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- 2:49basketball, may talk a little football. David Johnson at five point fifteen,
- 2:52we will talk ole miss baseball and football. Let's see real. Un named
- 2:55texter comes in hot. He said, Hey, let's play Powerball mega billions,
- 3:01mega billions with a bee. If I win the one point one to
- 3:06three billion today, I will give every texture from today's show ten thousand dollars
- 3:13one million to the host of this show, including ten million to Beev.
- 3:19Now why does the host get ripped on that? Now? I am very
- 3:22grateful for this money, but the host gets a million, Beev gets ten.
- 3:27Oh if there's a caveat to this, yeah, wait, yeah,
- 3:30before you turn your nose up at a million bucks, there's a caveat here
- 3:37to Beev if he goes to every football game that Primetime coaches this year wearing
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- 3:58that this is back and that the real Texter has his h power ball playback
- 4:02on the text line, what do you think about this? Are you ready
- 4:04for this? Yeah, that's a deal. I'll take that ten million,
- 4:08So you'll take the class, you'll go to every football game. I mean,
- 4:12if you win the ten million, then you can just probably. I
- 4:17mean you don't have to pay for anything, right, you can just go
- 4:19ahead and book every flight, every hotel. You'll be ready to go,
- 4:24Ready to go, Toddy, I'm in. But I will give you in
- 4:28Beaver twenty million each. So I like, how Toddy just up the antie
- 4:32that quick? Oh Toddy? Hey, now, Toddy, are we really
- 4:38getting this money or are you just trying to show up the real n of
- 4:41name Texter? Hey? Whatever? Really name? Text to your move.
- 4:45We getting thirty now because Toddy's got you now got a negotiation going on.
- 4:49Hey, you remember that Prep super League. Everybody was talking about the Prep
- 4:53super League, the league for high school football talent that will allow all athletes
- 4:58to profit off name image of likeness is set to debut April twenty seventh with
- 5:03twelve markets. Quote, we're up to one hundred four and five stars that
- 5:09have committed to play in it. So I want to get into this.
- 5:12This was something that was mentioned. Remember we talked a little bit about it
- 5:14last year, but it has resurfaced. So there's going to be this prep
- 5:17super league. We'll tell you about this. I have to try to get
- 5:20Pete Nikos on the phone to talk about this. Toddy promised promise. Oh,
- 5:25he says, I'm in Oh, justus's promise. All right. A
- 5:29lot on the basketball transfer portal Auburn, and again you're going to continue to
- 5:32see this over the next few weeks. As teams get knocked out of the
- 5:35NCAA Tournament, basketball players will dive right off into the pool of the transfer
- 5:41portal pool. Auburn guard Katie Johnson plans to enter the transfer portal. Also
- 5:48got some numbers on the NCAA tournament from Dan Wetzel. He says that they
- 5:53said there were no superstars, fewer blue blood contenders, more competition. NCAA
- 5:57Tournament ratings or booming away. So don't mess with the formula. Look,
- 6:01I'm gonna be honest with you. I know there's all this about, well,
- 6:04hey, don't mess with the formula because of the ratings. Don't mess
- 6:06with the formula because of this, mess with the formula, because of this.
- 6:11Jack with the formula. Let's increase this, because of this, this
- 6:15tournament is so big. There's another NAT flying rounders. You notice that.
- 6:18It's because spring is here. It's gotta be right, so the Nats start
- 6:25flying. It's weird. Gotta get some more NAT traps in here. I
- 6:30don't think the ratings. I don't think it matters. If it's sixty four,
- 6:32sixty eight, seventy, seventy eight, eighty two, eighty four.
- 6:35The ratings are gonna be big. They're gonna be big for March Madis.
- 6:39We will get into that. You know we were talking about yesterday there was
- 6:42no Dallas Cowboys news, only Jerry Jones. Will Today we have Dallas Cowboys
- 6:46news. Have you seen this? The Cowboys and Dak Prescott have a mutual
- 6:51understanding of his contract and the situation, says sources, with no offers from
- 6:58Dallas despite him being in a contract year on a Jerry Jones said, quote,
- 7:03we are where we are locked and loaded for this year. So as
- 7:09Ian Rapperport says, this is a clear path now that Dak Prescott will likely
- 7:14test free agency in twenty twenty five. What do you think about this?
- 7:18I don't believe that. I think Jerry Jones is gonna pay him. Jerry
- 7:26Jones loves this guy, does he? Yeah, that's all you've ever hear.
- 7:32Any It's not his fault that the Cowboys are awful every year either.
- 7:40You know, we've had this discussion. Is it Dak Prescott's fault? Is
- 7:43it blah blah blah. No, it's it's Jerry Jones's fault. It's not
- 7:46on Dak Prescott. And you know how Jerry falls in love with players.
- 7:51I ain't coaches Jason Garrett, So yeah, I have no doubt that he's
- 7:57gonna offer the next absurd NFL contract to him. Well, what if I
- 8:05told you this is just a what if? Nobody's told me this. I've
- 8:11not read this anywhere. I'm just you know me, I'm gonna read the
- 8:13tea leaves, and the tea leaves sometimes tell me stuff that are real,
- 8:16and sometimes they tell me stuff that are not What if Jerry isn't happy with
- 8:22Dak, Like maybe he likes Dak, but maybe he's getting tired of that.
- 8:28Maybe he's looking for a better value. Dion Sanders said that he is
- 8:33going to have an im immense impact on where his son goes. He's already
- 8:41said we will eli manning this thing. Jerry Jones and Dion Sanders are very
- 8:48close. What if the ball is rolling already on the back end of this
- 8:54thing to where Dion Broker is a deal with Jerry Jones to maybe not be
- 9:01the head coach, but to be the associate head coach, and Shador Sanders
- 9:07is the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. They taking the draft next year, saving money
- 9:13getting Dion back in town. Shadoor, I just had an epiphany, like
- 9:20it all just came to me. And maybe it's just like a poot.
- 9:22I have no idea, but what if Okay, let's I'm gonna go with
- 9:28you and I'm gonna see your crazy scenario involving a liar of a head college
- 9:41football coach, and I'm gonna give you another ridiculous scenario involving yet another liar
- 9:46of a head football coach, your guy, your guy, Jim Harbaugh.
- 9:52I'm surprised you didn't exclaim this yesterday. I saw where Harball went a step
- 9:58further. It's still talking now. He says JJ McCarthy is the best quarterback
- 10:05in the misdraft I missed it. So what if this is all leading towards
- 10:11Okay, if he's the best, Harball wants to get rid of sounds absurd,
- 10:18get rid of Justin Herbert. He's going to send him to Dallas so
- 10:22he can clear a path for JJ McCarthy. I know none of this is
- 10:26real. I'm not serious about this, so but anyway, so he's gonna
- 10:31send him to Dallas and get his beloved JJ McCarthy in San Diego. I
- 10:37mean San Diego, Los Angeles. It's always San Diego. Could be just
- 10:41as I do a little Google search, this went right under the radar.
- 10:48November thirtieth of this past year, Forthewind dot com Jerry Jones meets with Dion
- 10:54and Shador Sanders and NFL fans couldn't help but speculate. I wait, say
- 11:03that to me again. Forthewind dot com had an article on November thirtieth,
- 11:07twenty twenty three Jerry Jones meets with Dion and Shador Sanders and NFL fans couldn't
- 11:13help but speculate what it means, what they mean about We'll get into that.
- 11:20I got the article right here NFL dot com. Also NFL on Twitter
- 11:24talking about it as well. This is back in November. I think we're
- 11:30on to something here. I think I think we're definitely onto something six one
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- 13:28Let's see here, we're talking a little bit about this Dak Prescott news
- 13:31that is out there, and it's you know, in the grand scheme of
- 13:35things, you see these kind of reports all the time, right Joe Burrow
- 13:39has it signed his new contract? Or what are Patrick mahomes We get to
- 13:41these these negotiation points or you know, you can see it in the distance,
- 13:46like, hey, you got one year, got to get this done.
- 13:48But Ian Rappaport today reporting with the NFL Network that it doesn't look like
- 13:54there's a clear path right now to an extension, and this is going to
- 13:58likely pave the way for Dak Prescott to at least test free agency in twenty
- 14:03twenty five. Now, that doesn't mean he's going to become the quarterback of
- 14:07pick a team in the NFL. He could re sign with the Dallas This
- 14:09is where the negotiations really start between Dyke's agent and Jerry Jones and all the
- 14:16you know, Stephen Jones, all the people over there in the management side
- 14:18of the Dallas Cowboys. But I'm starting to get a feeling that this may
- 14:24be the last year for Dak Prescott. And I really do believe that Shador
- 14:28Sanders might be at least in the sights of the Dallas Cowboys because of the
- 14:33relationship with the Jerry Jones and Dion Sanders. Because Shador has proven himself and
- 14:39I think you'll see it again this year if he can stay healthy. He's
- 14:41a pretty dunk good quarterback. He's not bad, and he's being projected as
- 14:46a top ten pick next year in the NFL draft. And that Dion Sanders
- 14:48has said. And look, a lot of people's gonna call this poppycock,
- 14:50and I get it. It's just whatever, But that's it's what we do
- 14:54on sports talk radio. Right. If I sat here and just gave you
- 14:58the dark pre Scott is going to recite his contract and likely get paid.
- 15:01Like, no, No, let's figure out what's really going on here.
- 15:05Just like I've always told you, Greg Sankey is the smartest man in the
- 15:07world outside of Elon Musk. Greg Sankee probably runs right in there under Elon
- 15:13Musk. But I feel like, because Dion has been so adamant and he
- 15:20did it like over the last five days that hey, we're going to Eli
- 15:26manning this thing. We're gonna go where we want to go. We're not
- 15:30going to play for somebody who don't want to play for And Travis Hunter,
- 15:33by the way, is there a scenario out there and I would have to
- 15:39really dig into this where Dallas could possibly give the house up, so to
- 15:45speak, for both these guys. That's probably way too out there, way
- 15:50too out there. Let's see here, unnamed Texter Beaver is the only one
- 15:54with any sense. But how can Jerry put together teams that win twelve games
- 16:00a year but it's his fault they can't win in the playoffs? Would you
- 16:06like to take that question? That's actually a really good question. Yeah,
- 16:10And when I say I think I said last segment I think I did use
- 16:17that phrase. It's Jerry Jones' fault, mat Yeah, I still can't figure
- 16:21out whose it is because I say that only because he's the only common denominator.
- 16:27You know, We've seen coaches get blamed. We've seen Mike Mike McCarthy
- 16:33gets blamed, you know, and former coaches. Obviously Dak Prescott gets blamed.
- 16:40Ceedee Lamb didn't show up against the Packers, so you blame Ceedee Lamb.
- 16:44But I only say Jerry Jones because it's been thirty years, it's been
- 16:48close to thirty years, and he's the only common denominator in this multiple coaches,
- 16:53multiple quarterbacks, multiple receivers. So but when it comes down to it,
- 17:00who still don't know who to blame for all this in Dallas? Yeah?
- 17:03Not not me either. PT for MSU drafting shitt Or and putting Dion
- 17:07on the staff would be the most Jerry Jones thing ever, wouldn't it?
- 17:11Like tell me you can't really see that happening. I mean, there's scenarios
- 17:15where there's no way that's ever gonna happen. But with that, we're talking
- 17:22about Jerry Jones here, and we're talking about Deion Sanders beggin Dak is a
- 17:26choke artist. And I got a text from a friend earlier that said he
- 17:30hopes Dak is gone because then he can start get back to cheering for the
- 17:34Cowboys. What let me ask you this is, does Dak get falsely criticized?
- 17:44Bye? Yeah, I think by a lot. It's just because it's
- 17:52mainly because of it's Dallas. Their fans are so ridiculous. Maybe the fans
- 17:56are to blame because every year it's they're just so hyped up, more by
- 18:00their own people than seemingly every other team every year, and when you fall
- 18:07short of expectations. But it seems like in Dallas. Everyone has expectations,
- 18:12obviously, but in Dallas it seems like the expectations are voiced so much louder
- 18:18than everywhere else. Maybe we can put it on the fans. Let's put
- 18:22it's just a sign equal blame to all these people it. I think you're
- 18:26on a southing because look, Dak's no chump. He's a good quarterback.
