Latest / You Don't Know Ball Podcast / Episode 117: ALABAMA VS GEORGIA! Who will be the king of the SEC? Michigan... + Week 6 Predictions!
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- Isaac Rowe: What's going on? You doing old ball podcast nation? Welcome back to another episode. Alex, you feeling all right over there? You look you look like a little down right now. I hate this team. sure we'll get into Michigan later. Alex is obviously pretty happy about how they played this weekend, so definitely we'll get into that. Bama looked extra Bama looked great. Yeah. Nordame struggling a little bit. usually had a bye week, so that's not bad. Yeah, I was a lit really looking forward to watching them play, and then literally on Saturday, I'm like, wait, why does that say October ninth? Damn it. Dude, because I was so like they literally were coming in with so much momentum. Yeah. Now it's like scored. Well, Oregon got a bye week too. Yeah, I know. It is pretty equal. I think before you go play Oregon, you want as much rest as possible, but also just helps them out too. Yep. But who knows? It just gives us more time to think about our picks on that one, even though we did all lock in Oregon. I had a historically bad week in Pick'em week. How how many weeks? No, you've had worse weeks. This season. you and you and Isaac did the same. So Isaac went two and five. Hey, first of all, I just gotta say, are y'all ready to be a little bit more risky now? Yeah. Are y'all are y'all ready? I'm I'm a game back from you. I'm I'll be back. You're actually two games back. all right. I'm two games back from you. I went from first to second. I d what did I tell y'all? I told y'all shit was about to start hitting the fan. Yep. And it did. It definitely did. It did. and I was one point away from going six for or seven for seven. 'Cause South Carolina South Carolina blew the lead to Kentucky and they lost by one point. God. So South Carolina. Hey, Kelkie do. Got that one right. You did get that one right. Okay, wow. And you got Baylor right too. How about them Baylor Bears, Jack? Yeah, 55 to what? DJ Goatway? 21. DJ Goatway. So Isaac went two and five. He's now 28 and 17 overall. Dude, Shuck, you gotta get your ass. Alex went two for five. He's 20 and 25 overall. Jack went three and four. He's 28 and 17 overall, tied with Isaac for second. And your boy went six and one. Predicting all those crazy upsets or maybe bad picks. Worked out for me, man. I told y'all it was gonna get crazy this week. It's probably gonna get even crazier next week. But six and one on the week, so close to seven for seven. got North Texas right, got Missouri right, got Florida State right. I mean, that was the week of You should have put a part like my my dreams. I did, dude, and South Carolina sold me. I would have won three hundred. No way. Dude, South Carolina blew the league. Did watch that game or no? No, I looked at it the next morning because I was out Saturday all day. I just happened to look at it the next morning and I'm like, my God. They as I kept scrolling, I kept seeing the green. huh. I'm like, which team sold it? And it was South Carolina by one I know. I would've won three hundred dollars if South Carolina won. But it's all right. I'll take being thirty and fifteen, leapfrogging in the first place. Let's get it. Back to where the kid belongs. I wish. And you're only ten games back. Only that's that's like two weeks. It's actually one good week. Yeah. Really nowadays if we do I mean it really you need two good weeks in a row and everyone else to do mid, but you see, this is where it gets tough because like other people might make a pick that you wanna make, but you wanna jump in the standings. Right. So you might go against what you think, but Yeah. It was a pretty crazy week. I would say it was fun though. Like you said, Alabama played extremely well. and looking forward to this Georgia game with them this week is big one. It is big. And I I think them beating Mississippi State at Mississippi State is very intriguing. They to say the least, because they host Georgia. Yeah. So I don't know. That's gonna be really interesting. Bryant Denny? damn. Yeah. Ohio State covered the spread against Iowa. I mean I didn't watch that game but I kinda figured like It was ugly. Iowa did their thing on defense, keeping them to only thirty one, but you just knew they weren't gonna be able to do anything on offense, despite them even being at home. Yeah, that Michigan game is totally a just Iowa when Michigan and Iowa played, you knew that was just not the truth of like Michigan is is totally ass and Iowa is also ass. So I Iowa's not terrible, but they I mean, I thought they would have performed a little bit better 'cause they were h at home and I thought their offense was showing strides in that Michigan game, but as soon as that Michigan Minnesota game ended, I went, Well, Michigan was ass and this whole Iowa, Ohio State game is not looking too great for me. So and then the I mean, it's shown in the first series, Hank Brown was sacked and he fumbled the ball and Sa Ohio State scored like five plays later. So yeah. I mean their offense just cannot keep up with how good their defense is. And I you would think they'd they must put all their recruiting efforts into just keeping their defense illegal. Because who are they trying to recruit at QB? They need a dual threat guy there. They need better receivers that can get open. They need I feel like they would have a good offensive line. It's Iowa, but still like they they just need more dynamic players, I think. I think they get these old school guys like Hank Brown's a totally old school pocket passing quarterback. And You know, it was good enough to beat Michigan, I guess. And y you you see the same thing with Mr. Lindsay over there in Minnesota. His name's Drake Lindsay. Drake Lindsay, yeah. And I mean I would love to talk about that game. So I actually watched that game from start to finish. So did I, yeah. Alex, you wanna start off or you wanna No. You could start us off, Caleb. I think Alex is a little salty. Listen, dude, I think I think I mean it I think it's a question of What do you think the actual issue is? Is it the play calling or is it Bryce? Bryce. Cause I see both arguments, but I think Stephen A. Smith said it best, and I think he blames Bryce. And I I'm sick of seeing how nonchalant the kid is, especially after he plays so bad. you just lost to Minnesota, you lose to Iowa, you almost lose to Western and like You barely beat Oklahoma. You barely beat Oklahoma. You barely beat Oklahoma, who's apparently pretty bad, and it's just like I would just love to see more passion out of the guy. You know, it doesn't it didn't even look like he was trying against Minnesota. And man, they made