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College Football Playoff Semifinals Preview: Who heads to the National Championship? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not hold it in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge. And saying that he.
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Can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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I played. 80. Two games, you don't see LeBron
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doing that. A.
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Game where? You got to go for. 4.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Has anybody been constipated
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seriously. Because over the last 48 hours,
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I have been, you know, there were, there's such AII can't
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even express the pains I've been feeling in my stomach.
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Now, Maybe it's because I'm not eating as much as I usually do.
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Maybe I'm just a workout, a workaholic out in the gym.
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I don't know what it is, but usually when your bowels move,
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you're in the bathroom. But for some reason I can't
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explain over the last 48 hours, I just, I can't lay a big one.
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I, I don't know Tommy, you're, you're the king of like hanging
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out in the bathroom. I, I mean, during the show,
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Tommy goes to the bathroom at least 5 or 6 times.
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So I, I mean, this is not something that usually happens
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to me over, you know, a significant time period.
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But for some reason, Speedy, I don't know what's going on.
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The beat of my stomach is definitely not a drum.
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Tommy, just make sure you're not in the bathroom for 10 minutes
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like Tyler Harrison was one time at the beginning of our
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interview. I believe it actually was
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overview for the first time. We had him on the.
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Show right and you want to know something Tyler was in the
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bathroom. The funniest part of that that
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specific time is when he came out of the bathroom the smell
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because the studio is like 2 rooms away from it.
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It it smelt for like a good half an hour whatever Tyler was doing
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in there, he laid some of the biggest deuces we've ever smelt
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before and it's one of the worst.
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Speedy, you said your mom has the worst, you know, smells,
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Yes. She does have some pretty bad
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farts, I will admit that. I mean, who do you think has the
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smelliest farts on the show? I mean, think about it.
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I mean, Jabba's in Nebraska. I mean, he's a corn Husker.
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There's a lot, he eats a lot of corn or whatever.
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He he loves his pork and his meat.
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I mean, I would think that Jabba probably, if he's in the
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bathroom long enough or you know, he's, he's popping, you
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know, popping a squad, it probably smells the worst.
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Now, based based on your Nebraska logic, does that mean
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we can't rule out Mr. Owen either?
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I don't know. The funny thing is, is every
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time I speak to Owen, he's drinking.
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I don't hear. I don't know anything about
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about him eating. He's never eating.
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I mean, I think he definitely drinks more than he eats.
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There it is. That's a great picture, the Corn
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Mafia. That's right.
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Yes, I remember that picture, but I I think that when you when
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you depending on the food that you eat, the build up and I The
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thing is, is I am a carnivore. I like meat.
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I love my chicken. I love my steak, but what they
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say is sometimes it messes up with your stomach.
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It's a build up and and it takes a while for you to go to the
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bathroom. It's never happened to me before
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as long as it has been over the last 48 hours.
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So I'd advise people I so I, I don't know, I, I've taken, I'm
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not going to tell you what I'm taking, but I'm taking this like
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this X LAX like drink and it's like pink.
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It actually tastes good. So this morning I took some of
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it. I took like 30 milligrams and
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then I said, you know what, I'm not going.
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So I took another one before the show.
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So if I have to get up and run to the bathroom, you know why?
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Ladies and gentlemen, the number 10 Miami Hurricanes and the
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number six Ole Miss Rebels square off in the Fiesta Ball.
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This game is a big test of offense versus defense, as Ole
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Miss has scored a combined 80 points in their first two CFB
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playoff games. Why?
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Miamis defense led by Ruben Bain Junior has only allowed
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seventeen points in their two games.
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Both teams running backs have been awesome so far with Miami's
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Mark Fletcher rushing for 287 yards and a touchdown and Ole
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misses Kawan Lacy rushing for 204 yards and three touchdowns.
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Miami quarterback Carson Beck has been efficient despite
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having just 241 passing yards and two touchdowns with a 130.1
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passer rating. Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss,
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who's been the big talk of the town, has been outstanding for
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Old Miss with a prolific 644 passing yard St. touchdowns and
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a 159 point passing rating. Tomorrow night it will be #5
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Oregon Ducks will and face off against Indiana and the Hoosiers
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in the Peach Ball. Oh, I like that name.
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In a rematch from October 11th when Indiana beat Oregon 30 to
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20, both teams dominated defensively in their
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quarterfinal matchups with Oregon shutting out Texas Tech
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and Indiana only allowing 3 points versus Alabama.
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Indiana's running back duo in OR of Mr. Black and Hemby rushed
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for 199 yards versus Alabama, while Oregon's quarterback Dante
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Moore has a lot of yards in his two CFB playoff games with 547
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with four touchdowns, but has turned the ball over with three
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interceptions against the Crimson Tide.
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Mr. Heisman himself, Fernando Mendoza didn't have too much and
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did nothing wrong, throwing 192 yards, 3 touchdowns in 3/4
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versus the Alabama Crimson Tide. Well, a lot to get into in just
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two games. And what makes this game tonight
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so intriguing and so interesting is it's a battle of two coaches.
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One coach in Miami that has come out and said that he's worked
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really, really hard all season long with some of these players.
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Made a move in the offseason, bringing Carson back in the
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portal because Carlson Beck's been in college football for
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five years and has been in these situations before with Georgia
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and and and and What's interesting about this match up
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against both quarterbacks is Carlson Beck, who's expected to
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be a late first round, early second round pick, and
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Chambliss, who might be in this year's class.
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If he makes a run all the way to a championship and somehow
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surprises the the world and wins a national championship.
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Does he move into this year's draft as a late second round,
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not a first round, but a late second round, early third round
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pick? And teams will be looking at him
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because of the story behind the fact that this kid is here in
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position to win a national championship.
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You think about it. You don't have Lane Kiffin there
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and Lane Kiffin. Could you imagine if Old Miss
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wins this game how much Lane Kiffin could pull out of this
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game? He's already made 750K if he
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wins, if they win this game, I don't know what is it. 500 Ki?
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Don't know what he gets out of this win but Lane Kiffin is
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laughing to the bank now. I would rather a ring and if I
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was Lane, I would love to be the be in this matchup.
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I would love to be coaching the old Miss Rebels because I have a
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chance to win a national championship since something
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that Lane Kiffin's never done. He built this team from top to
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bottom. He's the one who recruited these
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players and brought these guys through the portal and brought
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in Golden, who has been significantly so important.
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And the belief of these players to fall in and understand that
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this is a rookie coach. And just washing away the fact
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that Lane Kiffin walked away, stepped down and, and the Old
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Miss execs, the the director and the board of trustees for Old
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Miss decided, you know what? We don't want Lane Kiffin here.
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We have a better chance of winning with a rookie coach.
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And nobody in their wildest dreams, if you're an Old Miss
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fan, believed that this would be possible today and even
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tomorrow. But now you're going into a game
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where this is up for grabs. Hurricanes.
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The Miami Hurricanes should not be here.
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They surprised the Ohio State Buckeyes because of their
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defense. And Bain is slowly but surely
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moving up in the first round. Now everybody expects Bain to be
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a top ten pick. If he dominates in this game, he
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takes the Miami Hurricanes to a championship game.
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He can move up into the top three.
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He's been outstanding, dominating and you're you're
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playing when you played the Ohio State Buckeyes, you didn't play
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second tier offensive lineman. You played some of the best in
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the country and you dominated and you put pressure in many
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different ways in that game. And you look at this game, old
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miss, their offensive line did not play great against Georgia.
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OK, they didn't they let Georgia get to them.
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But what made Chambliss so fantastic in that game is he he
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stepped into the pocket, he made his throws, he didn't make any
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mistakes and he was very confident.
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And when you see a quarterback play that confident against a
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great defense and A and a Georgia Bulldog team coached by
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one of the smartest coaches in college football, you think
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about it Smart. The fact that Smart got out
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coached by a rookie tells me the fantastic storyline behind this.
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Now it could go either way. This game could be wide open.
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This could be a scoring game or could be in a high defensive
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game. What I love about this is it's a
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it's a battle of a running game. And they're they're both very
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good running teams. As we mentioned in the first
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monologue, we see what Miami brings to the table, but we also
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see what old miss brings to the table.
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Now I question what Ole Miss is going to do against this Miami
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front 7. So what Ole Miss is going to
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have to do in this game is use different patterns of slants and
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and use these wide receivers. They don't have a star wide
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receiver. They don't have a number a real
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#1 dominant #1 so they have a lot of number twos and #3 so
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they're going to have to use them in a lot of different
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packages. And what I noticed in my against
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Miami when Ohio State was playing them in the
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quarterfinals is in the second-half the game what they
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were using Smith as they were using Smith as a decoy.
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Smith dominated the first half and then some parts of the third
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quarter. But it was really the fourth
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quarter them using him in many different packages, moving him
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in the slant, moving him slants, moving him in, in certain
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positions in the slot, which that obviously opened up other
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players and and and eventually opened up the offense.
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Not by much, but it opened up enough and I think old miss
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proof that they could put points on the board.
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But can they run speedy against this Miami Hurricane team?
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Yeah, and that's a test for the offensive line, I think the
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bigger one than even the passing attack, because we saw Chambliss
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do very well when he was hit. He knew where to throw the ball.
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And I think because of that, you're going to see a lot of
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slants. You're going to see a lot of
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these quicker options of that Ole Miss offense.
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Because you're right, they don't have one standout receiver, but
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they have a really good core, like almost over the years has
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always developed good receivers with DK Metcalf, with A.J.
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Brown, et cetera. And they've all, it's always
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been a one feature type offense when Kiffin was there.
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But now you're seeing it this year where they have three
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different guys they can go to. And that's why I think you're
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going to see a lot of those quick attacks right away.
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But Quan Lacy, I think is going to be one of the better running
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backs in college football already and he might be the best
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1 going into next year's draft. Like we talked about what
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Jeremiah Love this year. And it'll be up to him to get
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those second cuts going to wear out that Miami defensive line.
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Because even though Bain's going to get get get all the
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attention, they have three other guys that can rush the pass very
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well in front 7 that's very good at stopping the run and then
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themselves winning the trenches against Ohio State.
