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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane On Demand. Listen live
- 0:05Speaker 1: every weekday morning from 7 to 10 on Altitude Sports
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- 0:17Speaker 2: Hey. Hey. Hey.
- 0:19Speaker 3: You guys.
- 0:20Speaker 4: Hey, you guys.
- 0:20Speaker 3: You guys ever feel humbled? You ever feel moments of humility?
- 0:25Speaker 5: Not once.
- 0:26Speaker 4: I'm better than everyone who's ever existed.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Moj, have you ever had a moment of humility that
- 0:33Speaker 3: hits you, it strikes down, and you're like, wow.
- 0:37Speaker 5: I had that last night.
- 0:38Speaker 3: I was humbled to be in the presence of so
- 0:41Speaker 3: many of our loyal listeners who went out of their
- 0:44Speaker 3: way to join us. And it was an event that
- 0:48Speaker 3: I thought, okay, let's see what this turns into. But
- 0:51Speaker 3: it was bigger than just a rock, paper, scissors deal
- 0:54Speaker 3: at Rooftop Social.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Don't you throw that S on there.
- 0:57Speaker 5: You have a problem.
- 0:59Speaker 3: It just, it was a communal event and it just
- 1:01Speaker 3: showed me how many people. And the reason I'm humbled
- 1:04Speaker 3: is people listen to this drivel.
- 1:07Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Like people wake up, turn to this station and listen
- 1:14Speaker 3: to this crap. Like sometimes I feel like I'm speaking
- 1:18Speaker 3: into oblivion.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Like we.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Are having conversations among ourselves and you forget that there
- 1:23Speaker 3: are people listening and partaking. And last night was an
- 1:27Speaker 3: example when we're sitting there going, wow, this is cool.
- 1:31Speaker 4: Like, you know what I think about Vic is that the,
- 1:34Speaker 4: there had to be like a hundred and some people
- 1:35Speaker 4: there last night, something. I mean, that's.
- 1:37Speaker 5: And those are the winners of the, of the contest.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:40Speaker 4: We packed the rooftop social, which was an awesome place.
- 1:42Speaker 4: You haven't been there. It's really cool. Amazing views from there. Um,
- 1:48Speaker 4: Do you remember about a month ago when you decided
- 1:50Speaker 4: on the air you wanted to talk in an imaginary language?
- 1:53Speaker 4: And I'm like, these people listen to that.
- 1:55Speaker 6: I know.
- 1:56Speaker 4: They listen to Vicko. And I guess we're entertained by it,
- 2:03Speaker 4: I guess. Anyway.
- 2:06Speaker 3: So in a roundabout way, as I'm driving my Vespa
- 2:09Speaker 3: back home last night, it was a beautiful ride. I mean,
- 2:12Speaker 3: it's my therapy. I spoke to one of our listeners.
- 2:15Speaker 3: I can't remember your name.
- 2:16Speaker 5: I'm sorry. But afterwards.
- 2:17Speaker 3: He mentioned that he has something similar to a Vespa,
- 2:20Speaker 3: and it is therapy, riding it home.
- 2:22Speaker 5: And all I could think about... Freaking washing machine? I'm
- 2:25Speaker 5: always comping hogs. And all I could think about... Hey,
- 2:28Speaker 5: I got an LG dryer too, Vic!
- 2:32Speaker 3: All I could think about is how humbled we are
- 2:34Speaker 3: to have the jobs we have. And the other thing
- 2:37Speaker 3: that came to my mind as I'm driving out of Rhino, what.
- 2:41Speaker 5: The hell is that smell?
- 2:44Speaker 4: It was pungent. What the.
- 2:47Speaker 5: in God's name, was going on.
- 2:49Speaker 3: My theory is it was the Purina plant, the animal
- 2:53Speaker 3: plant that's nearby.
- 2:55Speaker 5: Maybe the wind changed.
- 2:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
- 2:59Speaker 3: What was that? As soon as I got on the
- 3:03Speaker 3: Vespa and the wind was blowing, I was like, whoa!
- 3:04Speaker 5: Tell you what that was.
- 3:08Speaker 4: What's that? A horse?
- 3:10Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Where's the horse?
- 3:13Speaker 5: The dog food plant. Oh.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Oh, gotcha. Can I bring you guys a couple things here?
- 3:22Speaker 4: I've just been seeing a lot of this, and I've
- 3:24Speaker 4: been trying to figure this out. I do think that
- 3:27Speaker 4: there's a discussion to be had surrounding this, and it is,
- 3:33Speaker 4: what do you need the peak of the powers of
- 3:38Speaker 4: Bo Nix to be? What do you need from your quarterback?
- 3:42Speaker 4: Because here's why I asked the question. When It was,
- 3:46Speaker 4: I don't know, a few months ago, we had Birdo
- 3:48Speaker 4: filling in for you, too. And I asked Birdo this.
- 3:51Speaker 4: And Birdo's like, he's got to be John Elway!
- 3:54Speaker 5: Or, you know, whatever.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Like, his expectation.
- 3:57Speaker 5: That sounded just like him, by the way.
- 3:58Speaker 1: It did.
- 3:59Speaker 4: It's like, Elway or Peyton Manning, because we expect that
- 4:03Speaker 4: level of excellence. And I'm like, man, that's a pretty
- 4:05Speaker 4: tough bar to set for kind of anybody. It's, oh,
- 4:07Speaker 4: you've got to be an all-time quarterback. You have to
- 4:11Speaker 4: be a certain level.
- 4:13Speaker 1: But.
- 4:14Speaker 4: When you're talking about making the decision somewhere down the line,
- 4:17Speaker 4: I feel like this year is going to be important
- 4:18Speaker 4: to establish. Is Bo Nix going to be a guy
- 4:20Speaker 4: that you're paying $ 55, $ 60 million a year?
- 4:23Speaker 2: Right?
- 4:23Speaker 4: Like, the whole discussion we just had with Kale McCarr,
- 4:26Speaker 4: future Hall of Famer is, $ 20. 5 million a year, is
- 4:32Speaker 4: that going to do something from a roster construction standpoint
- 4:36Speaker 4: that ruins your, not ruins, but you know what I mean,
- 4:38Speaker 4: hampers your team?
- 4:40Speaker 5: That's such a great point you just made.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Think about it. You want your star player To get
- 4:44Speaker 3: to that level where the contract, as ridiculous as it
- 4:48Speaker 3: may sound, is sort of a no-brainer.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Like, Nikola Jokic, at some point, he's going to make
- 4:54Speaker 3: $ 82 million a year. And it's like a no-brainer. It's like, yeah.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Of course. Kael McCarr is the highest-paid player in NHL history.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Yeah. Okay.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Okay.
- 5:03Speaker 3: You want Bo Nix to get to a level where
- 5:05Speaker 3: paying him $ 50 million plus is like, yeah, it's a no-brainer.
- 5:08Speaker 5: That's where you aspire.
- 5:10Speaker 4: Well, you don't want it to sound like this, Mo.
- 5:12Speaker 4: I want you to respond to this. This is Willie
- 5:14Speaker 4: Colon on the NFL Network yesterday talking about Bo.
- 5:16Speaker 6: Now you go into this season, you don't have Jonathan Cooper.
- 5:19Speaker 6: Bo Nix, you got to figure out where he's at
- 5:22Speaker 6: and then play a whole lot in the preseason. Nevertheless,
- 5:25Speaker 6: they have a championship-type roster and they're considered contenders, but
- 5:29Speaker 6: yet there's still this up-and-down come playoff time. And Valid,
- 5:32Speaker 6: they have a lot of success in regular season, but
- 5:34Speaker 6: come playoff.
- 5:35Speaker 5: Time, they're kind of in the middle of the road.
- 5:37Speaker 4: I'm just waiting for them to pop right now.
- 5:39Speaker 6: So for me, with Sean Payton and the way that
- 5:41Speaker 6: roster looks, where Bo Nix is as a quarterback, because
- 5:44Speaker 6: how I see Bo Nix in the Broncos, like, yeah,
- 5:47Speaker 6: Bo Nix helps the Broncos win games, but they don't
- 5:50Speaker 6: win games because of Bo Nix.
- 5:52Speaker 5: And so I think that's the jump.
- 5:53Speaker 6: I think that's what we have to see out of
- 5:54Speaker 6: the Broncos. Can we see Bo Nix? It would be
- 5:57Speaker 6: impossible in crucial situations, and we'll see. But right now,
- 6:01Speaker 6: the Broncos, for me, are the hardest team to figure out.
- 6:02Speaker 4: I don't think that's totally unfair from him. I really don't. Like,
- 6:07Speaker 4: Bo Nix, you win, he helps you win. But when
- 6:11Speaker 4: you're paying a guy $ 55 to $ 60 million a year,
- 6:15Speaker 4: it's got to be the reason why you're winning is largely.
- 6:17Speaker 5: Because of him. Okay, so let me.