Minnesota's defense look elite. They totally did. They totally did. so that's all I gotta say about that. I d I yeah, you can blame the play calling too, but I think a lot of this game falls on the shoulder pads of Bryce Underwood. for sure. I mean you can't go you can't have ball in the second like that third quarter for fifty five seconds or seeing that standard entering into the fourth quarter and they've had the ball for fifty five seconds and Bryce threw two picks and he's and they must RPO one was god off worse. And it and like you said, Kale like Bryce just doesn't show like he cares. And I don't know if that's just like he cares but he doesn't want to show it like he's nonchalant or he just actually doesn't give a Yeah. So I think I don't really know. I think Jason Beck is scheming up stuff for like the there's open receivers on the field. You can see it clear as day. Like that last play of the fourth and five. And he threw the he skyrocketed the ball in the second round of the stands. There's a tight end wide open in the middle of the field where the chains are. Just move the chains. That's all you need to do. Yeah. I would skyrocket it off to some kid in the stands like I was pissed at him for that because I threw a bet on Michigan when they were losing to win. It was like five to win twenty or something like that. So I was hoping they would actually win that last drive, but you know, yeah. Alex, you got anything? yeah, I got a few things. First I'm pissed off that we lost the little brown jug for the next two years, two seasons. So they're not playing next year? Mm mm. Or next year. Or the year after that. shit. It was more than two seasons. So that's why they haven't had a win against Michigan than nineteen since nineteen seventy seven. Well at home, yes. Because Michigan is I honestly I'm not even kidding. Like I haven't seen Michigan lose to Minnesota in my entire lifetime. So not true you saw them lose in twenty fourteen. Well I didn't I didn't care in twenty fourteen to watch that game happen. Well twenty fourteen. It was it was it was it was it was Mason's birthday party and I was sitting on the counter and that was Michigan Michigan State. No, that was Michigan Michigan lost on the counter. It was bad. Brady Hook was coach What? Yeah. I get a pretty like cemented memory in my head. That's weird. I don't remember that. I'll verify that. Well then I guess twenty fourteen, I guess that's the last one. man. Come on. Who the hell got her? Bijan? No, it's not Bijan. It's the defense. the twenty Bijan out there like safety or something. There you go. What are you smiling about? Bijan. People dying right now and you're smiling. yeah, I mean I'm pretty pissed off about shit. Didarius? he's fine. Come to the Lions again. He's definitely got a concussion or something. He got a concussion or is he like is paralyzed? Like, guys, I'm good. Wait, what's that guy doing to him? That dude's freaking Man, he's what the hell? Ouch. Good God. That look right hurt. Anyways, can't be Back putting a riddle like that and it won't happen. Back to Alex is saying. Yeah, so I'm pretty pissed off about that and just having that that trophy out of the Michigans. Out of Ann Arbor for next foreseeable future. Foreseeable future. I'm pretty pissed off at Bryce. I mean I'm I'm so tired of you know, defending him like he's gonna get better, he's gonna progress. Like, no. Every week we say the same things and he just keeps on degressing. Like yeah, he had a good game against Iowa, but Iowa's not amazing. I mean the only reason we were in that game is because our defense frickin' played their balls off every game. But their defense tried to play their balls off against Minnesota I'll tell you what, they gave Minnesota every opportunity to keep scoring touchdowns, held him to three multiple times, but after the the amount of turnovers that the offense gave up, like it's almost it's sickening. Levi Levi Betts said it best. He was like, dude, the defense has got to be so tired. Dude because Yeah, because they're on the field the whole game. What do you expect? And you you could tell towards the end of the game, yeah, they were tired 'cause Minnesota they were converting the second downs that Michigan was holding them to 'cause they would get good like I noticed this, it was such a weird pattern. Like a strong first down run, it'd be third or second and three. Michigan would stuff them, and then it'd be a third and three, and then they'd stuff him again, or they'd be short at fourth and one. Yeah. And I feel like Minnesota would would punt that away. And then we saw the muff punt too. So and they held him the three after that. So it was like But you can't even say like if Andrew Mars didn't muff that punt, are they really are you gonna tell me that they're gonna go down the field eighty five yards No, no, no, dude. Yeah, they would've No, they wouldn't. I believe they would I mean even when you guys said in the group chat like hey there's still a chance Bryce can lead for a touchdown here, I'm like Bryce underpants is not doing that. Like I Dude, I laughed out loud when you said that. It was so funny. I was I he I had no hope in that. It's like I have I hate Michigan football. Like I as a b true blood diehard fan, like go blue for life, but like I hate this team. Like I can't say anything positive about them. We have all this talent. You could say one thing positive. Jay Hill's the only competition. Jay Hill, okay. The defe this is only about the offense. The defense, I love the defense, but they're not gonna score us most points. They're not gonna score us pick six as like they sh shot out Nathaniel Stero st staling. Awesome pick six. I've never seen a play like that. Yeah, that was insane. He came out of nowhere inside. I was like, here comes another touchdown and it was going right to the other direction. I'm like, heck yeah dude, let's go. And then Offense just didn't wanna play. All right, get down. All right, cool. Yeah, the offense just didn't wanna play this last week and it kinda irritates me and kinda stresses me out for the next upcoming games. I mean Okay. Michigan has to figure some things out in the bye week and I pray to God, I pray to God it's starting with the quarterback 'cause Kyle Winningham, you cannot bow bow down to the boosters who paid him. Like you gotta put it the best foot forward for this football team. Like You cannot tell me that Bryce Underwood is your best option at quarterback. You just can't. It is when they run the ball with him. If you if you're gonna run him at as a running back, sure. But he this guy's not Denard Robinson. He's not as fast. So Jack, you have any words about Michigan football? I suck. They need to do something. They get they better fix it quick. They're starting O