- 18:32He's not Patrick Mahomes. But who else is? Right? There's only one
- 18:36Patrick Mahomes. Who would you say is number two? Is it Lamar Jackson
- 18:40or Is it a healthy Joe Burrow or is it Josh Allen or I mean
- 18:44people some people may even say Brock Perdy, but I mean I think that's
- 18:47more. I hate to call him a system guy. I'm not doing that,
- 18:48but I kind of am. Who's number two? Talk about more ridiculous
- 18:55expectations? Is the bills? I'll go Josh Allen, don't. It's so
- 19:03crazy to me because I've told you repeatedly how Josh Allen his interceptions discussed me
- 19:08every year. There's so much higher than they should be, at least to
- 19:14me, they're ridiculously high. But he also throws for a lot more touchdowns
- 19:19and a lot more wins. Actually saw the other day he has the highest
- 19:26winning percentage for a quarterback without a championship since the sixties. Really, Josh
- 19:30Allen. So they're winning, I guess, But I guess that's the same
- 19:36boat as Lamar Jackson is too. He's a great regular season quarterback. They
- 19:40just can't get it done in the playoffs. But if we're ranking, I
- 19:45guess I'd rather go Josh Allen. I could absolutely see the argument for Joey
- 19:48burs too. Well. Look at DAK stats. I mean sixty seven percent
- 19:52completion percentage. For his career, he has thrown for almost just under like
- 19:59one ball shy of thirty thousand yards, like he'll pop that Bamp game one
- 20:03or two, two hundred and two touchdowns, seventy four interceptions. That's really
- 20:08good touchdown interception ratio. He's rushed for eighteen hundred and eighty four yards in
- 20:11his career, twenty eight touchdowns. If he was the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.
- 20:17I don't know that this criticism would be there. I think you're right.
- 20:18I think it's because it's Dallas. And just like we don't like to give
- 20:22Notre Dame a lot of credit, there is still something to be said about
- 20:26those gold helmets and touchdown Jesus and all the stuff that goes with the stuff.
- 20:32Even though they're nowhere close to Alabama, there's still Notre Dame. Dallas
- 20:37is nowhere close to the Patriots, they're nowhere close to the forty nine ers,
- 20:41they're nowhere close to the Packers, not since nineteen ninety two and ninety
- 20:45three. But it's Dallas. Does that make sense? So? I think
- 20:48it is the Dallas. It's the helmet, it's the star, it's Jerry
- 20:53Jones. It's big time football, right. It's so much noise and I
- 21:00do not need a Brandon Bulldogs or Brandon Cowboys reference on this either. By
- 21:03the way, hey, you've opened yourself up for it. Let's see here,
- 21:07Saint Louis VIC, real quick, well, I'll get this little lengthy.
- 21:11I'll get to that here in just a second. Vic, we'll get
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- 23:37to see. All right, let's get back to this. We're talking Dak
- 23:38Prescott just because it came across today. If you're just joining us. Ian
- 23:42Rappaport reporting that Jerry Jones today said that you know where we are and we
- 23:51are locked and loaded for this year would not speculate Dak Prescott's future, and
- 23:56he Ian Rappaport in the NFL Network team thinks that this is going to open
- 24:00the door for Dak to really test free agency in twenty twenty five. Now
- 24:03that doesn't mean that he'll be the quarterback at you for the Arizona Cardinals or
- 24:07the Atlanta Falcons or the New Orleans Saints, but at least there's that testing
- 24:11that happens between the player agent, the market and then the negotiations. But
- 24:17I have a theory that I think this may be it for Dak this year
- 24:21because Dion Sanders and should or Sanders and I want to get into this article
- 24:26here in a bit that just really went under the radar. Last year,
- 24:29Jerry Jones meets with Dion and should or Sanders and NFL fans couldn't help but
- 24:33speculate what that miant First, Saint Louis Vix says, Okay, Jake,
- 24:37let's play Devil's advocate and say that the cow Pies make a deep run next
- 24:41year end up with a late first round pick. Does old Jerry pull a
- 24:47Mike Didka and sell everything? I'm writing this not knowing what Dallas has or
- 24:52we'll have in terms of picks moving forward. Yeah, I have to look
- 24:55at that two vic. Are we passed the Mike Didka bad trades or do
- 25:02we still have people in the NFL that would still make these kind of trades.
- 25:06No, I don't think that's crazy to think that was twenty five years
- 25:11ago now twenty five years ago this year. But no, I think they've
- 25:15learned in those twenty five years. I don't think we'll see anyone literally give
- 25:21up an entire draft for one player. It's too valuable. Now it is
- 25:26unnamed Texter. Jerry Jones has given two has given jobs to Oklahoma Sooners for
- 25:33years when he could have hired or drafted players from other teams. So I
- 25:37can definitely see him looking back on that connection with the Dion Sanders and his
- 25:41connection to his son, because Jerry likes to keep things in the family and
- 25:47local as much as possible. That is all true. Beggan. He kicked
- 25:51about Dak. He can't win the big games. He makes bad decisions under
- 25:53pressure. There is that, at least today, there is that, right,
- 26:00I mean, and we go through this with sports figures all the time.
- 26:03I mean, you go back to believe it or not. Before Michael
- 26:06Jordan won his first one, people were questioning Kenny win the big one.
- 26:11It's hard to believe that they were questioning Kenny win the big one because remember
- 26:14they ran into the Pistons for a couple of years, and they couldn't knock
- 26:15The Pistons kept shutting the door on him, and then they finally got over
- 26:18on the Pistons. So Jim Harbaugh Michigan, nobody thought and everybody thought I
- 26:25was crazy for picking Michigan. Michigan had done this in years, decades,
- 26:29poppy cock word of the day, and then he does it. So until
- 26:33Dak proves he makes the big third down play in the playoffs to move the
- 26:37chains, or he makes a big touchdown with twenty seconds to go to win
- 26:41the ball game. He hasn't done that in those moments, and until he
- 26:44does, I don't know that people same o' Lamar Jackson, right, o'
- 26:48Lamar jacks some of Josh Allen more Bully Dallas is the biggest what have you
- 26:53done for me lately? With their fans? Let's see here. Yeah,
- 27:00that's going to catch us up there. Let me get into this. Jerry
- 27:02Jones meets with Dion and Shadoor and this was back on fullwind dot com back
- 27:07in November, right at the end of November, November thirtieth, if you
- 27:11want to go find him. Said. Ahead of the Dallas Cowboys game against
- 27:15the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night, Dallas owner Jerry Jones had a very interesting
- 27:18meeting ahead of the contest. Jones hobnobbed with Dion and Shadoor Sanders, the
- 27:22coach and quarterback of Colorado Football, respectively. Deon Sanders played for the Dallas
- 27:27Cowboys in the nineteen nineties, and perhaps him meeting with the Jones was just
- 27:30a friendly hello to the owner of his former team. However, this did
- 27:36not stop NFL fans from openly speculating about what exactly this group could have been
- 27:41talking about, especially since Shadoor Sanders could declare for the twenty twenty four NFL
- 27:45Draft. Now obviously he has not declared for the draft. He will play
- 27:49this year at Colorado, and then he will be in the twenty twenty five
- 27:52draft, it says, and Deon Sanders has been tabbed as a future NFL
- 27:56coach even though he has set up he is not. While the Cowboys obviously
- 28:02have an excellent quarterback in Dak Prescott and a solid coach in Mike McCarthy,
- 28:06Jones is one of the most genuinely unpredictable owners in the NFL. You never
- 28:11know when the guy could be thinking, and this meeting had some folks wondering
- 28:15if Jerry World would become would welcome back Sanders sometimes in the future in a
- 28:22more official capacity said It's kind of a long shot, but it's worth speculating
- 28:26as there's several pictures of Dion and Shador and Jerry and a lot of people
- 28:30post in future Cowboys. Now here's what would blow everybody's mind. Dallas didn't
- 28:41make a whole lot of moves like two in free agency. Is this the
- 28:45contract year for cd Lammers? It next year? I think it's I think
- 28:53it's next year. Well, here's where I'm going with this. What if
- 28:57Dallas regresses back to seven and nine? Nine and seven? When is you
- 29:06got it there? Yeah? This is it? This is it? So
- 29:10this is this fifth year option they picked up. So they picked it up,
- 29:14so they got some negotiating to do with him too, or he could
- 29:18be on the on the way out this year. What would it be next
- 29:23year? Yeah, this says Lamb is due for a contract extension, due
- 29:29to make seventeen point nine million on the fifth year option in twenty twenty four.
- 29:34Okay, but you could see a situation where Dak is out and maybe
- 29:44they make a coaching change. If there's one team, I think that Dion
- 29:48Sanders would have an inside trek to be a head coach in the National Football
- 29:52League. It's Dallas. Everybody always talking about Florida State because of the connection
- 29:59there, and a lot of people laugh. Don't laugh. Did you ever
- 30:03think Dian would be a Power five coach? He's just a high school coach
- 30:07in Texas. Oh, he was going to Jackson? Why is he going
- 30:11to Jackson? Now? Is it Colorado? I mean, I'm not saying
- 30:15that he is the next you know, Mike Shanahan or Kyle Shanahan. But
- 30:22if there's one team that would give him that shot, it's that gray headed,
- 30:26senile old man out in Dallas, isn't it. So if they track
- 30:30back to seven and nine, you could see a scenario where Jerry makes a
- 30:36move and look, he's high some of the highers he's made. Let me
- 30:40ask you this, do you think Dion Sanders could do just as good a
- 30:41job as Jason Garrett? You don't. You don't think he could do as
- 30:48good enough job as Jason Garrett. His smile is not as weird as Jason
- 30:57Garrett. So let me get back into this. There's a lot to get
- 31:02to. NFL commissioned Roger Goodell on the New Kickoff, and I hope you
- 31:07got I don't know if you guys have seen this. I put it out
- 31:08on X or retweeted it, but I think we're still going to have to
- 31:11tinker with it. But I think it's a big improvement and brings back bring
- 31:17the play back to being brings it back to being relevant. I think we
- 31:19can do it so the injury rate will drop. Did you see the way
- 31:23this thing's it's it's actually this is the XFL kickoff in it Isn't that interesting?
- 31:29Because I remember when this happened, A lot of people reference that and
- 31:32if you didn't see it, it's out there. Ian rappaport I retweeted this
- 31:36kind of gave you a schematic of what this is like. So you've got
- 31:41the hybrid kickoff and what kind of the starting point and the setup zone,
- 31:51and then you've got how the players are going to line up, and I
- 31:52don't believe they can move until the ball is caught. Is that right?
- 31:56So the ball has to be caught by a returner and off we go.
- 32:00And it definitely takes a lot of the collision out there's no doubt about it.
- 32:04I mean, instead of lining up and running forty yards in a collision,
- 32:07I mean, you're really because you have to start at the forty.
- 32:10So if you're on the kickoff team, you're starting at the forty when you
- 32:14take a sprint and a first step, so really you only have about twenty
- 32:17yards to go, you know. I criticize a lot of the NFL changes.
- 32:22I actually can get behind this one. I can too. And here's
- 32:27why. Because a lot of people the first thought is, you know,
- 32:30you don't want to I get it. A lot of stuff you don't want
- 32:35to change. A lot of stuff they change I don't like. But I
- 32:37can get behind this because I saw a stat today. You know, it's
- 32:42allegedly supposed to quote unquote bring back the kick return. Right. It's kind
- 32:49of lost it, shine, there's not a not We're not seeing Devin Hester
- 32:52out there anymore. Yep. But I saw a stat. Now, this
- 32:59was in college, but you know college is now looking at this too,
- 33:04by the way, Oh we are they. I did not know that they're
- 33:06they're looking at this since it's the new NFL model, but in college,
- 33:09And I think you can take this and put it in the NFL too.
- 33:13I just figured out earlier today, figured earlier today. Sorry slaw, this
- 33:19earlier today. You don't. Last year, forty nine point six percent of
- 33:22kickoffs were touchbacks, right at fifty percent? Yeah, yeah, that's up
- 33:29from forty three percent just five years ago. And I noticed a lot of
- 33:34that. You can there's probably a very high percentage. I didn't see the
- 33:37exact number, but you can take that to the NFL too. And now
- 33:40they're kind of intertwined because the NFL are colleges looking at adopting the new NFL
- 33:45model, which was the XFL model. So I don't know, we're seeing
- 33:50these leagues kind of intertwined on these rules. Six O one eighty five three
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- 35:14all right, let's see here where else, Let's see Steven, what makes
- 35:19Dion a good college coach, which is recruiting does not transfer to the National
- 35:23Football League. You have to have, especially on a site, on a
- 35:27side of the ball, to where you are a known commodity. I think
- 35:30he would fall miserably in the NFL. I think that you're probably right.
