
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Speaker 1: you're caught in, okay, God, if we just have a
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Speaker 1: good defense for all those years, if we just have
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Speaker 1: a good defense. Now you've got this great defense and
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Speaker 1: you're like, God, I miss offense. Yeah, boy, I wish
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Speaker 1: we could score points.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they thought that Mateer and, you know,
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Speaker 2: to get Mateer, they thought that Arbuckle, this was almost like,
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Speaker 2: You guys remember this, and this ties Lincoln Riley back together,
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Speaker 2: when Dabo goes out and hires Garrett Riley, the hot
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 4: And that was Arbuckle, and it was kind of a
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Speaker 4: package deal, obviously, last year.
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Speaker 2: But I fully expect there's going to be multiple offensive
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Speaker 2: coordinator changes in the SEC.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that. When Arbuckle came and Mateer came,
48:52
Speaker 1: They thought they were getting offense. When I got a
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Speaker 1: gym membership, I thought I was getting abs. They didn't
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Speaker 1: get an offense, and I didn't get abs this weekend.
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Speaker 1: You've got to call plays, and you've got to go
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Speaker 1: to the gym. Yeah. I want to ask you about
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Speaker 1: one other game before we get to Alabama in our
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Speaker 1: next segment. In college football, there's one thing you count on.
49:14
Speaker 1: Iowa State's going to play a close game.
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Speaker 4: Death taxes and Cy Hawk being within three points.
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Speaker 1: And it's and also it's usually not gonna be a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of points I kept looking at my TV
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Speaker 1: it was on TV too for me so I'm watching
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Speaker 1: all the craziness as that comeback's happening and I keep
49:31
Speaker 1: looking over and one time I literally had to just
49:34
Speaker 1: to make sure the clock was moving. I had to
49:36
Speaker 1: squint my eyes and make sure the clock was moving
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Speaker 1: because it looked like they were in midfield and the
49:41
Speaker 1: score hadn't changed in a long, long time.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: You thought maybe it had frozen up. It's such a
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Speaker 1: great rivalry game, and it means so much to the
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Speaker 1: people of Iowa. There just doesn't seem like a whole
49:51
Speaker 1: lot that goes on when they're actually playing the game.
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Speaker 2: I give Jimmy Rogers a lot of credit that Iowa
49:56
Speaker 2: State was in that game.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they were a two-touchdown dog.
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Speaker 1: And they lost everybody, for those who don't know, right? Everybody.
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Speaker 1: Most of them went to Penn State.
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Speaker 2: Anybody that was worth anything left Ames and went to
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Speaker 2: College Station with Matt Campbell. I told you guys watching
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Speaker 2: Iowa last week, their defense really, really good.
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Speaker 4: Hank Brown's awful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We're talking Iowa football, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They've got a good defensive back quarterback.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He did fall into the end zone for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: It's every year. It's every year. Good defense, no offense.
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Speaker 4: And they've got a really good– Kamari Moulton's a really
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Speaker 4: good running back.
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Speaker 1: They're a poor man's Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: Now, they will end up beating somebody they shouldn't this year.
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Speaker 1: They will because that's what Kirk French does. By the way,
50:34
Speaker 1: there's a path to the playoffs for Iowa because of
50:37
Speaker 1: the problem Oregon and Ohio State inherited this weekend. So
50:41
Speaker 1: that puts Oregon in a bad place. The Big Ten's
50:44
Speaker 1: going to usually get three– they're going to get three
50:46
Speaker 1: at least, maybe four. Can you be– Penn State, Iowa, USC,
50:51
Speaker 1: that door flew open with that Oregon loss this weekend.
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Speaker 1: They benefited. We'll talk more about that later on. Before
50:56
Speaker 1: we get to the top of the hour here, Albie
50:59
Speaker 1: is the mascot at Auburn. He is fantastic. But when
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Speaker 1: it comes to actual sheer strength, Cosmo at BYU, and
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Speaker 1: it's different people all the time and different people even
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Speaker 1: through the game, but this mascot does some things. Look
51:15
Speaker 1: at this. He's got weights stacked on top of each other.
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Speaker 1: So you've got to have balance. LT, you're the strongest
51:20
Speaker 1: one on the table. You've got to be able to
51:23
Speaker 1: have balance and strength to do that. Now, if you're shaky,
51:32
Speaker 1: that can bend and fall.
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Speaker 2: That's like gymnast stuff. I mean, you probably have one
51:36
Speaker 2: in a thousand that can do stuff like that. Like
51:39
Speaker 2: that core strength and the upper body strength is crazy.
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Speaker 1: Look at that. And look, those are the legit weights
51:45
Speaker 1: that are stacked on top of each other. Just to
51:47
Speaker 1: stand on them is amazing. Yeah, the balance, everything.
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Speaker 4: For the future, though, they might want to give the
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Speaker 4: tail some structure.
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Speaker 1: Well, nope.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: It had structure. You beat me to the punch. We
51:59
Speaker 1: have a still photo from the side.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: From the side. All right. Kids, cover the kids' eyes.
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Speaker 1: There's the problem with the tail from the side, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: You'll see it here in five seconds.
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Speaker 4: He might want to tie that in a knot.
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Speaker 1: For those that are wondering, Cosmo's a.
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Speaker 2: Boy.
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Speaker 1: Boy cougar there at BYU. Beautiful place to watch a game.
52:19
Speaker 1: I always want to go to a game there. And
52:21
Speaker 1: that was a good win for BYU over Arizona. They
52:24
Speaker 1: are the best. I think nothing but rising success for
52:30
Speaker 1: BYU the rest of the season. Soak it all in, boys.
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Speaker 1: Soak it all in. We move to segment number two
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Speaker 1: where we'll probably tell you about XXXY all coming up here.
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Speaker 1: Back in a moment.