- 6:18Speaker 3: Kale is.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Why do the Avs win, Moshe?
- 6:20Speaker 5: Kale McCarr. Because of Kale McCarr. And Nathan McKinnon.
- 6:22Speaker 4: Why do the Nuggets win? Because of Nikola Jokic.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Correct.
- 6:25Speaker 4: That's why.
- 6:26Speaker 5: Let me go through some of these guys. And you
- 6:28Speaker 5: tell me if they help their teams win or the
- 6:33Speaker 5: teams win because of them. Patrick Mahomes.
- 6:36Speaker 4: He's the reason for the winning.
- 6:37Speaker 5: Dak Prescott.
- 6:38Speaker 3: Dak Prescott. You know what?
- 6:41Speaker 4: Honestly, he's the reason for the winning there. Their defense
- 6:43Speaker 4: is terrible. He's getting 60 per. Matthew Stafford, yes. Josh Allen, yes.
- 6:50Speaker 4: What about Jordan Love? Do the Packers win, go to
- 6:54Speaker 4: the postseason because of Jordan Love?
- 6:55Speaker 2: No. Vic? Yes.
- 6:57Speaker 6: Okay.
- 6:58Speaker 4: Yes, I'll say yes.
- 6:59Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence, 55 per.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yes.
- 7:03Speaker 5: Joe Burrow.
- 7:07Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's obvious. When he misses, they're terrible, yeah.
- 7:10Speaker 5: Jared Goff. That's your quarterback.
- 7:17Speaker 4: I'll give a tentative.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Yes.
- 7:20Speaker 5: Watch this, Vic, watch this. At $ 53 million a year,
- 7:24Speaker 5: Brock Purdy.
- 7:26Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 7:27Speaker 5: Okay, so that's the point.
- 7:29Speaker 4: And before anybody jumps on me, can I just make
- 7:31Speaker 4: the point? Matt Jones won a lot of football games
- 7:34Speaker 4: when Brock Purdy was hurt.
- 7:35Speaker 5: He did. He did.
- 7:37Speaker 4: Herbert.
- 7:39Speaker 5: I guess in Lamar, yes. Jalen Hurts.
- 7:42Speaker 4: But this is the whole thing. And I put Bo
- 7:44Speaker 4: Nix in the Hurts category, Moj, of Jalen Hurts helps
- 7:48Speaker 4: the Eagles win games.
- 7:50Speaker 5: Do they win because of Jalen Hurts?
- 7:52Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Okay.
- 7:53Speaker 5: So what I'm trying to tell you, Vic, Brett, is
- 7:56Speaker 5: that it doesn't matter if Bo Nix is an I
- 7:59Speaker 5: don't know. When his time is up, you pay him.
- 8:03Speaker 4: How would you feel, Vic?
- 8:04Speaker 5: Because, I mean, and that's it.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:06Speaker 5: Even if he's an I don't know for you at
- 8:08Speaker 5: this point, and hopefully by the time you do have
- 8:11Speaker 5: to pay him 50-plus per, you will know, but I'm
- 8:14Speaker 5: telling you right now, it's just the going rate for
- 8:17Speaker 5: even a good quarterback, but I don't know if, you know,
- 8:21Speaker 5: he's the reason that you win.
- 8:22Speaker 4: Like, if I ask you right now, Vic, is Bo
- 8:26Speaker 4: Nix in that category? Is he your Cal McCarr category of, like,
- 8:30Speaker 4: I don't care what the money is, you pay the guy.
- 8:31Speaker 5: Not yet. Of course not yet. I think he is.
- 8:35Speaker 5: I think you're misreading the situation.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you something.
- 8:39Speaker 5: And I'm not even saying that I think he's a,
- 8:42Speaker 5: you know, or could be a top 10 quarterback in
- 8:45Speaker 5: this league. I'm just saying that's what you do as
- 8:47Speaker 5: an NFL team.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Join my hand. Join my hand, Vic, and follow me
- 8:51Speaker 4: to make-believe land for a second. Where Bo Nix says,
- 8:54Speaker 4: if you don't give me a franchise quarterback contract right now,
- 8:57Speaker 4: I'm not playing. Would you do it?
- 9:00Speaker 3: Right now?
- 9:00Speaker 5: I mean, he wouldn't be the guy to do that.
- 9:03Speaker 5: This is make-believe land.
- 9:04Speaker 4: If he just said, if he's one of these dudes
- 9:07Speaker 4: and he's like.
- 9:07Speaker 5: He's having a hold-in right now.
- 9:09Speaker 4: If he's holding you hostage.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Yeah, you'd have to do it.
- 9:13Speaker 4: That's what's weird. There's a bunch of quarterbacks that are
- 9:15Speaker 4: in this category that we're talking about of like, look,
- 9:18Speaker 4: I don't really want to, but I mean, the Jags
- 9:20Speaker 4: were there a couple years ago with Trevor Lawrence, right?
- 9:22Speaker 4: Where they're like, I don't want to do this, but
- 9:24Speaker 4: what's my alternative?
- 9:26Speaker 5: The Buccaneers are there with Baker Mayfield right now.
- 9:28Speaker 3: And they said no.
- 9:30Speaker 5: For now.
- 9:32Speaker 4: For now.
- 9:35Speaker 5: You know, Daniel Jones is making $ 44 million this year
- 9:38Speaker 5: for the Colts.
- 9:40Speaker 4: $ 44 million.
- 9:41Speaker 5: That's just the going rate. What was Tua's contract? And
- 9:45Speaker 5: I guess before he got his head blown up, I
- 9:47Speaker 5: think that you could say that he was the reason
- 9:49Speaker 5: the Dolphins won. Or one of them.
- 9:51Speaker 4: There's at least $ 95 million left before they said bye-bye.
- 9:54Speaker 5: Exactly right. So I'm just saying it doesn't matter if
- 9:57Speaker 5: they're in this category, Vic. You pay them because... it's
- 10:01Speaker 5: kind of all you got.
- 10:02Speaker 4: You know what? From a texture, he goes, different way
- 10:04Speaker 4: to phrase the question. How about this? Is Bo Nix
- 10:07Speaker 4: the reason for our losses? When the Broncos lose, is
- 10:12Speaker 4: it because of Bo Nix? Rarely.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Consider the games they lost last year.
- 10:19Speaker 4: So here's your three that involved Bo Nix last year. Yeah.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Three games last year that you lost, you lost to Indianapolis.
- 10:27Speaker 4: To be fair.
- 10:27Speaker 5: I thought he played okay in that game.
- 10:29Speaker 3: I thought at the end of the game, remember there
- 10:33Speaker 3: were some special teams foibles in that game.
- 10:36Speaker 4: To be fair, Bo Nix had three touchdowns. They put
- 10:38Speaker 4: up 28 points.
- 10:39Speaker 5: I mean, if I give you three touchdowns, 28 points,
- 10:42Speaker 5: that's your quarterback? I'll take that every time. Bo Nix
- 10:44Speaker 5: is especial.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not.
- 10:46Speaker 4: No, they didn't lose because of Bo Nix in that game.
- 10:48Speaker 4: You know what's crazy about that? They scored 28 points
- 10:52Speaker 4: through three quarters. In the fourth, they had two drives.
- 10:55Speaker 4: It resulted in an interception and a missed field goal.
- 11:00Speaker 5: Weird.
- 11:00Speaker 4: Like the inverse of what most of the season was.
- 11:02Speaker 5: Go to the Chargers game.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Okay, Chargers. Yes, he was the reason why he lost.
- 11:07Speaker 3: A reason.
- 11:08Speaker 5: What were his numbers in that game?
- 11:11Speaker 4: 150 yards.
- 11:12Speaker 5: He didn't throw it, but see, he doesn't throw any
- 11:13Speaker 5: picks and he doesn't turn the ball over. He doesn't
- 11:15Speaker 5: get it knocked out of his hands.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Was that the weird.
- 11:19Speaker 5: Kick thing?
- 11:21Speaker 3: Where Harbaugh just got all nerdy.
- 11:24Speaker 5: That was the kick thing, right?
- 11:25Speaker 4: Harbaugh is into that. Harbaugh is into that.
- 11:28Speaker 3: Was that two years ago?
- 11:28Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 11:29Speaker 3: I'm getting confused.
- 11:31Speaker 4: But yeah, he wasn't.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Great in that game.
- 11:33Speaker 5: And the Jags game. No, the defense got torched by him.
- 11:36Speaker 5: Everybody looked bad in the Jags game.
- 11:37Speaker 8: Correct.
- 11:37Speaker 3: That was a team effort loss. But there were wins
- 11:41Speaker 3: they had where he didn't play well. A lot of
- 11:43Speaker 3: the offensive. I mean, the Jets game in London, everybody
- 11:45Speaker 3: played poorly.
- 11:46Speaker 4: You know what's funny?