and two in Big Ten play. O and two. First time ever with Michigan State, Penn State, and Michigan all as O and two. Wow. UCLA's UCLA would beat this Michigan team. And they probably will. I don't know, man. Coming to the big house in November, that's gonna be tough for them boys. I think the rest of the season will be determined on how they come out of this bye week, how they look against Penn State, because obviously Penn State got dominated by Northwestern and they gave up the that was a crazy game. I was watching that at the bar. They gave up like three hundred yards rushing to Northwestern and Northwestern looking sneaky good, not gonna lie. But they're looking really good. I mean, you see the game they had against Indiana, we're seeing this. They're putting they're putting some good weeks together, right? Giles. Dark horse for high. You how much I would pay to get him to be at Michigan right now? Like they're they're a dangerous team, but like Penn State, they lost against Wisconsin. They lost against Northwestern and now they're coming into this Michigan game or I don't know who they have they're they got USC this week. They might be going 0 3 into this Michigan game in Big Ten play. Who? Penn State. yeah. And if Michigan wins, that'd be a huge step for them in the right direction, but they need to start building off that luckily they got at home, man. Right. Right now, yeah. If they lose it's it's gonna be a long story. I saw a meme about this game that's coming up. It's like Michigan and Penn State will be playing at two AM on Animal Planet. So I thought that was kinda funny. It kind of puts it humor in the my dog ass team. So I don't know, Kyle Winniham, figure it out, dude. 'Cause I'm getting pretty impatient. And if you don't figure it out, I I won't be surprised if Michigan moves on from him and his I don't think I don't think they'll move on from Kyle that easily. I think if there's anybody to do it, it's Kyle. Wittingham. He's ha he's a proven track record. He did say this was his toughest challenge challenge in forty years of his being in the business. So I don't I don't doubt him for that. It's the biggest school and program he's had to deal with in 40 years. But he has I feel like there's a lot more pressure than other programs as well, because they did just win three years ago or whatever. And he has more talent than he had ever on Utah, you would say. But he's tied down to a quarterback who has a twelve million dollar NF deal and he benches it and he's probably feels all this sort of pressure and I'm like, you know what, he needs to just do what's right for the program. And like what Jack said is just start car. Starting car really the what's right. But that's the thing, like worked out for Notre Dame. There's still there's still so much talk about how the play calling is so bad. It is and it's also Joel Clatt said this during the game like football seems like Joel Clatt said this during the game about the offensive line is like Michigan has all these offensive linemen that love to run down you run want to run the ball, like want to run the ball. They're not doing the zones. They want to do power. They wanna do these traps and all these things. Michigan has an offensive linemen for that, but they're calling Beck is calling this completely, you know, zone stretch plays outside. Like trying to get these linemen to be more athletic do more athletic plays than what they actually are. I mean, it's just a Obviously Michigan has a bunch of issues on offense, but offensive line, quarterback, and honestly, you could really say the tight ends have not been a factor at all. No. I mean, it's kind of dis disgusting. Just I was like you I've said this on you've gotta be kidding me. What the hell? Zoom. First down. give them the point. No, but you gotta give but I you guys know that what I said when we first hired Kyle Winningham. I was so excited to see like man Winningham and Jason Beck's offense is gonna be awesome. It's gonna be points are gonna be scoring Beck has a proven track record of. I don't think it's Beck. I don't think the issue is Beck. I never thought it was him. So I think I need to bring back the Snow Bunny Chaser. Run game coordinator. Sharone, Snowbunny Chaser more. Somebody somebody re did like a report. It was like Breaking news. Apparently Sterome Moore was in the ho in the locker room at hall in halftime and everybody was excited to see him, but he was still on his phone. No, but it's just it's irritating. But for sure. I don't really need to say much more because anything I say about them is not gonna affect what happens inside the building for the next two weeks. So you never know. Hope it won't hinder either. But looking at it, I think Michigan's gonna But it's all comes out to that October seventeenth game. I think that's where it the season needs to turn for the better or the worse. So I would say November seventh. What's November seventh? Michigan Michigan. my god, Alex. There that game will start. That game will be fine. That one will probably be at two AM on Animal. That one honestly that one might be because Michigan still is ass by that point and Michigan State we know is ass right now. after their stinker they put up against Wisconsin, like might legitimately be on Animal Planet. Meatball sub Tuesday Meatball sub Mun Saturday. I'm gonna put the over under on turnovers at fifty percent off meatball subs. Bryce underwood working the counter. Notre Dame played North Carolina this weekend. They gave up twenty six points, so that was kind of too much, but they they gave up a kick return, so technically we only gave up twenty. if we think about it. So two ninety nine yard drives at to at the end of the half and at end of the game. So it was and they had one touchdown and it was like beginning of the beginning of the game. So it's like it was a little too much for me to feel good. But you know what I do feel good about coming out of that game is that we finally established a run. We've got we ran over over two hundred yards. Jonas Walton looked like a study's our freshman running back. Nolan Williams looked good too. Aeneas sorry, Nolan James looked good. No Aeneas Williams looked okay. He's still he's always I think he's like that third down power back. Get like get that one yard, get the two to three yards. I mean, like he's that kind of back that we need in the backfield. He's not the most explosive guy, he's not the most dynamic pass catcher. So I I'm still wanting to see more out of him, but I was really excited to see out of that Walton James combination. Freshman too. Yeah. Freshman youngsters. So that that was good. Carr obviously was dominant. He threw for four touchdown three touchdowns and he ran for one ran for one. Faison had an unbelievable catch. Faison