- 35:34Like, I don't know, I don't know that Dion has a special Like
- 35:39there's a difference in Dion the player. Now, his specialty is what public
- 35:44relations. There's no doubt the guy can make money. He's a marketer on
- 35:50top of marketers, and he knows it. I mean you can laugh at
- 35:55him and clown on him. You know, he sits in those press conferences
- 35:58with the sunglasses on his hat, his chains and all that. People like
- 36:02it. People pay attention. Now if Colorado doesn't start winning, like for
- 36:07instance, if they are another three to four win team this year, people
- 36:09are gonna kind of check out, because you know, when you lose,
- 36:13people just kind of whatever. But he is a marketer. I think the
- 36:17way Dion could make it as an NFL head coach. And I think Steven's
- 36:22right on this. You got to be. I mean you look at Andy
- 36:24Reid. What is he known for. He's an offensive guy, right,
- 36:29and you can go down the checklist. I mean you go to dial I
- 36:30mean you go to Detroit their head coach, defensive guy. So Dion would
- 36:37have to really have a staff that has just dialed in. I mean,
- 36:43really good coordinators, really good people there. Not saying he doesn't know football,
- 36:49but I get what Stephen saying. And again, this is all speculation
- 36:52based on Dak Prescott and what we've seen from the National Football League today as
- 36:55far as reports coming out of Dallas that Jerry Jones as of today is not
- 37:00even looking past this year. So we're locked for this year and this is
- 37:02it. So but Jerry does this too, right, He does this with
- 37:07coaches. We've seen him do this, Like people ask you remember they used
- 37:08to do this with Jason Garrett every year. THAT'SKHI about Jason Garrett. Jason
- 37:13Garrett gonna be here next year. He wouldn't talk about it, and then
- 37:15Jason Garrett was there next year. But you have the opinion that he really
- 37:17likes Dak, and then Dak will be back. Yeah, yeah, because
- 37:24he falls in love with these players. Jason Garrett, former player, kept
- 37:30him on coaching way too long. I think, yeah, he'll do this.
- 37:37I still think this Sanders stuff your brain creating this one. I'm just
- 37:45man, this is you know what though, The crazy thing is it's Dallas
- 37:52and to go back to Stephen Steven is one hundred percent correct. But the
- 37:57whole conversation has been Jerry Jones makes the odd some of the oddest decisions we've
- 38:04seen in the last thirty years of them losing. Yeah, So, I
- 38:08mean, honestly, this is not that far out of I mean, think
- 38:12about this. This man, his arrogance, and I'm talk about Jerry Jones,
- 38:15his ego, broke ties with what was an unbelievable run with Jimmy Johnson
- 38:23and settled with Barry Switzer. Okay, but okay, an owner and a
- 38:31coach if that were the case. Now I'm entertaining this deon Sanders as a
- 38:37head coach nonsense. But now here's another part of it though. Could that
- 38:44work in the sense that now you have an owner and a head coach who
- 38:49do nothing but talk. They love talking. They both love talk talk,
- 38:52talk, talk talk. Does Jerry Jones want to concede a lot of his
- 38:58talk to Diane Saners? I think there's enough talking to go around. Because
- 39:04Jerry gets on his radio show or it's not his, but it might as
- 39:07well be his that he's always on. Dion's gonna have his platform. He's
- 39:10gonna be on Instagram and social media and TikTok and all that stuff. And
- 39:15Dion is the right kind of guy to where Jerry would let him have control.
- 39:22But Jerry could still be in control. Does that make sense? I
- 39:27helped bring you through this league, so like there would be some head games
- 39:30going on here and some ties, like Jerry would really have his teeth in
- 39:36the last breaths of his life, not that they're not already, but really
- 39:39into the decision making of what's going on on the field. It could be
- 39:43a disaster. Just something to think about, Boomer sooner. Jerry Jones keeps
- 39:49coaches around that will not tell him no. The last coach to tell him
- 39:54no was Jimmy Johnson. That's true, but I don't know that Dion would
- 39:59tell him. Oh, I mean, I feel like they're now I'm talking
- 40:02to you like I know their relationship. I don't. I know that based
- 40:07on what we see and what we've heard over the years and what we've read,
- 40:09they have a really good rapport. Just food for thought. NFL EVP
- 40:16for Media Distribution Hans Schrader announced there will be a Christmas Day doubleheader this year
- 40:22in the National Football League. Remember it's ongoing NFL Spring meetings right now.
- 40:28NFL Christmas Day doubleheader, despite it being on a Wednesday. Quote, we've
- 40:31seen some really unprecedented growth. Amazon will have a wild card playoff game this
- 40:37year. Did you know this? They will? And the Eagles season opener
- 40:44is in Brazil, so they took the wild card game that was on Peacock
- 40:52from when they stream that. So are they getting it in place of Peacock?
- 40:57Rappaport doesn't say. This is just some notes he's talking through here that
- 41:00he's getting from the meeting. So I have to dig a little on that
- 41:02and see it would be a meltdown. You remember how many people feigned,
- 41:10oh, absolutely anger over that peacock that was the Dolphins Chiefs game. Dolphins
- 41:15Chiefs game, and they're, oh, I'm so angry, There's no way
- 41:17I'm gonna get this bull then you bought it, but if you have two
- 41:23streaming places, you'd have to pay for a little much. Yeah, we'll
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- 43:16Ford four thirty to five. We'll talk in CAA tournament, some college football.
- 43:20David Johnson, all things all miss at five pin fifteen. We've been
- 43:22talking about Dak Prescott reports today, Ian Rappaport, Jerry Jones not looking past
- 43:28this year. It's going to open up, at least theoretically, Dak Prescott
- 43:31on the on the free agent market to test those waters. And I've been
- 43:35talking about a theory here that I have that. Hey call it crazy,
- 43:37Dion said earlier this week, late last week. They're gonna eli manning this
- 43:43thing. They're gonna go where they want to go. I don't think Dion's
- 43:46gonna be in Colorado after this year, and I think it's gonna be in
- 43:50the NFL. And I think you see where I'm going here. Let's go
- 43:52to DJ DJ welcome in. Hey, Jake, this is just my interpretation,
- 43:57but you know most of us have that issue that we like to trigger
- 44:01our best friend, our brother, you know what I'm talking about. Sure,
- 44:07I think Dion is your trigger issue? Would be am I right?
- 44:12No? I mean beer still say of your screaming, Yes, not at
- 44:15all. I think I don't doubt that you got report the news. But
- 44:21I think this is a trigger because you know you're gonna trigger B. But
- 44:24now I kind ofly know on B side on this one. But you do
- 44:29realize Dion didn't play most of his career doubts, right, I do correct,
- 44:34And he only caught the tail end of the dynasty. I think,
- 44:37if I'm not mistaken, I think he wonted in San Francisco in ninety four,
- 44:43then flipped and won in Dallas in ninety five. Is that correct?
- 44:45Yeah? Beaver says that's right. Yeah, And then of course I don't
- 44:50know what year retired. By no way, he played another three or four
- 44:52years with the Cowboys. Uh. It is interesting, you know now in
- 44:58college football, like Ryron Day, he got pushed out of the offensive rokers.
- 45:02In college they don't want head coaches coordinate. But in the NFL it's
- 45:08a different deal because you got a general manager, you know, in college
- 45:12football. Can you a maaguement a head coach in college football right now?
- 45:15No? And as much as I love the sport, love it, I
- 45:20mean love, love, love it, can never get enough of it,
- 45:21but I wouldn't want to be a coach in it. Well this is completely
- 45:24subjective, but I believe being the head coach in college football is the hardest
- 45:30coaching role in sports period. I don't think there's anything even close to being
- 45:36that difficult, because you know, in a pros you got a general manager,
- 45:42you know. But like I said, I do you think Shador will
- 45:45be the number one guy? I think he's got a shot for sure.
- 45:47I mean, if you look at some of the way to it now,
- 45:49these are way too early projections. These things can change. I mean,
- 45:52we saw Spencer Ratler in the same position what three or four years ago at
- 45:55Oklahoma, and that whole thing dovetailed on him and he was out the I
- 46:00mean, things can change, but as of today, the projections are saying,
- 46:04hey, yeah, he's definitely top five pick, could be number one
- 46:06pick. Well, Dion. You know when when he has short offensive line
- 46:12up and you know Chador's talented, there's no question about it. And I
- 46:16think they're going to be playing my opinion, I think they're gonna be playing
- 46:21a much easier league this year because the PAC twelve last year was probably,
- 46:25when you say, the best PAC twelve's being since maybe the early eighties for
- 46:29sure. I mean hardly two thousands, not early eighties. Yeah it was.
- 46:34It was really good. I mean, the PAC twelve was really really
- 46:36good. But anyway, Jake, love you show. And like I said,
- 46:39anytime you bring out Dion, I just imagine me and my brother willed
- 46:45up much apart. We both had issues we could trigger the other one.
- 46:47And that's just my perception. I could be wrong, but yeah, you
- 46:52know, you and b remind me of brothers more than you do coworkers,
- 46:58and that's that's the Testament to how y'all work together? Anyway? Thank thanks
- 47:01t J. Sometimes I do like to rip be with that. But now
- 47:04like this is today, this is being I mean, there are real stories,
- 47:09even though you may not think it's a real story. You have to
- 47:12start asking questions, especially when you start trying to figure out a senile old
- 47:15man like Jerry Jones, because I don't even know that. I mean,
- 47:19I would guess it. Maybe his family can figure him out. But even
- 47:22sometimes with parents, right, there's sometimes there's things with my dad. I
- 47:24have no idea what he's thinking. And I've been around my dad for forty
- 47:29seven years. So do you feel that way? Sometimes you just like,
- 47:31even though it's your parents, so all that saying, like Jerry Jones,
- 47:36kids may not even really understand him. They may talk about it privately.
- 47:38Good, what is dad doing? What is he doing? All right?
- 47:43Let's see here, how have the initial number one ranked quarterbacks in two four
- 47:47to seven sports college football recruiting ranks panned out over the years. We're gonna
- 47:51get into this A really good kind of look back by Chris Hummer, who
- 47:53takes a look back in the past ten years, headlined by Josh Rosen,
- 47:57remember that name twenty fifteen. Twenty fifteen, we'll go back to Josh Rose
- 48:00and look forward. Number one ranked quarterbacks in college so you know, obviously
- 48:06you every year Trevor Lawrence was a number one ranked quarterback. You can go
- 48:09down the line here Bryce Young was, and we'll get into that. Also,
- 48:14Brad Crawford's season defining games for every SEC football team. Will see if
- 48:16these games are actually defining New Mexico basketball. New Mexico coach Richard Patino has
- 48:27emerged as the top candidate for Louisville George. Where you at? How about
- 48:30that? Richard Patino looks a lot like his dad. Also, ranking college
- 48:35football's ten most intriguing neutral site ball games for twenty twenty four. We'll get
- 48:38into some of that. South Carolina's lead scorer Michie Johnson has entered the Transfer
- 48:44Portal six to two guard average, fourteen point one points per ball game,
- 48:46four point one rebounds, two point nine assists. This season, he is
- 48:50in the portal and march Man is Sweet sixteen Power rankings courtesy of on three.
- 48:55Just ranking the teams that are left yukon number one. Like if you
- 49:00went back and took all of them, and let's just rerank them. Yukon
- 49:02number one going into the weekend courtesy of On three per due to North Carolina
- 49:07three, Houston four, Creighton five, Arizona six, Marquette seven, Duke
- 49:13eight, Gonzaga. How about the How about Gonzaga and the Sweet sixteen?
- 49:19We sat right here and just didn't give them any kind of like noop here
- 49:22they are, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 49:25they will. This is their ninth straight Sweet sixteen. They'll make there.
- 49:30They are good for a Sweet sixteen at lead eight, But I still
- 49:37don't ever pick them to win the whole thing. I watch they're probably gonna
- 49:40win the whole thing now. But nine straight that's wild. That's a heck
- 49:49of a stat crazy, I mean it really is. You think about nine
- 49:52straight years one year, shy of a decade. Gonzaga has been to the
- 49:54Sweet sixteen every single year. And look, just a few weeks ago,
- 49:59a lot of people are saying they and he make the tournament. Our good
- 50:01friend of Sparza said that like about a month ago, because they were in
- 50:05jeopardy of missing the tournament. Tennessee ranks tenth, Illinois eleventh, Alabama twelfth,
- 50:09Iowa State thirteen and c State fourteen, clems of fifteen, San Diego
- 50:14State, san Diego State at sixteen. Speaking of Colorado, more Colorado News
- 50:21as if you need it, Colorado has consolidated its name, image and likeness
- 50:25nil market with the launch of the five to four to three to zero Alliance.