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They can win against anybody. And that's going to be the key,
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I think, for Ole Miss game planning wise to slow it down.
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Now. An interesting transition with
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Golding as a defensive coach and kind of a test where they might
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have to play a little. I'm not going to say ball
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control, but I think Ole Miss is still going to want his their
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offense to be as electric as it was against Georgia.
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But at the same time, you want to have some more runs to start
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it off to wear out Bane to wear out.
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Even Messidor has been a really good second pass rusher as well.
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So they can get those passing opportunities later in the game
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like you saw them against Georgia.
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Because you're right, the the offensive line for Ole Miss
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probably played well second-half, but they weren't
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great the whole game against Georgia.
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It was just Chambliss was just that much better.
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Now Miami's offense, we'll see if they can make it a test to
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get more more dynamic because their running game has been good
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with Fletcher. Fletcher has been effective,
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especially on the outside running game.
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But I think you have to see if this passing attack can really
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get going in a more consistency because Miami has to play in a
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shootout. They haven't had to do that much
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since the beginning of the season.
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So it'll be interesting to see how they get tested for it.
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But Crystal Ball is a good coach, so.
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I, I will say this, Messidor has been just as important as Bain
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and they've had a dynamic duo in their front 7.
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And I think again, Miami is going to have to put pressure on
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Chambliss because if Chambliss sits in the pocket or even moves
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out of the pocket, which he's been very, very good at,
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especially in this this tournament, I, I think he could
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cause a lot of problems defensive offensively to the
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defense of the Miami Hurricanes. But I think the strength of this
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game is like we, we, we gave in the monologue, it's offense
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versus defense. Now old miss is going to have to
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play better defensively in this game.
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If they want to win this game, they're going to have to keep it
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a lot more close. And again, the Hurricanes are
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not a prolific offense. They're they're not one of those
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offenses that are going to put up a 40 spot or A50 spot.
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They're an offense that's going to be able to run the ball.
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They're going to be an offense that's going to put pressure on
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those defenses and they're going to make sure that they hold on.
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And control the clock. If Ole Miss wants to win this
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game, they got to control the clock and they have one of the
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best kickers in the country. And they're going to have to
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make sure that this is not a kicking game versus a scoring
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game. Because if it comes to that,
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there's no way in hell, no way in hell Ole Miss is going to win
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this game. And again, going back to the
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defenses, I again, Ole Miss is a very good defense too.
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They've had they've played very well all season long in certain
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aspects against certain good teams too.
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Even when Lane Kiffin was there, they put they they have a good
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front 7 and they have a very good secondary too.
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They didn't look good against Georgia.
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Georgia is not a good offensive team.
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They have not been a good offensive team all season long.
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They don't Stockton is not a star quarterback.
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He's not going to the NFL and and again, the the running game
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of Georgia, they lost their running back in the second-half
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of the game. And you seen in I we've been
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talking about the Hurricanes have a dynamic duo.
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So if one of these go, one of these guys go down, they have
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another guy that can stand up and and run the ball right down
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their throat. So that's the difference of this
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game. Miami is going to do whatever
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they can to use those running backs and use them in different
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ways to keep the defense of Ole Miss in position to make
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mistakes. I also wonder, too, how much of
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this coaching style is going to get into effect because Mario
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Cristobal's always been an offensive coach.
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He always at Oregon was very good, schematically speaking, a
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little different than what Dan Lanning is.
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But like, I think a lot of those same types of concepts that they
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carried over developed Justin Herbert into a very good
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quarterback. A lot of offensive skill players
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drafted over there and have been effective.
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Yeah, he's inheriting A-Team. That's again brought in more
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defense, especially in the second-half of the season when
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they've had to fight off to, they didn't win the ACC, but
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fight off to get into the College Football Playoff as the
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tenth seed. And then you have the other end
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with Golding, like inheriting a defense that probably had their
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best year last year, but it was still a good defense overall,
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but consider more of an offensive team.
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How much is that going to change?
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The idea of are are they going to want to play a ball control
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type game? A lot more running volume
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comparatively because Miami wasn't a heavy running volume
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team when it came to their Ohio State win.
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They were just efficient with their carries and Ole Miss ran
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when they had to, but they were still throwing the ball.
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A. Ton, I mean, also looking at
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this game, what Chambliss, what Chambliss has done in this
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tournament, a lot of people would say Carson Beck has the
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advantage being that he's done this before.
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He's been in college football for five years.
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He has the experience behind him, but what Chambliss has done
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really throughout about this tournament, I honestly believe
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in the last two games, old miss has the guy and and and has the
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dominant, more forceful quarterback than a team like the
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the Miami Hurricanes. Because when you look at this
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game as bad as you know, in certain aspects of the, the
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season, the Carlson Beck has looked, he's played just well
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enough to make to to put this team on his shoulders.
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But I think Chambliss has put everything on his shoulders.
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You look at the games, the 1st, 2:00 games of this tournament,
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Chambliss has been the best quarterback in this tournament.
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If you look at the yards, even touchdowns, and he hasn't really
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made any mistakes in the open field.
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We talk about Dante Moore, which we're going to get into in just
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a few moments. He's throwing three touch, he's
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throwing 4 touchdowns, but three interceptions.
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This guy doesn't throw a lot of interceptions and he's very good
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on the run. He's very good moving outside of
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the pocket and making those throws.
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And again, the Hurricanes are very fast upfront, but Chambliss
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is just as fast when he gets out of the pocket.
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Yeah, and he's also one that I think has not afraid to throw
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down the field either. And I think Miami and against
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that pass rush, you're going to have to be able to adjust and
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throw short first, but you still want to be able to stretch the
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field back. On the other hand, I don't know
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if he stretches the field as well.
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So I'm curious to see how old missus defense will tighten up
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against him too. Because right now, so far, they
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haven't had to use that kind of game plan because Miami's
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defense has been that good in their first two matches with Tex
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A&M and that 2:50 slug fest and then against Ohio State,
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obviously. Just recently too, but you're
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look at if they have to play in a shootout, will Beck be able to
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take those shots? Will those receivers be able to
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make the plays that I mean Malachi, Tony's made some plays,
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but they really haven't had much besides that to make it a shoot
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win a shootout type game, which you might have to do with Ole
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Miss and if they win the next round.
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So it gets Oregon, Indiana, definitely so.
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Yeah, so the big story with Chambliss was they don't really
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know if he's going to be able to come back to college next year
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or not because there's some weird stuff.
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He was originally a zero star division two quarter.
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Ferris State. Which is wild because honestly,
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Division Two, a lot of people think division where I where I'm
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like in New York, they'd rather be Division 3 football because
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it's just a better league than Division 2.
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So that's the kind of level he started at and it's amazing what
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he's done. He hold on Cam young Dak out
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there. Cam Ward came from JUCO and and
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look what? He well JUCO.
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JUCO has more talent though. JUCO is usually guys that didn't
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pass like SAT's that struggle. Still came from JUCO and he.
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Jumped, though. I'm saying it's impressive too,
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but if you're D2, they're saying you're not an athlete.
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No one ever said Cam Ward wasn't an athlete.
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So that that's what I'm finding to be really impressive with
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him, how much he must have worked to get to the point where
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he's at to be able to play this way and he's turned.
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Maybe he was a guy that was slept on his whole life.
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No one's sleeping on him right now.
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It's amazing what he's able to do.
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And the most amazing thing, though, is this whole coaching
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situation with Charlie Weis junior calling the offense with
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Golding. I think they were able to get
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the running back coach back too, which is good.
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Yes. They did.
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But the best part that I read today was Joe Judge, who former
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Giants head coach Joe Judge, who is for some reason the
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mouthpiece. I guess he's the only the oldest
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guy left of all the coaches. So he's.
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And the oldest school guy left, probably.
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He said that he lived at Errol next to Aaron Hernandez in 2013
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and 2014, but that was a crazy year.
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It's nothing compared to what he and the Ole Miss program have
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gone through in the last five weeks.
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That was paraphrasing a quote from him earlier today.
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Interesting. Why now?
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Why now? It just shows you how stupid Joe
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Judge is. Why would you?
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Why would you bring up, and I'm just being honest here.
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Why would you bring up Aaron Hernandez in any kind of
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conversation of this run that old miss is making?
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I I would have never done that because it makes him look even
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more dumb. It it, it really does, and I'm
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not. This guy took knees on 3rd down
22:48
in the first half didn't he? Is this the same guy?
22:51
Yeah, it just seems it was ridiculous that he would bring
22:54
up the same in any kind of conversation.
22:56
Trying to compare what Ole Miss is doing this year to him living
23:00
close to Aaron Hernandez and what happened over there in New
23:03
England. It's just ridiculous.
23:04
It's just a ridiculous take. Thank you, Joe, for making us
23:07
Dumber. So I I just honestly,
23:11
personally, I've been very impressed with both these teams
23:13
and whoever comes out of this game.
23:15
And to me, none of these teams, including Miami and the fact
23:20
that Ole Miss is sitting here today, whoever wins this game is
23:24
it's it's pretty pretty much a surprise.
23:26
I mean, this is a this is a shocker.
23:29
And and that to me is what stands out in this game.
23:32
You have two teams that shouldn't be here, one that lost
23:35
their coach a couple of games before the season ended, and
23:38
then another team that, you know, snuck into the playoffs,
23:42
really snuck in over Notre Dame and and has a chance now to win
23:47
a national championship. It's an amazing story.
23:49
It really is. Both teams can win a national
23:51
championship as good as Indiana and Oregon has looked, and those
23:54
are the two best teams still in this tournament, That does not
23:57
mean the best team always wins. We've seen this before and we've
24:00
argued this before, so it'll be funny and and interesting.
24:03
I say funny because I don't know what to expect tomorrow.
24:06
Could it be the quack, quack, quack?
24:09
Or could it be The Who to win and and and make their run all
24:13
the way to a championship game to face off against the
24:16
Hurricanes or the Rebels? So very interesting.
24:18
Speaking of the Devil or Devils, the Oregon Ducks and the Indiana
24:24
Hoosiers will be playing tomorrow on a national stage in
24:27
a very big game. And the Peach ball.