was Faizon's a dude, bro. Deep post route he had a touchdown and he had a deep go route touchdown. So that was awesome to see. Plus a couple other receptions. The one thing that I was really excited to see is that Jar Jaden Greyhouse finally got back in the end zone. So Hey, yeah, that's a good thing. I saw that. Bro's still there. Yeah, yeah. That was that was nostalgic from like the Ohio State, Penn State playoff game. So it was good to see that. He's still like making plays for us. So hopefully he can build on that success from last week to this week. But He's only got one snap to do We got Stamford this weekend, so it's and they just lost fifty nine to three to Wake Forest. So We'll see if we can't put up a hundred on him. Davis Warren. Yeah, Davis Warren. Davis Warren, the Buckeye Slayer. I don't know. He's been slinging that ball from Stanford for real, though. He has a good arm. He was always a good quarterback. He's just on shit team. My word. Whoa. Damn. They're pulling at each other. Like you just you just molested him. You were offside. Does that helmet even fit him? My God. But Looking at it, I'm ex I'm excited that nobody run game, just clean up some things on defense and we'll we'll be looking good for that October seventeenth game against BYU coming up in a couple of weeks. So Nice. That's gonna be fun. I'm not sure what's We'll finally get to predict one of your one one a game for your team. Right? No, UCLA's shown up twice now. That's their biggest test. Michigan's shown up a bunch and so has Alabama. So I mean we're just kinda waiting for them to play a real team. We could have done spread for UNC though. We could have done spread for UNC. No, that's all right. Club is when you're independent. We don't play high school. You wanna know who literally played high schools? Miami. Like Miami hasn't played anybody. Bro, Florida AM. my god. Clubs would be ranked. Clubs is so ass right now, it's not even funny. I feel bad for Dabo. I watched that game like th from the beginning kick to the end. And I could say that Dabo I don't know, man. That team is so dysfunctional so many ways. They had every opportunity to make that game close, and every time they got to that point, they shot themselves in the foot. I love the penalties, fumbles, block kicks, missed tackles. Bad quarterback play. Bad no, Tate Reynolds actually played good. he did. But you no run game. Couldn't tell. Yeah. I mean he completed like twenty nine out of forty six passes or some shit like that. He like had a career day. But It's not like Clemson doesn't have the weapons. It's that like they're so inconsistent and they can't they don't know how to put it together. And their offense needs to figure it out because obviously their defense was on the field too much and they lost by a lot. I love the Mensah run there. He fumbled it and still recovered it for a touchdown. I mean that pretty much explains what Clemson's defense did. He fumbled the ball and it traveled five yards and then went in the end zone and Mensa recovered it and scored a touchdown. And that's a own fumble. Yeah. That was what the hell. But other than that, I mean, let's talk about Bama. Did you watch that game? Holy cow, what a throw. That's right. You were at a work, dude. You're at work. But Kamario Taylor versus Keelan Russell, one of those quarterbacks didn't disappoint and that was Keelon Russell. He actually looked like a legitimate Heisman trophy contender at like quarterback on Saturday. He played out of his mind. Ryan Colem Coleman Williams got a touchdown, I think maybe two. But Alabama looked like a force to be reckoned with. They were solid on offense. They were dominant on defense. Camario Taylor couldn't do anything all day. It's literally from the first series, you could tell it's gonna be a long day for Mississippi State because he tried doing a pump fake and he threw the ball straight he like dropped the ball straight on the ground. And Alabama recorded scored a touchdown and then he threw a pick six. Like, holy shit. And that pick six is like right two to the ground. Right. That was a two to melt with extra cheese right to the deep field. Like it was bad it was that bad. But it still made all of Bryce Underwood's picks like look a hundred percent worse. I still would I would still take Camario Taylor over anybody. my God. Name Bryce Underwood. Every every single time I would take Camario Terror. If we if we had Camario Taylor right now at Michigan, you know how in how many games we have won would have won by now? I don't know. Probably probably probably five and Yeah. Keelon Russell actually was a low don't throw it to him. Lower rated lower rated recruit. Than Bryce Underwood coming out of high school. Yeah, it's shocking. And Kelon Russell was too. He was like right under it. That's what just said. I thought you Camaro Taylor. No, I don't know what Camaro Taylor was. I don't Keelon Russell. Probably wasn't that crazy if he's at Mississippi State, but he's from Mississippi. He's like 30 miles away from Mississippi State. From Starkville, yeah. But yeah, but Alabama looked good. And Florida, I'm gonna kill you, honestly. Florida, I need to hell, Florida. I dude, I had a parlay on him for and I just needed Florida when I went away. Like 160 bucks, and Florida got their ass beat. Like it was bad. I watched that whole game like, my God. Like, stop, stop, stop, Missouri. Stop. You're dead already. We're dead already. And the cat the Missouri's running back ran for 200 something yards by himself. Wow. And three touchdowns. Like it was ridiculous. Their passing attack was crazy, too. Austin Simmons, like, he hasn't thrown a pick all year. He has 13 touchdowns and no picks. Like that is ridiculous. And Missouri's a sneaky good team. I won't lie. Well, they did just jump eleven spots too. I feel like that might be a little like really eleven spots. But I mean that's what you beat Florida at home, sure. We'll also beat Ole Miss. So I guess that makes Missouri look even more impressive. But then again, dude, these teams week to week, man, Michigan might come back after that bye week and just like dominate. Like that's just how college football is. God, I hope so. That's why I went so risky because like You never know what version of Florida we're gonna get. Especially Virginia. Virginia looked like actual ass. Yeah, they did. Might have played worse than Michigan. I'm not gonna lie. No, no. Bo Prabula like played like shit, dude. Like is that the quarterback for Virginia? really? Yeah. Like, dude, they lost to Florida State by thirty one points. Yeah, Florida State had something for them then game. I remember that crowd storming that like damn near killed one of their players. So they they had something for them. Yeah. I wonder if that player's still