- 50:30Pete Nakos reports the collective believes it needs a budget of about eight million
- 50:35dollars to put Colorado on a path to compete with the big boys around the
- 50:37country. And the NFL kickoff model has passed. If you miss that,
- 50:44there's a great infograph on the new kickoff, the hybrid kickoff model as they're
- 50:49calling it, so where they'll have a kickoff start line. And you said
- 50:52they're looking at this in college. Are they about to pass it? Yeah,
- 50:55Kirby Smart was talking about it. They he said, they're looking at
- 51:00it again. There's a lot of changes in football over the years that I
- 51:06don't like. I can actually get behind this one really, especially if it's
- 51:10going to make the kickoff. Let me ask you this, the landing zone.
- 51:16Does the kicker have to kick it and the landing zone or can they
- 51:20still kick it out of the back of the end zone. I mean,
- 51:24if you have a if you have a good enough leg I'm sure because they
- 51:29moved it well, I said no. The ball set at the thirty five,
- 51:32which I believe is the traditional tee up point of the football, and
- 51:38then you have a landing zone. That's where your return men would be.
- 51:42You could put two three guys back there if you want to do whatever,
- 51:45and then you'd have the kickoff team that would set up across the forty yard
- 51:49line. That's but that's the opponent's forty yard line, and the return team
- 51:53they set their line at the thirty So you've got ten yards separation between kick
- 52:00and return guys, where traditionally, you know, you had what twenty yards
- 52:06and then a lot moving back that way. We got some of the phones,
- 52:09well we allegedly, Oh yeah, we're gonna have something that's space ghost.
- 52:15First of all, he t mobiled me, so he's calling back with
- 52:17some gold. So prepare yourself. Can't wait for this six one, eight,
- 52:22five, three, seven, seven, six, Yeah, check out
- 52:23the hybrid model if you haven't. Saints are preparing for a real possibility that
- 52:27offensive tackle Ryan h Ramsick is medically not able to play the season. Sources
- 52:32say coach Dennis Allen alluded to Ramsick's knee not responding as they hoped, and
- 52:38it's unclear uh win or if it will a true question mark. So that
- 52:43is not good news for the New Orleans Saints. It's got a space ghost
- 52:45space ghost. Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday to you, gentlemen. Just wanted
- 52:52to say, see tell them where they have to put it in. They
- 52:59have to put it there, or it's a return to the forty yard line
- 53:04for them to start over, or the other team gets the ball. It's
- 53:07a penalty to kick it out of the end zone. It's either twenty,
- 53:10it comes up to the twenty or it comes up to the forty. I
- 53:13can't remember, but it's a penalty if you kick it out of the end
- 53:17zone. So you have your kicker's got to be pretty accurate, so drop
- 53:22it at the five, right, You got to kick it into the quote
- 53:25landing zone exactly. Okay, Well I appreciate that insight. Yes, sir,
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- 55:04you need a win, well if Kelly Ford speaking of wins k Ford ratings.
- 55:08Next segment, we'll go four to thirty five o'clock. Also to David
- 55:10Johnson on Ole miss Sports. Coming up at five fifteen. Let me get
- 55:14caught up over here on the Cowboy Maloney text on six er one eighty five
- 55:19three seven seven six, Saint Louis Vick Dion had a few interceptions with Baltimore.
- 55:23Lol, let's see Buffalo. Chris sends us a ticket from AmeriStar Casino.
- 55:32He has Gonzaga. See, this is a fantastic bet, Chris.
- 55:37And I'm not just saying this. Chris bet a future before the tournament for
- 55:43Gonzaga to win the whole thing. He said, Hey, why not five
- 55:46dollars five bucks plus eighty five hundred eighty five to one odds pays him four
- 55:58thirty beaver. That's a heck of investment, right, that is a heck
- 56:01of an investment. So Chris, happy gaming, sir, that is a
- 56:07great one. Look, since my Kentucky Wildcat ticket died in its infancy,
- 56:13never again, I mean it just Kentucky, that whole deal. It still
- 56:17haven't heard anything else on really, what's gonna happen there? All right?
- 56:21Let me get into let's see the officially the NFL trade deadline. A lot
- 56:23of NFL today. The NFL trade deadline has been moved to Tuesday after Week
- 56:29nine games. There is a list of all pros rules that have been approved.
- 56:35I'm just looking through here. Is there anything else that comes to mind?
- 56:37A lot of this is on replay and Competition Committee Rule number eight to
- 56:44eliminate a potentially dangerous tackling technique. We talked about that yesterday. Oh let's
- 56:49see, is there anything else in here? My Competition Committee Rule number seven,
- 56:57Article seventeen, Section seventeen three to expand these standard evaluation rules. Excuse
- 57:06me to permit clubs to evaluate a bona fide quarterback an unlimited time number of
- 57:12times from its practice squad to its active list to be its emergency third string
- 57:16quarterback. So now you can remember they talked about adding that third quarterback,
- 57:23so you can bring them back and forth. Practice squad a third team guy,
- 57:27practice squad a third team guy, which actually isn't a bad deal,
- 57:30especially you know if you try a quarterback trying to make it in the league.
- 57:36Now, instead of having too deep, you technically have wink wink a
- 57:38three deep. So your guys like Sam Bradford will never leave the NFL.
- 57:45Right, guys like that, they'll just never leave it. Also, Robert
- 57:50Kraft on the Patriots quote poor NFLPA report cards. I must tell you I
- 57:55was unaware of how bad it was. The NFLPA survey continues to lead to
- 58:00improve conditions and changes. So the NFLPA they do a report card on each
- 58:05team, and the Patriots graded poorly. He said the team is making changes
- 58:09and announced a plan for a new fifty million dollars workout facility craft. I'd
- 58:14be very surprised if that didn't improve so the Patriots. And look, I
- 58:20think the product on the field for the New England Patriots over the last several
- 58:23years since oddly since Tom Brady went south to Tampa Bay and that whole deal
- 58:29kind of unrivaled between him and Belichick. This whole thing. That mean,
- 58:31the Patriots on the field echo kind of what the nflpare reporting off the field.
- 58:37It's a degrading franchise. It is an absolute degrading franchise. So Robert
- 58:44Kraft knows he's got work to do. Let's see here, JC, Jake,
- 58:50you seem like the kind of guy that drives a Prius. Now,
- 58:52what would give JC the idea that I would drive a Prius? Not if
- 58:55there's anything wrong with it? What do you think? I'm confused, Yeah,
- 59:00I'm a little confused. Why he jumped straight to that today. Why
- 59:07a Prius? I got to look at these things. I have a Toyota
- 59:13Prius. Sure it's a great car, motor trend, car of the year.
- 59:20Oh no, c J C no, Now why would he JC?
- 59:23I drive a Jeep. I have no interest in a Prius, especially a
- 59:29hybrid Prius. I don't see that. Hey, Mark's madness. TV ratings
- 59:34tell the story. The tournament is perfect as it is, at least as
- 59:36what Dan Wetzell's reporting entering the twenty twenty four NAA tournament, hearing that the
- 59:40men's game had no name stars and a few blue bloods among the legitimate national
- 59:45title favorites. The powers that be in college athletics commissioners and athletic directors attached
- 59:53to major football, we're discussing expanding the tournament. And by the way,
- 59:58this tournament's gonna expand. I mean it is going to expand because there's more
- 1:00:00money involved in the expansion. At least when they're busy rating each other's leagues,
- 1:00:07filing lawsuits, are lobbying Congress for anti trust carve outs. As run
- 1:00:10ups go, it was less than ideal. Pretty much everything was negative.
- 1:00:15But when you get to the first ratings that are out. The ratings are
- 1:00:21actually really good over the weekend. Now some are saying, hey, this
- 1:00:23is why we don't need to change this. The most watched Thursday game eight
- 1:00:30point five million average since twenty fifteen, The most watched Friday eight point three
- 1:00:35million, Ever, that was on the whole day. The most watched Saturday
- 1:00:38ten point three million. Ever, make the first three days nine point zero
- 1:00:43million the most on average, the most watched ever. Broadcasters have a way
- 1:00:47of twisting numbers into not just good news but quote best ever, most ever
- 1:00:54news, So who truly knows? Regardless of whether records were truly being set
- 1:01:00here in an era of fractured viewership in rare shared experiences, it is abundantly
- 1:01:04clear that the NCAA tournament is not just healthy, but thrives against industry trends.
- 1:01:08Sports Business Journal meanwhile reported that the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament
- 1:01:13sold at least ninety seven percent of its tickets. What's left in the brackets
- 1:01:17is the top heavy sweet sixteen that should produce a battle royal of sorts the
- 1:01:22next two weekends. For just the fifth time ever, every one to two
- 1:01:27seed is still alive. And you know it was interesting because you know,
- 1:01:30I was over there with Keith last week. He said, I've gone through
- 1:01:34this thing. I've gone through this thing, and it just see chalk,
- 1:01:36a lot of chalk. Said, I didn't expect it to be that,
- 1:01:37but and that's what you're seeing. You're seeing, you know, top teams
- 1:01:39win, not a ton of upsets. He said. If you think CBS
- 1:01:43was gushed about ratings last week, wait to see what's coming. Seemingly nothing
- 1:01:46can kill this quote cocktail, whose chief ingredients are inclusions, small schools from
- 1:01:52non traditional leagues and exclusivity. It's not simple for anyone to qualify, which
- 1:02:00means, despite outsized budgetary disparity, things get settled on a level playing field
- 1:02:06or court. It's the right size, the right mix, the right blend.
- 1:02:08Here in the year out again, I don't see what how expansion is
- 1:02:14going to hurt this. Do you think expanding the tournament's going to hurt the
- 1:02:17tournament, especially not the way that they're talking about doing it. Bill,
- 1:02:23that's crazy. I was just about to text in and say, I have
- 1:02:27you pegged for a Jeep or Bronco kind of guy, Jake, I was
- 1:02:30right on the money bill, you are, sir. Now Toddy sends an
- 1:02:35audio clip, but I don't know that we can play an audio clip off
- 1:02:37the text line. Any idea what this is? Is this something about space
- 1:02:42Coast? Probably? Probably no, we can, as in we have the
- 1:02:47ability, but I'm certainly not gonna play a random audio clip blindly on the
- 1:02:53air. So when we go to break though, I'm kind of intrigued what
- 1:02:58this is. Yeah, because we don't want Tiddy to cattleman himself on the
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- 1:04:13k Ford Ratings on your radio on a Tuesday. Kelly, welcome in,
- 1:04:18sir. How you doing. I'm doing well, Jake, how are you
- 1:04:20today? We're good. We're just talking through these numbers. You know,
- 1:04:24a lot of NFL in hour one. I want to get some college basketball
- 1:04:27with you, maybe a college football question by the end of the show.
- 1:04:29End of your two segments here, I appreciate you as always. Let me
- 1:04:31ask you this. I was going through a piece on college basketball and it
- 1:04:38was it's basically you may have read it from Dan Wetzel Yahoo Sports talking about
- 1:04:43you know, march Manness TV ratings tell the story. The tournament is perfect
- 1:04:45as it is a lot of the back and forth, you know as well
- 1:04:47known national story on expansion and this, that and the other with the tournament.
- 1:04:53I fully expect this thing to expand just because of monetary value on the
- 1:04:56television contracts. But is it perfect in your mind? Does it expansion and
- 1:05:00as it Warrnton? I agree with you, Jake that I believe it will
- 1:05:03expand as well, because more games means more money, and as we've seen
- 1:05:08in college football and really any business venture, which that's what this is,
- 1:05:12more revenue is good for those that run it. So I do think it
- 1:05:15will expand. I actually I wouldn't say it's perfect right now, Jake.
- 1:05:17I actually Dayton does a good job hosting the first four. But ideally,
- 1:05:21if we're going to change the number, I think going back to sixty four,
- 1:05:25and I know we've had sixty five for even years before we were at
- 1:05:27sixty eight. I think sixty four is just a nice clean bracket. Everybody
- 1:05:31loves that. Thursday and Friday didn't have nearly as many upsets this year as
- 1:05:35we've seen in years past. If you look at the Sweet sixteen, you
- 1:05:39know you've only got three teams that are somewhat unexpected. Do you want to
- 1:05:43say NC State, Clemson, and then maybe San Diego State. I think
- 1:05:45a lot of people probably had Gonzaga beating Kansas even though they are a five
- 1:05:48seeds. So I think it is certainly better now than it would be if
- 1:05:55it were to expand. I love the upsets, and I love this storylines
- 1:06:00and all that. I don't think expansion is going to get the types of
- 1:06:03teams in the tournament. They're going to be able to provide that. If
- 1:06:05you expand this thing, you're looking at letting in some of these big East
- 1:06:10Bubble teams that missed it, you know, Saint John's Providence, some of
- 1:06:13these ACC schools that missed at Pittsburgh. Like these aren't Cinderella teams. These
- 1:06:17are teams that finish five hundred or worse in their conferences, the big conferences,
- 1:06:23and those are the teams that you're going to be putting in here.
