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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back to another episode. Episode number
- 0:05Speaker 1: 171 of the so-called Sports Analyst. Brayden, I know how
- 0:11Speaker 1: I'm doing.
- 0:11Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 0:13Speaker 3: Feeling great. Heat the hat. Amazing game. We'll get into
- 0:19Speaker 3: it here.
- 0:22Speaker 2: In a minute.
- 0:24Speaker 1: As everybody's listening into this and live, if some people,
- 0:28Speaker 1: whoever's listening live to this right now, Obviously, we talked
- 0:31Speaker 1: about this last time.
- 0:32Speaker 2: He is a Dodgers fan.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I am a Braves fan. The Dodgers and Braves happen
- 0:36Speaker 1: to be playing in the NLDS right now. And Game
- 0:39Speaker 1: 3 just ended a pivotal game.
- 0:40Speaker 2: You know what?
- 0:41Speaker 1: Or let me say this, and then we'll start off
- 0:43Speaker 1: with that. Before we start, find us on Twitch, TikTok, Instagram,
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- 0:50Speaker 1: make sure you share this to anybody that likes sports. But, yeah,
- 0:52Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get into it. So, pivotal Game
- 0:54Speaker 1: 3 was on the line. Two of the aces, Chris Sale... Yamoto,
- 0:59Speaker 1: they were both on the bum, and the Dodgers end
- 1:02Speaker 1: up winning 3-1, taking the pivotal game on the road,
- 1:05Speaker 1: and they can close the series out tomorrow.
- 1:08Speaker 2: So, Raiden, floor's yours. You know what? Go ahead and show,
- 1:12Speaker 2: but floor's yours.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Go ahead. I only got one thing to say. We're
- 1:20Speaker 3: going P-P, baby. Enough with the antics, so we're just
- 1:23Speaker 3: going to get right on to the show, because at
- 1:25Speaker 3: the end of the day, this series is not over. Fuck.
- 1:29Speaker 3: This series is not over. The Braves are still a
- 1:32Speaker 3: good team. I think that this is still going to
- 1:34Speaker 3: go to five games. I do not see it just
- 1:37Speaker 3: going to four games. We saw a little bit of
- 1:41Speaker 3: the Dodgers fumbling back in game two where we just
- 1:44Speaker 3: leave runners in scoring position. We leave opportunities at the
- 1:47Speaker 3: plate and that could be our demise in game four.
- 1:50Speaker 3: It could go game four. Game four could go our
- 1:53Speaker 3: way and we take it back to LA to either
- 1:55Speaker 3: face the Brewers depending on how tonight's game goes or
- 1:59Speaker 3: waiting to see how they match up against the Padres.
- 2:02Speaker 3: But as it looks now, I was watching some of
- 2:05Speaker 3: the game still sitting at the three, two top of
- 2:09Speaker 3: the six with two outs left. We'll see how it does. Um,
- 2:12Speaker 3: but just to speak on the Braves and Dodgers game,
- 2:16Speaker 3: I feel like it's been a phenomenal series. Um, Yamamoto
- 2:20Speaker 3: today with 10 strikeouts. This dude is absolutely painting corners, sliders, curveballs, fastballs.
- 2:27Speaker 3: This dude is doing it all. Kike. October Kike is back.
- 2:32Speaker 3: He showed it today.
- 2:33Speaker 2: He did call it.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, wow. Defensively, the dude's a rock. Solid. Solid
- 2:40Speaker 3: at the first baseman. I don't know where we would
- 2:41Speaker 3: be without Freddie Freeman producing runs. I just think the
- 2:46Speaker 3: way If the Dodgers can keep this momentum rolling, we
- 2:50Speaker 3: could potentially win this game four and take it back
- 2:52Speaker 3: to Los Angeles early. BP, your bullpen is still just
- 2:56Speaker 3: patching some things up. So we'll see how this next
- 2:58Speaker 3: game goes. I feel like if our starting pitcher can
- 3:01Speaker 3: get out there, get us a full six, seven innings,
- 3:04Speaker 3: we'll be all right. We'll be all right. Hopefully we
- 3:07Speaker 3: can get some runs in as well. I know me
- 3:09Speaker 3: and Fonzo broke this down last week. Home runs are
- 3:11Speaker 3: pivotal in this game. We're seeing it now with the Padres.
- 3:15Speaker 3: They've had Let me see, three or two homers today,
- 3:20Speaker 3: and it's proven them good. I mean, look at what
- 3:22Speaker 3: they're doing to the Brewers right now. They're up 3-2.