- 11:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:47Speaker 4: The Jets game or the Giants game or the Philly
- 11:50Speaker 4: game or the Raiders game. It's like he kind of
- 11:54Speaker 4: would have been a reason why you lost, but you
- 11:56Speaker 4: didn't lose.
- 11:58Speaker 3: It's so weird.
- 12:02Speaker 4: I know, Moe, you want to get to college football.
- 12:03Speaker 4: We'll do that in just a couple of minutes. 303-504-0925.
- 12:07Speaker 4: If you guys missed this, by the way, just to
- 12:10Speaker 4: recap something from yesterday, you guys remember what Schefter said
- 12:13Speaker 4: about Jonathan Cooper that made me feel a little uneasy?
- 12:15Speaker 4: Because I didn't know what the rules were. You're on
- 12:17Speaker 4: the commissioner's exempt list, but he's got a court date now.
- 12:20Speaker 4: And I was like, well, maybe that means he can
- 12:22Speaker 4: play up until his court date. Here's what Schefter said.
- 12:24Speaker 4: I think we're in a little bit of uncharted territory.
- 12:27Speaker 7: It's a situation where I think the NFL is always,
- 12:31Speaker 7: always going to err to the side of caution. They
- 12:36Speaker 7: don't care that he's missing football games, frankly, right now.
- 12:40Speaker 7: They care about making sure that the integrity and image
- 12:45Speaker 7: of the league is upheld. That is the most important
- 12:47Speaker 7: thing to them. And if there is information that surfaces
- 12:51Speaker 7: that shows that Jonathan Cooper will prove that he's innocent,
- 12:54Speaker 7: then he would play. And if there's not, then it'll
- 12:56Speaker 7: just linger out there until there is clarity or until the.
- 13:00Speaker 4: NFL has the information it needs, whenever that is. But
- 13:03Speaker 4: then finished it by saying this.
- 13:05Speaker 7: I think the NFL is not in any rush. They
- 13:06Speaker 7: don't care that Jonathan Cooper is not playing. I think
- 13:09Speaker 7: they would care about being fair, but they care about, again,
- 13:14Speaker 7: preserving the image and integrity of the league.
- 13:15Speaker 4: And that's very important to the league. So after hearing that,
- 13:19Speaker 4: I mean, Cooper's not playing, right?
- 13:22Speaker 5: It doesn't sound like it. I guess I was a
- 13:24Speaker 5: little taken aback by that, too, because I thought maybe
- 13:25Speaker 5: they can just, until this thing goes to trial in November,
- 13:29Speaker 5: they just put him back on and can play, you know,
- 13:31Speaker 5: because nothing is decided.
- 13:32Speaker 4: Because we've seen both sides of this. Like, Rasheed Rice
- 13:34Speaker 4: was able to play despite his, remember when he got
- 13:36Speaker 4: in that big high-speed accident and then fled the scene
- 13:41Speaker 4: and did all that stuff? He played during that. She
- 13:45Speaker 4: was in jail for 30 days this off season.
- 13:47Speaker 3: You guys remember?
- 13:48Speaker 2: Yes.
- 13:50Speaker 4: So I don't know. It's, I think it's going to
- 13:52Speaker 4: be incredibly difficult and way more difficult than people are
- 13:56Speaker 4: giving it credit for by losing JFM and now Jonathan Cooper. Like,
- 14:00Speaker 4: you might be able to tell me, well, I think
- 14:02Speaker 4: Joan Ellis is really good. Well, guess what? I do, too.
- 14:04Speaker 4: I think he's pretty good, too. But what happens when
- 14:07Speaker 4: one guy goes down now?
- 14:08Speaker 2: Correct.
- 14:09Speaker 4: What happens then?
- 14:10Speaker 5: That's exactly it, because all of a sudden, what is
- 14:13Speaker 5: a strength of your program, overall, on the defensive side
- 14:16Speaker 5: of the ball, strength of your team.
- 14:19Speaker 4: The strength.
- 14:22Speaker 5: If this piece is gone, and again, I encourage everyone
- 14:25Speaker 5: to go look at JFM and Zach Allen in the middle.
- 14:28Speaker 5: And they just blew offensive lines up. I don't know
- 14:30Speaker 5: what's going to happen. But then you take Cooper away.
- 14:33Speaker 5: You're one injury away from all of a sudden, you
- 14:34Speaker 5: know what? We're getting kind of thin there. Yeah. And
- 14:36Speaker 5: you know what? The thing we do best is get
- 14:38Speaker 5: to the quarterback. And, you know, now we, let's say
- 14:40Speaker 5: you have five less pressures per game.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Total.
- 14:44Speaker 5: Five less pressures per game. I'm not talking about sacks.
- 14:47Speaker 5: I'm just talking about five less pressures where a guy's
- 14:50Speaker 5: got an extra second, one second or a half a second.
- 14:53Speaker 5: to complete a pass and wait for the coverage to
- 14:55Speaker 5: break down, right? And then complete the pass on you.
- 14:59Speaker 5: I mean, that's the difference between 14 wins and 10 wins.
- 15:03Speaker 5: And I'm not even joking. So that is, it's got
- 15:06Speaker 5: to be a concern for Sean Payton. It has to be.
- 15:08Speaker 4: College football kicks off tomorrow. We get into that preview.
- 15:11Speaker 4: See you and Georgia Tech. Moja's got some stuff.
- 15:15Speaker 5: Yeah, Vic, I got something that's nostalgia a little bit.
- 15:20Speaker 4: We'll get there in just a second.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Stick around.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Going to get it.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Yeah, on.
- 15:26Speaker 4: College foosball starts tomorrow.
- 15:28Speaker 5: Come on, baby.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Vic, this is.
- 15:30Speaker 4: For CU.
- 15:31Speaker 5: This is what I'm talking about. Vic, you know what
- 15:32Speaker 5: I saw from Konigsberg yesterday? I saw a video of
- 15:38Speaker 5: new Ralphie. I should say Ralphie Seven stepping out of
- 15:42Speaker 5: her little trailer onto the field. And she looks big
- 15:45Speaker 5: and she looks badass. And one of the great things, again,
- 15:49Speaker 5: it was zero weeks... She better run, man.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Oh.
- 15:51Speaker 5: This girl is going to run like a mother. I
- 15:53Speaker 5: want you to drag some guys. Do you remember back
- 15:56Speaker 5: in the day when like Ralphie Four would like blow
- 15:58Speaker 5: a dude up? That's necessary. I mean, she would absolutely
- 16:02Speaker 5: from behind, she'd blow him up and he's in the dirt.
- 16:05Speaker 5: And she's like late. Run off track a little bit.
- 16:07Speaker 5: She's off track. Guys can't keep up.
- 16:09Speaker 3: Hats are flying off. Otherwise, what are we doing?
- 16:12Speaker 5: Mike Leach, you got to scare Mike Leach on the
- 16:14Speaker 5: opposing sideline.
- 16:15Speaker 3: If every Ralphie run is just a little jog, that's
- 16:19Speaker 3: not what we're here for.
- 16:20Speaker 5: We're here to scare some people. So college football is
- 16:22Speaker 5: really starting this weekend.
- 16:23Speaker 4: And I've never, I've never seen somebody more into an
- 16:25Speaker 4: animal than Moji is with Ralphie.
- 16:27Speaker 3: By the way, dude, when you go to those games,
- 16:29Speaker 3: if you go, if you see her in person, Hey, well,
- 16:31Speaker 3: I've been to a CU game with Moj when Ralphie
- 16:34Speaker 3: gets ready to leave. What is that? A trailer? What
- 16:37Speaker 3: is that?
- 16:38Speaker 5: It's the pen in the end zone.
- 16:39Speaker 3: When Moj gets ready to go, the intensity of his face,
- 16:43Speaker 3: it's unlike anything else you'll see in the game.
- 16:45Speaker 4: Did you say when Moj gets ready to go?
- 16:47Speaker 3: Well, he's sitting there next to the pen. I mean,
- 16:49Speaker 3: like he gets as close as he can to watch
- 16:52Speaker 3: this animal go.
- 16:53Speaker 5: Damn right. I can smell her. Anyway, the point is
- 16:55Speaker 5: Ralphie six. She should be steak by now.
- 16:58Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 16:59Speaker 5: She's probably living on some ranch. She, I mean, that
- 17:02Speaker 5: was a good, that was a good for nothing Buffalo
- 17:04Speaker 5: except eaten. That's it. I'm not, is this, was your,
- 17:08Speaker 5: was this your college football topic? No, this is not it. Gotcha.
- 17:11Speaker 5: But what I'm saying is I love the tradition in
- 17:13Speaker 5: college football, man. Every place has got one. It's just
- 17:18Speaker 5: college football. Yeah. It's just the atmosphere again, which is
- 17:22Speaker 5: why I don't mind going to games where I don't
- 17:24Speaker 5: have a dog in the fight because I like the
- 17:26Speaker 5: bands and I like the cheerleaders and I like the
- 17:28Speaker 5: tradition and I like the pageantry. That's what college football
- 17:30Speaker 5: is all about in addition to the competition. But Vic,
- 17:34Speaker 5: it's also about things like this. 19 years ago today,
- 17:39Speaker 5: this happened. Yesterday. Sorry, 19 years ago yesterday, this happened.