- 1:06:25What does that do then, to the format of the first round? Do
- 1:06:28you move automatic qualifiers from lower conferences mid majors such as Oakland, you know,
- 1:06:33prout of the Horizon leagu who upsets Kentucky. Do they now have to
- 1:06:36play their way into the round of sixty four? If so, that makes
- 1:06:41it harder for them to advance and to have that upset moment. You could
- 1:06:44say the signature upsets so far of this tournament are Oakland over Kentucky and probably
- 1:06:47Yale over Auburn. Those two teams do they have to now play their way
- 1:06:51into the round of sixty four if we expand, I would hate to see
- 1:06:55that. I certainly do not want to see expansion, but like you,
- 1:06:58would not be surprised at all if it happen. Kelly Ford on your radio,
- 1:07:00make sure to find him at k ford Ratings on x also kford ratings
- 1:07:03dot com. Tuesday edition of the program. So let me ask you this,
- 1:07:09there's no way you know, a lot of times we see this in
- 1:07:11bowl games. Now bowl games a little different than the NCAA tournament. The
- 1:07:15SEC or the ACC or the Big twelve or the formerly now the Pac twelve
- 1:07:17would go say two and five in bowl season and say, oh see,
- 1:07:20the conference is overrated and you kind of just shake your well, it's ball
- 1:07:24season. SEC outside of Tennessee and Alabama has did not perform well at all.
- 1:07:29Are we at a point to say that the league was overrated or the
- 1:07:31matchups were bad, or how do you kind of quantify the poor performance of
- 1:07:35the Southeastern Conference in the first two rounds. Yeah, it's a fair question.
- 1:07:41Jake and I even had some fun with it based on Sankey's comments about
- 1:07:44you know, I think we need more spots for high power teams and we
- 1:07:48were losing valuable spots to be smaller conference AQ. So I definitely took a
- 1:07:54little jab at what the SEC's record was at one point just in response to
- 1:07:58that. But you know, if you take bad aside and an all seriousness
- 1:08:01evaluated objectively, it's such a small sample size and March madness is just that.
- 1:08:06In most years, this year we didn't quite get it. It's madness,
- 1:08:10and it's all about the matchup. What makes this tournament great is it's
- 1:08:14not a best four out of seven, it's not a best two out of
- 1:08:16three. It is one game, and whoever's better on that day, whoever
- 1:08:20gets the bounces on that day, is going to have the opportunity to advance.
- 1:08:25So no, I don't think that the SEC was overrated. I think
- 1:08:29the SEC is one of the best men's basketball conferences in the entire country.
- 1:08:33You've got blue blood brands in there, you've got really high profile coaches,
- 1:08:39You've got really really good players. I don't think as he's overrated. I
- 1:08:43think maybe they had some bad matchups. I think maybe they had some bad
- 1:08:45performances on the day of the game, and that's what makes this tournament special.
- 1:08:48But I certainly wouldn't say that the SEC is overrated as a conference,
- 1:08:53or even Jakes that those teams were not deserving of the seeds that they got.
- 1:08:58I'm not even gonna say they were overseeded or ranks going in. I
- 1:09:00think they were where they needed to be. Bad matchup, bad performance on
- 1:09:03the day of The SEC is still one of the premier men's basketball conferences in
- 1:09:10the entire country. All right, let's get into some of your numbers here.
- 1:09:13If you go to K four ratings dot com, you've got the updated
- 1:09:15March Madness projections. Say, Houston still my number one power rated team,
- 1:09:19but Yukon now has the greatest chance to win the field, to win the
- 1:09:24title twenty one percent chance to win the whole thing rated twenty two point six.
- 1:09:29What obviously numbers in such of that nature, and Yukon wasn't that far
- 1:09:32behind, but a little bit of teetering at the top, especially when you
- 1:09:36see a drop of North Carolina all the way down to eighteen point one.
- 1:09:42Yeah, so just like it was coming into the tournament, Jacob. Again,
- 1:09:45we don't always say this after the first week of play, but the
- 1:09:47top four teams by my Power ratings and by the chance to make the final
- 1:09:51four and win the National Championship are still the same four teams, maybe in
- 1:09:56a slightly different order for chances to win, as you mentioned, and they're
- 1:09:58all coming from different regions here. I mean, Yukon is still the favorite
- 1:10:00in the East, as they have been for me since the starting really for
- 1:10:02everybody. Houston the favorite out of the Midwest, perdue the favorite out of
- 1:10:05the South in Arizona, even though they are the two seed. My Power
- 1:10:10ratings and some others out there as well did have them as the best team
- 1:10:14by power raady standpoint in the West region, even over the number one seed
- 1:10:16North Carolina and with the best chance to make it to Phoenix. And I
- 1:10:20do think that playing in the West region, I believe it is it in
- 1:10:25Los Angeles this year, I want to say, is where that is like
- 1:10:27Arizona. North Carolina has a great fan base, It's a national fan base,
- 1:10:30and they're going to travel. But if it's Arizona and North Carolina in
- 1:10:33the Elite eight and it's in the West region out there in Los Angeles,
- 1:10:36I fully expect Arizona to have just as many, if not more fans in
- 1:10:40North Carolina in a game of those two high profile programs and teams that could
- 1:10:45make the difference. It's also Caleb love Right used to play at North Carolina,
- 1:10:47now he's at Arizona. All sorts of storylines, But to me,
- 1:10:50there's a top tier of teams, those four and then after that you're looking
- 1:10:54at you know, Tennessee, Iowa State, Duke, North Carolina. Those
- 1:10:57are probably the next teams that I'd say one from each of those regions,
- 1:11:00and don't count out Alabama. I have them in my bracket. Getting to
- 1:11:03the Elite eight. We will see if they're able to I've got it with
- 1:11:06a forty six percent chance to beat North Carolina. I'm certainly going to have
- 1:11:11my eyes on that game here coming up later this week. Let me ask
- 1:11:14this for we're going to break, we'll hit some of these others. Gonzaga
- 1:11:16down there, you know, closer to the end of this list, you've
- 1:11:18got sixteen point nine is a rating two percent chance to win the whole thing.
- 1:11:23Are you surprised? You know, there was some chatter back what a
- 1:11:25month ago that the Zags man out Hey makes the tournament. Are you surprised
- 1:11:28now that they made their ninth straight Sweet sixteen appearance. Well, it's just
- 1:11:32a phenomenal achievement that marks you and that program have been able to do,
- 1:11:35I mean to sustaining excellent and we just got done talking about how crazy March
- 1:11:40madness is. One game, one off, one back performance and you're done.
- 1:11:43To make it to the Sweet sixteen nine consecutive years is absolutely phenomenal.
- 1:11:46Two final fours in their national championship game. I mean, it's just it's
- 1:11:49really really impressive. I am not surprised, though, Jake, I did
- 1:11:54have them advancing to this round in my bracket. Now they have to go
- 1:11:57up against the number one feed per Due. I did have winning that one,
- 1:12:00but I wouldn't be surprised if Gonzaga knocks off for DOW. I got
- 1:12:02a thirty two percent chance of that happening. But Jake, I recall about
- 1:12:05a month ago you and I talking on this show. You said, Hey,
- 1:12:09Kelly, who are some teams you know that maybe come from a worst
- 1:12:13seed that can make a run deep in the tournament. And at that time
- 1:12:15we were talking about Gonzaga potentially being on the fringe of making the tournament,
- 1:12:19and I said, if they do get in, they're gonna be a really
- 1:12:23hard out because they've been a top fifteenth team for me from a power rating
- 1:12:26standpoint. Now, of course they improved down the stretch and strung together a
- 1:12:29bunch of wins. They end up climbing all the way up to that five
- 1:12:30seed line, But for a while they were right there on the bubble.
- 1:12:33You know, are they going to be a ten? Are they going to
- 1:12:34be an eleven? Are they gonna be left out? Which seems unthinkable now
- 1:12:38when you see how they're playing, But this is a program that went in
- 1:12:41doubt. You give them the benefit because they proved it nine years. As
- 1:12:44you said, in a row of the sweet sixteen. I'm very curious to
- 1:12:46see Perdue got that monkey off their back, right they beat the sixteen,
- 1:12:49They beat Utah State and they absolutely ran Uta State out of the building.
- 1:12:53I was actually at that game here in Indianapolis and Purdue they have the monkey
- 1:12:58off their back from last year. Will they be relaxed. Will they be
- 1:13:00ready to go? I fully expect they will be. But Gondaga, that's
- 1:13:03a really good team. The winner of that game is gonna have a good
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- 1:14:32k Ford Ratings on X also k Ford Ratings dot com. Hey, Kelly,
- 1:14:36let me ask you about a couple of these teams that's kind of stuck
- 1:14:39in the middle here, Marquette being one three percent chance to win the whole
- 1:14:44thing based on your numbers, nine percent chance to make the national championship game,
- 1:14:47and then Illinois. And I've noticed some people, you know, you
- 1:14:50look at brackets and stuff around the country have picked Illinois. You look at
- 1:14:54Marquette, Illinois, Alabama, maybe even Creighton, any of those teams that
- 1:14:58you like more than others that we could look up up by the end of
- 1:15:00the weekend, and they're in the final four. Yeah, Jack, I
- 1:15:04think Illinois is probably the best team out of that group that you just mentioned.
- 1:15:09Now it's tough because they got Yukon in their bracket and it have to
- 1:15:13go through them in the Elite eight round there to make it to the final
- 1:15:16four. I think Illinois is the best team. I think Alabama and I've
- 1:15:19talked about this. I've talked about this with you before, Jake. Their
- 1:15:23upside I think is incredible, Perhaps the Alabama upside better than any of these
- 1:15:28other teams upside, but they can lay an absolute thinker on any given night,
- 1:15:32and we've seen that as well. I don't think Marquette they've got the
- 1:15:38best chance out of this group to win their Sweet sixteen game because they're playing
- 1:15:42NC State, and NC State is clearly, by my numbers, the worst
- 1:15:45team from a powerating standpoint remaining in this tournament. Yes, I know they
- 1:15:48won the AC Championship, but they are the worst team from a powerating standpoint,
- 1:15:51so you have to like their odds to make it to the Elite eight.
- 1:15:54But Marquette is probably the worst team out of that group you just mentioned
- 1:15:58in terms of their own power rating, and the winner of that game,
- 1:16:01our Kannessey State has to go up against Houston, who I still have power
- 1:16:04rated number one. I know it got close there in their Round A thirty
- 1:16:09two game, but they did pull it out even with the foul troubles.
- 1:16:12So I think Alabama's got the high upside. Illinois is probably the best out
- 1:16:15of the group. Marquette probably has the best chance out of any of them
- 1:16:16to make it to the Elite eight. NC State at the very bottom.
- 1:16:23Now I know mathematically that's why they're there. But you look at this team
- 1:16:27that made a run in the ACC tournament, and anybody said, wow,
- 1:16:30they got in, you know by the hair their chinty chin chin shall always
- 1:16:32say they got in one. The whole thing, They're not going to do
- 1:16:34anything. I said that was, well, there's a layoff, you know
- 1:16:36that that week or almost a week time. Here they are now they have
- 1:16:41won another two ballgames. Would you be shocked to see them win another ballgame
- 1:16:45or two in this you know, I wouldn't be shocked. At this point.
- 1:16:49I was genuinely surprised that they were able to play they the way they
- 1:16:54did against Texas Tech. And then of course Oakland pulls the upset against Kentucky.
