Latest / The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane / 9-22-26 - Rams RAM the Giants, smoking sections/CFB STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Dobbins nervous about narrative
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- 0:02Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
- 0:10Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
- 0:19Speaker 2: We are in California tonight. If I continue to smell
- 0:22Speaker 2: what I'm smelling from the crowd, I'm going to be
- 0:25Speaker 2: hunting some scotcharoos later in this broadcast. If you know
- 0:30Speaker 2: what I mean, here comes the kickoff.
- 0:32Speaker 3: The munchies? Wow.
- 0:35Speaker 2: I mean, like, we need ventilation, or this call is
- 0:39Speaker 2: going to get a little distorted here in the final
- 0:41Speaker 2: stages of this game.
- 0:43Speaker 3: I've never heard Scotcheroos said that way before, but I
- 0:49Speaker 3: like it. Kevin Harlan's a master. It is weird how, look,
- 0:59Speaker 3: I don't think that's just allowed to be done in public,
- 1:02Speaker 3: but we've just kind of accepted that as something you
- 1:04Speaker 3: can do. All right. It is a weird thing that,
- 1:16Speaker 3: you know, like my dad, he smokes cigarettes. I like
- 1:19Speaker 3: an occasional cigar. I haven't had one forever, but I
- 1:22Speaker 3: do like an occasional cigar. If you were to light
- 1:25Speaker 3: up a cigar or cigarette around somebody, there would be, like,
- 1:31Speaker 3: daggers stared at you for the most part. I felt it.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Been there before. Especially if it's in a place in
- 1:40Speaker 3: which could be open area, but still in public. It's
- 1:52Speaker 3: gotten very accepted. You can't be getting Kevin Harlan secondhand
- 1:58Speaker 3: high during a football game.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Well, it's also because of all the pens and vapes.
- 2:03Speaker 4: You can do it clandestinely, especially the ones that look
- 2:06Speaker 4: like USB drives. You just hold that up to your
- 2:08Speaker 4: mouth and do a little puff, and people don't even see.
- 2:11Speaker 4: How do you vape a cigar? You can't really turn
- 2:14Speaker 4: that into a pen.
- 2:15Speaker 3: I guess you're right. Maybe less issue with the vape,
- 2:19Speaker 3: but the vape doesn't have that stench to it. That's
- 2:22Speaker 3: the big thing, isn't it? Like whether somebody's smoking a cigarette,
- 2:27Speaker 3: a joint, or a cigar, it's more about the smell
- 2:31Speaker 3: and what that's going to do. So in the sense
- 2:34Speaker 3: of the vape, the vape is like, yeah, you see
- 2:35Speaker 3: the cloud of come out of nowhere, but usually doesn't
- 2:41Speaker 3: carry the stench with it. Anyway, yeah, the Rams bounced
- 2:46Speaker 3: right back. That's the team that you're going to be
- 2:48Speaker 3: playing this weekend. And with Puka Nakua, without Puka Nakua,
- 2:53Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.
- 2:55Speaker 5: It is.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Still an incredibly salty team. They have two backs that
- 3:04Speaker 3: they trust. Both of them had great nights last night
- 3:07Speaker 3: in Kyron Williams and Blake Corum. Stafford looked like the
- 3:10Speaker 3: reigning MVP that he was last year. Devontae Adams, eight
- 3:17Speaker 3: catches for 195 yards and two touchdowns. Turns out that
- 3:22Speaker 3: even when Pukunuku is not in and he needs to
- 3:24Speaker 3: go out and be a number one wide receiver, even
- 3:26Speaker 3: at his age, which he's getting up there now, Devontae
- 3:29Speaker 3: Adams at 33 years old, going to be 34 here
- 3:34Speaker 3: in a couple of months, can still play football really well.
- 3:38Speaker 3: But what's bizarre here is the first couple weeks of
- 3:43Speaker 3: the season, you're having a lot of quarterbacks go down
- 3:48Speaker 3: in this league. It started the very opening game with
- 3:51Speaker 3: Sam Darnold. And it just doesn't seem to be stopping.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Jackson Dart last night gets kind of like high load
- 4:01Speaker 3: on a hit and looked like it. I don't know
- 4:04Speaker 3: if there was more information that came out last night
- 4:08Speaker 3: or if there's going to be more that comes out
- 4:09Speaker 3: this morning after an MRI or whatever. It does seem
- 4:17Speaker 3: like his leg. I don't know what you call it.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Not hyper extended because it was side to side. It
- 4:23Speaker 3: felt like his leg got whiplash is the way I'd
- 4:26Speaker 3: put it. And I don't know what diagnosis that is.
- 4:29Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor. I do know this. It looks
- 4:32Speaker 3: like it hurts a lot.
- 4:35Speaker 1: A lot.
- 4:39Speaker 3: But all I'm saying is A lot of guys going
- 4:43Speaker 3: down the giants. I don't think we're as good as
- 4:45Speaker 3: they looked in, in week one. Like I didn't buy
- 4:48Speaker 3: in like this team was totally different, but I did
- 4:50Speaker 3: think they might've been improved. The tough thing is it's
- 4:53Speaker 3: hard to tell because the second that Jackson Dart went down,
- 4:57Speaker 3: Jameis Winston looked wholly unprepared going into the game. And it,
- 5:01Speaker 3: it negated any chance for the giants to pick up
- 5:04Speaker 3: a rushing game because they were just like, I dare
- 5:06Speaker 3: Jameis Winston to try and throw the football. Um, But
- 5:12Speaker 3: if you look at what the Rams have defensively, and
- 5:16Speaker 3: that's going to be sort of my focus here, I
- 5:19Speaker 3: think the Broncos heading into this weekend are going to have,
- 5:24Speaker 3: they'll be at least okay to good in the defensive
- 5:29Speaker 3: department because they're really talented. I'm looking at the Rams' defense,
- 5:37Speaker 3: and they might not have Myles Garrett, But Aaron Donald
- 5:42Speaker 3: came back. He was noticeable. Had a tackle, a TFL
- 5:45Speaker 3: in the backfield. Their pass rush with Byron Young, even
- 5:50Speaker 3: without Miles Garrett. He was all over the backfield last night.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Byron Young's still a really good player. And then their secondary. Like,
- 6:01Speaker 3: the big thing to me, Trent McDuffie had four PBUs
- 6:05Speaker 3: last night.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Four?
