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Episode 45-Nick Fitzgerald and Texas A&M Game Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a DF warrior whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right, folks, beat up here.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to another episode of the Johnny Pearl Podcast.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: This is Texas AM week, and I'm here with my co-host Johnny.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: How are we doing today, Johnny?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: Doing all right, all right, all right.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: Even though that's a Texas long horn guy, this is uh Texas AM Aggie's playing, but it's a great, great week, great week to play some football.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I I kind of got in the Texas spirit.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was watching uh the new Nolan Ryan documentary that's on Netflix.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: Have you seen that one yet?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's on my list of things to watch.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: I hadn't watched it yet.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_03: Is it good?
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's real good.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's um I guess he he grew up in Alvin, Texas, which is looks like it's kind of south of Houston.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: They never said I don't I don't guess he's an Aggie fan.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't they never really said what because he didn't go to college, he went straight to the major leagues.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: He's uh he's famous in the Texas part, uh the country that's for sure, with the fight with uh Robin Ventura.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: Does it talk about that in there?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure it does.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, it talks a lot about it.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um one thing I didn't realize, so they you know they get in that fight and it gets Ventura in the headlock, and when it like after everybody kind of piles on, he said he was at the very bottom of the pile and all these people were on top of him and he felt like he couldn't breathe, and he was like thinking he's you know gonna pass out underneath there.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: And he said that all of a sudden this like big arm comes in and pulls him out, and it's Bo Jackson that pulls him out of the pile.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: No way.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: That was kind of crazy.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then they talk about there's that picture of him where he's got blood all over his face and all over his nursing and standing there.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: And they said, Yeah, this if you go into any bar in Texas in the past 20 years, this this picture's on the wall in there and it talks about what happened with that, how he got hit in the lip with the ball.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's insane.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's definitely worth watching.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it kind of gets you in the Texas spirit.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: It has nothing to do with ADM, but it's still a good one.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll have to check it out.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, uh, so we had a good uh, I guess like Hey Dad calls it a get right game last week against Bowling Green.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: The game never really seemed like it was in question.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: The dogs went out there and dominated and they did what they were supposed to be.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: And we were texting back and forth about the game during the score there.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um for a minute there, it looked like your prediction was gonna work out, and then for a minute there, mine mine was getting close.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think I ended up being closer in the end because we we had 45.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: I predicted 44, so I was right there.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: But if it's like the price is right, if you go over, you lose.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know who who we declare to win on that one.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think uh I texted when it was 38 to 13.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, man, there's this is the exact score right here.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_03: But then uh we we put another one in the end zone, and and uh so you end up coming up closer.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: But uh wow, I mean, we were just throwing touchdowns right and left, and it's cool.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: Make a wish, you know.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_03: Every time Will throws one, gets uh gets some money.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: So I think they got like six thousand bucks that day.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: So um man, what a what a good good uh good win, you know.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_03: We talked about that last week.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we needed to bounce back and have a good show in it.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, they uh they really put it to him and and they should put it to them.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_03: It shouldn't have been a close game.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: We we were that much better than them.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: So we did what we were supposed to do, and that's what it uh that's what it boiled down to.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, people are kind of mad about uh him about keeping him in at the end of the game, but um, not putting in Sawyer, but uh I think he was just uh I think he was um trying to pass some stats, maybe.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, because he is uh I mean he's going down as the as the record holder for passing yards and and uh so we you just worry about stuff like that because about him getting hurt and stuff like that.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_03: But hey, uh uh he did he did the job and Sawyer came in.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_03: But I hope he uh Sawyer gets some action somewhere somewhere later down the road because you want your backup to play and not just be thrown into the mix and not have any experience.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: But uh but Will did a great job and all around it was a solid effort.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_03: So um really pleased with with uh what what we got.