24:30
I, I, these ball names are just very unique and very stupid if
24:33
you ask me. But I, I'm not a Peach fan.
24:35
But nevertheless, I love Dante Moore and I love Fernando
24:41
Mendoza. Everybody knows what I think of
24:42
Fernando. I think Fernando is going to be
24:44
star in the NFL. It doesn't matter where he goes.
24:47
He goes to The Jets, he goes to the Raiders, He's going to be a
24:50
special player. And I think the same about Dante
24:53
Moore. I think Dante Moore has a lot
24:55
more weapons in his, you know it with what he can do in the
24:59
pocket than a guy like Fernando Mendoza.
25:01
We know what Fernando Modoza can do.
25:03
The guy picks your party. So dominant in the open field.
25:06
He doesn't make that many mistakes.
25:08
He's accurate. He does the thing, he does
25:10
everything right as a quarterback.
25:13
And that's why Signetti has been very successful this year and
25:16
why he won Coach of the Year again this year.
25:18
But nevertheless, this team, this Hoosier team, they're
25:22
loaded, absolutely loaded. When you look at this team and
25:25
they can run the ball as good as anybody right now in the
25:28
country. There's no question that they
25:29
can. They got Hamby who had 918 yards
25:32
and it had a six touchdowns, I think.
25:35
And then there was Black who was very good all season long too,
25:38
who had 798 yards and seven touchdowns.
25:41
So they've they've mixed it around.
25:42
Fernando Mendoza is pretty good on his feet too.
25:44
He had 240 rushing yards and six touchdowns too.
25:47
So I'm not saying that he can't run the ball as well.
25:49
He's been successful doing that, but he's more of a pocket
25:53
pressing quarterback. And that's something why I
25:56
believe Fernando Mendoza goes one no matter what.
25:58
I cannot see Tom Brady passing up on a kid like this when this
26:02
guy has the ability, ability to lead.
26:05
You see the team, you see how the team, all his teammates, you
26:09
know, they, they roll, they roll around him and on the sidelines
26:12
and his faces that he makes the, the personality that he has.
26:17
I met the guy, I could see what is, and I seen his teammates at
26:20
the Heisman Trophy dinner, how much they love this kid and
26:24
Signetti, what he said about this kid and how that he doesn't
26:27
believe that this team would be where they are today without
26:30
him. And I, I do seriously believe
26:32
that. But Mendoza has the ability to
26:36
draw so many people in and it doesn't doesn't matter his
26:39
talent, doesn't matter what he's gone through in his life, his
26:43
mother and his story behind that, how sick his mom has been
26:47
over the years and how he's been such a an important piece to
26:50
their family and keeping their family together.
26:52
How his father and his mother have raised him.
26:55
It's not even about that. It's about and not even about
26:59
that. He's the, he's a Cuban American.
27:00
He's probably going to be the first Cuban American going in
27:03
the top three in history as a quarterback.
27:07
The fact here is Mendoza is a pure leader, and that to me,
27:12
spells trouble for the Oregon Ducks.
27:14
But what I love about the Oregon Ducks is Dan Lanning is my
27:18
favorite coach in college football.
27:20
I think he's a great coach and I think he has the ability to
27:24
figure out the strengths and the weaknesses of the Indiana
27:28
Hoosiers. He's already played them this
27:29
year. They lost 30 to 20.
27:31
I do believe the Oregon Ducks believe that they were the
27:34
better team and I still believe they think they're the better
27:37
team. And now you get a chance to
27:40
prove it on a national stage, not in just a normal regular
27:43
season game. This is a championship game.
27:45
This is a chance to move on to the the, the number one
27:49
championship game that you've been waiting to play in it.
27:51
Remember, you played behind and you were, you were a coach
27:54
behind Nick Saban. You've been, you've won
27:56
championships as a assistant coach.
27:59
You've been under guys like Smart and Smart is 1 national
28:03
championships with Georgia. Now this is your chance to make
28:06
a statement and you talk about Nick Saban and his coaching
28:10
staff and guys that have gotten coaching jobs after the fact.
28:13
Dan Lanning is one of those guys that you expect to win
28:16
championships. You expect that he's going to be
28:19
66A successful coach because of his personality, what he does in
28:22
the locker room, how his players thrive.
28:24
To him, he's fun. He's just a fun head coach and
28:28
that's what I love about Danny. Danny doesn't hide.
28:31
He doesn't hide behind his words, hide behind his
28:33
personality. He's straightforward, he tells
28:36
you how it is. And Dante Moore, I don't know if
28:39
he goes back to college next year or he goes to the NFL.
28:42
No matter what, this guy's a top five talent.
28:45
He's got the ability to do things that other quarterbacks
28:47
can't do in the nation. 2733 yards, 24 passing touchdowns.
28:53
This kid has the ability to do things that other quarterbacks
28:56
can't do. He's got a better armor, better
28:58
arm then Mendoza. So we all know what he can do.
29:01
If he steps into the pocket. He can make every single throw.
29:04
Now the question is, is he going to make less mistakes that he's
29:09
made so far in the first two games?
29:10
He's going to have to against the Hoosiers.
29:12
They're very, very well built defensively and their offense.
29:16
They can run the ball many different ways.
29:18
They can dominate the clock. They've got wide receivers that
29:21
can catch the ball, tight ends that could block there.
29:25
They control the clock. That's what Signeti likes to do.
29:27
He likes to run the clock out, run the ball and use his star
29:30
quarterback when need be to make every single pass or make every
29:34
single throw that he meets them to do.
29:36
But here's the thing, the rushing ability of this team of
29:41
Oregon, they've got they have an ability to do this as well.
29:45
They've got Whittington, they got Davison, they've got the
29:48
ability to put the ball in the end zone as well.
29:51
Both running backs their their two starting running backs have
29:55
added 19 touchdowns this season, 19 and they used they used their
30:00
running game very, very well, not including the wide receiving
30:04
game that they've got weapons all over over the field as well.
30:06
Benson is a great wide receiver. Sadiq is one of the best tight
30:10
ends in the nation. So they've got the ability.
30:12
Sadiq had eight touchdowns this year.
30:14
So they have the ability to put the ball in the end zone and
30:18
they're very well built defensively as we saw against
30:20
Texas Tech. Yeah, they're actually one of
30:22
the, I think them in Ohio State were the only two teams that
30:25
were top ten and or top 15 in both offense and defensive
30:28
metrics this year. And that leads to what I was
30:31
saying on Monday, where Oregon's balance can make you, you can
30:34
win in so many different ways. You know, Dante Moore obviously
30:36
is going to have to clean up those turnover issues.
30:37
It's still lingered in the second-half.
30:39
Even with the big leads that Oregon has had against their
30:41
first two opponents, they still has to get that instinct out of
30:44
there because if they're going to play it back and forth type
30:46
of game with Indiana, as Indiana's offense will have that
30:50
with their running game as well, they will have to be able to
30:52
clean that up. Dante Moore running game against
30:54
Texas Tech got to be a little more efficient than they were.
30:57
They averaged about two 2.8 yards a carry, which is not
30:59
going to win this kind of game, especially with how well Alabama
31:02
or Indiana stop. They're running against Alabama.
31:05
Now that being said, Oregon does have the dynamic running back to
31:08
make it work. Whittington, very dynamic
31:09
athlete. Davidson kind of more of a one
31:11
cut runner but still is very good overall.
31:14
And what I'm curious on too is Indiana hasn't faced a lot of
31:18
Mobile quarterbacks like Dante Moore besides him obviously in
31:20
that first meeting. And the Big 10 in general don't
31:24
have a lot of the guys. Will Dante Moore have some more
31:26
design runs for him too? In which this Oregon offensive
31:29
coaching staff has been very creative throughout the year.
31:31
There's a reason they were the highest scoring offense in the
31:33
country this year. 39.3 points per.
31:36
Game and you expect there to be a high this game to be a high
31:39
scoring game. As good as the Hoosiers defense
31:42
is and what we saw them do to Alabama, Alabama's offense is up
31:46
and down. They don't have the offense that
31:48
they've had over the years, the running game that they had over
31:51
the years because they lost their star running back early in
31:53
the season. And their wide receivers are
31:55
good, but they're not Alabama's wide receivers aren't well that
31:58
we've seen over the years with Smith and, and the talent that
32:02
they've had over the years when when they were just running and
32:05
and dominating on the open field.
32:07
They don't have that this year. And that's the difference.
32:10
And I'm not saying the Hoosiers beat a bad Alabama Crimson Tide.
32:13
This is a Crimson Tide that lost three games, but they're in the
32:16
SEC. They play against the best teams
32:17
in the country. I I just think Oregon's a
32:19
different beast. They're a different dominating
32:22
beast. And they can put so much
32:24
pressure on you running the ball and throwing the ball.
32:27
They can do things that the Hoosiers have had problems
32:30
defensively all season long against the better teams.
32:33
I know everybody's going to say the Hoosiers are undefeated,
32:35
that there were plenty of games that the Hoosiers could have
32:38
lost. They could have lost some close
32:40
games this year. And, and again, the Hoosiers
32:42
show you that they have a lot of ability to stay in those games
32:46
and they expect their quarterback to make the big, big
32:48
play at the end of the game. That's the difference this year,
32:51
ladies and gentlemen, is that Fernando Mendoza, when needed,
32:55
he can get out there in the fourth quarter when there's two
32:58
minutes left and they need to make a play and need to get into
33:01
field goal range or they need to put the ball in the end zone.
33:04
He's the guy that finds a way to do that.
33:07
And that is is what makes Fernando Mendoza a unique
33:11
individual, unique player and why I think he will go #1 unless
33:15
some crazy thing happens on Friday.
33:17
Where Deonte just absolutely dominates and shows you why he's
33:23
going to be a top three quarterback if he goes out of
33:25
this class. This Oregon defense too is
33:27
something I want to mention as well because I think after that
33:29
Indiana loss, they really played well after that October 18th on
33:34
and sometimes when the Oregon Oregon was struggling, it was
33:36
more of their offense. There was one game I think they
33:38
played against Oregon State or some other really bad team that
33:40
they really got struggled to get going and then they ran away
33:42
with in the second-half. But their defense was always
33:44
consistent ever since that game. Now, obviously they weren't
33:47
tested in having to play like an Ohio State, that offense that's
33:49
very good or even Penn State at its peak after they fired James
33:52
Franklin. But still, it's a defense.