- 6:07Speaker 6: Four?
- 6:09Speaker 3: Emmanuel Forbes is a good young player. Quinton Lake went
- 6:17Speaker 3: out last night with three PBUs. Like they just weren't
- 6:21Speaker 3: giving up anything in the past game. And I know
- 6:25Speaker 3: the Rams looked miserable that first week. Maybe you go back,
- 6:28Speaker 3: look at it and say, hey, getting to Australia the
- 6:31Speaker 3: day before the game, maybe not a good idea. But
- 6:37Speaker 3: even in that game, Those guys had similar nights. Two
- 6:44Speaker 3: PBUs in the week one game in Australia versus San
- 6:47Speaker 3: Francisco for Trent McDuffie. Three for Quentin Lake. Really good players.
- 6:54Speaker 3: They just couldn't get anything going on offense. But that's
- 6:59Speaker 3: going to be where the test is, and that's kind
- 7:01Speaker 3: of where I want to start this morning. You look
- 7:03Speaker 3: at the way... All right, texture says sprained MCL was
- 7:08Speaker 3: the report for Dart. Okay, that makes sense. Didn't look
- 7:12Speaker 3: like it was anything that was too crazy. But certainly
- 7:18Speaker 3: looked like it hurt. I mean, you're spraining something if
- 7:20Speaker 3: your knee moves side to side in that sort of
- 7:24Speaker 3: odd way. The focus for the Broncos here moving forward
- 7:30Speaker 3: and the thing that I want to see most, you
- 7:33Speaker 3: were able to do some really good things on offense
- 7:38Speaker 3: in that second game. And I will acknowledge that there
- 7:49Speaker 3: are still things that need to be cleaned up, things
- 7:51Speaker 3: that reminded me a lot of last year, but here's
- 7:54Speaker 3: the parts that weren't. The parts that were really good.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Getting Jalen Waddell as involved as he was in that game,
- 8:04Speaker 3: I don't know the last time a Broncos wide receiver
- 8:06Speaker 3: had a game that was quite like that. Eight catches
- 8:11Speaker 3: for 138 yards, and everything was explosive. On six of
- 8:15Speaker 3: his eight catches, they resulted in first downs. You know,
- 8:20Speaker 3: Cortland Sutton's had some good games over the years. He's
- 8:24Speaker 3: had some games where he's gone over 100 yards and
- 8:29Speaker 3: made some big plays. When you're talking about 138, I'm
- 8:36Speaker 3: trying to find if Cortland Sutton's had a 138-yard game
- 8:40Speaker 3: in his career, or at least in recent memory, and
- 8:43Speaker 3: it doesn't look like it. He's been close a few times.
- 8:45Speaker 3: He's had 120-some yards. You have to go back to 2021. God,
- 8:54Speaker 3: who was the quarterback then? 2021, it was ironically against Jacksonville.
- 9:01Speaker 5: I know that it was Teddy Bridgewater because I just
- 9:03Speaker 5: looked it up.
- 9:03Speaker 3: Yes, Teddy Bridgewater. God, he had a hell of a
- 9:06Speaker 3: game that day. But Cortland Sutton had nine catches for
- 9:09Speaker 3: 159 yards against Jacksonville back in 2021. Teddy Bridgewater was
- 9:13Speaker 3: 26 of 34 for 328 yards and two touchdowns.
- 9:18Speaker 4: Jacksonville in 2021. You know what game that was? Specifically,
- 9:22Speaker 4: as it pertains to this show, why that game is significant?
- 9:28Speaker 4: On the road in Jacksonville in 2021. Hang on, hang on,
- 9:30Speaker 4: hang on, hang on.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Give me a second. Something that is specific to this show.
- 9:34Speaker 6: Oh!
- 9:35Speaker 1: Oh!
- 9:36Speaker 3: Broncos should come in here. The Broncos should come in
- 9:38Speaker 3: here and beat that ass. That's right. And they did.
- 9:42Speaker 3: They're up 20-7 after three quarters. Won that game 23-13. Okay. That... Wow,
- 9:52Speaker 3: that's crazy. That was 2021. That's how long we've been
- 9:55Speaker 3: talking to Mark Long? That long? But point is, you get...
- 10:02Speaker 3: Jalen Waddell that involved in your offense and you use
- 10:06Speaker 3: the skills that is presented to you with him, the
- 10:09Speaker 3: rarity of what he has as an athlete. That's a
- 10:14Speaker 3: super positive. I will go to my grave, by the way,
- 10:19Speaker 3: A little intense for this discussion, I suppose. I'm just very,
- 10:22Speaker 3: very assured, in my opinion, that the most impressive thing
- 10:27Speaker 3: that the Broncos did in that game against Jacksonville was
- 10:31Speaker 3: very end of the game. A lot of teams cannot
- 10:34Speaker 3: do this, and a lot of teams lose games because
- 10:37Speaker 3: of this. 4.41 left on the clock. You're up seven.
- 10:42Speaker 3: You get the ball back. to ice the game the
- 10:49Speaker 3: way that they did. And on a couple of big-time plays,
- 10:53Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman at the very end of the game just
- 10:55Speaker 3: ran through everybody, moved the chains, got the job done.
- 11:03Speaker 3: But the big play, it's third and three with 3.41
- 11:06Speaker 3: left on the clock. Bo Nix hits Jalen Waddell for
- 11:11Speaker 3: a 29-yard pass. moved the chains, and gave you extra opportunities.
- 11:17Speaker 3: That's the big stuff. Again, when the game matters, you
- 11:21Speaker 3: got to make a play. Bo Nix is excellent in
- 11:24Speaker 3: that category. To ice the game like that, it's how
- 11:30Speaker 3: you lose, and especially how you lose to good football teams.
- 11:34Speaker 3: You might be in that same situation this weekend, going
- 11:38Speaker 3: up against the Rams and Matthew Stafford. And you cannot
- 11:41Speaker 3: give Stafford the ball back with a chance to win
- 11:44Speaker 3: or tie the game with, you know, two minutes left.