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so like we said, I mean that was a really good get right game for everybody.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I do agree with you, Johnny.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: I think that uh we're trying to pad Will's stats a little bit there, and I don't know if it's if it's Leech or who's coming around with that push, but since it's Texas AM week, we brought in a special guest with us, and and we've got our guest on the line here.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: We've got got Nick Fitzgerald, uh the Texas AM's daddy.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so we want to welcome you back to the show, Nick.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you coming back on.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: How you doing today?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm doing great, man.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: Glad to be back on with y'all boys.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_02: I uh still still waiting to get my uh my father's day card from Texas AM, but I think that's also right there with the uh Dow money payments they're trying to get at me, and I'm dodging those too.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, we'll we'll see.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you're definitely uh definitely deserve that Father's Day card, man.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_03: Because you you are you you you own them, man.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: You're their dad, that's for sure.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_03: But uh man, Nick, thanks for coming back on.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: I have to tell you, man, out of all the podcasts we did, yours was the most downloaded one of all that we've ever had.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so that is surprising because I'm an idiot.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good thing.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so thanks for joining us again, man.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: It's really an honor to have you back on.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh I think people are gonna really like to listen to hear your thoughts and hear what you had to say about about because you were there, you beat them, you were in person, you know, you you were in in the in the matchups against them, and uh just kind of I guess just let's just go back and talk about it.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, talk about your your first game playing AM, what you thought going into it, and all that stuff.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_02: Sure, absolutely.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so first time 2016.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, obviously pretty terrible year for us as a team.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we have the number four team in the country coming in at home.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, obviously there's there's there's hype around the game because you know you're playing a top five team.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, that was just when the playoff uh the playoff uh standings had came out and they were number four.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but I didn't care about that.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I didn't I didn't care who we were playing.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, if we were playing bowling green or if we're playing Alabama, um, you know, I prepared for every game the exact same way.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, from the first play on offense, uh, that 74-yard touchdown run all the way through the end of the game, you know, I just felt like they just didn't have an answer for our offense.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, no matter what they tried to do, and a lot of credit goes to Dan Mullen.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I know a lot of Mississippi State people don't like him, but the man was a genius.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, he really understood football.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_02: He understood how to scheme up games and he understood how to use the players that he had to their best ability.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, any anything that they threw at us on defense, you know, we had an answer for, we had a counter for.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um it just seemed like even if even though I threw two picks in the red zone, which is awful, uh, you know, we were still able to pull out that win and uh get a huge, huge top four win for us and a pretty terrible season.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was that was big time.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you shared something on Twitter the other day.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was one of the one of your runs, and I just remember thinking it's you, you get the ball, you take off, and I mean nobody is close to you when you run in that end zone, the end zone's completely empty.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's got the Mississippi State in the end zone.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: What's that feeling like?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: You just you're in the middle of the end zone, it's just you.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what's going through your mind in that that that when that happens?
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, you know, as a you know, as a very lanky uh Caucasian man uh playing college football, you know, the you know, you just never want to get caught from behind.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_02: That was that was always my biggest fear.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I didn't want to be embarrassed and be caught from behind by anybody.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: So the whole time I'm running the ball, I'm just thinking, don't get caught, don't get caught, run as fast as you can, do not get caught.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and when you turn around, you see like no one's no one's within 15 yards of you.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, one, you you give it up to to, I mean, that on that play fraud green, a great, great block out in front to let me kind of spring it.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_02: Safeties took terrible angles.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: They they kind of stopped running as I got away from them.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you just kind of turn around and look and see, and there's no one there except your teammates running to running to get you.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_02: And it's a great feeling then you just you just dusted everybody.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_02: Except your you just dusted everybody.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was that was a memorable moment, man.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: I love that, love that image.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_03: Who's that in the background?