33:54
It's very consistent. You mentioned an arrow like
33:56
defensive mining coach and Dan Lanning that comes from a Kirby
33:59
Smart system won the national championship, the first national
34:01
championship when they beat Alabama.
34:03
Then he took the Oregon John after that and taking an Oregon
34:06
team that was always known for their offense in the past and
34:08
their defense was always iffy. And now they finally have a
34:10
defense they can trust too to take it to that next level.
34:13
This is a very well-rounded team.
34:14
Now Indiana, obviously they have a prolific offense too.
34:16
They have receivers that I don't think get enough credit for what
34:19
they do as well an offensive line that played very well
34:21
against an Alabama team that's good in the trenches.
34:23
And I'm curious to see how quickly both those running games
34:26
will end up getting started because obviously Dante Moore is
34:30
the more dynamic, athletic quarterback.
34:31
But Mendoza is very smart, too, like we were saying with Carson
34:33
Beck, and he makes all the right decisions.
34:35
Mendoza is very athletic too. I mean to say that he's not he's
34:38
had he's had over 250 yards run and he's ran 6 touchdowns in.
34:43
So he's athletic. I just don't know if he's more
34:45
athletic. That's the only thing.
34:47
But again, he's. More like, you know how Baker
34:49
Mayfield gets yards even though he doesn't have at least speed?
34:52
It's more like that kind of running from Mendoza.
34:54
As people would say, the sneaky. Athletic.
34:56
Well, you know, more athletic than me, that's for sure.
35:00
Way more athletic than I ever was.
35:02
But not the same level as Dante Moore, is what they're saying.
35:05
But it's not really about that. I think this Oregon defense is
35:09
magnificent. And I'm really curious about the
35:12
game plan in this game. If they can't run the ball, are
35:16
they going to try to stay away from Brandon Finney junior's
35:20
side of the field? Because this freshman might be
35:23
one of the best freshmen or the best freshmen at cornerback in
35:27
the in the entire game right now.
35:28
He had two picks and A and a fumble recovery against Texas
35:31
Tech. He was everywhere.
35:33
He had six tackles everywhere. He was coming over, helping out,
35:38
doing everything you can do and it seemed like he was like a
35:42
senior out there. Five star recruit Dan Lanning.
35:47
They are really, really stacked on defense.
35:49
So in me, I'm not. If I'm a pocket quarterback,
35:53
we're not throwing there. I'm treating it like Darrell
35:55
Revis type stuff to the certain degree.
35:57
I mean, obviously situationally he's not Darrell Revis.
36:00
Maybe you could find a way to fool me as a freshman.
36:03
And he had like, you know, the college version of PFF grade was
36:06
over 81, which is ridiculous for a freshman.
36:09
So he's he's just an outstanding player.
36:12
And that's the kind of game that I think we're going to see
36:14
tomorrow. It's going to be more like an
36:17
NFL cat and mouse. Who's going to be open?
36:20
Are they going to put Finney on their best guy or they put him
36:23
on the second best guy and then double their best guy?
36:26
Is that what they're going to do?
36:27
Kind of like you would see in the NFL?
36:29
I'm very curious to see how this game goes.
36:31
Speaking of the NFL Wild Card Week in the best time for
36:35
football ladies and gentlemen and it will get underway this
36:40
weekend with the Broncos and the Seahawks getting the bye weeks
36:44
as the number one seeds. The number 5 seed Rams will face
36:50
off against the number 4C Panthers in the first match up
36:53
Saturday. The Rams have had the number one
36:56
offense in the NFL in both yards and points facing off ladies and
37:01
gentlemen against the Panthers defense that has allowed 20
37:05
points or less in their last four games.
37:07
Quarterback Matthew Stafford is the MVP favorite in most sports
37:12
books for the 2025 NFL season. In a rematch match of a classic
37:18
only a few weeks ago, the number 7 Packers will face off against
37:23
the number two Bears in the second game on Saturday.
37:28
The Packers get quarterback Jordan Love back, who they lost
37:32
in a in in that game with a concussion the last time they
37:36
played against the Bears a couple of weeks ago.
37:39
The number six Bills and reigning MVP quarterback Josh
37:45
Allen will face off against the number three Jaguars.
37:47
With a revamped Trevor Lawrence and Jaguar and the Jaguars
37:52
offense and top 10 defense this year under new coach Liam Cohen
37:58
in their first game Sunday, the number six 49ers will face off
38:03
against defending champions at the number 3 seeded Eagles in
38:08
the second game on Sunday. With the 40 nines and five 49ers
38:12
having a top five offense in all major categories since Brock
38:17
Birdies. Brock Birdies return, they face
38:20
off against the Eagles defense that is fifth best in points
38:24
allowed. Although they have struggled
38:27
offensively compared to last year's Super Bowl run, finishing
38:32
in the bottom third of the league in most offensive
38:36
statistics. The number 7 Chargers will face
38:39
off against the Patriots on Sunday Night Football possible
38:42
possibly the MVP of the league Drake May and the Pats top five
38:48
ranked offense takes on the Chargers top five defense and
38:52
Justin Herbert coming back from an injury.
38:55
The number 5 Texans will face off against the Steelers on
38:59
Monday Night Football. The Texans who have arguably the
39:03
top defense in the league takes on 41 year old Aaron AKA
39:09
Brittanys hand Rogers who will try to dig deep into the
39:16
darkness to dominate like he once did.
39:20
I want to go into these games and I congratulations to the
39:24
Broncos, who I think are going to be out in the next round.
39:26
I do not believe the Broncos. I don't take them seriously
39:29
because they have no offense. Seattle is a lot of people's
39:32
favorites to go into the Super Bowl.
39:34
Sam Darnold, congratulations on a great season.
39:36
Very well deserved. And Najigba has been one of the
39:40
best more prolific offensive options in the league.
39:44
So they've had an ability to stop the runs on a lot of teams
39:49
and and offensively very gifted. And I I got to give a shout out
39:52
to, I believe the coach of the year in McDonald's, who has been
39:55
sensational for the Seattle Seahawks.
39:58
But the Rams and the Panthers are an interesting game.
40:00
And I'm going to tell you why the Rams are expected to win
40:03
this game. Matthew Stafford.
40:06
Is one of the best quarterbacks and veteran quarterbacks in the
40:10
NFL. He is a Hall of Famer, future
40:12
Hall of Famer. What stands out in this game is
40:16
Canalis and what he has done in the few years he's been there
40:21
with the Carolina Panthers. He's discovered a running back
40:24
from the Dallas Cowboys. Has Dowdell, who's been
40:27
sensational in the first half, kind of falling off a little bit
40:30
in the second-half, But it's been as important to the offense
40:34
as any player. McMillan high draft pick.
40:37
You can see why they needed a wide receiver this good that can
40:41
open up the field as well as he's done this year.
40:45
And a defense that can spread many different ways of blitz
40:49
packages. And they could get to the
40:51
quarterback in many different ways.
40:53
And they have one of the best corners, one of the more
40:55
underrated corners in the NFL when he stays healthy.
40:58
And Horn, they can do a lot of things.
41:00
They can cause a lot of trouble, especially in the open field
41:05
defensively, and that's why a good defense always beats a good
41:08
offense. And when you can run the ball,
41:09
which Carolina can and has proven to do so I think Carolina
41:14
can create a lot of mismatches and create a lot of problems for
41:18
a team like the Rams, Speedy. Yeah, definitely.
41:20
I think Carolina's defense, when you look at the rookies that
41:22
they have up front, I I never thought it would be as deep as
41:24
it was. And it played really well
41:26
towards the second-half of the season once that scheme really
41:28
got going. Now they had some ugly losses.
41:29
They lost twice to the Saints, which doesn't add up well.
41:32
And again, which level of their offense are you going to see?
41:35
It's always a question with their offensive line, with Bryce
41:37
Young just being very streaky all year.
41:38
But they've had their moments. They have a very good offensive
41:40
skilled players. The Rams defense is something
41:43
that's been worrisome at the end of the year.
41:45
The last five games or so they've allowed an average of
41:47
over 30 points of games. So are they going to find that
41:49
defensive groove? I know Chris Shula is one of
41:51
those guys that's going to get head coaching candidates, but
41:53
again, they he has to refocus his defense to really get going
41:56
because their offense obviously is top notch.
41:58
I agree with you, Stafford should be MVP and they don't
41:59
really have a significant weakness on that offense either.
42:02
They will be out with one of their offense alignment though.
42:04
Kevin Dotson is hurt. That's going to be an
42:05
interesting match of Derrick Brown, one of the best defensive
42:07
tackles in the league. Kind of expose that kind of
42:10
thing. If the Panthers could play back
42:11
and forth, there are really good fourth quarter team if the Rams
42:15
are going to win this game, if they're going to come out early
42:16
and maybe they'll get the blowout that they should with
42:18
the 10 and. 1/2 Well, you know, Puka Nuku is going to be all
42:21
over the field and you know, Devante Adams is going to be all
42:23
over the field and they can run the ball.
42:25
They have a lot of options on running the ball as well.
42:28
Kieran Williams is one of the more underrated running backs in
42:32
the league. So they're going to be able to
42:33
do a lot of things. And we we talk about Blake all
42:36
season long. He's transition his game.
42:39
A guy that we remember on that Michigan championship team.
42:41
He could do a lot of things in the open field.
42:43
He can catch the ball. You can use him in the screen
42:45
game. So and we all know Sean McVeigh
42:48
is going to use many different packages to try to get Carolina
42:52
off their spots. And that's the difference in
42:55
this game is, is the match up against a young, great coach in
42:59
Canalis and a veteran coach and Sean McVeigh that everybody
43:02
loves. I'm not a big fan of his because
43:04
because he's Kyle Shanahan's guy.
43:06
But we all know what Sean McVeigh can do.