- 11:48Speaker 3: Because he will convert on it. He will do it.
- 11:53Speaker 3: If you can take care of your business on offense
- 11:55Speaker 3: and leave them off the field, guys, that's big stuff.
- 12:00Speaker 3: So there are things to build upon in a huge
- 12:05Speaker 3: way in game two. I am, you know, I got
- 12:09Speaker 3: the report yesterday.
- 12:11Speaker 5: That J.K.
- 12:12Speaker 3: Dobbins is quote good. I have another thought on that
- 12:16Speaker 3: that we'll get to a little bit later. The question
- 12:19Speaker 3: is how good is he going to be? But I am,
- 12:25Speaker 3: I think that Jonah Coleman through the way that he
- 12:27Speaker 3: played in training camp in the preseason and then the
- 12:34Speaker 3: way that he finished that game in relief for J.K.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Dobbins has earned the right to get some Some carries.
- 12:45Speaker 3: And I hope that happens here in the third game
- 12:48Speaker 3: against the Rams because you have to be able to
- 12:51Speaker 3: run the football against LA. They have a great pass defense.
- 12:57Speaker 3: They have a good rushing attack. Pass rushing attack. And
- 13:02Speaker 3: if you don't eat some clock on the offensive side
- 13:04Speaker 3: by running the football effectively... You're going to give Stafford
- 13:07Speaker 3: and that offense and Kyron Williams and Devontae Adams and
- 13:10Speaker 3: maybe Puka if he's healthy and everybody else a lot
- 13:14Speaker 3: of opportunities to capitalize. Texture says this, going back to
- 13:20Speaker 3: the very beginning of this segment. You may have accepted it, Brett.
- 13:25Speaker 3: I have not. I prefer cigarette smell over pot any
- 13:28Speaker 3: day of the week. Look, I do too. Now, I'm
- 13:30Speaker 3: a little bit biased because I just, My pops smoked
- 13:36Speaker 3: all the time, so I'm used to the smell of cigarettes.
- 13:38Speaker 3: That's a thing that I know. I would prefer it too.
- 13:48Speaker 3: I enjoy almost the smell of it. I don't smoke cigarettes,
- 13:52Speaker 3: but it's like people say, I like the smell of coffee,
- 13:56Speaker 3: but I don't like coffee. Same thing for me. So
- 14:01Speaker 3: I'm not saying I've accepted it. I said we as
- 14:04Speaker 3: a society have seemed to accept that more. Because I'll
- 14:06Speaker 3: tell you this right now. If somebody was ripping a
- 14:08Speaker 3: heater underneath Kevin Harlan, security's getting called, are they not?
- 14:15Speaker 3: If Vic said it in Ball Arena, in Ball Arena,
- 14:18Speaker 3: an indoor place, he smelled pot. If you smell a
- 14:23Speaker 3: cigarette there, somebody's going to find the dude smoking a
- 14:26Speaker 3: cigarette inside and he will be escorted out. There's no question.
- 14:29Speaker 4: I bet, honestly, part of that's a Colorado thing. If
- 14:33Speaker 4: you're at an arena in Wichita, Kansas, smoking that sticky
- 14:38Speaker 4: icky icky, you're going to get kicked out instantly. It's
- 14:40Speaker 4: definitely a regional thing.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. You know what? Straw poll.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Straw poll.
- 14:45Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 14:48Speaker 3: I want to find out the age of people listening here,
- 14:50Speaker 3: and I don't know exactly when the cutoff is, but
- 14:52Speaker 3: I remember this distinctly. Are you old enough to have
- 14:57Speaker 3: been in an establishment— Where there was a smoking section.
- 15:03Speaker 3: You go out to Applebee's and Applebee's had the smoking
- 15:06Speaker 3: section and the non-smoking section. Are you old enough for that? Nelly,
- 15:10Speaker 3: are you? Do you remember going to a restaurant with
- 15:12Speaker 3: a smoking and non-smoking section?
- 15:14Speaker 4: I don't know if I remember that, but I do
- 15:16Speaker 4: remember when you would book a hotel room and you
- 15:19Speaker 4: had to make sure it was a smoking or non-smoking room.
- 15:21Speaker 5: I remember that. Do they still do that? Can you
- 15:23Speaker 5: get a smoking room?
- 15:24Speaker 3: No, I don't think you can smoke indoors really anywhere anymore.
- 15:29Speaker 3: But they, yes, texture. They had the cigarette vending machines.
- 15:32Speaker 3: They had all those different things. By the way, if
- 15:36Speaker 3: I see a cigarette vending machine, I just think it,
- 15:39Speaker 3: like to this day, I think it's cool. But I'm
- 15:42Speaker 3: 36 and I feel like that's right about the cutoff
- 15:46Speaker 3: of when people would start to remember smoking and non-smoking sessions.
- 15:53Speaker 3: And it always, it just freaked me out because I
- 15:55Speaker 3: remember I'd go to restaurants in the summer. And people
- 15:58Speaker 3: would just be smoked. And I'd be like, you probably
- 16:01Speaker 3: could just walk 10 feet, go outside. Anyway, 303-504-0925. ShopMoz,
- 16:10Speaker 3: the text line, one price, one person, one hour. College football,
- 16:13Speaker 3: stock up, stock down.
- 16:13Speaker 6: Next.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Do it every Tuesday following the college football weekend. It
- 16:17Speaker 3: is college football, stock up, stock down. We always start
- 16:20Speaker 3: with the quarterback, stock up. I don't think anybody was
- 16:24Speaker 3: more impressive over the weekend. There might have been guys
- 16:27Speaker 3: who had better numbers because they played against worst opponents.
- 16:31Speaker 3: Trinidad Chambliss is just unbelievable to watch in every respect.
- 16:37Speaker 3: He comes to Ole Miss two years ago after playing
- 16:40Speaker 3: at Division II Ferris State. Very, very good Division II program.