- 17:43Speaker 5: Good snap.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Good hold. And the kick is blocked.
- 17:47Speaker 5: Appalachian State has stunned.
- 17:50Speaker 3: The college football world.
- 17:52Speaker 4: One of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Blocked by Corey Lynch.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Is that Tom Brenneman on the call?
- 18:04Speaker 5: I think that's Dave Jackson.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Okay.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Yeah, that is Appalachian State at Michigan. And it It
- 18:10Speaker 3: started a fury of massive upsets, and that's when those
- 18:14Speaker 3: upsets started happening. And we've seen so many since then, right?
- 18:18Speaker 3: So many just ridiculous games where the opposing team gets
- 18:22Speaker 3: paid a ton of money to take that game, and
- 18:25Speaker 3: not only do they take the game, they take the
- 18:27Speaker 3: money and run home. How about Northern Illinois and Notre
- 18:29Speaker 3: Dame a couple years ago? Do you remember that one?
- 18:30Speaker 5: Sure do.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Hang on, hang on. I got to find out who
- 18:34Speaker 4: the sucker is.
- 18:34Speaker 3: CU had one too. CU had a very.
- 18:37Speaker 5: Who is the team that beats? The Sac State Hornets
- 18:40Speaker 5: went into Folsom Field and beat the Buffaloes, dude. That
- 18:43Speaker 5: was like 20 years ago.
- 18:45Speaker 4: Hang on a second.
- 18:46Speaker 5: So the Sac State Hornets have beaten both the Buffs
- 18:48Speaker 5: and the Rams in their joint.
- 18:50Speaker 9: That was my freshman year, Moj. What year was that?
- 18:52Speaker 9: That was 2012.
- 18:53Speaker 3: Okay.
- 18:54Speaker 9: So my first taste of CU football was kicking one
- 18:56Speaker 9: to Sac State.
- 18:57Speaker 5: Sac State Hornets go in there. Montana State went in there.
- 19:00Speaker 3: So what did you and your fellow band members from
- 19:02Speaker 3: the stands do during that?
- 19:03Speaker 4: Oh, darn.
- 19:04Speaker 3: Oh, geez.
- 19:05Speaker 9: No, I'll tell you exactly what we did.
- 19:10Speaker 4: I can't say this anymore because they're in the Mountain West.
- 19:14Speaker 4: But I was trying to find who the suck... Every year,
- 19:18Speaker 4: at this point in the calendar, I just go, who's
- 19:20Speaker 4: the sucker? Who's the one that's going to get hurt
- 19:24Speaker 4: with You're going to pay this team money, and you're
- 19:26Speaker 4: going to lose.
- 19:26Speaker 5: So that's what this first week is all about.
- 19:30Speaker 4: That was always North Dakota State. Some sucker would take
- 19:33Speaker 4: North Dakota State on week one, week two of the season, say, hey,
- 19:36Speaker 4: why don't you.
- 19:37Speaker 5: Come to our house?
- 19:38Speaker 4: We'll pay you $ 750, 000, get your butts kicked. You end
- 19:41Speaker 4: up getting your butt kicked, and then North Dakota State
- 19:43Speaker 4: does it again to people.
- 19:44Speaker 3: Not anymore. Now they're in the Mountain West, Yeah, they've graduated.
- 19:48Speaker 3: Now some team's going to do it to them. That's
- 19:51Speaker 3: how much they've advanced. You know, college football, you're so
- 19:54Speaker 3: right about the pageantry, Moshe, it could be any teams,
- 19:56Speaker 3: and I can't wait until Saturday. I'm going to park
- 19:58Speaker 3: myself in front of that television. And I know a
- 20:00Speaker 3: lot of these games are blowouts. They look like blowouts.
- 20:03Speaker 3: But I just can't wait for the pageantry itself. That's
- 20:05Speaker 3: why we love it. I had the conversation with DMACC
- 20:07Speaker 3: last night. And he couldn't understand why. He said, are
- 20:12Speaker 3: you a college football fan?
- 20:13Speaker 5: I said, am I a fan?
- 20:13Speaker 3: It's my favorite sport. It really is my favorite sport.
- 20:17Speaker 3: It's my favorite viewing sport. I will sit there and
- 20:21Speaker 3: watch a day of college football on a Saturday with
- 20:24Speaker 3: more interest than a day of NFL football on a Sunday.
- 20:27Speaker 4: Can I ask this question, though? I don't know enough
- 20:29Speaker 4: of DMACC's background. I know in radio you move around everywhere, right?
- 20:33Speaker 4: Has DMACC been to, like, a college football market?
- 20:36Speaker 3: Well, he went to Syracuse, and that's a basketball school.
- 20:38Speaker 4: Right, right. But I'm saying a straight-up college, because I
- 20:41Speaker 4: know he's a Syracuse guy.
- 20:41Speaker 2: He is not. He is not.
- 20:43Speaker 4: I think it's really hard for people to get it.
- 20:44Speaker 4: If you live in big markets that have multiple sports teams,
- 20:47Speaker 4: especially pro sports teams, I think it's hard for them
- 20:50Speaker 4: to understand why college football means so much.
- 20:54Speaker 5: Well, look at USC over the weekend. Exactly.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Everybody's still ripping on USC for their— I mean, that
- 20:58Speaker 3: was a ridiculous showing for their home opener.
- 21:00Speaker 5: Well, I'll say.
- 21:02Speaker 4: This week, if you're in a college football town, it's
- 21:05Speaker 4: one of the coolest weeks you get.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
- 21:07Speaker 5: That's all the charade.
- 21:08Speaker 2: You wait all year for this.
- 21:11Speaker 3: You wait all year for this moment. And it's a
- 21:13Speaker 3: lot of the smaller schools. Talk to any Montana or
- 21:17Speaker 3: Montana State fan. Let them tell you what it's like
- 21:20Speaker 3: watching those teams.
- 21:20Speaker 5: You go to Bozeman or Missoula. Look, Montana's a huge
- 21:24Speaker 5: state with very few people. Although they got a lot
- 21:27Speaker 5: more now because all the Californians have moved up there
- 21:31Speaker 5: and whatnot. But Bozeman and Missoula, they really love their
- 21:39Speaker 5: college football, dude. And they, I mean, they pack out.
- 21:43Speaker 5: It's a divided state, obviously, but they, I mean, they absolutely,
- 21:47Speaker 5: they treat it like you would be between the hedges
- 21:50Speaker 5: in Athens, Georgia.
- 21:52Speaker 4: I'll give you an example. I got like three games.
- 21:55Speaker 4: Go to Manhattan, Kansas on a game day.
- 21:57Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 21:58Speaker 4: They go nuts.
- 21:58Speaker 5: See, and that's the thing is I haven't been like
- 22:00Speaker 5: in a really college market like that, but I've traveled
- 22:05Speaker 5: to and I've done college football games, right?
- 22:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:08Speaker 5: And I've traveled to many stadiums and many places. I
- 22:11Speaker 5: didn't have a dog in the fight because I love
- 22:14Speaker 5: the pageantry and the excitement of it all.
- 22:16Speaker 3: That's it.
- 22:16Speaker 4: We got it. We found our sucker this year. We
- 22:18Speaker 4: found the one. It's not North Dakota State. South Dakota
- 22:23Speaker 4: State's going to give them that what for? to Northwestern.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Going to give them some of that.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Oh boy, you're beating Northwestern.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Wow.
- 22:29Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying though. Northwestern's paying them cash.
- 22:32Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 22:32Speaker 3: All right, hang on.
- 22:33Speaker 4: DMACC's on the phone. Hi, DMACC. Hey, DMACC.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Hey, guys, how in the world could a rock, paper,
- 22:40Speaker 2: scissors contest be the most entertaining sporting event of the year?
- 22:44Speaker 3: True.
- 22:45Speaker 2: How is that possible?
- 22:47Speaker 3: I told these guys earlier, DMACC, because you and I
- 22:49Speaker 3: are sitting side by side last night and we're both
- 22:51Speaker 3: in tents and I was supposed to go meet my
- 22:53Speaker 3: wife for dinner, and I didn't go, and she's so
- 22:55Speaker 3: mad at me right now.
- 22:56Speaker 5: But I couldn't peel myself away.
- 22:59Speaker 3: From the competition. And I think what it is is
- 23:01Speaker 3: we're in love with competition. What turned into it, what
- 23:04Speaker 3: began as just a frivolous act, was the most competitive
- 23:08Speaker 3: night of sports I've ever seen.