43:08
And we've seen Sean McVeigh in the big games and we've seen him
43:11
not play well and not coach very well in the big games.
43:14
Remember the Super Bowl? They have the number one offense
43:16
in the league and they played against New England and they
43:19
what did they put up? Three points.
43:21
Three points. So we know what Sean McVeigh can
43:24
do And and and lay up a lousy kusak in a big game.
43:27
So I'm not saying that's going to happen this year.
43:29
He also didn't have a play like Puka Nakur.
43:31
Now, he didn't Puka Nakus, one of the more unique players we've
43:35
seen in the NFL. This guy was a fourth round
43:38
talent. We talk about Cooper Cup and
43:40
what he did and what he brought to the table.
43:42
This guy is bigger and he's stronger and he could do a lot
43:44
more things in the open field than Cooper Cup could ever do.
43:47
And he's a great route runner. He can run, yeah, he could do
43:51
everything. He's just very well built.
43:53
But the game that sticks out to me on Saturday is the Packers
43:56
and the Bears. We've seen these teams play
43:58
against one another twice this year and I love it because you
44:03
have the battle of the coaches right now and you have two
44:05
coaches that are offensively sound, offensively offense
44:10
minded. And you have Ben Johnson, who a
44:12
lot of people believe has been one of the best offensive
44:16
coaches hired in a very long time.
44:19
And you can see it. Remember, if you remember what
44:21
Detroit has done over the years in the playoffs and what
44:23
Detroit's done year in and year out over the years, it's because
44:26
of Ben Johnson. You can see it because Dan
44:28
Campbell is not in the playoffs this year.
44:31
Why? Maybe because Aaron Glenn is
44:33
coaching the New York Jets and Ben Johnson is coaching the
44:36
Bears. Now, Aaron Glenn did not have a
44:38
good season and I know that's what Jeff fans are going to say.
44:40
What are you talking about? But he was a great defensive
44:42
coordinator. This guy, Ben Johnson is one of
44:46
the more unique offensive coordinators.
44:48
The play calling, the trick plays, the things that he does
44:51
very, very unique and against a a team like the Packers who lost
44:57
two big defensive players in Wyatt and Micah Parsons.
45:01
Now I don't know if why it's going to be in this in the
45:03
playoffs. If he's going to come back in
45:04
the playoffs. I don't know how bad his injury
45:06
is. We know Micah Parsons isn't
45:07
coming back and the understanding here is ever since
45:12
Michael Parsons been out, they've been even better
45:15
defensively in certain aspects. And I think that the reason why
45:19
is they're they're covering up the weaknesses that the Packers
45:22
have had over the last couple of years.
45:24
Now, the Packers are still a very good defense.
45:26
We saw what they did last year and we understand what they can
45:29
do in the open field, especially in their secondary.
45:32
I think the Packers have the advantage in this game.
45:35
I do. I think the Packers have the
45:36
advantage in this game. And one of the main reasons why
45:38
I know you're going to look at it, well, the Packers are going
45:41
to Chicago in Chicago. Remember when Chicago played
45:44
their playoff game at home the first year with Matt Nagy and
45:50
Mitchell Trabinsky and they're they were one of the best
45:52
defenses in the league. They had a top, they were a top
45:56
team in the league. And what did they do?
45:58
Their kicker missed an important field goal in the game and they
46:01
couldn't do the things that they could do in the regular season.
46:03
I'm not saying this is the the same Chicago Bears team, but I
46:07
trust the Green Bay Packers in these big games than I ever do
46:11
with the Chicago Bears until Chicago brews, they can win the
46:14
big game. Now Doomsday is playing in this
46:16
game. So they're getting back some of
46:17
their offensive guys that they missed in some of the in one of
46:20
those Packers games that you can remember on that on that.
46:23
I think it was Saturday night, but this is a Saturday game
46:27
where I think that the Packers are going to be at full
46:29
strength. Watson, they have the players
46:31
that they've had all season long.
46:33
Watson's been a number one. He's proved that he has a number
46:35
one. They they've brought a lot of
46:37
their players have gotten healthy.
46:38
Jacobs is going to be a big part of this offense.
46:41
And I think again, out of the defenses that I've watched this
46:45
season, the defense that has played up to par week in and
46:49
week out is the Green Bay Packers.
46:50
As good as the the the Bears defense has been all season
46:53
long, I think the Packers defense to me has been better.
46:56
Yes, they've definitely been better.
46:58
The Bears defense has been had having trouble at times getting
47:00
pressure on the quarterback and they've been reliant a lot on
47:03
turnovers. They're one of the best turnover
47:04
teams in the league, but they do allow a lot of yards and they
47:07
don't get a lot of pressure on the quarterback.
47:08
Now the Packers offensive line, sometimes it's been suspect,
47:10
too. Some of that has to do with
47:11
injuries, obviously, but I'm curious to see who can win that
47:14
kind of battle. If the Bears can get enough kind
47:16
of secondary pressure outside of Montez squad, was that a good
47:19
year? Can they get some even on the
47:21
interior? Can they get enough pressure on
47:22
Jordan? Look, we've seen Jordan love at
47:24
times get flustered this year under pressure.
47:26
I don't think that part of his game has really developed yet
47:29
and will Chicago could be able to get enough consistent
47:31
pressure. And then on the other side,
47:33
Green Bay is going to have a void on the interior defensive
47:35
line with Devante Wyatt out yet Chicago's running backs are
47:38
better outside running backs. On the inside running backs,
47:40
it's not like you have Dave Montgomery when Ben Johnson was
47:42
in Detroit. Do they have enough consistency
47:44
with the inside run game to kind of wear them down?
47:47
Because even though the Packers lost Micah Parsons, they still
47:49
have enough more on the edge losing obviously training Clark
47:52
in the Parsons deal and then losing Wyatt.
47:54
Like they really have a lot in the middle and I'm curious how.
47:57
Did Wyatt hurt himself? It was a it was a leg injury.
48:00
I believe he's not going to be available like.
48:04
For the rest of the playoffs, yeah.
48:05
They said he was out for the. Season.
48:06
OK, so I didn't even know that. I didn't know it was that bad.
48:09
Yeah, I was like they were saying it would be a long shot
48:11
for him to come back, like maybe it would be deeper.
48:13
I know Michael Parsons won't be back because he tore no.
48:17
Yeah, he's done. He's done.
48:18
He probably going into a little bit next year too, right?
48:20
And I think there's a shot why, maybe if they reach the Super.
48:23
Bowl. That's what I'm saying.
48:24
Yeah, I've heard that. Why?
48:25
It could be back in the playoffs at some point.
48:27
That happened two years ago with the 49ers, with Fred Warner.
48:29
Fred Warner came back for the Super Bowl after he got hurt in
48:32
the playoffs. But it was a long shot and we've
48:35
seen it obviously with Thomas. Davis, I will say this, I trust
48:38
Jordan Love more than Kayla Williams.
48:39
This is this is his first time in this position.
48:42
He's never been in a position like this.
48:43
There's a lot of pressure on a young guy that has had a coach
48:47
like Everfloose that couldn't get him over the hump.
48:49
Now you have Ben Johnson in his first year.
48:51
You're you're the number two seed in the NFC, probably the
48:54
best conference in all of football.
48:56
And, and you've had that kind of season and you're against Jordan
48:59
Love, who's proven himself in the playoffs, be an efficient
49:03
quarterback. And at some point, I could say
49:06
it was very Aaron Rodgers ask in the last couple of years
49:09
watching Jordan Love play, he can make the big play.
49:12
And he's the scary one. Because if Jordan Love can get
49:15
time and get confidence, what we've seen he's done many, many
49:19
times in the past, especially for the Green Bay Packers, when
49:23
healthy, he can win games himself.
49:26
And I think Jordan Love is going to play a big importance in this
49:30
game as long as he stays healthy.
49:32
And we all know the Chicago Bears are going to go head
49:34
hunting as well as they did on on the Saturday that they played
49:37
against him and why he had a concussion.
49:39
If if you remember that game, why did he get that concussion?
49:41
It was against Chicago Bears. It was an illegal hit.
49:44
Yeah, it was a legal hit by their, I think, second defensive
49:46
tackle or something like that. It was a big guy to Austin
49:48
Booker. And yeah, I'm wondering like how
49:50
Love is going to come back from that, too.
49:52
And like you said, like he's been through adversity in the
49:54
playoffs before. I had that one bad quarter
49:56
against the 49ers out. Besides that, he's played really
49:59
well in the playoffs in his three playoff game so far.
50:01
It wasn't his fault they lost to the Eagles even though they I
50:03
didn't get in that game. Could have gone either way.
50:06
The one I'm curious on too though is neither of these teams
50:09
really have like an obvious like either tight end or receiver
50:11
number one type guy. They rotate a lot like the
50:14
Bears, thrive with Loveland, a lot in the second-half.
50:17
I like Loveland. He looked really good.
50:19
Doomsday was the guy in the first half of the season.
50:20
He didn't do much in the second-half, obviously with the
50:22
injury. And then DJ Moore was very
50:23
streaky all year. So they don't have that kind of
50:26
guy in Green Bay. Forget about it.
50:27
Like once Jaden Reed went down, Watson emerged later, but the
50:30
Tucker craft going down really hurt them and they couldn't
50:33
really find consistency there. And how healthy Josh Jacobs.
50:35
Is the last, the last time they played against Green Bay, Watson
50:39
didn't have a big game, right? And none of them did.
50:42
I expect Watson to play better than in in this game than he did
50:45
the last time they met. And a doomsday was not in that
50:48
game. A doomsday is going to play a
50:49
big part in this game offensively.
50:51
If the Bears beat Green Bay, they're going to have to use a
50:55
doomsday. They're going to have to move
50:56
them in a slot, they're going to move them on the outside.
50:58
They're going to have to play that game where they're going to
51:00
throw mismatches against is Green Bay Packers secondary,
51:03
which is very, very good. And that's one of the strengths
51:06
of this team is their secondary so.