there. No, he actually like retired. really? Yeah, he medically retired. Wow. Because of that game. Not because of that game, but like just in general. really? Yeah, I think. I don't I can't remember. I I think so though. But it wa it was it was a crazy experience for that for sure. But I don't know. It was a good week of college football though, it was fun. It was really fun. I liked watching that Texas Tech game. my god. And again it wasn't like a crazy good game, but I just enjoyed You know, having that on at the bar and watching that one, that was fun. Where were we at Isaac Wilson? I was at Goat at that point. The old goat, downtown Kemuzu. And then we went to the library after that. Saw I saw Isaac Wilson throw pick six in his own end zone. Dude, that's crazy. That was awesome. You look like your older brother Zach. Zach at BYU is different though. BYU though you bring it up, struggled this week against TCU. Just gotta say that. Seventeen seven. Didn't look all that great. Bear Bachmeyer struggled. Why would you throw the screen to be tight end? We'll see what happens in the as a screen. For October seventeenth and that game comes around. But other than that, that was pretty much it for college football that I have. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I don't really have anything else. I wish I had more to say, but my favorite team didn't play this week, so True. I guess we could get into the games this week unless we want to talk NFL, but we got NBA preseason going on. So this is this is g it's getting to a point now in the year where we have something in two weeks we're gonna be talking about everything. Our prediction for the opening games in the NBA. Like we can add that to it too, 'cause the Pistons versus Celtics is the first game of the season. Yeah. What day is that? October twentieth. So it's a Tuesday. we missed it. It's a Tuesday and the gate their games like three PM. The opening game in the NBA is at three PM Detroit it's in Detroit. On a Monday. Dude there's gonna be no one there. There's gonna be no one there. But Connor will be there. He is going to that game. Why? god. He works there. But yeah. He's he'll be at the game at least, so that'll be kind of fun to see. That would be loud and proud because he might be the only one. It's like the Flint Tropics probably the Flint Tropics with the guy that like wins wins the half court throw toss or whatever. Shoot it. No free hot dogs for life or whatever. We can get in the NFL. I mean, the Lions lost in Sunday night primetime football. Seeing that last night was depressing as well. Our defense just is not it. Like our When it's like when do we give Kevin Shepard like the the axe? You know, I think Dan Campbell just loves him too much and it maybe he trusts him. 'Cause after all this, like I mean it was the same he was our I mean you gotta you gotta think like it's one of those things where you don't wanna let it go on too long before it can really derail another season, another season of Gibbs, Goff's playing out of his mind. Goff had fifty two fantasy points the other or last night. So yeah, I'm pretty sure. my God. Are you serious? I'm pretty sure he did. I saw Unless these guys got crazy leagues or rules going on in their league, I'm pretty sure he had fifty two fantasy points. Well, he sure as shit wasn't on my team. Sure as shit wasn't on my team. Okay, he definitely at least had like 30, but No, I'm not doubting you. He had a golf's playing out of his mind. And dude, it's just like, are we really gonna let our defense waste another year of this offense? Because we have good defenders. It's yeah. What is going on? 12 at 20? Okay. What is going on? Maybe in the league they were playing two QBs. That's why. it was a two QB league. So Goff had twenty and then yeah, so Goff yeah, pretty good game. Twenty. That's still good. I mean Bryce Young had twenty one. But how much how long are we gonna let this excuse of have us having a bad secondary? These guys are still pro athletes after all. Like I know we can't be the only team with this problem, but we seem to be. So what the f Hell is Kevin Shepard doing? I don't know. I mean he doesn't know how to coach a defense. Well, his specialty is linebackers and our linebacker plays our I would say all right. Mid. I would say well, all right and mid. Yeah. Pretty much the same. it's our corners and safeties are just getting sliced and diced every single Sunday. Honestly, if you're playing if your quarterback plays against the Lions in like fantasy Start ya start that guy. I had Bryce Young last night. Geno Smith had twenty six. Josh Allen had forty. Yeah. Shuck had twenty three. Bryce Young had twenty one. I just looked at this so guess who I'm starting at quarterback in fantasy next week? Jacoby Pursett. No shot. Might as well. Geno if Geno did it, Jacoby can do it. I got Trey McBride. Let's work together. I got Jeremiah Love. He might have a career day. Yeah. I thought he was out. He's he hopefully he's not out. I haven't seen anything about him being out, but it's just saying like Yes, they have injured safeties of Kirby and and what's his other name? Brian Bryan. Kirby I mean Kirby's the coverage guy. Yeah. I mean Brian Branch is like our strong safety. Come downhill kind of guy, yeah. They are they're they're a great combo, but I doubt they change any of the results of any of the games. So we gotta address our cornerback because Holy cow, can we get Brian Robinson out of here? Especially with what's his name? C well Kevin Porter Jr. just got traded from the Steelers. We really should have tried to shop for him. The Cowboys ended up getting him. But Terry on Arnold like left his team, that really hurt us bad. Because yes, he was He was also mid. He was mid corner, but he was the best corner we had. Yeah. So now we did we did spend a first round pick on the guy. Yeah, we did. He had to go and trap somebody in his basement. Had to be Batman. Beat him or true. Torture him. Damn it. The V word. But looking at it, I mean vengeance. We'll see what the Lions do after this week. I I mean I can't if we have another pr pretty bad performance on defense against the Cardinals and it's the Cardinals. They're not the get great either. I think it's gonna be a hard thing to ac accept that Dan Campbell's gotta let him go. Kelvin Shepard go. who do you go at to after this? See if Aaron Glenn wants to come back. Yeah, but how can you fire Aaron Glenn with what he's got, bro? You're the New York Jets. You get it. They won what? No, they won. I think they're two and three right now. No, they're one and three. Yeah, they hate that. They were celebrating. They who'd they beat the Titans? Yeah. And then they lost against the Packers in overtime. And then they lost against the Lions. And then