- 23:10Speaker 2: By the way, we should also note that Vic has
- 23:12Speaker 2: his wife, Terry, saved as Terry. And two others in
- 23:16Speaker 2: his phone.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Don't call me that.
- 23:18Speaker 4: She called him and said, Terry and two others. I
- 23:21Speaker 4: didn't get it.
- 23:21Speaker 5: Dude, she called me like four times saying, where are you?
- 23:24Speaker 4: I go, I can't leave.
- 23:26Speaker 3: This is too good.
- 23:27Speaker 4: So hang on, DMACC, I got a question for you.
- 23:29Speaker 4: Because I fully admit I've lived the college football market
- 23:33Speaker 4: the first 25 years of my life. I will choose,
- 23:36Speaker 4: if you made me choose NFL or college football, I
- 23:38Speaker 4: can only watch one the rest of your life. I'm
- 23:39Speaker 4: choosing the NFL, and it's not even close to me,
- 23:41Speaker 4: but I love college football. Have you been in a
- 23:44Speaker 4: big-time college football market? I know Syracuse is a big
- 23:47Speaker 4: college market, but not football.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't understand. When I got to Syracuse,
- 23:51Speaker 2: they had an undefeated season. They had Dick McPherson, and
- 23:56Speaker 2: they had Don McPherson, the quarterback. They were undefeated. They
- 24:01Speaker 2: were undefeated my freshman year. They played Penn State. I've
- 24:04Speaker 2: been to Penn State. My wife's from central Pennsylvania. You know,
- 24:09Speaker 2: I've been to see you a million times. I've been
- 24:12Speaker 2: to college football games. Listen, it's awesome. And the environment
- 24:15Speaker 2: around it is great. But the environment around college football
- 24:19Speaker 2: is way better than the football itself. And it's goofy
- 24:23Speaker 2: to me because I'm an NFL guy. And once I
- 24:25Speaker 2: got to Buffalo and saw football at its highest level,
- 24:29Speaker 2: And I couldn't get over the fact that these kids
- 24:31Speaker 2: were being taken advantage of by the corrupt presidents and
- 24:36Speaker 2: bowl commissioners and all that stuff. I don't know how
- 24:38Speaker 2: you guys sort of rationalize that over the years with
- 24:41Speaker 2: how mistreated these guys have been. So the level of
- 24:43Speaker 2: play is better in the NFL. It's not corrupt. And yeah,
- 24:48Speaker 2: it's great to tailgate and stuff. That's the best part
- 24:50Speaker 2: of college football is the atmosphere, not the sport itself.
- 24:53Speaker 2: So I don't know how in the world you sit
- 24:55Speaker 2: there and watch like Toledo against UMass or something like that, Vic.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Or I don't even like like a Mississippi State against
- 25:03Speaker 2: Auburn to me is kind of boring on TV. It's
- 25:06Speaker 2: great to be there. So, yeah, I've been there, and
- 25:10Speaker 2: it's awesome.
- 25:11Speaker 5: Yeah, Miami and the Jets this year are going to
- 25:12Speaker 5: be so friggin' compelling, I'm going to set my friggin'
- 25:15Speaker 5: alarm clock every week.
- 25:16Speaker 2: I'll take that.
- 25:18Speaker 5: Well, then you're a psychotic. Well, then you're on meth.
- 25:22Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, I'll tell you this, folks, the
- 25:23Speaker 2: games will be closer in the NFL than the vast
- 25:26Speaker 2: majority of college football. College football is blowout central. No, man.
- 25:30Speaker 3: Listen, my buddies and my high school buddies, we pick
- 25:33Speaker 3: a college game a year we usually attend, and one
- 25:35Speaker 3: of the greatest games we attended was a blowout. Tennessee
- 25:39Speaker 3: at Knoxville, Georgia came in and thumped them like 44-3.
- 25:42Speaker 3: The game wasn't close. We had more fun that weekend
- 25:45Speaker 3: attending that game.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Exactly, because it's the environment. You like the environment. But
- 25:51Speaker 2: guess what, man? I was in Buffalo doing shots of
- 25:53Speaker 2: Jaeger out of bowling balls for five years, and that
- 25:56Speaker 2: environment was pretty cool, too.
- 25:58Speaker 5: I did that, too.
- 26:00Speaker 3: It just doesn't feel the same to me. I don't
- 26:03Speaker 3: know how to explain it. The collegiate environment, and now
- 26:06Speaker 3: they're sort of joining hands because college football is becoming
- 26:08Speaker 3: pro football. So maybe we're going to lose some of that.
- 26:11Speaker 3: And maybe deep down that's why I'm so upset with
- 26:13Speaker 3: what's happening with college sports is I don't want to
- 26:16Speaker 3: lose whatever that was.
- 26:17Speaker 2: What, you're afraid of what? Kids being taken advantage of
- 26:21Speaker 2: and being underpaid? You're sad that that's going away? Why?
- 26:25Speaker 3: Oh, jeez. Okay, are we going to have this conversation?
- 26:28Speaker 5: No, we are not going to have this conversation.
- 26:31Speaker 3: So what is your take, DMACC, on guys who get
- 26:34Speaker 3: cut from NFL teams returning to play the collegiate game?
- 26:38Speaker 2: I have no problems in the United States of America,
- 26:40Speaker 2: a country that I love, being able to make a living.
- 26:44Speaker 2: And college football has been a minor league football organization,
- 26:49Speaker 2: professional for a long time. But it was cash, bags
- 26:52Speaker 2: of cash left on porches outside the hill for CU
- 26:56Speaker 2: athletes back in the day. And now it's just out
- 26:59Speaker 2: in the open.
- 26:59Speaker 5: Okay.
- 27:00Speaker 2: So oh okay now now now it's not a professional
- 27:03Speaker 2: league no it is okay people as far as i'm
- 27:05Speaker 2: concerned if you got eligibility you should be able to
- 27:08Speaker 2: play in any professional league in the country um period
- 27:12Speaker 2: as a as a citizen of the united states of
- 27:15Speaker 2: america when you have freedom to work.
- 27:17Speaker 3: I won't diminish those points one bit i agree with
- 27:20Speaker 3: you on making cash but if you're going to make
- 27:21Speaker 3: cash and be a professional athlete because that's what you're
- 27:23Speaker 3: describing then you have to live by those standards, right?
- 27:26Speaker 3: The whole student-athlete concept's a joke, right?
- 27:29Speaker 5: That's a joke.
- 27:30Speaker 2: It's been a joke for 50 years, Vic.
- 27:32Speaker 3: But is it a joke at every institution? Does every
- 27:34Speaker 3: institution make it a joke, or do certain institutions carry
- 27:37Speaker 3: it differently?
- 27:38Speaker 2: No, every... Well, I don't know. I don't know how
- 27:41Speaker 2: it is at Yale. But, you know, at the institutions
- 27:46Speaker 2: that contend for national championships, it's been a joke forever.
- 27:50Speaker 2: And it started back in the 60s at UCLA with
- 27:53Speaker 2: that corrupt basketball program. Everybody wants to put John Wooden
- 27:56Speaker 2: on some sort of freaking mountaintop. He's being paid off
- 28:01Speaker 2: by a car dealer.
- 28:02Speaker 3: He's being paid off by a car dealer to get
- 28:04Speaker 3: all those guys there. All right, so DMACC. Follow me
- 28:06Speaker 3: on this. So if these kids, and I'm not even
- 28:08Speaker 3: going to call them kids anymore because there's 26-year-olds getting
- 28:11Speaker 3: cut by teams joining college ranks again. If they're going
- 28:14Speaker 3: to make money, should they be beholden to the same
- 28:16Speaker 3: rules that the pros are? We should know what their
- 28:18Speaker 3: salaries are, right?
- 28:19Speaker 5: How come we don't know what the salaries are?
- 28:22Speaker 2: Because there's so many flaws in this system. It's freaking
- 28:25Speaker 2: ridiculous because there's been no regulation. There's no commissioner. There's no...
- 28:29Speaker 2: The NCAA is a joke. I mean, it's corrupt at
- 28:32Speaker 2: so many levels. You're right. Sure, it should be open,
- 28:35Speaker 2: especially at public institutions where the money comes from state
- 28:38Speaker 2: funding a lot of times. No doubt about it. But
- 28:41Speaker 2: it's been... And I can't get over that. So to me,
- 28:44Speaker 2: I just jump to the quick and go to the pros.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Why I don't like the Little League World Series is
- 28:48Speaker 2: that's corrupt too.
- 28:49Speaker 5: How... Just a personal question. You're not the tallest guy
- 28:54Speaker 5: in the world. How many soapboxes are you standing on
- 28:57Speaker 5: right now? Hey, I'm not going to. It's at least three.
- 29:04Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with a man forming and delivering his opinion.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Don't be as naive as some of these other people.
- 29:10Speaker 3: And that's what he's doing.