- 3:25Speaker 3: Still a lot of game left to be played, but
- 3:26Speaker 3: I just want to hear what you kind of got
- 3:28Speaker 3: to say.
- 3:29Speaker 2: And, I mean, look at the Dodgers, too. It's been
- 3:32Speaker 2: home run after home.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Like, obviously, they have to get somebody on base, of course,
- 3:36Speaker 1: but whenever the big pop happens, it's a home run.
- 3:39Speaker 1: And I just want to go back, kind of like
- 3:40Speaker 1: rewind to game one. I kind of felt like, okay,
- 3:44Speaker 1: we're in there for a little bit, puncher's chance. And
- 3:46Speaker 1: then that's when Kyle Tucker hit a home run in
- 3:48Speaker 1: the fifth inning, and then Freddie Freeman hit a home run, I.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Believe, too.
- 3:53Speaker 3: And after that, just a flood.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who it was, yeah. And after that, the floodgates,
- 3:58Speaker 2: they kind of opened up.
- 3:59Speaker 1: But game two, that was where it's like, okay, bullpen game, Raker,
- 4:03Speaker 1: he had a great time or a great game against
- 4:05Speaker 1: the Phillies.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Let's see how he does. And he proves himself once again.
- 4:09Speaker 2: So I think whenever a.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Bullpen game, Maybe game five, he would be back out there.
- 4:14Speaker 1: But game four, it's going to be pivotal because we
- 4:18Speaker 1: have Tyler Mall. The whole plan was bullpen game, first
- 4:21Speaker 1: two games, Chris Sale and Tyler Mall. Not necessarily saying
- 4:25Speaker 1: you have the star power, the starting pitchers the Dodgers have,
- 4:28Speaker 1: but you can combat it. It's kind of similar. And
- 4:31Speaker 1: even though Chris Sale, those two home runs, he did
- 4:33Speaker 1: have a good day. I mean, it was just Kike
- 4:36Speaker 1: and Freddie Freeman back to back, just having some amazing swings.
- 4:40Speaker 1: And even at that, if you would have told me
- 4:42Speaker 1: going into game three, oh, okay, okay, Atlanta Braves fans,
- 4:46Speaker 1: Chris Sale's only going to give up three total runs.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I would say, okay, then we should be able to
- 4:50Speaker 1: win that game. You have the home crowd. You have everything,
- 4:53Speaker 1: but give credit to Yamato. Like you were saying, he's
- 4:56Speaker 1: 10-1 in his postseason start. His road ERA is 1.19.
- 5:01Speaker 1: The insanity of that, and I know you're going to
- 5:03Speaker 1: get to Yamato in a second, but the Braves hitters,
- 5:08Speaker 1: Did not look comfortable the entire night. And it started off,
- 5:13Speaker 1: even with the very first inning with Drake Baldwin, the
- 5:16Speaker 1: nasty curveball. His curveball was outstanding today. And everything with Yamoto,
- 5:22Speaker 1: obviously you have your box. Everything is so intentional. Painting
- 5:26Speaker 1: the quarters. And I was telling Braden before the pod,
- 5:30Speaker 1: anytime he has a ball outside of the strike zone,
- 5:33Speaker 1: that is intentional. It's not something where it's like, oh,
- 5:35Speaker 1: it's like a ball slipped out of my hand.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Out of my hands. He is, he's a lights out pitcher.
- 5:41Speaker 1: And honestly, I think the best pitcher for the Dodgers
- 5:45Speaker 1: and the way he's pitched. I mean, the track record
- 5:47Speaker 1: speaks for itself. He is the best pitcher in, in MLB,
- 5:53Speaker 1: in MLB over the last two to three years. I
- 5:55Speaker 1: know there's Cam this year from the Yankees, but just
- 5:58Speaker 1: collectively and just in big time games, he steps up.
- 6:02Speaker 1: And also just one thing I want to get into
- 6:04Speaker 1: kind of like a side tangent. I was texting in
- 6:06Speaker 1: The Braves group chat, we have a Braves group chat,
- 6:09Speaker 1: all of the Braves fans, and I was texting a
- 6:10Speaker 1: little bit in our Major League Mayhem group chat.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Ronald Acuna, you are.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Supposed to be one of the best players in Major
- 6:19Speaker 1: League Baseball and the best player on the Atlanta Braves.