- 16:44Speaker 3: But to walk in, become the quarterback of an SEC team,
- 16:47Speaker 3: and just start dominating competition... And then you think, well,
- 16:51Speaker 3: here's the real test. You play in the SEC. You
- 16:54Speaker 3: got a lot of talent surrounding you. What can you
- 16:56Speaker 3: do against the elite of the elite? Well, they've already
- 17:00Speaker 3: played against two top 25 teams this year. And in
- 17:04Speaker 3: those games, Trinidad Chambliss has thrown for 336 yards and
- 17:07Speaker 3: three touchdowns against Louisville, adding 60 rushing yards and a
- 17:12Speaker 3: touchdown on top of that. And then this week, playing
- 17:15Speaker 3: against LSU, his former coach, He was 33 of 48
- 17:19Speaker 3: for 363 yards, two touchdowns, one pick, also had a
- 17:24Speaker 3: rushing touchdown in that game. He's, for my money right now,
- 17:29Speaker 3: this doesn't project to the NFL or anything like that.
- 17:32Speaker 3: In college football, there is no quarterback that is better
- 17:36Speaker 3: than Trinidad Chambliss. He's the entire thing that makes Ole
- 17:38Speaker 3: Miss go. And I said this, I think the first
- 17:42Speaker 3: week we were doing stock up, stock down. Every play
- 17:45Speaker 3: that he makes is a highlight reel. Like, he is
- 17:48Speaker 3: going to be firmly in the Heisman discussion at the
- 17:52Speaker 3: end of the year because he doesn't just put up
- 17:57Speaker 3: numbers and acquire wins. He does so with flash to it.
- 18:06Speaker 3: And it's exactly what you're looking for to have somebody
- 18:08Speaker 3: on that podium at the end of the year. Plus,
- 18:11Speaker 3: he just seems like a hell of a human being, too.
- 18:14Speaker 3: I love everything about Trinidad Chambliss. I love that he's
- 18:17Speaker 3: back in college football this year. I know he's been
- 18:20Speaker 3: in college football for a long time. But you know what?
- 18:24Speaker 3: You want to have somebody that you look forward to
- 18:26Speaker 3: watching every week, and that is Trinidad Chambliss. So he
- 18:28Speaker 3: gets a stock up. Quarterback stock down. This is a guy, gosh,
- 18:33Speaker 3: I have waffled on him. There's some times where I
- 18:36Speaker 3: think that he looks really good and can give his
- 18:38Speaker 3: team a shot to really go places. And there's other
- 18:42Speaker 3: times where I'm just like, Not quite enough. You're good,
- 18:46Speaker 3: but not quite enough. And that's Marcel Reed out of
- 18:48Speaker 3: Texas A & M. He's one of the few quarterbacks
- 18:51Speaker 3: in college football that has been in the same place
- 18:53Speaker 3: for four years now. He's been the starter for the
- 18:55Speaker 3: last three. Last year, he finished the year with 25
- 18:59Speaker 3: touchdowns and 12 picks. He is a pretty dynamic guy.
- 19:04Speaker 3: He can run the football. He can do a bunch
- 19:06Speaker 3: of different things. But there's a consistency factor, especially in
- 19:10Speaker 3: the turnover department, that just isn't adding up with him.
- 19:14Speaker 3: And this last week, Texas A & M, number nine
- 19:16Speaker 3: team in the country, loses to Kentucky. And we'll get
- 19:19Speaker 3: to Kentucky in a bit because Kentucky is a lot
- 19:21Speaker 3: better than I think people think. But in that game,
- 19:24Speaker 3: he's 26 of 49 for 236 yards, one touchdown and
- 19:28Speaker 3: two picks. If you go back to last year with
- 19:31Speaker 3: Marcel Reed and the last two games that they played,
- 19:35Speaker 3: let's take the last five total. He's had multiple turnovers
- 19:43Speaker 3: in three of those five games. Multiple interceptions in three
- 19:49Speaker 3: of those. five games. He also has a touchdown to
- 19:54Speaker 3: interception ratio in those of six to seven. And I
- 19:59Speaker 3: understand that the last two games of last year are
- 20:02Speaker 3: coming against elite competition in Texas and Miami, and those
- 20:06Speaker 3: teams tend to make guys look not as good. as
- 20:10Speaker 3: they do for the rest of the year. The problem
- 20:12Speaker 3: with Marcel Reed is if Texas A & M wants
- 20:15Speaker 3: to be taken seriously, these are the games where he
- 20:18Speaker 3: needs to look his best. And the way I was
- 20:20Speaker 3: just talking about Trinidad Jambliss, he looks his best against
- 20:25Speaker 3: the best competition. Marcel Reed's had trouble in that department.
- 20:29Speaker 3: He gets the stock down. Big 12 teams stock up.
- 20:36Speaker 3: This is going to be a weird thing because I'm
- 20:38Speaker 3: going to give a team a stock up in a loss.
- 20:40Speaker 3: But I think you can give it to either one
- 20:42Speaker 3: of these teams. So there's a game that took place
- 20:46Speaker 3: in the Big 12 last week. Two ranked teams, Houston
- 20:49Speaker 3: and Texas Tech. And I'm actually going to throw both
- 20:52Speaker 3: of them in this discussion because I think it was
- 20:54Speaker 3: a fantastic game. But if I had to give it
- 20:56Speaker 3: to one, it's Houston. who lost 28-26, but they proved
- 21:02Speaker 3: in that game going to Texas Tech and taking Texas
- 21:05Speaker 3: Tech to the wire. They are as good as any
- 21:08Speaker 3: team in the Big 12. They can hang in there
- 21:10Speaker 3: with any team in the Big 12. I was a
- 21:12Speaker 3: little down on Houston when the season started because they
- 21:15Speaker 3: only won 33-20 over Oregon State. And I thought to myself, hmm,
- 21:20Speaker 3: I just don't know if you're going to struggle with
- 21:23Speaker 3: an Oregon State. Where does that stack up against your
- 21:25Speaker 3: Utahs and BYUs and Texas Techs of the Big 12?
- 21:30Speaker 3: Turns out, right there on the money with him. And
- 21:33Speaker 3: this close to coming away from Lubbock with a huge win.
- 21:39Speaker 3: But I was impressed by both teams. It was, I think,
- 21:42Speaker 3: a pretty sad week for the Big 12 in some respects.