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_03: They're one of our players in the background.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_03: Put your arms up.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, oh, I oh, I know what you're talking about.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you're talking about 2018.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was Daryl, Daryl Williams throwing the Daryl Williams.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: He already, yeah, he already knew.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there was there was no doubt about it.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: They weren't they weren't catching me.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: I hadn't hadn't been hawked my whole career.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_02: I definitely wasn't gonna let it happen in my senior year against these guys.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: So he knew he knew I was gone.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: I think everyone in the stadium uh knew I was gone the second I got you know past the past the line of streamers, there was nobody there.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was uh and that was uh that was kind of a cool play for me too, because you know that was kind of the the seal of the deal on the game um right after uh like the worst, absolute worst game of my career at LSU that year, throwing four picks and just everyone everyone didn't want me to be the starting quarterback anymore.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I knew that as much as much as you try your best to stay away from you know social media and what people are saying, obviously it still gets through.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and that was just kind of uh a statement, I guess, in a way of saying, you know, this is still my team.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still the starting quarterback, I'm not going anywhere.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you kind of put an exclamation point on that and shut the haters up.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I love about it, man.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_03: What about you doing that?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_03: And that was awesome.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: All right, that was 18.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_03: Go back to 17.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh at the on Texas ADM on the road, getting a huge big time win.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: What was that like beating the daggies at Cal Field?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: Man, it was huge.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, that is uh, I mean, as you're going up to it, I mean, that is an intimidating, huge, massive stadium for people to come in and play at.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I know they have, I know they can say seat over 100,000.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, it's loud, it's crazy as the game starts, but you know, by midway through the first quarter, um, it was a lot like the second half of the 2014 LSU game where Dak went in there and just shut them down.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: And it was just so quiet.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and it's there's nothing, there's there's not a better feeling in the world than going to someone's field and just dominating them, just looking at their fans, knowing they're distraught.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: They just got excited about it, and then by the by the end of the first quarter, they know it's over with.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's a matter it's a magical feeling for sure.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're dead.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: So, what is the the noise level like when everybody's rocking and rolling there in Kyle Field versus Tiger Stadium?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: Man, I mean they're they're I think they're comparable, you know.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_02: I I think I think it's comparable just the way that SEC stadiums are just are built, you know, the the sound just funnels straight down onto that field.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: And the way the Kyle Field is is just so upright, you know, you just feel like you have a hundred thousand people just sitting on top of your head, just screaming at you.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so it's definitely loud.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, if if I was uh if I was a lesser man, would have been a little intimidated, but you know, I knew I knew that we were gonna go in there and smack them.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, that didn't really matter to me.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh definitely did that.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so you know, and then last year, you know, on you know, going into the game, not many people state fans probably thought that we could we could take down the Aggies last year at Cal Phil.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_03: We did that, and then here we are again, another year later, bringing the bringing the Aggies to Scott Phil, Davis Wade.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: So what's your predictions, Nick?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think?
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: We I think I feel like we need you at the game, Nick, but uh as that good mojo right there.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_03: You know what?
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: I will I will guarantee I will be there the next AM home game in two years.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'll I will definitely be there.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um and I'm gonna wear an I'm your daddy shirt, and it's just it's gonna be wonderful.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, my prediction, um, you know, obviously it's the battle of the Maroons, you know, it's not it's the battle of the same jerseys every freaking year.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: I wish Adidas would uh would give us some different jerseys than them, but it is what it is.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I think I think Will Rogers is by far, if he's not the best quarterback in the country, he's top two in the country.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, the kid can just flat out sling it.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: He reads defenses very well.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, the interceptions that he have, in my opinion, I don't think they're his fault.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, at least definitely at least one of them, just right their receiver's hands.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: I think that should be counted as like a receiver turnover or something like that.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but the kid is just lights out, he's a great leader.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: He's he has a solid offensive line.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: He has four dudes out there, at least four guys at wide receiver that could be playing and starting at anywhere else in the SEC.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Thank God they're in the maroon and white with us.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I think I see us scoring at least 35.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I see our defense really stepping up, and I think they're gonna keep them to I think I think it could I could go with like a 35-17, maybe a 42-17.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, I'll be the happiest guy in the world.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be all over Twitter talking the most crap to everybody that'll listen.