they lost against the Bears. And they were celebrating so, so like happy because they got their first pick in like over a year over two years. First interception. Yeah. And they literally, I don't know if you watched the pregame on Fox, like Terry Bradshaw and everybody. They were like. Yep, so the Jets haven't gotten an interception and so does this this guy this Miko Fitzpatrick hasn't gotten a pick in a six hundred and twenty two snaps. I'm like, he's gonna get a pick today. And sure is sure enough he did. I'm like, you've gotta be kidding me. They script this so bad. I don't know. NFL and I've actually had a career day in pick'ems for that game, honestly. I went I went I think I got two wrong out of the entire slate so far. Yeah. I was pretty pretty happy. Mike Rico. Best Why is he the best NFL announcer? You should be in the booth. What are you doing at watching the game? Dude, he does everything, bro. He does and he does college basketball, college football, used to be in Notre Dame. Used to be Notre Dame. It was those were iconic days when he was, but then he left. Yeah. Do better things, I guess. But all right. Get let's talk a little bit about basketball. I mean, we don't really have anything to say about basketball. We're kinda just waiting for the season to start at this point. I'm not gonna get too deep into it, but I'm I'm looking forward to how the Pistons do. They're losing this preseason game though, but you know, this this is one of the games where Cade and Devin Booker are only playing five minutes each. without Cade playing the whole game, you can't really get a good gauge on this team. We're down ten though, you know, the the dunk crew's going. other than that though, I'm r I'm really looking forward to watching the Heat play this year with Giannis and Bam. Sixers, obviously. I mean, we're gonna have to talk about them. We're I I'm really looking forward to coming over here on weekend nights and watching like a Sixers and Heat matchup. Like that, like the Eastern Conference this year is gonna be so much fun to watch. And I just saw an ad come out for like prime games or whatever. And they came out with it's it it's just cool to see Cade included as the Pistons representative and all these cool, like big NBA commercials. Because back in the day the Pistons didn't have a player to include in there. It was always like Curry, D. Rose, Tim Duncan, LeBron with the Heat. And now you get Jason Tatum, Jalen Brunson with the Knicks. He's like a superstar now. You got c you got Cade included in these commercials, and I'm just super excited to see how the East shakes out this year. Because this is the first year in a long time where the Eastern Conference is like the clearly better conference. Because there's Shoot man, eleven to twelve teams that could easily be playoff teams. yeah. The the seventy sixers are loaded. Yeah. Seventy sixers are loaded, the the Wizards on paper, kinda loaded. Like w I mean, they might sneak around and win forty games and sneak in, dude. Like this is gonna be s like the play in has been never more important than this year. Yeah. So I'm really looking forward to it. And plus college basketball too, obviously. Like all of our teams are looking pretty good, I would say, except for Notre Dame, unfortunately. But I I still think Michigan will finish the top Michigan is still has a great basketball team. They just don't have Dusty May anymore. So w that's that's gonna kinda be an interesting Jack. How's how's your team looking this year? College basketball wise. Bama's always fine. It's Virginia, you remember? it is Virginia. Like they can whoop the shit out of Notre Dame again. Mess around, make the tournament. Mess around and make the tournament. Virginia's always a tournament too. we gotta we gotta see like when Nordame and Virginia play, we might like We have to watch that again. Turnover. But one thing I had to say about the NBA r this year is one thing I'm sad about is Westcoat is not gonna be in the league anymore. yeah. Russell West was he even in the league last year? He was, he was on the Kings. Russell Westbrook is retired, so that's was my my pride enjoy of the NBA for a l a long time. Caled would vouch for me. So this dude's never been a Westbrook fan in his life. I'm just kidding. No, he this dude this dude loves Westbrook. Rusty See, here's my thing. Are you an OK C fan or were you a Russ fan? So where are you gonna put your fandom at He was a OK C fan because of what's his name, the YouTuber? L and U? L and U bro Sir Jubaca. No, I I was a Westbrook fan, but now I looking at the NBA, I guess I don't really have it. I mean, I like the Pistons. I guess I'm a Pistons fan, but like I I I feel I do remember we made Alex at a a magic fan. Yeah, yeah. Huge magic fan. I c I I was kinda like wherever Westbrook was, like but So are you a Kings fan then? 'Cause that's the last team he was on. Not now. I towards the end of the like end or like years of the career, I'm like, I I can't be fans of this team. He's got no aura if I was a fan of this team. But I mean I don't want to be a Thunder fan because then they're like I don't want to be called a bandwagon. Plus I don't really like Chet Holmgren. So And not a Thunder fan. What's wrong with Chad Holder? He's just I don't know. He's not Russ. He's not Russ. Not Russ, not KD, not James Harden and the boys. here we Not Serge and Ba. KD Serge. Katie and the boys. KD and the boys. Let's do it now. I can't even say like I'm a Bulls fan because Lonzo ain't even on that team anymore. Yeah, but if you choose to be a Bulls fan now, like that's kind of fun because they're in the same division as the Pistons are. Yeah. So But I I like I like the I like the It's it's I guess I guess I could be a Bulls fan of the You should no, you should just hop on the Sixers train, honestly. Sixers? No, I don't wanna be that. I don't wanna be a Braun fan. What? No, I'm not being roommates. Everybody's going to everybody's going to f Philly with Braun, but I'm not. I'm not doing bro. Well I Jack's a Philly fan. Me and Braun can probably make room for you. Yeah, room in that Me and Braun could probably find a place to play find a place to crash. Yeah, Braun Braun and I can help you. Wait, so you're Sixers bowls for now, but you're iffy about it. Magic Sixers Spurs. yeah, you know what? You are Spurs. Are you Raptors? Dude, that's that's kinda lit though. Didn't you go to a Toronto game? Y yeah, he went to one in Florida in the Magic Arena. You wasn't at Nova Nova Scotia Bank or whatever. I'll I'll select my team before the next episode. I'll I'm gonna do some research, see what I like. No, I like Jack as a Raptors fan. That kind of makes sense. Does the Magic still have the Wagner Bud brothers? They got my boy Fred Van Bleet though. And they're