- 21:49Speaker 3: But that was certainly a highlight of it, that game
- 21:52Speaker 3: with Houston and Texas Tech. And I think both of
- 21:53Speaker 3: them deserve some credit. Big 12 team stocked down. If
- 21:59Speaker 3: CU came away with a big win this week, I
- 22:02Speaker 3: was fully ready to put them in the stock up category. Instead,
- 22:06Speaker 3: what I got to do is I got to put
- 22:07Speaker 3: them in the stock down because it's not the loss
- 22:09Speaker 3: to Northwestern. It's to lose the way that they did.
- 22:12Speaker 3: I was just kind of getting on board with this
- 22:16Speaker 3: new look of CU. Running the football, stopping the run.
- 22:19Speaker 3: You got a quarterback year over year that's, or I
- 22:23Speaker 3: guess that's making his... a start for the second straight
- 22:28Speaker 3: year with CU, highly prized recruit in Juju Lewis, but
- 22:31Speaker 3: to come out and turn the ball over the way
- 22:33Speaker 3: they did early in that game and really not give
- 22:35Speaker 3: yourself a shot. From the very beginning of the game,
- 22:39Speaker 3: Northwestern comes out and throws a punch at you, and
- 22:42Speaker 3: your counterpunch was to hand them heavier boxing gloves and say,
- 22:46Speaker 3: how much harder can you hit us? 41-7 is just
- 22:50Speaker 3: something that if you had any sort of optimism that
- 22:53Speaker 3: maybe things are turning around, maybe things are looking different,
- 22:56Speaker 3: It's going to be hard to get over that one.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I don't know how good Northwestern is.
- 23:00Speaker 1: I don't.
- 23:01Speaker 3: They're probably okay, but in terms of Big Ten teams
- 23:05Speaker 3: that are feared, that's the kind of team that your
- 23:10Speaker 3: Ohio States and Penn States and Michigan's and you take
- 23:14Speaker 3: the top tier, Indiana's obviously, they look at Northwestern as
- 23:18Speaker 3: a side dish in that conference. And that side dish
- 23:23Speaker 3: just ate you up. last weekend. So see who gets
- 23:26Speaker 3: the stock down. Let's go national team stock up. So
- 23:30Speaker 3: Ole Miss obviously is going to get some love here,
- 23:32Speaker 3: but I'm going to give this to Kentucky who beat
- 23:34Speaker 3: Texas A & M. And here's why. Kentucky has a
- 23:38Speaker 3: brand new head coach that I think people should be
- 23:41Speaker 3: very excited about. If you remember... He came out last
- 23:46Speaker 3: week when they played against Alabama. And he was the guy,
- 23:50Speaker 3: Will Stein, who said, sneak in flasks. I want you
- 23:55Speaker 3: to yell obscenities at Alabama players. It just got me
- 23:59Speaker 3: on his good side for that reason alone. And the
- 24:03Speaker 3: final score against Alabama was 45-17. What people don't know
- 24:09Speaker 3: or might not remember is Kentucky was up 17 to
- 24:14Speaker 3: 13 and a half. That game was a one score
- 24:19Speaker 3: game with like 20 seconds left in the third quarter.
- 24:22Speaker 3: And then Alabama just kind of took over from there.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Any offense that they got in the first half of
- 24:29Speaker 3: that game kind of disappeared. But this week they go
- 24:32Speaker 3: out second straight game that they're playing against the top
- 24:35Speaker 3: 10 opponents. this Texas A & M on the road
- 24:38Speaker 3: at Texas A & M. To get a win in
- 24:40Speaker 3: that environment is a huge credit to Kentucky. And I
- 24:44Speaker 3: think Kentucky is more the team that you saw in
- 24:46Speaker 3: the first half last week against Alabama than the second half.
- 24:50Speaker 3: And now they have a couple of weeks where it's
- 24:52Speaker 3: against South Alabama and South Carolina where they can take
- 24:55Speaker 3: care of some business before one more gigantic test that
- 24:58Speaker 3: they're going to have against LSU. And I think If
- 25:01Speaker 3: they continue to ride this momentum, they can give LSU
- 25:04Speaker 3: a run for their money in a few weeks. I
- 25:06Speaker 3: really like what's going on in Kentucky. I like that
- 25:09Speaker 3: new coach, Will Stein. So they get the stock up.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Let's go national team stock down. I keep waiting and
- 25:17Speaker 3: waiting and waiting for this team to return to the
- 25:21Speaker 3: form that we're used to seeing them in. But I
- 25:26Speaker 3: don't know what to do with USC.
- 25:27Speaker 6: USC.
- 25:30Speaker 3: They have Jaden Maiava, who's been the quarterback there for
- 25:33Speaker 3: a minute. One of those guys that's been, it's his
- 25:37Speaker 3: third year as a starter for USC. Pretty good quarterback.
- 25:42Speaker 3: Maybe not great. I'll put him in the pretty good category.