- 29:11Speaker 2: I heard you earlier today. You asked an opinion. I
- 29:14Speaker 2: said to Steve Nelson, you don't have to have me on.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Here I am. I love people that criticize sports talk
- 29:19Speaker 2: hosts for having an opinion. What abrogance mountain do you
- 29:23Speaker 2: live on, Texter, to think that that's not what we
- 29:26Speaker 2: do for a living?
- 29:28Speaker 5: I totally agree with you on that.
- 29:30Speaker 9: I agree.
- 29:31Speaker 3: When people listen, they're listening for opinions.
- 29:33Speaker 5: They're not listening for you to have just spit out facts.
- 29:35Speaker 5: If you want that, listen to AI.
- 29:38Speaker 2: By the way, we're smarter than the vast majority. of
- 29:40Speaker 2: people that listen because this is the stupid stuff we
- 29:42Speaker 2: think about constantly. It's ridiculous how much time we spend
- 29:46Speaker 2: on this when we shouldn't.
- 29:48Speaker 5: Pretty much.
- 29:48Speaker 3: Now, I will say the reason why you like the
- 29:51Speaker 3: NFL over the college game is rooted in something else.
- 29:56Speaker 3: It's because your college experience... wasn't.
- 29:59Speaker 5: You didn't have it the way I had it. And
- 30:01Speaker 5: I had a college experience.
- 30:03Speaker 2: I just told you as a freshman, he went undefeated.
- 30:06Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what your record was. It has nothing
- 30:08Speaker 3: to do with your record. It has to do with
- 30:10Speaker 3: the experience. And you didn't experience the same thing. Like,
- 30:13Speaker 3: you know, homeboy here. He experienced Nebraska football on a
- 30:16Speaker 3: game day. And that's a different experience than Syracuse football.
- 30:20Speaker 3: That is true. When you think of the pomp and
- 30:22Speaker 3: circumstance of college football, nobody's going to Syracuse for that, bro.
- 30:26Speaker 3: Even though it did produce Jim Brown, Floyd Little.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly. What are you talking about? In the late 80s, 90s,
- 30:33Speaker 2: when I was there, it was like all of that.
- 30:37Speaker 3: Nobody cares about your school's football.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Team, dude. Nobody cares. They don't now. I get it.
- 30:43Speaker 2: They don't now. I gotcha. But back in Big East
- 30:46Speaker 2: football in its heyday, when Penn State and Miami and
- 30:49Speaker 2: Syracuse were in the same conference, by the way, and
- 30:52Speaker 2: West Virginia, yeah, people cared about it back then, Vic.
- 30:56Speaker 2: And it changed. It changed.
- 30:58Speaker 5: You go to a basketball school.
- 30:59Speaker 3: You go to a basketball school. That's it. Well, I've always.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Gone to a basketball school, but there was a time period.
- 31:05Speaker 5: Sherman Douglas.
- 31:07Speaker 2: Okay. I mean, Derek Coleman, Adrian Autry, Billy Owens, Michael Owens,
- 31:15Speaker 2: Billy Owens' brother had the two-point conversion to end the
- 31:19Speaker 2: undefeated season my freshman year. Get off your high Notre
- 31:22Speaker 2: Dame horse. about I own football, and I know this,
- 31:26Speaker 2: and I know that. You don't know anything.
- 31:28Speaker 3: It's the greatest brand in college sports.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Yeah, but what do you think? The alcohol tasted different
- 31:34Speaker 2: in a parking lot in South Bend than it did
- 31:35Speaker 2: on Marshall Street in Syracuse? It's the same crap, dude.
- 31:41Speaker 5: I'm Googling this. Let me go to AID, Matt King.
- 31:44Speaker 4: Why are you guys just naming players, by the way?
- 31:46Speaker 3: How tall is a soapbox? All right.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:53Speaker 5: Because number four got slid in there.
- 31:57Speaker 2: Is it as tall as your high horse, my soapbox?
- 32:01Speaker 4: I ain't got no horse going on here.
- 32:02Speaker 5: I'm a Jack Stater.
- 32:03Speaker 4: DMACC is right about one thing, though. This is true,
- 32:06Speaker 4: and I love college football. I really love college football.
- 32:09Speaker 4: There is no dispute. Like, Vic, we were just talking
- 32:12Speaker 4: about this. Eleven games are single-digit out of all of
- 32:16Speaker 4: college football this weekend.
- 32:17Speaker 5: Eleven of them.
- 32:18Speaker 4: In the NFL... You can turn on any game typically,
- 32:22Speaker 4: and you'll get 60% to 70% of the games that
- 32:25Speaker 4: weekend are all going to be like sort of nail
- 32:26Speaker 4: biters in the fourth.
- 32:27Speaker 3: It's hard for me to describe it. An NFL game,
- 32:29Speaker 3: unless you're in the playoffs, when the NFL playoffs come
- 32:31Speaker 3: around and it's intense, an NFL game feels slow, methodical,
- 32:34Speaker 3: and almost corporate. A college game, I feel the energy.
- 32:39Speaker 2: It feels.
- 32:40Speaker 5: Feel it through the television. Jesus, did you just fall down?
- 32:42Speaker 5: Are you okay? You fall off that soapbox?
- 32:46Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, Vic, I'm on my bike, and
- 32:49Speaker 2: I'm bored by your conversation, so I'm leaving. All right,
- 32:51Speaker 2: see you, David. Bye, J-Mac.
- 32:54Speaker 4: There you go.
- 32:55Speaker 9: Tom Brady here.
- 32:56Speaker 4: I don't know what just happened.
- 33:00Speaker 5: I think Vic just, I don't know what happened either.
- 33:02Speaker 4: It was a bleep measuring contest between Syracuse and Notre Dame,
- 33:05Speaker 4: I think.
- 33:06Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 33:07Speaker 3: When the ball got knocked out of Drake May's hands.
- 33:11Speaker 5: I just enjoy watching the college game.
- 33:14Speaker 3: I enjoy the college season. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm
- 33:16Speaker 3: sorry to admit that. It's not that I hate the NFL.
- 33:18Speaker 3: I love the NFL.
- 33:20Speaker 4: I love it.
- 33:20Speaker 5: But if you gave me the choice, I am missing
- 33:23Speaker 5: college Saturdays.
- 33:25Speaker 3: I just, I'm not.
- 33:27Speaker 5: It's just too much there to enjoy.
- 33:31Speaker 4: Well, it kicks off tomorrow. CU takes on Georgia Tech
- 33:34Speaker 4: at Georgia Tech. And by the way, I am going to,
- 33:38Speaker 4: I am, I'm scared.
- 33:40Speaker 2: You know what?
- 33:41Speaker 4: I'll tell you in a second. I'm scared about something
- 33:43Speaker 4: for tomorrow's game between CU and Georgia Tech. I'll explain next.
- 33:45Speaker 4: All right, there's one thing I'm concerned about heading into tomorrow,
- 33:48Speaker 4: and we can get into this with more detail tomorrow.
- 33:51Speaker 4: We'll talk to Chad Brown. He'll give us a little
- 33:52Speaker 4: preview of CU. He's been out to some practices, can
- 33:54Speaker 4: tell us what's going on. Also talk to Leggy tomorrow.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Are we bringing on Brian Roth later this week for
- 34:00Speaker 3: CSU Wyoming?
- 34:02Speaker 9: Working on it. Yeah, we're working on it. We're figuring
- 34:04Speaker 9: out a time.
- 34:06Speaker 5: We saw him last Friday.
- 34:08Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you were barefoot on it. Golf course.
- 34:11Speaker 4: Here's my concern. And it's a big concern for me.
- 34:15Speaker 4: I feel like I'm putting way too much stock of
- 34:19Speaker 4: how to feel about CU in the game tomorrow. I
- 34:23Speaker 4: feel like I'm going to make a whole lot of judgments,
- 34:26Speaker 4: and I don't know if it's going to be fair
- 34:27Speaker 4: or not. I don't need CU to win, necessarily. Of course,
- 34:34Speaker 4: I think you're a six-and-a-half-point dog. You should be in
- 34:36Speaker 4: this game. You should have a shot. They need to
- 34:38Speaker 4: look competitive. is what I need to see.
- 34:40Speaker 5: I want to see some scoring.
- 34:42Speaker 4: I want to see some scoring. I'm almost opposite of
- 34:44Speaker 4: you a little bit, Vic. I mean, of course you
- 34:46Speaker 4: want that. But when we were talking about this earlier,
- 34:50Speaker 4: and I said the concerns that I would have about the,
- 34:53Speaker 4: what do they call the offense again?
- 34:55Speaker 5: Tell me that again.
- 34:55Speaker 4: The go-go?
- 34:56Speaker 5: The go-go offense.
- 34:56Speaker 3: The go-go offense.