sponsored by Disney. The Raptors don't have Fred. I know. The Rockets do. I said they don't. Who's on the ball? Miss him. And spicy P. You g he's spicy pea. No no way we got Spicy P he's still there? No. they don't have many more. He's on the Pacers. you know what? I think I might like the Pacers. I I was gonna suggest them, but I wasn't sure. I I like I d I do like Well then we're all in the East and that's great. I like the Pacers. I like Siakam's on that team. I like what's that? He Tyrese. Tyrese Halliburton, yeah. Andrew Nemhard, you got you got Ivacha Zubac. I was like not good last year. No, they sucks because Tyrese sat out the whole year. okay. Tore his Achilles in game seven of the NBA Finals. Go Pacers. Belly aching about his Achilles and shit. Obviously I'm a Pistons fan, but go Pacers. That's valid though. That this now this will be fun if we all actually like like these teams and stuff. I might get a Halburn jersey. it. I d I do need to get myself a like a K jersey or like a Sar Thompson jersey would be fun. That'd be sweet. Yeah, I should get a Durin jersey. They're probably cheap right now. Did he actually? Yeah, he did. He signed two hundred I guess that is news. Jalen Duran. What about Jaden Ivey? nah, still free agent, man. Damn, I can't. Nobody wants to do I still don't think talented individual. I still don't think we should have got rid of him, bro. He he I think he mattered way too much for this team as another ball handler. Sure got rid of him. He's like a national threat. Hit that Torian. Bang. Hey, the Pistons are only down five now. shit. They're coming back. Still got plenty of time. yeah. Get in there, Cade. But yeah, let's get let's get into these picums. first game, Texas at Oklahoma. We're doing the spread. Texas is an eight and a half point favorite. Jack's going to Texas. I'm going with Texas. I'm also going to go with Texas. I don't think Oklahoma's offense can do it. Oklahoma's offense has nothing. Throw it to No. Pass interference. Let's go. You think Oklahoma's offense has nothing? They literally lost by 50 billion points against Georgia. 50 billion? It felt like it. Did you see Georgia wins by fifty points? I mean, yes, Oklahoma's coming off a bye week, but so is Texas. This is a trap game through and through if you're Texas. I think we've seen this happen with Texas before. Give me Oklahoma to cover, man. Here we go. Here we go. I love the man. I love I'm lone wolfing for sure here. Did you did you write? I haven't written anyone's yet. Hook down, bitch. I'm going to Oklahoma. I like Oklahoma. I don't even know why. You guys are looking at two people going so far. This side of the couch is all one. So dude, you were saying the same shit last week. I did not say the same shit last week. Touchdown! Let's go! Let's go! Bijan Robinson! This next one's interesting. I'm not I have no clue which way to lean here. Houston, number twenty two currently at Kansas State, who's actually playing up to their talent. Avery Johnson's playing well. Give me Houston, I'm still losing. See, but I've I've never really believed. Like I've I've believed in Avery Johnson before. But And you know what, Jack? I think I'm gonna ride Houston with ya. Yeah. I'm going Houston with you with you, Jack. Heal you. Houston was struggling with UCF last week. They were down seventeen nothing before they came all the way back and won. Connor Wegman was sick during that game, so maybe he'll get healthy. But something about Avery Johnson, man. Must be those curly hit locks he got, 'cause give me Kansas State. I love that pick. I love that pick. Jack loves all these picks. Love that pick, man. I'm gonna do I'm gonna watch Houston against Texas Tech though. I'm gonna do Houston. Two inches short. Going Houston. they don't have t Tommy Tommy Cassianos anymore, so they don't Was he actually gotten marked ineligible? I saw something about it. Yeah, he's that he can't play anymore. Why? His appeal got denied or something like that. Wow. How could he play two games and then That's not how college works. He had some un impressive stats though. Like seven picks. No, he had like four, I think. Four. All right, y'all. Next game. This one's probably the biggest one of the week besides Georgia and Alabama. I think okay, it's US C their number nineteen at Penn State, and it is Penn State's white out game. What do we think? Ooh. Well, I'll throw a wrench into this thing. I think Penn State gets this one done. They lost their last they lost their whiteout game barely last year. They've had a couple rough games, but if I've learned anything from last week, it's that teams can bounce back. And why not put turn their season back around against like this is literally the perfect way they can do that. They have their biggest home game every single year this week. It's against USC. Like Penn State, they need it, and I'm gonna say they get it done. I'm going to say It's not it's not just like it's not that USC doesn't need this either. I just think I hate USC, but I'm gonna take USC to win this one. Wow. Why would you root for their enemy? I'm not. I'm just hoping they don't sell. No, I don't want Penn State. I don't want anything to do with Penn State right now. I even without James Franklin, they're still ass. And what makes you think they're gonna be good in a big game? Least James Franklin won the small games. Like they can't even do that now. Man, I really hope Penn State loses this game because I just don't want them having any momentum going into the Michigan one. So for that reason, I'm gonna go with USC just just because I want my boys in blue to have at least some sort of a chance the next Saturday. yeah. All right, we got a team that's been struggling against a team that's overperforming. Wake Forest at North Carolina State. See th this one is interesting 'cause which CJ Bailey are we gonna get? Mm hmm. Or and it doesn't matter which CJ Bailey we get because Wake Forest is playing so well. Since 'cause didn't they just beat Gio Lopez is a guy. They beat Louisville. Yeah. Yeah. And they also Dan, there goes Chris Alabe. Shoot Get him down. Gio Gio Lopez. No, I need him to suck. Him and Bijan to suck. god. Gio Lopez is a he's he's a dude now. Like he's been playing well. And then and then you look at the other side, you got CJ Bailey who, you know, everybody's kinda gone quiet on him after that that rough Virginia Virginia game to start the year and that of course that that catastrophic fumble in the end zone against Vanderbilt. He's actually been playing well. Then N C State just beat Louisville, right? Yeah. So and then Wake Forest just beat the dog shit out of Stanford fifty nine three. So, you know, this is a this is a tough game to pick, but I'm gonna take Wake Forest to win this one. I think they got the