- 25:45Speaker 3: He's had a lot of big numbers to start this year. Now,
- 25:48Speaker 3: these games have come against San Jose State, Fresno State,
- 25:55Speaker 3: the raging Cajuns of Louisiana. But they played Rutgers. to
- 26:01Speaker 3: open up Big Ten play. This should be the biggest
- 26:03Speaker 3: gimme game that's ever existed in history. Rutgers entered the
- 26:08Speaker 3: game 0-2. Losses, remember, against UMass and Boston College. Rutgers,
- 26:16Speaker 3: at the very end of the game, was within a
- 26:20Speaker 3: score and a chance to tie it. They had a 12-play,
- 26:28Speaker 3: 75-yard touchdown drive to make it 42-35. There's four and
- 26:33Speaker 3: a half minutes left in the game. USC, to their credit,
- 26:37Speaker 3: burns the rest of that clock out. But in no
- 26:40Speaker 3: world should a team I'm supposed to take seriously in
- 26:43Speaker 3: a conference like the Big Ten be struggling with the
- 26:47Speaker 3: worst team in the conference. Especially not that. I just,
- 26:54Speaker 3: I don't know what to do with them. USC's always
- 26:56Speaker 3: got talent. They always got guys that you're like, yeah,
- 26:58Speaker 3: if they can get their stuff together, maybe this will
- 27:00Speaker 3: be really good. And instead, I'm sitting here again being like, yeah,
- 27:04Speaker 3: they'll be in the top 25 somewhere, but not a
- 27:07Speaker 3: team I need to take seriously. So USC gets the
- 27:09Speaker 3: stock down. Piesman's stock up. I hate to make this
- 27:13Speaker 3: the Trinidad-Chamberlain show, but it is. I mean, when he
- 27:16Speaker 3: has a game like that against that kind of opponent
- 27:18Speaker 3: and puts up that kind of performance... There is no
- 27:21Speaker 3: question to me who the stock up is. It's the
- 27:23Speaker 3: dude that goes out there and makes play after play
- 27:29Speaker 3: after play. So he gets a stock up. Let's go
- 27:32Speaker 3: Heisman stock down. I'm literally just going to go to
- 27:35Speaker 3: the other side of the docket. Sam Leavitt was going
- 27:38Speaker 3: to have a shot to be in that discussion if
- 27:41Speaker 3: he continued to win and play well for LSU. But
- 27:45Speaker 3: here's the problem. Sam Leavitt has turned the ball over
- 27:49Speaker 3: every game this year. He has thrown up five interceptions
- 27:54Speaker 3: in the first three games. And when you play Ole Miss,
- 27:58Speaker 3: and I know that he came in there banged up,
- 28:00Speaker 3: but you finish that game with 158 passing yards, one touchdown,
- 28:05Speaker 3: one pick. I always say this about the Heisman. It's
- 28:08Speaker 3: a numbers game as much of a winning game. And
- 28:11Speaker 3: when you come out on the wrong side of both
- 28:14Speaker 3: sides of that ledger, you'll get the stock down. Best
- 28:17Speaker 3: game of the week. I mean, I don't, I hate
- 28:23Speaker 3: to keep going back to the well, but that, I
- 28:27Speaker 3: love the Louisville and SMU game. I thought that was
- 28:29Speaker 3: highly entertaining, especially when Louisville was going crazy in the
- 28:32Speaker 3: second half. You had a really good one, like I said,
- 28:37Speaker 3: against Houston and Texas Tech. I think any one of
- 28:40Speaker 3: those three could be in the mix. Also, Florida State
- 28:43Speaker 3: and Alabama was a really good football game until Alabama
- 28:46Speaker 3: pulled away late. I mean, Alabama was pretty damn close
- 28:49Speaker 3: to being in the stock down category. Florida State, again,
- 28:55Speaker 3: it's a team that you expect maybe by name to
- 29:00Speaker 3: be good, but they go out to have a 17-point
- 29:03Speaker 3: win in Week 1 against New Mexico State. Remember, they
- 29:06Speaker 3: just barely lost in that weird game last week that
- 29:09Speaker 3: had the rain delay to SMU. But they gave Bam
- 29:14Speaker 3: a run for their money. I certainly had my TV
- 29:16Speaker 3: tuned to most of that game. I think you can
- 29:18Speaker 3: pick any one of those. And yeah, you get it.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Worst game of the, or I'm sorry, upset of the week.
- 29:26Speaker 3: Do that again, Nelly. What was that? Okay, gotcha. I
- 29:32Speaker 3: thought it was Gus. If you're just going from who
- 29:35Speaker 3: beat top 25 teams that was unranked, West Virginia beat Virginia.
- 29:38Speaker 6: And.
- 29:42Speaker 3: What's always a pretty crazy game as far as high stakes, rivalries,
- 29:46Speaker 3: all of that, West Virginia might be pretty damn good.
- 29:49Speaker 3: But you want to talk about upsets, I can talk
- 29:53Speaker 3: about almosts. I can give you Rutgers over USC. That
- 29:57Speaker 3: was an almost. I can give you Florida State over Alabama.
- 30:00Speaker 3: That was an almost. Nothing really hugely stuck out as
- 30:07Speaker 3: far as the upset categories this week in college football.
- 30:10Speaker 3: But I will say, if you're Rutgers or if you're
- 30:12Speaker 3: a Florida State, you gave a real run for the
- 30:14Speaker 3: money against two pretty good teams in college football. So
- 30:18Speaker 3: there you go. College football, stock up, stock down. Do
- 30:20Speaker 3: it every week following the college football weekend. So, A
- 30:25Speaker 3: lot more to get to as we go along. We'll
- 30:27Speaker 3: have Adam Schefter joining us at 9.20 this morning as
- 30:31Speaker 3: he'll break down the weekend that was in the NFL.
- 30:34Speaker 3: I do have a thought, and it's something that crept
- 30:37Speaker 3: into my mind during training camp. When you are a
- 30:44Speaker 3: player that has some sort of thing attached to your
- 30:47Speaker 3: name in a negative way, Athletes don't like it. They
- 30:52Speaker 3: will go out of their way to prove I am
- 30:55Speaker 3: not what you say I am. But I had a
- 30:59Speaker 3: fear that this was going to bleed into the season
- 31:03Speaker 3: and it might be cause for concern. And it certainly
- 31:08Speaker 3: has done that to J.K. Dobbins. And I'll explain exactly
- 31:11Speaker 3: what I mean here in a couple of minutes as
- 31:12Speaker 3: we broadcast from the back of some Shanker Studios. Their
- 31:15Speaker 3: passion is justice. Back after this.
- 31:18Speaker 5: All right, so....
- 31:24Speaker 3: I do want to get, you know what, we'll do
- 31:26Speaker 3: this out of the gates first. I have more of
- 31:30Speaker 3: the amount of people that were texting in about smoking
- 31:34Speaker 3: and non-smoking sections. I do want to get back to
- 31:36Speaker 3: it because it's, I have thoughts on that in a minute. First,
- 31:43Speaker 3: when J.K. Dobbins does a pinky promise to Andy Lindahl
- 31:46Speaker 3: and says, I promise I will not get hurt. I mean,
- 31:48Speaker 3: we all know what this was. And I appreciate his mentality.