- 1:16:58So that's your second round matchupactually making NC State the favorite in that game
- 1:17:01by my numbers. So I wouldn't be surprised because they've proven they can do
- 1:17:04it. And I just got done saying they're playing Marquette, who you know,
- 1:17:08if you look at my power rating, that's by far the worst team
- 1:17:12on the one or two seed line from a power rating standpoint. But they're
- 1:17:15certainly going to be an underdog. And you know, my number given about
- 1:17:17a one and four chance to get it done. And then if you do
- 1:17:20win that one, you got to go up against either Houston or Duke,
- 1:17:26and either one of those teams I have power rated better than Marquette, So
- 1:17:29I don't expect to see NC State in Phoenix at the final four, but
- 1:17:33I didn't expect to see him here at this round either, so I wouldn't
- 1:17:35put it past them. But they are at the bottom of my power rating
- 1:17:39list and chances to win it all. For those reasons, let's finish it
- 1:17:44up with Tennessee. You know, that's the one sec team. I mean,
- 1:17:46it gets Texas, Texas scared to the daylights out of them, but
- 1:17:48they were able to survive. You've got them with a six percent chance to
- 1:17:51win the whole thing, a twenty seven percent chance to make the final four,
- 1:17:55thirteen percent chance to make the national title game. That is good enough
- 1:17:58for one, two, three, four, five on your list. Do
- 1:18:02you like the matchups moving forward for Tennessee? Do you like their path to
- 1:18:06still be alive come Sunday afternoon? Yeah? I think Tennessee they've got it
- 1:18:11all in front of them. And this is a really good team. They've
- 1:18:13been powerrated in my top you know seven or eight all year. They're currently
- 1:18:16the fifth best power rated team still in this tournament by my numbers. The
- 1:18:20only team in their region I have above them is Purdue, And so if
- 1:18:24you're looking at it, you know Purdue is a team that has struggled in
- 1:18:27March the last few years. I know, I just got done staying the
- 1:18:30last time, and they got that monkey off their back and they I believe
- 1:18:32that that's gonna be up in Detroit. So I do expect the for new
- 1:18:36fans to travel. It's not too far from West Lafayette or from Indiana up
- 1:18:40to Detroit there. But Tennessee, they're an experienced team. They've got really
- 1:18:45good players. You know, Rick Barnes, it's kind of hard to believe
- 1:18:47that he's only been to one Final four, and I say only like,
- 1:18:50that's not good. It's a really hard thing to do. It's a great
- 1:18:54accomplishment to just make it. But he's been such a high level coach for
- 1:18:57so many years, both at Texas and at Tennessee. Now I'm surprised that
- 1:19:00he hasn't been there more because that's the respect I have for him. I
- 1:19:03do think that Tennessee has a decent chance to make it to the Final four
- 1:19:08twenty seven percent by my numbers right now, and Tennessee fans have to like
- 1:19:11to draw they have. I mean, I would even argue even though Produe's
- 1:19:14higher power rated in North Carolina just give them produce struggles in March. If
- 1:19:17I'm an if I'm not a one seed, I probably want to be in
- 1:19:21the bracket that has Purdue as the one seed just because of those struggles that
- 1:19:25they've had each the last three years in the tournament. Make sure to find
- 1:19:28him on X at k Ford Ratings also Kford Ratings dot com. Kelly,
- 1:19:30I appreciate your time as always. We'll chalk up the final four next week.
- 1:19:34We'll get back into a little college football and more. I really appreciate
- 1:19:36you as always. Absolutely, I appreciate it, Jake, and we'll enjoy
- 1:19:40the games here this weekend. Thanks so much, Kelly Ford on you radio.
- 1:19:43Make sure you give me a follow on X. A lot of good
- 1:19:45stuff there talking March madness. Well, I have David Johnson in at five
- 1:19:49point fifteen. We'll talk. Oh miss, are you gonna watch any of
- 1:19:53these games this weekend? Yeah? Yeah, I'm going to watch that.
- 1:19:58It's it's a good weekend. It was a decent weekend because, as I
- 1:20:02was telling Kelly, I've gotten to a point where I'm looking forward to the
- 1:20:06UFL that kicks off Saturday. So that coupled with these games. Yeah,
- 1:20:11I'll check in. Now. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm
- 1:20:14going to watch full games, no, because I never do that. But
- 1:20:17yeah, I'm going to watch some hour three. I want to get into
- 1:20:21this recruit centric prep super league that is on track to debut next month,
- 1:20:28and we'll get into that. Let's see Joe im possum neck. Possum neck.
- 1:20:31Joe Texas sixer one eighty five three, seven seven six is while Bill
- 1:20:35what a genius. Jake has only talked about his jeep on this show a
- 1:20:39zillion times. Be sure to tell us how many wins Mississi State football will
- 1:20:43I have this fall at Christmas? Joe just went straight at Bill off the
- 1:20:47top rope. You never know about Joe. Wait a minute, Joe,
- 1:20:54that's my fellow longhorn. You're talking about Bill right off the rope? Right,
- 1:21:00I mean right, I mean hammer fist. All right, let's see
- 1:21:03other stuff we'll get into. We were talking about these March Badness TV ratings.
- 1:21:08We'll get into Colorado reshuffling their name, image and likeness. Uh,
- 1:21:14they're collective. And also we'll get an update on the transfer portal as it
- 1:21:18pertains to basketball, because this thing is super super hot, super hot.
- 1:21:25Two three and thirty seven guys have entered the football portal. They'll be more
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- 1:21:31courtesy of on three have repositioned themselves as fifty seven percent of the field one
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- 1:23:18Kelly Ford thirty minutes with it's just a few minutes ago. We'll get that
- 1:23:24up later on this week. David Johnson will join us. In the next
- 1:23:26segment, we'll talk almost baseball and alemss football. Let's see here Jason and
- 1:23:30Flagstaff on the cabol Maloney's text. Lin Bieber's excitement level for the Dollar General
- 1:23:35of Football says it all about what time of year it is. Huh,
- 1:23:40who's he calling the Dollar General the UFL. Oh, well, I think
- 1:23:47amongst a lot of football well not everybody I know, but it is for
- 1:23:49you. I'm pulling for these leagues. I want to see leagues Magott.
- 1:23:55I'm selfish, I like football year round, and I'm like you, you
- 1:23:58may even watch this a little more than me. I'll dive in there and
- 1:24:00check out some of it. Speaking of football, recruit Centric Prep super League
- 1:24:08still on track to debut in April with the Loose nil restrictions. Brian Woods,
- 1:24:14founder of the Spring League, in recent iteration of the USFL, announced
- 1:24:18the formation of an eleven to eleven high school football league with loose and il
- 1:24:23rules last Yune. To the same people, plans are still in place.
- 1:24:27What's that? The same people? I think it is Brian Woods. Yeah,
- 1:24:30founder of the Spring League, and now that what you're talking about with
- 1:24:32the USFL. Plans are still in place for the Prep Super League. They'll
- 1:24:36call it the PSL. To Dey debut next month, with the regular season
- 1:24:41opener schedule for April twenty seven. Since Woods made the announcement, some plans
- 1:24:45have changed. He anticipates four hundred players to participate participate across twelve teams with
- 1:24:51three divisions. His goal is to expand to sixteen to thirty teams. However,
- 1:24:57that wouldn't mean thirty different markets. Since the launch announcement, there's been
- 1:25:02a resorting of locations too. Plans were to be placed in Cleveland, but
- 1:25:06the state of Ohio has not altered its NIL policy. Instead, he sold
- 1:25:13the franchise to Denver. Nevada enacted language in August to allow NIL at the
- 1:25:17high school level, opening up for the Las Vegas market. Wood said the
- 1:25:23plans are for teams to be in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston,
- 1:25:28New Jersey, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, San
- 1:25:32Diego, San Francisco, and Tampa. Quote. I've been very encouraged by
- 1:25:35the numbers, or by the number of four or five star kids. He
- 1:25:39recently told On three were up to around one hundred four and five stars that
- 1:25:44have committed to play in it. And some of these kids are legitimate.
- 1:25:47There are some of the best kids in the country. Granted we're not everywhere
- 1:25:51where, these kids are arguably right now the best recruits, five star quarterback
- 1:25:57Bryce Underwood up in Michigan. He goes on to say, we are in
- 1:26:01discussions with some of these out of market players, especially quarterbacks, about getting
- 1:26:06them involved. What we think would be an interesting spin. For instance,
- 1:26:10with Bryce Underwood, we'd love for him to be able to have him in
- 1:26:14the Prep Super League and then assign him to New Orleans because he's a commitment
- 1:26:18to LSU. Woods did not provide a full list of ON three or two
- 1:26:24ON three, but shared twelve names that have publicly opted in to play.
- 1:26:27So you know a lot of these guys you may not know a lot of
- 1:26:30my I have no idea who they are because they're still high school guys and
- 1:26:33there in other states. But we're looking at corners, three wide receivers,
- 1:26:38or running back. Quarterback committed to Penn State Bekeem Kritza in let's say,
- 1:26:44a corner, offensive tackle, wide receiver, wide receiver, defensive lineman,
- 1:26:46wide receiver. The PSL first launched, former FBS and NFL head coaches were
- 1:26:53the target to service head coaches. That is still the case in some of
- 1:26:56the twelve markets. However, Woods has opened the pool to expel sperienced high
- 1:27:00school coaches set to follow coaches rules. Teams can hold two minimal contact ninety
- 1:27:08minute practices a week, will the walkthrough and game scheduled on Saturdays. Quote.
- 1:27:13We've been engaged or we have been engaging the top high school coaches in
- 1:27:16the markets because we want to be able to support traditional high school football,
- 1:27:21said Woods. There's some goodwill to building or to build by bringing in established
- 1:27:27coaches, ones that have been in the market and have been doing a lot
- 1:27:30of good for the players for many of the years to come. We're going
- 1:27:34to be announcing all of our head coaches here in the next couple of weeks,
- 1:27:39and island collectives can play a role in the PSL independent of state associations.
- 1:27:44The Preps super League made clear from the jump it believes the platform can
- 1:27:48strengthen athletes brand value. Eight of the twelve markets allow high high schoolers to
- 1:27:55profit off name, image, and likeness and remain eligible. Floryda, Texas
- 1:27:59is still prohibit naming and likeness, but Woods believes there's still a way for
- 1:28:02athletes in those states to profit. Quote, if a player in a state
- 1:28:05like Florida wants to participate in NIL with the Prep super League and make that
- 1:28:11a senior season and for go remaining high school eligibility, then they very well
- 1:28:16could choose to do that. That is certainly a possibility that could be enticing
- 1:28:21options for them. Now, high school coaches will lose their minds over that.
- 1:28:27There's nothing to do about it. Beaver is a high school five star
- 1:28:31athlete in the state of Florida that plays for local Florida High School. They
- 1:28:39got an opportunity to go win a state championship this year, but Beaver opts
- 1:28:44out of high school football to go play in the Prep super League. So
- 1:28:46you can get paid and not play with a high school anymore. Talk about
- 1:28:48it Debbie Downer for that community. So I just don't know how successful this
- 1:28:54thing can be. It seems like there is a in streaming will serve as
- 1:29:00PSL distribution. By the way, in the past ventures with tent the Spring
- 1:29:03League and USFL, Woods found linear television options for the leagues. He's taking
- 1:29:09a different route with PSL, opting to launch with a direct to consumer app
- 1:29:15where fans can watch games in real time. The league has partnered with video
- 1:29:19streaming company two four I in real time video streaming platform Phoenix. The app
- 1:29:26will provide a sub second latency viewing experience, meaning the stream will be just
- 1:29:33two seconds behind. According to Woods, the typical TV delay is between twenty
- 1:29:36and twenty five seconds. Because the conferences pre existing TV deals, PSL will
- 1:29:41be one of the first leagues to tap into the t twenty four I and
- 1:29:44Phoenix offer. You think this can even make it? It doesn't sound like
- 1:29:50it. It sounds good in theory. We're gonna put all these high schools
- 1:29:56high school team twelve them in twelve different markets. Opportunity name, imagine likeness,
- 1:30:04businesses and business owners and decision makers are probably getting fatigued with an io
- 1:30:09anyway. Obviously, the universities have a lot more leverage because those owners are
- 1:30:16tied at the heartstrings with their universities. Right if you give to the collective
- 1:30:20Mississippi State or Ole miss or Southern or wherever you have a connection, I
- 1:30:28think Joe Buck Taylor out here is going to give to just some local,
- 1:30:31random high school kid, even though it's a five star that comes in from
- 1:30:35Ohio to play in Texas or a vice versa. I just don't see it
- 1:30:42unnamed Texa. I hope this blows up. No high school in ile of
- 1:30:45any kind. Woods sucks another gritty idiot. There is definitely probably some personal
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- 1:32:45seven check him out two four seven sports dot com. That's Ole miss dot
- 1:32:48two four seven sports dot com David. Happy Tuesday. How are you,
- 1:32:51sir? I'm good. How are you, David? We're doing great.