51:08
And so Chicago's, when they're healthy, they got a really good
51:10
threesome. Of corners but are they healthy
51:11
that's the question right so I I don't know if the bears of their
51:15
secondary is 100% healthy they're going to play but I
51:18
don't believe they're going to be 100% healthy so that I think
51:20
that's the difference. I know the Green Bay Packers
51:22
front their their secondary is healthy, so and they have a star
51:26
safety, a no, you giant fans know who.
51:28
Yeah. So in McKinney.
51:30
So I I think there's an there's an optional thought what this
51:34
game could turn out to be. This could be a high scoring
51:36
game or a very well put defensive game.
51:38
I expect it to be a high scoring game.
51:40
I could see this game a 30 to 22 game or of something of that, a
51:44
30 to 25 or maybe even a 30 or 27 game, depending on and it
51:49
might be a missed field goal that wins the game.
51:50
It's going to be very, very interesting on Sunday.
51:54
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills meet up against the Jacksonville
51:59
Jack Ross in Jacksonville. A lot of people, a lot of people
52:04
have Jacksonville pulling off the upset in this game.
52:08
Maybe because of Trevor Lawrence and what he's done this year.
52:10
It's something that we haven't seen.
52:12
I maybe because the Gremlin got hurt and this this offense has
52:15
been completely different. I don't know.
52:17
And it's not because of certain certain offensive players that
52:20
we brought up before the season started.
52:22
It's not. It's been a lot of different
52:25
players. How about ETN having just an
52:27
unbelievable season coming out of nowhere where a lot of people
52:30
thought they were going to move on from him and they had a
52:32
running game. They had three running backs
52:34
before, before the regular season.
52:36
And ETN was looked, maybe looked out to be traded.
52:39
And what did they do before, before the season started?
52:42
They moved to some of the other running backs and they kept ETN
52:45
because of how fast he looked and how good he looked in
52:48
Cohen's offense. I'm going to bet on the guy
52:54
that's been here before. I'm going to bet on the guy that
52:57
has done it before in the playoffs.
53:00
Trevor Lawrence won a game in the playoffs.
53:01
I remember they, they came back for against the Chargers a
53:04
couple of years ago. And then what did they do?
53:06
They laid up. They laid up a lousy goose egg
53:08
in the semis. I, I, I don't know if I trust
53:13
the Jacksonville Jaguars. I know a lot of people like what
53:15
their defense has done in the second-half and what Trevor
53:17
Lawrence has looked at and looked like over the last four
53:20
games. He's been unbelievable.
53:22
He's been one of the best quarterbacks in the league, no
53:24
question. Look at the teams that they
53:26
beat. They didn't beat anybody, OK?
53:30
And they're in a division that is not very good.
53:34
I mean, Indianapolis was up and down all season long.
53:36
I I we don't know what they were after they lost Daniel Jones.
53:39
They're obviously the Texans defense is sensational.
53:43
I'm not taking it. See, they should not look good
53:45
and Nico Collins look better in the second-half.
53:47
But I don't know if I'm going to bet on the Texans on how good
53:50
they are. I have to see them do it.
53:52
And they got to do it significantly in the playoffs.
53:56
And we've seen the Texans, you know, with other quarterbacks
54:00
not do it very well. So I know this is a different
54:03
team and it's it's a different season.
54:06
Jacksonville, Ken have the upset.
54:09
I heard Stephen A Smith had Jacksonville going to the Super
54:12
Bowl in the AFC, which I think is absolutely ridiculous.
54:16
I I again, I don't know what I've watched Jacksonville play
54:20
twice this year, so I'm not going to sit here.
54:23
And I saw him play really bad in the first half of the season
54:25
when they had the Gremlin on it and I wanted to watch.
54:27
You wanted to track how bad he was.
54:29
I watched bits and pieces of how bad he was, and then I and I
54:33
watched Trevor Lawrence. He just looked the shell of
54:35
himself. That and he looked even worse
54:37
than he did in the years before that.
54:40
But in the second-half of the season, I think Trevor Lawrence
54:43
figured out this offense. Cohen figured out what Trevor
54:46
Lawrence is good at. And I think everything started
54:49
to get easier and slower for Trevor Lawrence.
54:52
And you can see the difference of a quarterback and what type
54:54
of quarterback he can be in an offense that can open up his
54:58
strengths and hide his weaknesses.
55:02
Josh Allen has no wide receivers.
55:04
He has not. There is nobody on this offense,
55:08
especially the wide receiving corps, that I'm going to say, Oh
55:11
my God, I'm scared of them. He's got some tight ends.
55:14
I like Knox. I've seen what he can do in the
55:16
playoffs. I like Kincaid.
55:19
Kincaid, who's been, I think he was a first round talent.
55:23
Late first round back. He's been up and down in the
55:25
playoffs over the years, but I think this is a year that
55:28
Kincaid could really show himself as one of the elite
55:30
tight ends in a league. And he's going to have to
55:33
because he's going to have to make the big plays and this
55:36
running game. And James Cook is going to have
55:38
to run against a defense that's been very good on the run in the
55:41
last four or five games. So they're going to have to use
55:44
Cook on the open field and screen passes, use them in
55:48
different packages to throw them off.
55:50
And I trust, obviously, even though Cohen has been very good
55:53
this year, I trust a veteran coach with the Buffalo Bills.
55:56
I trust that they're going to they're going to have a game
55:58
plan against Trevor Lawrence. They're going to and and this is
56:00
not the same Buffalo Bills defense that we remember, OK?
56:04
But this is a Buffalo Bills defense that is getting a little
56:07
bit healthier, and they've got some of their linebackers back,
56:11
so losing Oliver for the rest of the season really hurt them.
56:15
I mean, seriously, Olivers having a great season.
56:18
He was looking really, really good.
56:19
And then he gets hurt and I forget what he heard, but I
56:23
think it was something in his legs and he was out for the
56:25
season. So this has not been the same
56:28
defense we expect if we expected this year.
56:30
But I expect this defense to show up in the playoffs.
56:33
And I expect Josh Allen to put up, you know, a big game and
56:36
expect to knock them off in this game against the Jaguars.
56:39
Yeah, they still have. The Bills still have a top 7
56:41
defense though. And I think a lot of that has to
56:42
do with how well their past defense has played too, which I
56:44
think it helps in this kind of match up too.
56:46
Cuz yeah, ETN probably on paper you think OK, they should be
56:50
able to dominate a bad Bills run defense most of the year.
56:52
But we've seen the Bills have bad run defenses in the past and
56:55
they get up for it in the playoffs.
56:56
They play well against these better running backs.
56:58
It's really been sometimes their secondary that's disappeared in
57:00
the playoffs a lot of the time in their playoff losses.
57:03
What's interesting too is the matchup of the very good
57:06
Jacksonville linebackers. One of them has been on our show
57:08
a lot in foyer Luc and Devin Lloyd.
57:09
Another one that played very well this year against those
57:12
tight ends and against James Cook.
57:13
That's going to be the strength on.
57:14
Foyer would not like to hear my take on the Jacksonville
57:17
Jaguars. Again, I again, it's actually a
57:20
battle of players in a bit. He's got a great season, but.
57:22
He's had a great year and that says Devin Lloyd.
57:24
Devin Lloyd is probably going to be a Pro Bowler this year, and
57:26
Fourier is one of the better, like veteran linebackers we've
57:29
seen. Tacklers in the league?
57:30
Fantastic. And they can get, they can rush
57:33
the passer too. But Buffalo's got a really good
57:34
offensive line too. So will they be able to get
57:36
enough pressure on Josh Allen where he makes one of his like
57:39
random mistakes that we've seen him do sometimes, not all the
57:42
time in the playoffs. It's not all these people that
57:44
are making all these lazy takes on Josh Allen.
57:46
He's been really good in the playoffs, but he's again, he's
57:47
had some random blunder here and there.
57:49
Jacksonville offensively will be the question if they can get any
57:53
of these receivers going quickly because they have a rotation,
57:56
like I was saying with the Bears and the Packers of these
57:57
receivers. Because really Brian Thomas said
57:59
did not get it going at all in the second in the second season,
58:02
you saw Parker Washington have flashes too, but they really
58:05
Jacoby Meyer has been great since he's come over there.
58:07
But can they get enough consistency against a secondary
58:09
in the Bills that has a lot of good talent and a pass rush in
58:11
the Bills that has a lot of good talent as well and Josh Allen
58:15
extending plays too. Are they going to be able to be
58:18
ready for that kind of thing against the defense?
58:19
It's more of an attacking defense with their front 7 as a
58:22
whole too. I think Buffalo has a slight
58:24
lead, but I Jacksonville is a well-rounded team.
58:26
But I think the Bills, I agree that this experience will play
58:28
out. The 49ers in the Eagles.
58:30
This is going to be an interesting game.
58:32
Now the Eagles, Eagles I believe are the best team still in the
58:35
playoffs, the most talents. They edit some pieces and
58:38
Phillips, they had a Michael Carter, the second from The Jets
58:41
putting him in a slot. They've been they slowly but
58:43
surely starting to fit in over there with the the Philadelphia
58:47
Eagles. The Eagles defense has been
58:48
superb over the last three weeks and I expect them to be even
58:52
better in the playoffs. They show up.
58:54
Jalen Carter, they gave us. This defense is as good as
58:58
anybody's going into the playoffs, and they have
59:00
tremendous talent all over the board.
59:03
Their secondary is some of the best.
59:05
Mitchell is one of the best corners in the league.
59:06
They can do so many things that other guys and other teams
59:10
cannot do, other coaches cannot do.
59:12
But the offense needs to wake up and if they want to win a Super
59:16
Bowl, they have to give the ball to the one and only.
59:19
You know, I'm talking about speedy Saquon Barkley.
59:23
He needs to run the ball. He needs to have his, I would
59:26
believe at least 18 to 25 touches.
59:29
He needs to touch the ball a lot.
59:31
They need to use him in the backfield.
59:32
That will open up the the wide receivers and open up the
59:36
throwing game with Jalen Hurts. I expect Jalen Hurts.
59:38
We've seen Jalen Hurts show up in playoff games.