- 34:58Speaker 4: It's that if your offense sputters, and you have a
- 35:02Speaker 4: couple of drives, a couple of three and outs, those
- 35:04Speaker 4: are quick three and outs, if you're running up-tempo and
- 35:06Speaker 4: paced like that, right? Yes, exactly. If you don't have
- 35:10Speaker 4: a defense that is capable of stopping a nosebleed, these
- 35:15Speaker 4: scores can get ugly in a hurry.
- 35:17Speaker 5: They certainly can.
- 35:18Speaker 4: That's my concern.
- 35:19Speaker 2: But.
- 35:20Speaker 4: And that's why I think defensively, God, I need to
- 35:23Speaker 4: see something from them tomorrow.
- 35:24Speaker 5: But the odds of... I guess it all depends, Vic,
- 35:28Speaker 5: and we'll talk to Chad about this. How quickly have
- 35:30Speaker 5: the kids picked up on that offense?
- 35:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Right?
- 35:34Speaker 5: And how well can they execute it the way it's
- 35:36Speaker 5: supposed to be executed? Because... If you can, I can
- 35:40Speaker 5: guarantee you Georgia Tech hasn't seen anything like this. Or
- 35:44Speaker 5: not exactly like this maybe in a long time. Because
- 35:47Speaker 5: they will run a lot of RPO. They will run option.
- 35:51Speaker 5: They'll have two backs in the backfield. They'll be like
- 35:54Speaker 5: wingbacks at times. It really is a very unique way
- 35:58Speaker 5: to play the game. So if you can get off
- 36:00Speaker 5: to a good start against the Yellow Jackets... They'll come
- 36:03Speaker 5: around and they'll finger some things out, but right now
- 36:05Speaker 5: it's hard to get film, so I'm sure they probably
- 36:07Speaker 5: watched a boatload of Sac State Hornet football from last year.
- 36:11Speaker 4: But they need– here's the deal, dude. Juju Lewis ain't
- 36:15Speaker 4: some guy, okay? He ain't just some dude.
- 36:18Speaker 5: No, he's supposed to be very good.
- 36:19Speaker 4: That is a prized recruit.
- 36:21Speaker 8: Yes.
- 36:21Speaker 5: Prized.
- 36:22Speaker 4: I want to see some of that.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a parade thrown when he was signed here.
- 36:27Speaker 3: Did you know how many– CU football fans remember this.
- 36:31Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure the majority do.
- 36:34Speaker 3: This game tomorrow night will feature two teams that once.
- 36:37Speaker 5: Shared a national championship. That's also correct.
- 36:40Speaker 3: Back in the day when those things happened, where you
- 36:43Speaker 3: shared championships because of different polls. 1991, CU won an
- 36:51Speaker 3: Orange Bowl game against Notre Dame and was claimed a
- 36:54Speaker 3: national champ in one poll. Georgia Tech was claimed the
- 36:57Speaker 3: national champ in the other poll.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:00Speaker 5: Can you imagine that these days? And both ain't been
- 37:03Speaker 5: close since.
- 37:04Speaker 4: And when I was talking about, you know what, I
- 37:06Speaker 4: think a playoff's probably a good idea. It's like, no,
- 37:09Speaker 4: I like the tradition of splitting a national title.
- 37:13Speaker 5: Hey, that's a great question. Put that in your Google later.
- 37:16Speaker 3: Find out, since 1991, which program has a better record
- 37:21Speaker 3: in football, Georgia Tech or CU? I'm just curious.
- 37:23Speaker 5: Curious to know which team.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Has won more games.
- 37:26Speaker 5: Well, the Buffs had a lot of sustainability all the
- 37:29Speaker 5: way through Barnett, Vic.
- 37:30Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. The new Heisel Barnett era. They won a
- 37:32Speaker 3: lot of games.
- 37:33Speaker 5: They won a lot of football games.
- 37:34Speaker 3: A lot of games. Totally agree with you. I'm just
- 37:37Speaker 3: curious as to what happened to Georgia Tech since then.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Just goes to show you how difficult it is just
- 37:43Speaker 3: to sustain a winning program.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Okay.
- 37:47Speaker 4: It says, let's see. I tried to do that quick
- 37:52Speaker 4: with AI. Not going to work.
- 37:53Speaker 3: Give me more time, please.
- 37:54Speaker 9: More time.
- 37:56Speaker 3: I'll give you more time as you look that up.
- 37:57Speaker 3: I mean, I can tell you that neither team has
- 38:01Speaker 3: really– I'll say CU has been close to national championship
- 38:05Speaker 3: consideration since then. They've been like top five, top three.
- 38:08Speaker 3: They've been there. I just don't recall Georgia Tech getting there,
- 38:12Speaker 3: being there.
- 38:13Speaker 4: From what I've seen of this unconfirmed research, it looks
- 38:17Speaker 4: like Georgia Tech is slightly ahead of CU.
- 38:19Speaker 5: Total wins?
- 38:19Speaker 3: Total wins.
- 38:20Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 38:21Speaker 5: Because those really down years for the Buffs, dude.
- 38:24Speaker 3: They were really down.
- 38:25Speaker 5: They were really down. Yeah, but you know what? Let
- 38:27Speaker 5: me go back to all my boys. Listen, I'm thinking
- 38:31Speaker 5: about all these quarterbacks over the years, Vic, okay? God
- 38:35Speaker 5: dang it, hang on. List of all times you... We're starting.
- 38:41Speaker 5: Is this?
- 38:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 38:42Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
- 38:43Speaker 4: I'm looking something up already.
- 38:44Speaker 3: Okay.
- 38:44Speaker 5: But it's like, even like Mike Machete, you know, guys
- 38:48Speaker 5: like this, John Hessler, Coy Detmer, you know, Craig Oaks,
- 38:54Speaker 5: obviously Joel, Bobby Pescevento. I mean, they, dude, they had
- 38:59Speaker 5: a list where that those, that program kept going for
- 39:03Speaker 5: quite a while, bro.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Won a lot of games.
- 39:05Speaker 5: Won a lot of football games. I mean, Craig Oaks.
- 39:08Speaker 5: You remember Craig Oaks?
- 39:10Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 39:10Speaker 5: They won the Big 12 North that year, his freshman year.
- 39:17Speaker 4: I just can't wait for tomorrow. I need to see it.
- 39:19Speaker 4: I want to see what this looks like. I want
- 39:21Speaker 4: to have an opportunity to be optimistic.
- 39:24Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like into it now. I'm into it. Before
- 39:27Speaker 5: we're done, I want one final thing to say here.
- 39:29Speaker 5: We do have some new coworkers. It was announced yesterday.
- 39:33Speaker 5: The amount of hand-wringing by people thinking that it's somehow
- 39:38Speaker 5: going to affect their local teams here in Colorado, I
- 39:42Speaker 5: don't quite understand that.
- 39:44Speaker 4: Did you see, like, one person say this?
- 39:46Speaker 5: No, it's been many.
- 39:47Speaker 2: Well, the.
- 39:50Speaker 3: The hilarious, what about this type of crap that I
- 39:54Speaker 3: keep hearing. As if Peyton Watson, he did not get
- 39:59Speaker 3: re-signed by the Nuggets because KSC bought the Angels. As
- 40:04Speaker 3: if one has anything to do with the other. If
- 40:08Speaker 3: you're reaching at that level, you are so ignorant to
- 40:11Speaker 3: how sports works and the business of sports. I don't
- 40:15Speaker 3: want to begin a conversation with you about that. One
- 40:18Speaker 3: has absolutely zero to do with these.
- 40:21Speaker 4: Don't even waste any more breath.
- 40:22Speaker 5: I saw somebody screaming about Arsenal. And I'm like, you
- 40:26Speaker 5: just won the Premier League. I just signed.
- 40:33Speaker 4: Over $ 200 million in contracts for them.
- 40:35Speaker 5: I'm not a Premier League guy. With God as my witness,
- 40:39Speaker 5: I should never underestimate a human being's ability to bitch
- 40:42Speaker 5: and moan about something. Or try to tie things together
- 40:45Speaker 5: that have absolutely zero ties.
- 40:48Speaker 4: Can we play another game instead?
- 40:50Speaker 3: Sure.
- 40:50Speaker 4: One that I think is more fun.
- 40:51Speaker 5: And there's a local sports guy. He did a punk thing.
- 40:58Speaker 5: And it upsets me. And I'm not going to get
- 40:59Speaker 5: into it, Vic. But it was a punk move. And
- 41:02Speaker 5: that's all I'll say. Well, Vic knows what I'm talking about.
- 41:06Speaker 4: Can we play a fun game, though?
- 41:09Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 41:09Speaker 4: Nobody really talks about the Angels.
- 41:12Speaker 5: No. I do.
- 41:14Speaker 4: Actually, you know what's funny? I told my wife yesterday,
- 41:17Speaker 4: I go, man, our company just took over the Los
- 41:20Speaker 4: Angeles Angels.
- 41:20Speaker 3: She goes, who?
- 41:22Speaker 4: The Angels. She goes, they're in Los Angeles?
- 41:26Speaker 5: Well, they're not, no.