- 31:52Speaker 3: Here's the problem, man. I feel for guys who are
- 31:56Speaker 3: in J.K. Dobbins' position. I feel for guys like Ben Simmons.
- 32:00Speaker 3: I feel for guys like Joel Embiid. I feel for
- 32:04Speaker 3: guys who just seem to never have a healthy body.
- 32:08Speaker 3: It just never happens. And it's not their fault. It's
- 32:13Speaker 3: not anything that they did, but it is a truth
- 32:16Speaker 3: and a reality of their careers. The reason why athletes
- 32:22Speaker 3: hate the tag of injury prone is because this is
- 32:25Speaker 3: how it translates in their head, and it's certainly not
- 32:27Speaker 3: the way that I think about this. I think some
- 32:30Speaker 3: dum-dums do. But when you say, that guy's injury prone,
- 32:36Speaker 3: what's their translation as an athlete, which is supposed to be,
- 32:40Speaker 3: I'm the alpha dog macho man? You're soft. That's how
- 32:45Speaker 3: they perceive it, and that's not how it's meant. But
- 32:48Speaker 3: there is a reality to acknowledging, like, the guy's just
- 32:51Speaker 3: hurt a lot, and we can't trust it. Like, nobody
- 32:55Speaker 3: thinks Aaron Gordon's soft, but we all have a fear
- 32:59Speaker 3: in the back of our head that, hey, when the
- 33:01Speaker 3: playoffs come, is AG going to be able to hold up?
- 33:04Speaker 3: Because he's too important to the team that if he
- 33:08Speaker 3: goes missing, where do you make up for the lack
- 33:12Speaker 3: of not having him in the lineup anymore? So he
- 33:16Speaker 3: does the pinky promise to Andy Lindahl, and I said
- 33:18Speaker 3: this at the time. I go, here's my fear with J.K. Dobbins,
- 33:23Speaker 3: especially with things like soft tissue injuries. When you have
- 33:29Speaker 3: now proclaimed, I will not be hurt this year, when
- 33:34Speaker 3: you've said that out loud, and you are willing this
- 33:39Speaker 3: into existence, it is now a goal. Like, think about
- 33:42Speaker 3: this for a second. A goal for an athlete is
- 33:45Speaker 3: to not be injured. Something you have virtually no control over.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Here's what can happen. You can have an injury, but
- 33:57Speaker 3: because you are so hell-bent on not missing games or
- 34:00Speaker 3: anything like that, you push it. And then when you
- 34:08Speaker 3: do that, you make whatever maybe smaller injury that maybe
- 34:11Speaker 3: if you took a week off for a couple weeks off,
- 34:14Speaker 3: you'd be fine. Now that turns into a long-term injury. Like,
- 34:19Speaker 3: I hope this is not going to be the case
- 34:21Speaker 3: with J.K. Dobbins, but when he's held out of the
- 34:25Speaker 3: second half because of a hamstring, and he says the
- 34:28Speaker 3: next week, or a day later, I'm good. Okay, we'll see.
- 34:38Speaker 3: But I felt that the second that he was doing
- 34:41Speaker 3: all this stuff and saying it out loud. And I
- 34:46Speaker 3: do think he's too important to the roster to be
- 34:49Speaker 3: worrying about what the perception of him would be if
- 34:52Speaker 3: he were to miss a couple of games. His focus
- 34:55Speaker 3: has to be on making sure he's good to go.
- 35:00Speaker 3: And the Broncos knew this going into the season. It's
- 35:04Speaker 3: why they invested a second round pick in RJ Harvey
- 35:06Speaker 3: last year. why they invested a fourth-round pick in Jonah
- 35:09Speaker 3: Coleman this year. They're prepared for it. At least I
- 35:13Speaker 3: would hope they are. And the good news is, in
- 35:17Speaker 3: the small dose that we've seen from Jonah Coleman, I
- 35:23Speaker 3: think he's capable of filling in for the J.K. Dobbins role.
- 35:26Speaker 3: It's the whole point to this. When we were in
- 35:28Speaker 3: training camp, and I said, the reason I feel like
- 35:31Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman is going to be so important to this
- 35:36Speaker 3: team and this roster, And you think to yourself, it's
- 35:38Speaker 3: a fourth round pick. It's a third string running back.
- 35:40Speaker 3: What's the big deal? The big deal is this. When J.K.
- 35:43Speaker 3: Dobbins left last year, you did not have somebody that
- 35:46Speaker 3: fit his type, his style of running.
- 35:51Speaker 6: R.J.
- 35:51Speaker 3: Harvey has a bunch of different skills as a running back.
- 35:55Speaker 3: But what J.K. Dobbins does, a lot of between the tackles,
- 35:58Speaker 3: pick up short yardage stuff, that, that is not possessed
- 36:02Speaker 3: by R.J. Harvey. R.J. Harvey is great in open space.
- 36:05Speaker 3: I think he's getting better But his big thing is
- 36:09Speaker 3: open space, make a guy miss, use my speed, big play,
- 36:14Speaker 3: that sort of thing. Jonah Coleman feels a lot to
- 36:17Speaker 3: me like all run between the tackles, bounce off a
- 36:20Speaker 3: couple of guys, pick up three more yards. That's what
- 36:22Speaker 3: you need to have. And you now have that, I believe,
- 36:25Speaker 3: in the small doses that we've seen in your back pocket.
- 36:29Speaker 3: And I know the coaches believe that because you can
- 36:32Speaker 3: take this back to the comments that they talked about
- 36:34Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman during training camp. What they said after the
- 36:37Speaker 3: first preseason game, remember he had that one run, they
- 36:40Speaker 3: took him out of the game, didn't give him another snap.
- 36:42Speaker 3: And the answer from both Sean Payton and Davis Webb was,
- 36:45Speaker 3: we saw enough. What's the translation there? I thought this
- 36:49Speaker 3: guy was this type of running back, then he had
- 36:51Speaker 3: that run, and now I know he is. That's all
- 36:56Speaker 3: you need. But I do have a concern for J.K.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Dobbins specifically. That he could put himself in more dangerous
- 37:04Speaker 3: situations because he is trying to prove to the masses
- 37:08Speaker 3: and to himself that I'm a tough guy. And I
- 37:13Speaker 3: don't think that's ever been something that's been questioned with J.K. Dobbins.