more momentum. I think Jo Gio Lopez has played really consistent and pretty well since that Miami game. So yeah, I think Wake Forest wins this. All right. Give me the Demon Deacons. Pound it. Dude, I I'm really feeling NC State here. And then I too I think this is trap game for Wake Forest all the way. And they can be favored all they want. Are they a and CJ Bailey's the better quarterback out of the two? And if he shows up to win. If man. Call him if man. CJ Bailey is one hundred percent hands down the better talent in this QB matchup, but Gio Lopez has been playing one. yeah. All right, let's go. Let's ride. Let's ride it. Let it ride. Alex is sick of going alone on his picks. He's going with Gillibra almost everything. he's the only one that's winning. That's valid. Here, I'll let you pick this one first. I don't know what you're gonna pick. But Illinois at Michigan State. Illinois. Illinois. I think they get it done. I don't think it I neither Illinois or Michigan State is playing pretty invested football right now. So I mean Illinois has played a little bit better because they did have a pretty good rushing game against Ohio State, but they still rough sledding. Man, I don't know what to pick on this one. They're like Illinois just fired and two, right? Yeah. Illinois just fired their defensive coordinator after Ohio State game. Michigan State hasn't looked great since that nerd aim game. They lost their k the running back. My my heart says I should go with Illinois, but my head's telling me that Spar who's at home? Sparty. Give me Sparty. Crazy. I was also gonna go Sparty. Crazy. Alex, you're lone wolf in this one, buddy. Gladly. I was Gladly. I was feeling Michigan State the whole way, looking at this game earlier. What time is that game at? Think it's probably I think it's an afternoon one. Okay. Michigan State, I just feel like they're due to have a a decent enough game, especially coming back at home. They got too good of a head coach to be playing at bad as bad as they are. Yeah. I mean th th maybe this is the game where they figure it out, especially it sounds like Illinois's kinda going down the shitter right now too. So yeah, they ain't play they're not playing well right now. We already predicted UCLA Oregon last week, so I'm leaving in. I don't think my opinions really changed on it. Nope. No. Last game, Alabama host in Georgia, number two versus number six. Row tie, baby. Here we go. Jack you already knew what Jack. Give it to me. Georgia's played spoiler against so many good teams at home. I think they do it again against Alabama. sending a message this week. As much as I like Keelon Russell, and I think that Alabama team's like pretty, pretty good. Pretty pretty good. You can't can't bet against Kirby. And I think You know, as as much as everybody talks about Keelon, Gunnar Stockton's a really good quarterback too. No and he's and he's solid. So give me the Georgia Bulldogs to beat Alabama at Brian Detty Stadium. Crazy as hell. I mean I like that pick. Thanks, bro. I love that pick. Thanks, bro. Yeah, I appreciate ya. Jack and I have picked only two games the same this week. We'll see what happens. I only have a few words to say about this. Ain't got and you you have nothing about the tad. Roll damn tad. And what is how is how does that crazy old bugner say it? I don't even give a piss about nothing but the but nothing about the tad. Bamba blitz. This bamba blitz Things are gonna swi swing this week for sure. I don't know whi what direction, but I was feeling a lot more confident last week in my picks. But then again, these are all coin tosses to me. I think you can lean either way like Georgia, Alabama, come on. Like yeah. you don't know. Georgia's the better team by Alabama's at home, so I think that kind of makes it a pretty even coin flip. Illinois, they might just play like shit. You never know. And then Texas, you never know. I feel like who knows, maybe Oklahoma's defense just has a master class, they end up winning by ten. You just never know. Like so this is this is a week that's gonna make or break it for a lot of us. we got some lone wolves, we got some good splits. I'm excited to see how this goes. Redemption week for me. we'll see. Hopefully. How many games we got? Six? seven. Six six eleven. UCLA, I hope they win. We all lose this one. That would be really nice. That would be really nice. big week for us in the pickem, so Definitely if you want to put a parlay together, it's the odds are usually pretty crazy, so put like a dollar at most. I'd put my twenty dollar bonus, but it could have won four grand. Didn't come close. So waste of a twenty dollar bonus. I wish I saved my bonus bet for that. I would have been sweating that out so hard. Yeah. But looking at next week's gonna be a good week. Nerding plays Stanford, Michigan's gotta buy, UCLA, Oregon, Bama, Georgia, and then October seventeenth, next weekend is the big week. It's bunch of big games all over the country, so and it's gonna be it's gonna be a fun couple two weeks here, looking forward to it and welcome to October spooky season, Halloween episode soon. yeah. Gotta get my costume. Get ready for our costumes. I don't even know. Especially Jack's. I don't know. Heard he's coming in his birthday suit this year. But Alright, I think that's gonna do it for this app. Anybody else have any final thoughts? No, I got nothing. The Pistons just took the lead, though. They could win this. They could win it? We were down by like 23. I know. I was you told me about that. Jack, final thought? Nope. Not even go tide. Roll tide, baby. Please figure it out, Michigan. I'm so tired of begging begging. I'm just please figure it out from Everybody's sanity and I swear to god if you start Bryce Underwood this upc upcoming week. I mean they're gonna start him. They c I just don't I just cannot stand. Cannot stand that man. Go blue. UCLA shocked the world. And me, what's beat what's beat Stanford worse than Miami did. So let's let's see how that that'll make me feel better. You gotta be a better team than Miami though. We are a better team than Miami. A hundred percent, hands down. Malachi Tony got strapped up this weekend. He knows it too. He did. How many catches did he have? He only had 10. He's been averaging up on his train. He's averaging 15, but he held him to 10. No, I actually have no idea. But he I did see a couple plays where they they went to him on fourth down. He made some plays, he missed some plays, so it's it was I don't know. Leonard Moore ain't gonna let that happen. Massomeno. Leonard Moore is in concussion protocol. Yeah, it's Stanford. We'll be all right. Go Irish. And remember we don't know ball, you don't know ball, we all don't know ball. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. Peace. Go blue.