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I'm just very excited for them to back up all of my shit talking.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to go with you on that one too.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: I I feel like we we really are the better team.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: Just just we shouldn't have lost that game to LSU, but I think we're gonna go in there and hopefully make a statement, get some momentum rolling into the rest of the month here.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I'm gonna say 35-21.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm right there with you.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_02: See, I I think I think we got that.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_02: I think we got that bad juju out of our system, you know.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think I think we got that.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: We got that loss out of the way that takes some pressure off people, and you know, they can just go out there just like they did last week.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: Come out, start really fast, play our game, take our shots when we have them, get the running backs involved, and keep it a little bit of that Mike Leak Mike Leech balance, and I think we're gonna be just fine.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I agree with both of y'all.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: I think so too.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: I think we're gonna put up some points and uh I think we're just gonna sling it around again.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna say uh I'm gonna go with you, Brandon.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: 35.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I'll say 13 instead of it being the exact same, I'm gonna say 3520 about that.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I I think it's gonna be uh I think our defense is gonna have to step up and stop them, but I feel like we are the better team.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh we got that um the crowd with us on that one being a home field game.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I look forward to it.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we need it, we need every cowbell absolutely rocking.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: We need to add we need every seat filled, and we need every single cow.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: I don't care.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: The football team sets apart money every year to pay for the fines for the cowbells when ring them derives.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: I don't care, ring that ish, bring them and ring us.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care, make it as loud and as hostile as possible.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, did y'all see where they're having the uh Nick?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_03: If you come in two years, I need you need to go to the Yale practice and give them hell, man.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_03: Because I saw they're having a Yale practice on the intramural fields Friday night at 10 o'clock.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe some state fans will show up and look.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna it that that's some of the most embarrassing stuff I have ever seen in my entire life.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: It really is.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like my like my middle school freaking PE teacher would have got up there during a pep rally and said some stuff like that.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: Like it I don't understand it.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: They need to, I don't care about tradition, that's a terrible tradition.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_02: They need to go ahead and get rid of that.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I hope honestly, actually, I hope they keep it forever just so I can laugh about it.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: It makes them look like idiots when they lose, man.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_03: And they say, Oh, I'll talk all that trash about that.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: But maybe, maybe with some state fans will show up and and uh spoil their party.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: But hey man, they if they don't, the main thing is spoiling the party on the field.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_03: That's what it's all about.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like what we're talking about right now, I think we have a good chance.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh, you know, uh beating like we were just talking about losing LSU, we needed that bowling green wind to come come along and build the confidence back up and and let us know and let and I feel like it did.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like it was a springboard to what what can can happen.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it's all above, it's all in front of us right now.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: Just uh just gotta take care of business and see what the next week brings.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think bowling green could have been a could have been a sneaky game, you know, coming off a big road loss, right?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_02: Almost letting them beat you twice, you know, uh half full stadium, 11 a.m.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_02: kickoff.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, they the the recipe was there for it to be uh a late in the fourth quarter, have to pull it out, you know.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, a lot like a lot like our uh crappy, crappy, crappy family to the north um with whole stuff.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: And instead, we came out, we kicked them in the mouth on the first drive, and just continued to just pound it down their throat.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: I think again, Will Rogers is an absolute animal.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: He's a stud.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: He's he's just breaking all his own passing records at this point.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: He he already has, I think he's tied with the most passing touchdowns I've ever thrown in a season, and we're we're four games in.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: So um, you know, he is he's a he's a bad man, he's surrounded by bad men.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, I I really do see us kind of I don't want to say dominating, but winning this one pretty easily.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think so too.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: And man, he's on he's on track.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, if he stays uh next year, and then you know he's even as that covet year, gosh, he could go down as the uh college football in the college, not just Mississippi State, RSC, college football history is most passing yards.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if he'll if he'll stay that long or not, but he's on track for just doing crazy things like that.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no doubt.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: I mean again, I I can't I can't say any more any more great things about him.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: The only the only negative I see in his game is um he's like a an adjusted like 90% completion rate passer when he can have his feet set, but he's like 50 when he has people in his face.