59:40
I'm I'm going to bet that Jalen Hurts is going to show up in
59:43
this game and put pressure on the 49ers defense, the 49ers
59:47
defense. Did you hear that Robert Sall is
59:49
getting interviewed by Ravens? By the Ravens?
59:51
What a. So is Matt Mackey.
59:53
What a joke. What are the Ravens thinking?
59:56
You're going to bring in Robert Salle after you saw that The
59:58
buckle, the New York Jets all breaks.
1:00:01
No guess. What's next?
1:00:02
Are we going if he gets brought in, just break?
1:00:04
No guess. You know, I, I don't know what
1:00:06
he's going to do over there with the Baltimore Ravens if he gets
1:00:09
hired nevertheless. Has he had a good season as
1:00:12
defensive corner? Better than you would expect.
1:00:14
He lost a lot of pieces. He lost Joe, he lost Nick Bosa.
1:00:17
He lost one of the best linebackers in in all the
1:00:20
football. There he is, Bambi I.
1:00:22
Mean. Bambino, I'll call him Bambino
1:00:25
if he goes over a little Baltimore Ravens.
1:00:26
But I, I mean, the 49ers are dangerous.
1:00:29
Brock Pretty has looked as good as any quarterback in the last
1:00:32
three weeks. He has been efficient And I, I
1:00:36
will say this, Christian McCaffrey is one of the most
1:00:38
dangerous players. This is what I love about these
1:00:41
games, you get to watch two of the great running backs in the
1:00:44
league, 2 guys that were drafted in the same draft and Christian
1:00:47
McAfee. I think it was drafted by
1:00:48
Carolina as the 7th pick and Sacro Barkley was drafted by the
1:00:52
giants #2 So this is, this is going to be a fun, fun game.
1:00:58
Battle of two star running backs, 2 sensational running
1:01:01
backs, 2 Hall of Famers in running backs.
1:01:04
I, I think this is going to be fun.
1:01:06
I think that's what you're going to look at this game and what
1:01:08
defense is going to show up in the game.
1:01:10
Is it going to be the Eagles defense?
1:01:11
It's going to put so much pressure on Brock Purdy where
1:01:13
Brock Purdy is going to make mistakes.
1:01:14
We've seen the Eagles defense show up against the the 49ers
1:01:17
over the years and absolutely pulverized.
1:01:19
I remember it was the Eagles that knocked out Brock Purdy a
1:01:22
couple of years ago and eventually sent the Eagles to
1:01:25
the Super Bowl. I remember that game.
1:01:27
So I, I expect the Eagles to put a lot of pressure on Brock Purdy
1:01:30
and I expect Brock Purdy to roll out and do the things that Brock
1:01:33
Purdy does very well. And I expect this game to be,
1:01:37
you know, go to the end and, and take it to the end.
1:01:39
And and these coaches, both coaches, I'm not a big fan of.
1:01:43
Yes, we know. And what's interesting about the
1:01:45
49ers is their pass rush has not been as good and the Eagles
1:01:48
offensive line hasn't been as good to strength for those teams
1:01:51
over the years. And really the last seven years
1:01:53
when they've been great with those defenses, Robert Salas
1:01:56
since they lost Nick Bosa, his their their defenses pressure
1:01:58
rate has been very low. And their rookies, they've
1:02:00
played all right, but they haven't been as good as expected
1:02:02
either. And the Eagles offensive line
1:02:04
since they've had these injuries have not been as good either.
1:02:06
What I'm curious on is 2 things with the 49ers offense.
1:02:09
Brock Purdy, we've seen Kyle Shanahan roll out and run more
1:02:13
since he's come back from injury, which the Eagles
1:02:14
sometimes have had issue against running quarterbacks in the
1:02:16
past. And then on the Niners side,
1:02:18
Robert Sala's defenses will always struggle with running
1:02:20
quarterback. You were complaining about it
1:02:21
all the time with The Jets. How much, how much you like
1:02:25
quarterbacks? Ron against Ron, Wild against
1:02:27
him and pass catching running backs too is the other one.
1:02:29
What you going to do when Robert Salad screws up on you?
1:02:33
Yeah. He could he could burn all those
1:02:35
receipts eventually. But the other one that The Jets
1:02:37
have always struggled against and the 49ers have struggled
1:02:39
against when Salah was there was pass catching running back.
1:02:42
Yet Saquon Barkley not as much of A volume of the passing game.
1:02:45
Will Kevin Petullo actually be smarter off and use him as a
1:02:48
pass catching running back in this game and take advantage of
1:02:50
it too? Because I think the passing game
1:02:51
you mentioned, Jalen Hurts sometimes gets it going later in
1:02:54
the season. The first couple games in
1:02:55
playoff career, he didn't have to do much.
1:02:56
They blew out the Giants and obviously they blew out the
1:02:58
49ers once pretty got hurt and they had like 4 quarterbacks
1:03:00
play for them. But since then, he played really
1:03:03
well in that Super Bowl. He played really well last year
1:03:05
in pretty much every playoff game in their route to the Super
1:03:08
Bowl. So they've had their stretches
1:03:10
of it, too. I just think that you look at
1:03:13
the mobility aspect with Jalen Hurts against this type of
1:03:15
defense, I think that's going to be too much for the Eagles or
1:03:17
for the 49ers. I think you need to talk about
1:03:19
George Kittle a little bit in this matchup because having a
1:03:21
real tight end like that who can block inline for CMC is more
1:03:26
than what Saquon has this year. That line's not healthy.
1:03:29
That line is not the same line. Lane Johnson, right?
1:03:32
They've lost a lot of people. They're not playing at the same
1:03:35
level they were last year. So what what what happened?
1:03:39
Saquon ran for what was it, speedy 1200 yards.
1:03:42
This year it wasn't. It wasn't anything special.
1:03:45
He had a obviously 2000 a year before.
1:03:48
Obviously they talk about having 400 carries like there's a sweet
1:03:52
spot where if you have the ball too much the next year you're
1:03:55
worn out. It makes a lot of sense.
1:03:56
CMP maybe not getting the same yards per carry he used to get,
1:04:00
but guess what? He's still catching the ball.
1:04:02
He had almost 1000 yards receiving and he had over 1000
1:04:06
yards rushing. He almost pulled the Marshall
1:04:08
Faulk season and arrow and he's almost 30.
1:04:11
So I mean this, this guy's a legend.
1:04:14
But what he can do is a lot of time is dependent on good
1:04:18
blocking. And it used to be Iuke back in
1:04:20
the day. And and Kittle, they don't
1:04:21
really have Iuke. They have Jennings as a decent
1:04:23
blocker, not to that level, but Kittle is the best blocking
1:04:27
tight end and one of the top five pass catching tight ends.
1:04:30
At the same time. He is an all around player.
1:04:33
In other sports they'd call him a two way player, right?
1:04:36
And that's why, like I, I think you said you were talking about
1:04:38
earlier, Puka Nakua. I I would say he had the best
1:04:40
receiver, even better than a best year this year for a
1:04:43
receiver, even better than JSN, because what he can do impacts
1:04:46
the game at all the different phases.
1:04:48
He's such a good blocker. He's such a good like catch
1:04:51
radius guy. He makes one handed catches that
1:04:53
are ridiculous too, just like JSN.
1:04:55
But he he's open when he's not open more than anybody else.
1:04:59
He's he's unstoppable right now. So he's a guy that makes them
1:05:02
infinitely better. And Kittle's kind of similar and
1:05:06
I think doesn't get enough love. You know, he like he's got like
1:05:09
Kelsey obviously going to Hall of Fame.
1:05:10
But Kelsey didn't block like this.
1:05:13
He was an off ball tight end. He was not putting his hand down
1:05:16
like this. Kittle is basically an offensive
1:05:18
lineman, kind of like how Gronk was.
1:05:20
Not so that, maybe not so. He's got his hand down Mr. Mrs.
1:05:23
Swifty's little skirt. That's I mean, what does he have
1:05:26
to block? He is.
1:05:28
All he's got to do is is. I'll share the better change her
1:05:31
name, right? Her name is like too famous,
1:05:33
right? She can't change it, right?
1:05:37
Somebody's got a swift, you know, give him a swift kick in
1:05:39
the ass. And anyways, we've got the
1:05:41
Chargers and the Patriots Sunday Night Football.
1:05:45
The Patriots are a very interesting team and the reason
1:05:50
why is it's Drake May. Drake May has had a great year,
1:05:52
but the the the season that they've had, I know there's a
1:05:56
lot of questions because of their schedule, and I know you
1:05:59
play whoever's on your schedule, but they have beat a lot of bad
1:06:02
teams. They have, and they won 10 games
1:06:05
in a row, and if you look at the schedule that really set them up
1:06:08
for those ten wins, yet you have your head scratching Now, that
1:06:12
doesn't mean that the Patriots can't win a Super Bowl.
1:06:14
That doesn't mean they can't make a run with Mike Vrabel.
1:06:17
That doesn't mean that Drake May doesn't deserve all the
1:06:19
accolades that he's gotten. But as good as their offenses
1:06:23
been this year, what defenses have they played against?
1:06:26
I mean, honestly, I there's, there's nothing.
1:06:29
And everyone says, well, Buffalo, well, Buffalo didn't
1:06:31
become the defense they'd become until the second-half of the
1:06:34
season. Their first half was horrible.
1:06:36
I had them on my I had the Buffalo defense on one of my
1:06:39
fantasy teams. I know what Buffalo's defense
1:06:42
was doing. So I'm not saying that the
1:06:45
Chargers are, are going to be worried that they're going to
1:06:49
have to go into New England and beat the Patriots.
1:06:51
The question and if this is going to be the problem, how
1:06:54
cold is it going to be in New England?
1:06:56
Travelling from east to West is a bad.
1:06:58
It's been a big problem for the Chargers and Justin Herbert, how
1:07:01
healthy is he? We all know that their offensive
1:07:04
line is not healthy. Johnson, Slater, I I mean Makai,
1:07:10
Becton, Alt. This is one of the best
1:07:13
offensive lines when healthy. They don't have any of those
1:07:16
guys really. I mean, you have to worry for
1:07:19
Justin Herbert. I mean, he's been running for
1:07:20
care of life. He's been hit as much as any
1:07:22
quarterback in the league. And they have a good running
1:07:25
game. Or do they?