- 37:17Speaker 3: Nobody's questioned his toughness. It's always been about... It just
- 37:24Speaker 3: feels like he's been unlucky. There's no toughing out a
- 37:28Speaker 3: Liz Frank injury.
- 37:30Speaker 6: You know?
- 37:31Speaker 3: Your foot's in half. And I know we all had
- 37:38Speaker 3: our fun and I certainly am going to. I'm going to.
- 37:41Speaker 3: And you can call me a barbarian if you'd like.
- 37:46Speaker 3: We all, including myself, and I will continue to have
- 37:48Speaker 3: more fun with Caleb Williams. If he plays this weekend
- 37:52Speaker 3: after being carted off the field and crying, then that's
- 37:54Speaker 3: going to be, it's going to be a meme forever.
- 37:57Speaker 3: It's just going to be. you have a hamstring and
- 38:07Speaker 3: you get carded off, you know, people are saying, well,
- 38:11Speaker 3: he's a competitor. He's yeah, I know. But to me,
- 38:16Speaker 3: I'll acknowledge one thing. Am I being Nelly? Am I
- 38:19Speaker 3: being too insensitive to barbaric? When I say, I think,
- 38:27Speaker 3: I think every meme that has come out of Caleb
- 38:31Speaker 3: Williams is is hilarious.
- 38:35Speaker 4: Oh, they have been incredible. My timeline has been, my
- 38:39Speaker 4: Twitter feed has been flooded with Caleb Williams memes and
- 38:42Speaker 4: then the memes of Taylor Swift pointing at her ring going,
- 38:45Speaker 4: that's my husband.
- 38:46Speaker 5: Those two, that's all my feeds.
- 38:48Speaker 3: They've been gold.
- 38:50Speaker 5: They're all amazing.
- 38:53Speaker 3: The one that I saw that I just, I couldn't
- 38:55Speaker 3: stop laughing at was Williams being carted off doing the
- 38:59Speaker 3: thumbs up And it's when I have to sleep on
- 39:02Speaker 3: the uncomfortable couch as my wife's going through labor. I'm just,
- 39:08Speaker 3: I'm telling you, there is just some things, it's like
- 39:12Speaker 3: Paul Pierce being carried off the court. It's whenever you
- 39:16Speaker 3: have a moment like that, it's just going to live
- 39:20Speaker 3: with you forever. It's going to. And I will, for
- 39:29Speaker 3: the rest of my life, use that. I will use
- 39:32Speaker 3: that one singular video. Towel on the head, tears, thumbs up,
- 39:38Speaker 3: carted off the field. Not to go back to smoking
- 39:43Speaker 3: and non-smoking sections. Let me tell you something right now.
- 39:47Speaker 3: I am somebody that has said, I want to create
- 39:50Speaker 3: like an airline that operates like it's 1960. I want
- 39:54Speaker 3: to have glasses like actual glasses that you serve to people.
- 39:58Speaker 3: I want people to be ripping cigarettes on my flight.
- 40:03Speaker 3: I want that to be an option for people who are,
- 40:06Speaker 3: or one nostalgic or two like me that have only
- 40:10Speaker 3: seen that in movies. I just feel like that'd be
- 40:12Speaker 3: a hell of a trip. And I do remember in
- 40:15Speaker 3: a specific instance, um, There was a guy who owned
- 40:18Speaker 3: a bar that I knew and past closing, I'm not
- 40:25Speaker 3: a smoker. I don't smoke cigarettes. But past closing, he
- 40:30Speaker 3: was the only one in the bar. He said, do
- 40:31Speaker 3: you want to smoke? And I smoked in that bar
- 40:33Speaker 3: every single time. Every time I was given the opportunity. Why?
- 40:39Speaker 3: Because I felt like I had to. It's like I
- 40:42Speaker 3: was living in a different time and a different era
- 40:45Speaker 3: than everybody else. I loved it. Moj was definitely a
- 40:49Speaker 3: smoking section guy. 1,000%.
- 40:53Speaker 4: But Brett, you remember when planes had smoking and non-smoking sections? No,
- 41:00Speaker 4: but I'm saying that's got to be the stupidest thing
- 41:01Speaker 4: ever because if you're at the front of the plane
- 41:02Speaker 4: in the smoking section, you're telling me that smoke isn't
- 41:05Speaker 4: just going to go back to the non-smoking sections?
- 41:06Speaker 3: Oh, did they have sections for planes too?
- 41:09Speaker 4: Yes, you could get a smoking or a non-smoking seat,
- 41:11Speaker 4: which is the dumbest thing ever. We're in the same
- 41:14Speaker 4: tube at 20,000, 30,000 feet, bro.
- 41:17Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
- 41:17Speaker 3: If you're in the non-smoking section on an airplane, I
- 41:20Speaker 3: hate to break it to you, you're also in the
- 41:22Speaker 3: smoking section.
- 41:23Speaker 6: When I was a kid, when I was a kid,
- 41:27Speaker 6: like my first airplane ride, the back of the plane
- 41:30Speaker 6: was the smoking section. It was set up like bench seats,
- 41:36Speaker 6: you know? And people were just back there puffing away.
- 41:40Speaker 3: Hey, Toots, you got a light for me? You wish
- 41:43Speaker 3: you lived in that area. I want it.
- 41:45Speaker 6: I know.
- 41:45Speaker 3: I want to create my own airliner where that's what
- 41:47Speaker 3: it is. It's hot stewardesses that you can call Toots
- 41:52Speaker 3: and they light your cigs for you.
- 41:53Speaker 6: Did you ever get on an airplane that had an
- 41:54Speaker 6: ashtray on the armrest? Oh, yeah. Never.
- 41:57Speaker 3: Not in use, but I've seen them. But they were there, right?
- 42:00Speaker 6: Yep. I mean, obviously, it's way long gone by now,
- 42:02Speaker 6: but those planes were in business, I mean, in operation
- 42:05Speaker 6: for 30 years without smoking, but they kept The armrests.
- 42:08Speaker 6: A whole bunch to get to. Moshe Lombardi and Kane next.