- 1:32:55Want to catch up with you. Talk first little baseball, then we'll jump
- 1:32:58into football. Want to get your thoughts on you know, a couple of
- 1:33:00weekends in now and you look at Ole Miss in the SEC baseball standings,
- 1:33:06sitting right there kind of in the thick of things, as far as you
- 1:33:11know, the standing three and three. They're tired with TEA and Texas A
- 1:33:14and m missip State behind Arkansas five and one, a team at seventeen and
- 1:33:17eight and looks to be playing a little bit better baseball than a lot of
- 1:33:20people actually anticipated coming into this year. Yeah, you know, baseball is
- 1:33:26a It's a marathon more than it is a sprint, right. I mean
- 1:33:29sure, I can recall the year that Ole Miss won the national title,
- 1:33:34setting out there at Swayze and watching Southeast Missouri State just pound them thirteen to
- 1:33:42three, and I left the stadium that night thinking there's no way and look
- 1:33:47what happened. And you know, I think baseball is you know, I
- 1:33:54don't, I guess I want to say chemistry, but you know, it's
- 1:33:58a lot like basketball in a sense. And that you know, a team's
- 1:34:01got to play together to kind of know each other. And I think that's
- 1:34:05what's happening with Old Miss right now. I mean, I think this is
- 1:34:09an NCAA tournament team. How far they go is anybody's guests. But you
- 1:34:14know, I like their their chances right now, David Johnson on your radio
- 1:34:18Tuesday edition of the program. Of course, find them on X and then
- 1:34:21of course check them out at two pour seven sports dot com. David,
- 1:34:25Spring practice. You know, obviously the anticipation is extremely high for the twenty
- 1:34:29twenty four o Miss football season. Do you want to talk a little recruiting
- 1:34:31here just a bit? But when you look at this team and on the
- 1:34:34field, what are the kind of the one two threes for Langkiff in this
- 1:34:39spring? You know, once they you know, get through spring, of
- 1:34:42course we'll get into the transfer portal and what may happen with everybody after spring
- 1:34:45practice. But kind of what are the marching orders for All Miss the spring?
- 1:34:48Yeah, you know, I think are coming together of everything, all
- 1:34:51the new pieces that are in Oxford. Now, you know, I would
- 1:34:57think that starts with your offensive line. You know, they've got four starters
- 1:35:01returning but they went into the portal and they got four starters from elsewhere coming
- 1:35:09in. So you know, that's eight starters, eight guys that started games
- 1:35:15last season, plus you know a couple of really good young linemen that are
- 1:35:20rising kind of quickly behind them. So I want, you know, I'm
- 1:35:24anxious to see how all that comes out in the wash. And then defensively,
- 1:35:30you know, we've said the first couple of years, you know,
- 1:35:34Pete Golding doesn't have the tools yet to put together the kind of defense he's
- 1:35:43capable of. He's got those tools now, you know, from everywhere from
- 1:35:48the D line to the linebacking corps to even the secondary I think is even
- 1:35:54stronger than it was. So I mean, I think that's priority number one.
- 1:35:59Even though you've got a great team on paper, you got to make
- 1:36:02it all come together. And I think that's what they're kind of focused on
- 1:36:06right now. Devid, you mentioned the defense under peak Golding. Excuse me,
- 1:36:11and you've got to go back to twenty fourteen, ten years ago Ole
- 1:36:15miss On. Everybody remembers this. You remember this Ole miss game up just
- 1:36:17sixteen points per game. Now, that's very tough to do even ten years
- 1:36:21you know, with the way the rules are in football, and it's all
- 1:36:24geared towards the offense. But at twenty two and a half last year per
- 1:36:28game, if they got this thing down around twenty and they're gonna score it,
- 1:36:30we know Ole Miss can score it. We know Lean Kiffin knows how
- 1:36:32to put points on the board. If you're scoring thirty five, thirty six
- 1:36:35points a game and just giving up three scores a ball game, I mean,
- 1:36:39that's gonna be a tough out for most anybody against Ole Miss every week.
- 1:36:43Yeah, I think it is. And you know, I think the
- 1:36:45schedule is certainly softer up front, and I think that's a good thing.
- 1:36:51Is you know, you give this team games against other people to kind of
- 1:36:57find themselves and pull themselves together before you reach a stretch of games. I
- 1:37:01don't have a schedule in front of me, but Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia,
- 1:37:09Mississippi State, a road trip to Florida right before the Egg Bowl.
- 1:37:13I mean, the back end of that schedule looks pretty dull one tough,
- 1:37:16But you know, this is a team that's got a lot of momentum,
- 1:37:20as you well said, and you know they just have to harness it and
- 1:37:27be able to finish and you know, let's see what happens. I mean,
- 1:37:31because you know, I'm all for Oxford becoming a hotter ticket than what
- 1:37:39it is. I can't imagine what the weekends in Oxford would be like if
- 1:37:45you've got an unbeaten old Miss team the first weekend of November when Georgia comes
- 1:37:51to town. Oh no, you're absolutely right, And you know kind of
- 1:37:56talking through this. I mean, you know, if ole Miss was to
- 1:37:59host one of the first playoff rank you know, round games, I think
- 1:38:01they would take that. Obviously you'd like to get that buy into the second
- 1:38:04round, but a lot of excitement. Let me let me ask you this,
- 1:38:08as far as after spring practice. Nobody knows this. That window opens
- 1:38:13back up, that short transfer window. Do you anticipate And I'm asking you
- 1:38:17to look into a crystal ball that does not probably exist some attrition there does
- 1:38:21Ole Miss? Maybe I another player or two in the portal. You know,
- 1:38:25if you listen to certain people around the national scene, you know Josh
- 1:38:28Pate with two four seven and some others, they're talking about, Hey,
- 1:38:30you know, this thing's gonna open up, and there are position units that
- 1:38:32are going to change when we saw what happened at Colorado last year. Do
- 1:38:35you anticipate any movement in Oxford, like, you know, just a player
- 1:38:39two here, player two there. Maybe I ain't a player or two that
- 1:38:42they need. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I I think I can say
- 1:38:45unequivocally that Old Miss is going to add another running back. Who that is?
- 1:38:54You know, I can't tell you right now. Obviously there's a lot
- 1:38:58of chatter about it and Repaaris Junior coming back from Miami, and there's even
- 1:39:03some chatter out there today that Quinn John Judkins wants to come back to Ole
- 1:39:09Miss and leave Ohio State. I saw that as that. Now with the
- 1:39:13open transfer, you can leave, you know, as many times as you
- 1:39:16want. Yeah, I didn't mean to step on you there. I saw
- 1:39:18something when I was you know, kind of cruising through x earlier, and
- 1:39:21I didn't look at who put it out there, and I said, surely
- 1:39:24not. So that is an accurate report? Then No, I'm not going
- 1:39:28to say it's accurate. But but but I've heard rumblings probably from the same
- 1:39:32place this guy is that maybe Columbus is not as uh warm as Oxford was,
- 1:39:41and uh you know, so we'll we'll just see what happened, you
- 1:39:44know. Uh, but but they're definitely going to add a running back.
- 1:39:47As far as losing players, I mean, I think in this day and
- 1:39:50age, everybody loses players, you know, whether it's the guy that's not
- 1:39:57happy with this depth chart situation or what that wants to get on the field.
- 1:40:02So I think you're gonna see it cut both ways again. You're gonna
- 1:40:06have guys get into portal and they're gonna bring in guys from the portal,
- 1:40:12and it's gonna make for one hellasious the end of April. I'll tell you
- 1:40:15that, David. We'll get you anyway with this, and I appreciate your
- 1:40:18time today. We'll do it again very soon. When you look at the
- 1:40:20twenty twenty five Mississippi crop, we know obviously Caleb Cunningham right there in the
- 1:40:27Battle of Ole miss and State. You look at kaelin Deer from Equipment,
- 1:40:30But what is the position group that you're looking at saying, Wow, this
- 1:40:32is this is the position group this year in Mississippi. You know, that's
- 1:40:38a really good question because this class is really diverse. And I would have
- 1:40:44to say though probably offensive skill and mainly because of the two guys you just
- 1:40:50said, Caleb Cunningham and Ak Deer. Both of those guys are big time
- 1:40:58prospects. So pretty much let's go to school where they want to. I
- 1:41:01mean, I think that's where the championship bounty lies inside the state of Mississippi
- 1:41:08this year is which which programs? If either one can keep one or both
- 1:41:15of those guys inside the magnoli Use state, make sure to find them two
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- 1:41:23then of course Crab David at Rebels two four seven as well. David,
- 1:41:27I appreciate your time as always, look have a great rest of the week.
- 1:41:29We'll do it against certain Thanks Jake, appreciate it, David. David
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- 1:43:02you can text a six or one eight eight, five, three seven seven
- 1:43:06six. That is the couple one. He's text nine a couple of stories
- 1:43:09out here. Sean Payton bluttantly reiterates he has no regrets about paying Russell Wilson
- 1:43:15not to be his quarterback. Do you like Sean Payton any pretty just cut
- 1:43:19and dry guy. He's just he's pretty cut and dry, and he's like,
- 1:43:23I have no regrets about this. We're gonna be fine. He's gonna
- 1:43:26take a quarterback in the draft probably. But you think Jim Harball may be
- 1:43:31trying to position himself for JJ McCarthy even with Justin Herbert, there no no
- 1:43:39what He's finally figured out the bull corn that he is selling, Harball,
- 1:43:48because most other people not named Jake Wimbley can see him for the liar cheater
- 1:43:56that he is. I didn't know anything about Gonner Stallions. Well, so
- 1:44:00what he's done with all this? Because even you, Harball, don't believe
- 1:44:04that JJ McCarthy is the capital thh the best quarterback in this draft. How
- 1:44:10could you other than the fact that he played for you and you know him.
- 1:44:15So that's not being objective. What I think he's doing here with this
- 1:44:21trying to talk someone into coming up in trading because Chargers have the fifth pick.
- 1:44:30He's trying to talk someone into some one of these desperate dummies who's like,
- 1:44:34oh, we gotta go get a quarterback. We gotta gotta gotta gotta
- 1:44:38gotta overdraft for a quarterback. So he's trying to tell everybody JJ McCarthy,
- 1:44:44so good, look at this guy, don't don't don't worry about what you
- 1:44:48actually saw on the field and the lack of numbers and production that you've seen.
- 1:44:55He even mentioned in Tangibles. Jake even brought that stupid word back all
- 1:45:00you know, I've talked to everyone. I know. His position on the
- 1:45:03board is intangibles everything I'm hearing about. And he's I'll just say it again,
- 1:45:09he's the best quarterback. No, you're you're you're trying to get someone
- 1:45:14to trade with you. I think that's what it is. So the Chargers
- 1:45:16picket ten. I see where you're going here. Excuse me, the Chargers
- 1:45:23picket ten? What you're is it? Five? Why am I mock draft
- 1:45:28twenty twenty four? This was March nineteenth? Did I is this wrong?
- 1:45:33Courtesy of NFL dot Com. Let me look here. Let's go over to
- 1:45:40Walter Football. Let me look here. Bears Atlanta. Yeah, five,
- 1:45:47you're right. I don't know why the NFL they need to fix that.
- 1:45:49That was a type of right. So they're five. So what you're saying
- 1:45:54is they are using harball is playing mind games all right? For instance,
- 1:46:00this mock draft walterfootball dot Com. This mock draft was done thirteen hours ago.
- 1:46:10They have Caleb Williams off the board at one to the Bears, Drake
- 1:46:15May off the board at two the Redskins. Oh I love this. Walter
- 1:46:19Football still refers to them as the Washington Redskins. That's why I read it.
- 1:46:27They still refer to them the Ridskins, props to Walter Football, New
- 1:46:30England Patriots, Jade Daniels number three, Arizona Cardinals Marvin Harrison, and then
- 1:46:33they've got the Chargers with the Malik Neighbors at four, but the Vikings for
- 1:46:39McCarthy at six, Charges at five, Vikings at six. So were you
- 1:46:44saying that maybe Jim Harball is using trying to entice the Broncos at twelve or
- 1:46:53the Vikings at six to get desperate and trade up one spot or try to
- 1:46:58get in to grab karthy, but he's using McCarthy as trade bait. Well,
- 1:47:02the Vikings are currently at eleven. What in the world is going on
- 1:47:05with these drafts that I'm looking at. I don't know. But the Vikings
- 1:47:11at eleven, okay, they just got Sam Darnold. That ain't your future.
- 1:47:15Broncos. You just talked about Sean Payton. He wants a quarterback.