1:07:27
I, I, I don't know, maybe, maybe I don't know what to expect.
1:07:32
Their wide receiving core, Nothing to it, nothing that
1:07:35
impressive. I mean, the only thing is, is
1:07:37
they have Jim Harbaugh. And I trust Jim Harbaugh in a
1:07:42
big game, maybe a little more than Mike Frable, because Jim
1:07:46
Harbaugh's gone to a Super Bowl. Jim Harbaugh's won a national
1:07:49
championship. Jim Harbaugh has gone to the
1:07:52
Chargers and in two years has had back-to-back 11 or more win
1:07:57
seasons. I expect the Chargers to put a
1:08:00
lot of pressure on the Patriots because the Patriots are
1:08:02
expected to run right through the Chargers and the Chargers,
1:08:07
who are a seventh seat, snuck into the playoffs and really had
1:08:12
to crawl into the playoffs. Still have the ability to put a
1:08:15
point, still have the defense. This is one of the best defenses
1:08:18
in the league, one of the best defense and one of the best
1:08:21
young defensive coordinators in all the football who's going to
1:08:25
get a job possibly in the offseason.
1:08:27
So we all know the position. Yeah.
1:08:30
The Patriots that have a very good front seven that could put
1:08:33
pressure on you and have a good defense.
1:08:35
I, I, I don't know how great their defense is, but you know,
1:08:38
Mike Vrabel has packages we haven't seen.
1:08:42
And we all know what the Chargers are going to do.
1:08:44
They're secondary, what they can do in the open field, how they
1:08:48
like to spy you spies in the open field to try to intercept
1:08:51
the ball. I, I, they're definitely a lot
1:08:54
better than the New York Jets, There's no question.
1:08:56
But I I I will say this, the Chargers are expected to lose
1:09:00
this game, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Chargers pull
1:09:04
out a win. It's interesting because Jim
1:09:06
Harbaugh loves to play physical the cold weather football and
1:09:08
you have to do that in New England, but the patriots have
1:09:10
the number one run defensive football.
1:09:12
So that will they able to get that going without the offensive
1:09:15
line will be another question. Neither of these teams have
1:09:16
receivers you can trust and but obviously both these teams have
1:09:19
quarterbacks you could trust. But I, I still think just the
1:09:22
right Mike Rabel's no rookie either.
1:09:24
He's used to these types of settings with the Titans in the
1:09:25
playoffs too, beating some really good teams.
1:09:28
And he's had a good track record over the years against the
1:09:29
Chiefs and the Ravens. So I would give a pay, give the
1:09:31
Patriots the slight edge, but I would say the charters will keep
1:09:35
it tight. And then, ladies and gentlemen,
1:09:39
the final game of the week, the Texans face off against the
1:09:47
Pittsburgh Rodger, Britney Spears, Steelers.
1:09:53
I will say this, I believe Aaron Rodgers is as dangerous as any
1:10:00
quarterback we've seen over the years.
1:10:02
You saw what he did on Sunday night, final game of the season.
1:10:06
Baltimore look like they were going to run away.
1:10:08
They they had that touchdown, bad defense on the secondary.
1:10:12
Porter was nowhere to be found. Flower runs it in.
1:10:14
It was simple. And then he took the ball all
1:10:16
the way down the field and got it to Austin and and had that
1:10:21
run all the way down the field. It was unbelievable.
1:10:23
Aaron Rodgers asked, and Aaron Rodgers is a shell of who he
1:10:26
was. There's no question that he is.
1:10:29
But what the Pittsburgh Steelers can do with Mike Tomlin and
1:10:32
Aaron Rodgers is unique. And the Texans, yeah, their
1:10:36
front 7 is sensational. Their defense, their secondary
1:10:39
is as good as anybody. They're they have two of the
1:10:41
best safeties in the league. They could do so many things
1:10:44
that we they're the best defense by far, I think in the NFL, the
1:10:47
best defense I've seen since the Baltimore Ravens in 2000.
1:10:51
That's how good their defense is.
1:10:52
And younger and younger than that Baltimore Ravens team.
1:10:58
But I'm going to tell you guys something and I'm going to be
1:11:01
honest with you. If there's any team that could
1:11:04
shock the world and surprise everybody, it's the Pittsburgh
1:11:08
Steelers, the Steelers. And by the way, Mike Tomlin
1:11:10
haven't won a playoff game in eight seasons, eight seasons.
1:11:14
He could be gone after this year.
1:11:16
He might walk away if Aaron Rodgers does not get signed.
1:11:20
But guess what? This might be the year.
1:11:23
This might be the year that they pull off the impossible knock
1:11:27
off a Texan team that to me a lot of people think could go to
1:11:31
the Super Bowl, could win in the AFC and go all the way to the
1:11:36
Super Bowl and win a Super Bowl this year with CJ Stroud.
1:11:38
What he's put up over the second-half of the season, what
1:11:41
this defense has done the the, the pressure that they put their
1:11:44
front seven in Anderson, who has been unbelievable, Will
1:11:47
Anderson, Alabama Crimson Tide alumni, and then the secretary
1:11:54
of this, this, this prolific defense that could just shut you
1:11:58
down in many different ways. If there's anybody that can put
1:12:03
it and shove it down their throats and surprise, it shocked
1:12:07
the world. I've seen it before.
1:12:09
It's Aaron, Brittany Rodgers. I'll keep it quick as our guest
1:12:14
is in. Yes, I I see him.
1:12:15
Yes, it'll be interesting to see the Texans in a cold weather
1:12:18
environment too. We're going up to Pittsburgh
1:12:19
where it will be colder and the match up I want to focus on.
1:12:23
Can the Texans run the ball against the Steelers bad run
1:12:25
defense? Because it's the worst Steelers
1:12:26
run defense we've seen in a while.
1:12:27
But Houston's not been able to run the ball either.
1:12:29
I agree with you. Rodgers will make the place to
1:12:30
keep the game close, but again, this is not a very good Steelers
1:12:33
team. We'll see.
1:12:34
It would take a miracle, even in Pittsburgh, to get the win.
1:12:37
Yeah, I, I'm rooting for Pittsburgh.
1:12:39
I'd like to see Pittsburgh shock the world and and move on.
1:12:43
But I, I don't know if that's possible, but if there's anybody
1:12:45
that can do it, it's Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin.
1:12:48
I, I have this feeling that, you know, Mike Tomlin might have
1:12:51
something up his sleeve. Finally, after eight seasons
1:12:54
just falling short in the first round in the wild cards in the
1:12:57
first whatever semi finals, he can't win a playoff game.
1:13:00
All right, my deuce of the day, The deuce of the day you log not
1:13:06
a log. I don't have a log, but I was
1:13:16
thinking hard. I was thinking really, really
1:13:19
hard of the deuce of the day. And ladies and gentlemen, my
1:13:23
deuce has to go to the New York Rangers.
1:13:27
I have to. I wrote a story about it because
1:13:29
James friggin Dolan and we will do this article.
1:13:34
James friggin Dolan was on the Craig Carton show in his first
1:13:39
appearance back on WFAN and he went out and and Carton brings
1:13:44
up, he was talking about the Knicks and then he went to the
1:13:46
Rangers and he says, what do you think about the Rangers?
1:13:49
And he says, wow, we got to build camaraderie.
1:13:52
We got to build. The team needs to be put
1:13:54
together. They need to work together.
1:13:56
Things need to work from the bottom to the top.
1:13:59
And why I think this is just an absolute debacle is I don't want
1:14:03
to hear James Dolan give me his take on what jury needs to do or
1:14:07
what jury's going to do because he's done it enough.
1:14:11
There's there's not many, there's not many GMs, there's
1:14:14
not many executives in sports history that's been with the
1:14:18
team for five years, five years and has had how many coaches,
1:14:23
Speedy? 4. 5 because he got handed a
1:14:26
coach. 5 coaches, 5 coaches he's coached.
1:14:31
I mean, he's been an executive for to me, it's embarrassing.
1:14:36
If you're a Ranger fan and you hear James Dolan, your owner,
1:14:38
come out and say, well, you know, you got to build
1:14:41
camaraderie. We're going to build from the
1:14:43
top. I trust him.
1:14:43
And Mike Sullivan, Well, what about him and Peter Laviolette?
1:14:47
Peter Laviolette, who won a Stanley Cup, he's one of the
1:14:51
greatest coaches in NHL history, 7th all time and wins.
1:14:56
You're going to tell me right now, James, are you going to bet
1:14:58
me right now that this man Chris Jury is going to figure it out
1:15:02
all of a sudden? Come on, that's the deuce.
1:15:07
That's all I'm going to say. I have more to give on this
1:15:09
article which will be out tomorrow.
1:15:11
I can't wait for everybody to read.
1:15:13
My deuce of the day goes to James freaking Dolan on his
1:15:16
stupid take on Chris Drury. Thank you to Wes, Thank you to
1:15:20
the one and only guy we call Reno, Reno, Johnny for giving us
1:15:24
their picks. Congratulations to Miami moving
1:15:26
on to their national champion. Last time they went to a
1:15:29
national championship was in the 90s.
1:15:31
It's been a long time coming from Miami and Miami Hurricane
1:15:35
football. And they're going to get a
1:15:38
chance to play either the Hoosiers or the Ducks tomorrow.
1:15:41
We will find out who is going to meet them in the national
1:15:44
championship and I'm sure Lane Kiffin wasn't happy about this
1:15:48
loss, that's for sure. Anyways, thank you to our
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1:16:22
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1:16:45
thank you to Nick for joining us and not really saying much.
1:16:50
I would love to know what his, what's that smell, what have
1:16:52
been. I mean Nick.
1:16:53
Nick came on and I probably thought that we were doing a
1:16:56
goodies bag of balls. We should.
1:16:57
We should have just had his. What's that smell?
1:16:59
Prayer in advance. Yeah, I mean, maybe we'll take
1:17:02
Tommy scoops his dump and throw it on the wall or something.
1:17:05
Hopefully it sticks. Anyways, that's it for our show.
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