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_02: So right if he can if he can manage the pocket, he can find windows to to throw the ball, and we an offensive line can step up and keep the pressure off him.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: I don't see any I don't see any problems with us scoring 40 points.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: I agree with you.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, Brandon, you wanna uh you want to talk real quick about the uh about the picking we got going on and since uh um who the winner was and and what we got going on with that.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so everybody it's it's really tight up at the top.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you were up there.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: I I was an idiot and I changed my picks at the last minute uh for the Florida Tennessee game and the Arkansas AM game last week.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I switched it up.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: I would have won if I wouldn't have done that, but uh we got King back at the top.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: He was our week one winner.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's gonna be really neck and neck all the way through the season um into that.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I know I just saw that some of our coffee was delivered to our week two winner.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully he's enjoying that.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: But y'all just remember to get on there and and make your picks.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_03: So awesome.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's uh and it's and it's cool.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we talk about this all the time.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's we love talking about football and and Mississippi State and everything.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: And and while we do this, it's for uh help spread awareness.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: My fight with CF.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh so yeah, if you win, you'll you'll win some of those uh coffee products that Brandon has on our website, johnnypacker.com, and and uh hopefully you'll get some and spread the word to other people about if you like coffee or anything like that to get on board and and buy it.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: It's cheap, it's something like 20 bucks, stuff like that.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: We still have glasses for sale at Brandon's office in in Carterville, but um, but yeah, just do something like that and help spread the word and and uh hopefully we can bring some money in and and help raise some uh raise more money for CF.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_03: So thank y'all so much for all y'all listening out there, listening to our podcast, and joining in on the pick'ems and buying the coffee and just being on on uh on board with it with it.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: We can't thank y'all enough.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: And uh and Nick, it's so awesome to have you back, man.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's it's uh so so cool.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: Can't wait to see you back in Start Vegas one of these days and and uh we'll hang up, hit up two brothers again like we did last time.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: That was cool.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, man.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully I'll make it.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna try to make it to a game this year.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I really am gonna try to just uh got some job interviews and that kind of stuff got to deal with before I can uh go go spend money getting out there to Starkville.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: But um again, also with the pick'em.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I will win a week, at least.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: I will win one week.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'm definitely not gonna be the overall winner because I'm an idiot and forget to set picks, but I will win one week eventually.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: I I have no doubt in my mind.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: Well, hey, uh Nick, before we go, I want you to tell tell us tell uh I'm really enjoying uh uh your your podcast with Noah.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh kind of tell our listeners about what you have going on with that podcast and where they can find it.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: So it's uh it's called the uh the has been and the never was podcast.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, I'm the never was and Noah and Ashburn is the has been.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's uh it's available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um eventually we'll we'll figure out a way to get it on some other places.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know, like the Google store or something like that.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um but no, it's it's just two guys again.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's a perspective of a former player and just a lifelong fan.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: We don't ever take it too seriously.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: Most of the time we're just cracking jokes and talking about you know past stories having to do with my career and the teams are playing and situations like that.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we do a little bit of uh some gambling picks as a a little bit of a competition for Noah and I uh for who's gonna buy who two brothers at the end of the season, because obviously we're gonna go to two bros.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: And then we'll just have fun with it.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_02: It comes out on Mondays and Thursdays.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, Mondays are just recapping the last week's game, and Thursdays are kind of looking forward to to the weekend.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh again, it's it's a good time.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: They're about 35 minutes apiece, uh, very digestible.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: We don't get it deep into the X's and O's or anything like that.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, then yeah, if you guys ever feel like you guys want to check it out, I I put links to it out on my Facebook and my Twitter.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so if you guys, if you guys ever want to check it out, just just go find a link and uh go listen in.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've really I've enjoyed listening to it too.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: So uh two brothers meets.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: If you're out there listening, I mean we've plugged you a couple times here.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: I know you're on hate ad shows, so come on over here and sponsor us so we can get someone for CGAF too.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no doubt.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, no free sponsors, but I mean it is one of the best places to eat in Starville.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's good stuff.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, all right, Nick, we appreciate it.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: We'll let you get out of here and uh go dogs, everybody.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Thank y'all so much.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Nick.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Take care, buddy.