- 41:27Speaker 4: They're in Anaheim. She goes, I knew the Angels were
- 41:31Speaker 4: a baseball team. I didn't know they were also in
- 41:33Speaker 4: Los Angeles. I go, well, kind of.
- 41:36Speaker 3: But here's the game I want to- They've been treated
- 41:38Speaker 3: sort of like the generic sort of, like there's the
- 41:41Speaker 3: Dodgers and then there's the Angels. And that's the way
- 41:44Speaker 3: they've been treated. It's the Timo version, yeah.
- 41:48Speaker 4: You know what it is? It's, you know, when I
- 41:50Speaker 4: was a kid, we couldn't afford the, like the player branch,
- 41:54Speaker 4: like the Jordans that would come out. I didn't get
- 41:57Speaker 4: the Jordans, but I got.
- 41:57Speaker 3: Shoes that looked like the Jordans. You know what it is?
- 42:00Speaker 5: And I speak to all folks who grew up in
- 42:02Speaker 5: Denver back in the day.
- 42:03Speaker 3: You know what it is? It's like Elitches versus Lakeside.
- 42:07Speaker 2: Yes.
- 42:08Speaker 4: Yeah. Here's the game I want to play. Nobody talks
- 42:12Speaker 4: a lot about the Angels. Can we just run through
- 42:15Speaker 4: some Angels names?
- 42:17Speaker 5: Bobby Gritch. Rod Carew.
- 42:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 42:22Speaker 5: Abbott. Jim Abbott.
- 42:25Speaker 4: If I gave you a Tim Salmon, you guys know
- 42:27Speaker 4: what I'm talking about?
- 42:28Speaker 3: Tim Salmon. Tim Salmon.
- 42:30Speaker 5: Yeah, we can go on and on. Hey, can I
- 42:33Speaker 5: tell you something? Back in the 90s or 90s.
- 42:35Speaker 4: If I threw a Troy Gloss at you.
- 42:37Speaker 3: Oh, give me a little Troy Gloss. Give me some
- 42:39Speaker 3: of that.
- 42:39Speaker 5: Back in the 80s, dude.
- 42:40Speaker 4: How about a Garrett Anderson? Why don't they throw a
- 42:42Speaker 4: Garrett Anderson in there?
- 42:43Speaker 5: How about Brian Downing? Vic, Brian Downing. That's before your.
- 42:49Speaker 9: Time, bro.
- 42:49Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
- 42:50Speaker 9: Wait a minute.
- 42:51Speaker 4: Who was the bigger guy who broke his leg on
- 42:54Speaker 4: home plate because he jumped? He hit like a walk-off homer.
- 42:56Speaker 4: He jumped on home plate and he broke his leg.
- 42:58Speaker 4: First baseman, bigger dude.
- 43:00Speaker 5: JT Snow?
- 43:02Speaker 4: No, JT Snow wasn't a good angel, but Kendrys Morales.
- 43:05Speaker 5: Yes.
- 43:06Speaker 4: Kendrys Morales is the guy I'm thinking of.
- 43:08Speaker 5: What about Nolan Ryan?
- 43:11Speaker 4: Yeah, Nolan's hard to pin down on a team. I
- 43:13Speaker 4: think of Nolan as a ranger.
- 43:14Speaker 3: No, I think of him as an astro.
- 43:16Speaker 5: Shut up.
- 43:17Speaker 4: I think of him as a ranger.
- 43:18Speaker 5: You shut your face.
- 43:20Speaker 4: I mean, he was a Ranger, he was an Astro,
- 43:21Speaker 4: he was a Met, he was an Angel.
- 43:23Speaker 5: Didn't Dave Henderson play there at one time? Dude, I'm
- 43:26Speaker 5: telling you, the Angels were a really good ball club
- 43:28Speaker 5: in the 80s, or early 80s.
- 43:30Speaker 3: Well, you know, and one of the reasons, listen, say
- 43:32Speaker 3: what you want, this is a business opportunity, and Stan
- 43:35Speaker 3: Kroenke knows what he's doing when it comes to business.
- 43:37Speaker 3: It's been proven. He has the ability to resuscitate franchises
- 43:41Speaker 3: like this and turn them into I mean, listen, he's
- 43:43Speaker 3: won a championship in every single.
- 43:45Speaker 5: They should be thanking their lucky stars is what they
- 43:46Speaker 5: should be doing.
- 43:47Speaker 4: Hang on, everybody pause.
- 43:48Speaker 5: No offense. Or no pun intended.
- 43:50Speaker 4: Round of applause to Ryan on the text line who
- 43:52Speaker 4: hit me with the Sean Figgins.
- 43:54Speaker 5: Sean Figgins!
- 43:55Speaker 4: Sean Figgins. C-H-O-N-E.
- 43:59Speaker 3: Sean Figgins. I mean, Don Baylor. We should be very
- 44:03Speaker 3: familiar with Don Baylor's career, obviously.
- 44:06Speaker 5: Hey, you ever seen Naked.
- 44:07Speaker 4: Move on! Move on!
- 44:08Speaker 5: You ever seen Naked Gunn? You ever seen Naked Gun?
- 44:12Speaker 5: Reggie Jackson was an angel in that movie.
- 44:14Speaker 3: Remember?
- 44:15Speaker 5: He had to kill the queen. I must kill the queen.
- 44:19Speaker 5: Remember that?
- 44:20Speaker 4: I'm too far down the rabbit hole now. I've got
- 44:22Speaker 4: to stop. Nelly, fact checker, please.
- 44:25Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker. Fact Checker.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Presented by Backus & Shanker. Serious lawyers for the seriously injured.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Death.
- 44:38Speaker 9: Taxes.
- 44:39Speaker 8: And Brett getting the giggles and absolutely torpedoing Mosher's live reads.
- 44:44Speaker 8: So today, the latest edition was we had Jake, who
- 44:47Speaker 8: was our Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament winner, pop on the
- 44:50Speaker 8: Zoom with the luchador mask and everything and get us
- 44:52Speaker 8: all hyped up about the tournament. Mosher then decided to
- 44:56Speaker 8: tell us about Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic and.
- 44:59Speaker 9: Congrats, Jake.
- 45:00Speaker 5: Good job. You can do a good job, too, if
- 45:03Speaker 5: you call Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic. You know what? You can't...
- 45:09Speaker 5: You can't do that to me when I'm starting a spot.
- 45:11Speaker 5: You can't just burst out.
- 45:13Speaker 2: Nelly.
- 45:15Speaker 8: And then Vic actually had to come in and save you,
- 45:17Speaker 8: but the problem is once Vic started talking to bail
- 45:19Speaker 8: you out, he realized that he didn't actually know the
- 45:22Speaker 8: phone number, and he started throwing some extra S's around.
- 45:25Speaker 3: Call the Rocky Mountains Men's Clinic.
- 45:29Speaker 5: Call them today.
- 45:30Speaker 3: I don't have the number in front of me.
- 45:32Speaker 5: I got it right here.
- 45:32Speaker 4: It's 720... Oh, that's good.
- 45:35Speaker 9: Good job, boys.
- 45:36Speaker 4: If I throw.
- 45:40Speaker 5: Rocks his paper scissors. You were throwing S's on everything today, dude.
- 45:45Speaker 4: If I said Mel Clark to you as an angel,
- 45:47Speaker 4: would you know what I'm talking about?
- 45:48Speaker 5: No.
- 45:50Speaker 4: Matthew McConaughey played center field. Danny Glover was the manager.
- 45:54Speaker 5: Yeah, was that? Angels in the outfield. Angels in the outfield. Hey,
- 45:57Speaker 5: did he play for them Anaheim's Angels?
- 45:58Speaker 4: I see an angel. I have to do the signal.
- 46:03Speaker 5: Joe's Burrows.
- 46:03Speaker 4: You know, I like that. Joe Burroughs?
- 46:07Speaker 5: Call the Rocky.
- 46:08Speaker 3: Mountains Men's Clinic.
- 46:10Speaker 5: That's the best.
- 46:11Speaker 4: Scotty is my favorite. Scotty is the best at throwing
- 46:15Speaker 4: an S on a name that doesn't have an S.
- 46:17Speaker 5: So good.
- 46:18Speaker 3: Is that like an old man thing?
- 46:20Speaker 5: Because I'm officially across the line. That's a southern thing. Hey, Vic,
- 46:23Speaker 5: can I tell you something?
- 46:25Speaker 4: Quentin Sutton's? iTunes, Spotify, Mojo, Lombardi, and Kane. Have a
- 46:33Speaker 4: great day. Talk to you tomorrow.
- 46:34Speaker 9: Love you.
- 46:35Speaker 5: See you.
- 46:35Speaker 3: Congrats, Jake.
- 46:36Speaker 5: Good job. You can do a good job too if
- 46:40Speaker 5: you call the Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic.
- 46:42Speaker 4: You know what?