- 1:47:21So you've got two right there, eleven and twelve, and we're overdrafting these
- 1:47:27quarterbacks because it's you know, top three likely. Although I still am not
- 1:47:32sold on what the Patriots are going to do. What Gerrod Mayo, the
- 1:47:36defensive coach wants to do. But if it shakes out like you know everyone's
- 1:47:42thinking, and then you got the Giants at six. There are rumors they've
- 1:47:46been rumored in that JJ McCarthy slot a few times that I've seen. So
- 1:47:51they're Chargers fifth spot because you got to move up because there's not I mean
- 1:47:59we're talking possibly four out of five or four of the top six picks quarterback.
- 1:48:05What do you do after that? You can't stay put at eleven or
- 1:48:08twelve. That's what Harbaugh I think is banking on. You're saying, Okay,
- 1:48:14listen to me carefully. You want McCarthy. I coached him. Look
- 1:48:18at that smile. He's a champion, Look at the intangibles. Trade with
- 1:48:24me and you can probably get my former quarterback. So he's using McCarthy his
- 1:48:28former quarterback is trade bait. Think So I think that's what this whole nonsense
- 1:48:33has been about. Well, obviously everybody's buying it because if you just google
- 1:48:39NFL Draft twenty twenty four, McCarthy is on like every headline. His face
- 1:48:44is all over the place. Yeah, and Harball talking about what a good
- 1:48:47pro day he had. Pro Days pro days. You know who else had
- 1:48:54an awesome Oh, just awesome. I remember it so vividly watching Johnny Manziel
- 1:49:00at his pro day and one of his coaches holding up a broom in his
- 1:49:05face as he threw. And I remember people talking, analysts talking about,
- 1:49:12I mean, look at him, it's just it's showing it. I can't
- 1:49:15remember the exact words, but they were acting like holding up that broom was
- 1:49:18a whole game changer, like that did indeed represent a two hundred and eighty
- 1:49:25seven pound defender in your face the broom and he was like forty forty eight
- 1:49:31to fifty, forty nine to fifty in the face of that broom pressure,
- 1:49:38the broom pressure. I like that. Dexter Joe Milton or Spencer Ratler,
- 1:49:43are they the real steals of the draft? I think both are better than
- 1:49:46McCarthy. I think Spencer Rattler you can make that case. Joe Milton.
- 1:49:51I'm not ready to go there just because I've not seen it out of him.
- 1:49:56I've seen it out of Spencer Rattler. He's had moments even in college
- 1:50:00where he was dialed in and he had a really good Senior Bowl. He
- 1:50:06had a really good combine. I'm going with Ratler. I can't go Joe
- 1:50:11Milton, what about you? I can see taking a chance on either.
- 1:50:16If those are my two choices, I'd take a chance on Rattler first,
- 1:50:21But my thinking is if they'll fall to the third round, I take them
- 1:50:28immediately. Because nothing is guaranteed, you don't have to damn correct. Somebody
- 1:50:31will take a chance on Milton because he's big, he does have a strong
- 1:50:36arm, he's athletic, so some coaches may think he just hasn't been developed
- 1:50:41properly. We can mold this guy, we can make and like you said,
- 1:50:45especially at third or fourth round value, we're not gonna put a whole
- 1:50:46ton of money into him. But what if it pans out and he's,
- 1:50:49you know, one of these quarterbacks fourth or fifth round pick that now he's
- 1:50:54a starter of three years down the line. But with the way McCarthy and
- 1:50:59these quarters are jumping, desperation basically is what it is. What if they
- 1:51:04don't ask to the third round, middle of second would you take a chance
- 1:51:10on a Rattler Milton depends on how desperate I am. Yeah, because if
- 1:51:15you if you don't have a quarterback, you don't have anything and people know
- 1:51:18that. I mean, you've got That's why the desperation is so high at
- 1:51:21the top, That's why people take risk on Kenny Pickett, Matt Carrall.
- 1:51:29I mean you just go back to that draft class of twenty twenty two.
- 1:51:32It just your guy who's at Tennessee, not Levis, who was at Liberty.
- 1:51:41Liberty, Oh Willis, Malik Willis, that was your guy. What
- 1:51:45are you all on that? Guys? Oh? You know me. It
- 1:51:46was all about Malik Willis. I brought him up every day. We're brought
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- 1:53:30Let's see three Hemp Camel DraftKings has Bonix with the best odds of landing in
- 1:53:32Denver. What do you think about that we didn't talk about bow Dix in
- 1:53:35this draft. No, that's that's the crazy thing. I and this may
- 1:53:42sound crazy too. I still think Drake May is gonna go second. That's
- 1:53:48what a lot of people are at LEAs projecting. That's what. Yeah,
- 1:53:51we we seem to have been hearing that for what a year and a half
- 1:53:56now, Caleb Williams, Drake May, and I still think it's all though
- 1:53:59some places I've read Jade Daniels has hopped up. I really like him too,
- 1:54:02but I I would I think I would take bow Knicks ahead of Drake
- 1:54:10May. I like bow Knicks better than Drake May, who seems to be
- 1:54:14almost a consensus number two. If he's gonna fall to twelve to the Broncos
- 1:54:20and he's gonna be paired up with Sean Payton, give it to me.
- 1:54:27I would take it if I were a Broncos fan. I think you're right.
- 1:54:31I think if I'm picking, it would be I mean, I don't
- 1:54:35think they're both good, but I don't know. Just as North Carolina quarterbacks
- 1:54:41have they paid? I mean, we always talk about Ohio State quarterbacks.
- 1:54:43What about North Carolina quarterbacks. They haven't necessarily just panned out, if that
- 1:54:47makes sense. Let's see here, moving along here, let's see Dexter,
- 1:54:53Thanks Jake. I can see Sean Payton coaching out the bat of Joe Milton
- 1:55:00a third rounder. Yeah, I mean, somebody's gonna take a shot on
- 1:55:02Jim Milton again. The the uh pedigree is there, and a lot of
- 1:55:10coaches will look at that and say, well, they just nobody knew how
- 1:55:12to coach him in college. We can, and they may. I named
- 1:55:16checkster Joe Alt to the Titans number seven pick, twenty twenty four NFL Draft
- 1:55:23offensive tackle. Yeah, the Titans. I think if you look at a
- 1:55:28lot of mocks, they are looking at taking an offensive lineman Space Ghost.
- 1:55:32There's talk that Seattle may be looking into the late rounds at John Rice Plumbley
- 1:55:39like a Taysom Hill. I do not believe that. See he calls in
- 1:55:43with a good take in our one, and now we got John Rice Plumby
- 1:55:47is a Taysom Hill. They're not even the same kind of guy. There's
- 1:55:50no way Seattle's looking at this, are they? And how can you even
- 1:55:54project in a late round? But oh, we're thinking about our sixth round
- 1:55:58pick. Now it's he making this up. I feel like Space Coast thinks
- 1:56:09a lot of stuff in his head is real. I think it's mainly made
- 1:56:13up. Though, No, I think I think that you're probably right.
- 1:56:16But no, this this is the second time I remember a few weeks ago
- 1:56:24you read you read something on this show here one day where someone had written
- 1:56:30something about John Rice Plumbley could be a Taysom Hill type. Well, what
- 1:56:36people look at is the fact that he played quarterback. He's a mobile guy
- 1:56:44and he space coast. Why are you calling the text line? What are
- 1:56:46you doing that he can You can move him around a little bit, but
- 1:56:53Taysom Hill's a much bigger guy. Like I don't think you're gonna line John
- 1:56:57Rice Plumby up as a tight end like the Saints do. It's Taysom Hill
- 1:57:00are they can't see it? I mean John Plumby is a great athlete,
- 1:57:05he means unbelievable athlete. But he's a small guy. You're not gonna line
- 1:57:09him with a tight end. Seattle chose to use one of their thirty three
- 1:57:15visits with Plumbley. Maybe they just haven't a epiphany for oh Grove High School.
- 1:57:23I have no idea j C. History matters to Jake on North Carolina
- 1:57:27quarterbacks not panning out, but history doesn't matter to him when it applies to
- 1:57:30Ole Miss football and high expectations. JC. There's a different feel and a
- 1:57:41different look with this Old Miss football team. I mean, they just want
- 1:57:45eleven games, he says. Remember when the Ole Miss propaganda machine was spinning
- 1:57:49on plumbing. How do you like how he tied both that together? Jac
- 1:57:55very well done. Speak of Old Miss former Florida football star torch which is
- 1:58:00the Gators for lacking game plans after transferring to Ole Miss. Have you seen
- 1:58:03this? Princely you? And that's what I'm just gonna call him you.
- 1:58:10Madame Millan did not have a lot of nice things to say about his former
- 1:58:14college football program, the Florida Gators. After transferring to Ole Miss. He
- 1:58:17went scorched earth on the Gators and its staff. On the flip side,
- 1:58:21Lane Kiffin and the Rebels received a lot of praise. Princely U, a
- 1:58:26four star recruit class of twenty twenty committed to the Florida Gators over twenty seven
- 1:58:30other programs. Dan Mullen was the head coach in Gainesville for his first two
- 1:58:33seasons. Billy Napier took over in twenty twenty two. Princevie You received recorded
- 1:58:39thirty nine tackles in each of the last two years, with eleven point five
- 1:58:42total sacks. The presence of his six foot five, two hundred and fifty
- 1:58:45five pound frame was consistent and a problem for sec tackles off the edge as
- 1:58:53a result of the blanket waiver granted during the pandemic he has one year of
- 1:58:58eligibility remaining. Hit the portal landed at Ole miss Ole. Miss has a
- 1:59:01legitimate opportunity in this article, says JC not me to compete for the national
- 1:59:06championship this year, and this guy could be one of the pieces that comes
- 1:59:11together. His comments, though on Florida were not good. Napier, who
- 1:59:18was coaching for his job, he really went after him shed some light on
- 1:59:23them. Why the during during a press conference on Tuesday after all miss practice
- 1:59:28basically just torching Florida, saying that they don't develop, their coaches are inept.
- 1:59:32I mean, he just went scorched earth on Billy Napier. What do
- 1:59:36you think about this? I can't fault or I can't find the same.
- 1:59:45Tell me when I'm lying, tell me when I'm telling lies. I don't
- 1:59:48think he's telling them lies on this of zero faith in Napier. I haven't
- 1:59:55from the beginning. And he said other coaches, he said, coaches,
- 1:59:59well, Florida. Remember a couple of years ago when we saw that ridiculous
- 2:00:04Florida picture and it looked almost like there were more coaches than players. Yep,
- 2:00:10in that team photo, sure was. It was all his staffers so
- 2:00:14apparently it's the whole argument of quantity over quality. So I don't I don't
- 2:00:20think this man's lyne. Yeah, I mean I I don't think BILLI Napier
- 2:00:25was gonna make it after this year. Again, I picked Florida when two
- 2:00:28ball games, I stand by it. They make it four. That schedule's
- 2:00:31brutal. They are lacking playmakers. You don't know who's going to play running
- 2:00:35back. I mean he's recruited. Well, I mean it's they have leaked
- 2:00:38like a sieve, just talent in, talent out, talent in, talent
- 2:00:43out. I mean they're like space goes after leaving a Mexican restaurant. It
- 2:00:45is in and out. I mean it is all what I'm just the Florida
- 2:00:54program leaks like a sieve, and I just don't see them. BILLI Napiers,
- 2:01:00I gotta be there next year. JC. You just mentioning Ole miss
- 2:01:02with the National Championship is literally propaganda. No one legitimately believes they are space
- 2:01:10ghost, says seriously, space ghost, I love you. Hey. Did
- 2:01:15you know McDonald's is adding Krispy Creme donuts to its menu? Yeah? They
- 2:01:21are. Yeah, the menu at McDonald's undergone plenty of changes over the years.
- 2:01:27They are adding Krispy Kreme donuts to their menu. The associator Press Press
- 2:01:31reports McDonald's has decided to take a similar approach with the help of a fairly
- 2:01:36unexpected partner, Krispy Kreme. So what do you think about this with McDonald's.
- 2:01:44Uh, you know what, I guess McDonald's and Krispy Kreme. The
- 2:01:48names themselves are pretty, they're kind of the leaders. I think McDonald's has
- 2:01:54gone way downhill since they used to be, but it's still McDonald's. Millions
- 2:01:57of people still eat there. McDonald's. Yeah, see this marriage see and
- 2:02:00I agree with weird it is weird. And I agree with space goes here.
- 2:02:04The donuts will be four dollars, Yes they will, no doubt about
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