- 6:22Speaker 1: I don't even think that's even outlandish to say, even
- 6:24Speaker 1: with Matt Olsen being there, Ozzie's consistent, Michael Harris is consistent,
- 6:28Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin kind of had a crazy uptick in what
- 6:32Speaker 1: he did his rookie year last year.
- 6:35Speaker 2: His last two post-seasons, he's batting a 1 or a.
- 6:39Speaker 2: 143 average batting. That is terrible for a star player.
- 6:45Speaker 1: We criticize Aaron Judge for some of his brutal mistakes
- 6:50Speaker 1: that he's made. And Ronald Acuna has some of those
- 6:53Speaker 1: similar accolades as far as regular season-wise, so he needs
- 6:56Speaker 1: to be held up to that same standard.
- 6:58Speaker 2: And I don't even, I know Ronald Acuna can't even
- 7:02Speaker 2: speak or understand English that well. So somebody translate this
- 7:06Speaker 2: to him and give this to him. Ronald Acuna, I
- 7:09Speaker 2: am calling you out for this. I need you to
- 7:13Speaker 2: step up. Nobody believes you. Your back is against the wall.
- 7:17Speaker 2: What are you going to do, 13? What are you
- 7:20Speaker 2: going to do, 13?
- 7:22Speaker 1: So I know it's a side tangent, but Ronald Acuna,
- 7:25Speaker 1: I need you to step up for game four. I
- 7:28Speaker 1: can't handle losing to the Dodgers again. Again, I know
- 7:34Speaker 1: it's glass now. He's going to be on the bum.
- 7:36Speaker 1: But he, out of all the Dodgers pitchers, he's the
- 7:41Speaker 1: one that's susceptible to being broken in on the floodgates.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I don't know if you agree with that statement, too.
- 7:48Speaker 1: But I think this is going to be our best chance.
- 7:50Speaker 1: So I know that was kind of a little long, Brayden,
- 7:52Speaker 1: but you go ahead.
- 7:54Speaker 3: I think we just see it kind of in a
- 7:57Speaker 3: trend with the Dodgers pitchers. Tarek Skubal goes out and
- 8:00Speaker 3: he has a shaky first, second inning, but he gets
- 8:03Speaker 3: to rolling. Blake Snell, unfortunately, just gives up. You know,
- 8:07Speaker 3: he just doesn't look like Blake Snell. Blake Snell is
- 8:10Speaker 3: very useful for having his one bad inning come in
- 8:12Speaker 3: the first. Hopefully, if we win this series, it'll keep improving.
- 8:17Speaker 3: But I mean, three. Three innings pitched was not an
- 8:21Speaker 3: outing we needed from Blake Snell in game two. Thankfully,
- 8:24Speaker 3: today we had Yoshinobu on the mound. He was able
- 8:27Speaker 3: to get up seven innings pitched. One earned run, one walk,
- 8:32Speaker 3: ten strikeouts. Pitch count wasn't too crazy high either. Like
- 8:37Speaker 3: he said, we do have Tyler Glass now on the
- 8:39Speaker 3: bump tomorrow. From my experiences watching Tyler Glass now, it's
- 8:43Speaker 3: very hit or miss. This dude could have the most control,
- 8:46Speaker 3: throw some crazy pitches, but we need that from him
- 8:49Speaker 3: tomorrow if we want to take game four. I'm going
- 8:53Speaker 3: to kind of pivot on what he says about Ronald Acuna.
- 8:56Speaker 3: I'm going to go on the thing and say about
- 8:57Speaker 3: Shohei Otani. We need Shohei Otani in these series. This
- 9:03Speaker 3: dude has been looking lackluster. First at-bat of the game,
- 9:07Speaker 3: dude looks lost. I've never seen a hit, like a
- 9:12Speaker 3: swing and a miss that bad since Altuve. And I
- 9:16Speaker 3: hate to say it, but we need Shohei Ohtani to
- 9:19Speaker 3: step up here and make his name in this postseason. Yes,
- 9:23Speaker 3: he did what he did last season, but it's not
- 9:26Speaker 3: last season anymore. He needs to come through, make his mark,
- 9:28Speaker 3: and be the Shohei Ohtani the Los Angeles Dodgers knows
- 9:30Speaker 3: and the MLB knows. The MLB hates you for a reason.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Pivot on that and do what you need to do.
- 9:38Speaker 3: Win this team this game. Because as far as I've
- 9:40Speaker 3: seen it, we've had, not to say back burner guys,
- 9:43Speaker 3: but look at Max Muncy. The dude has been hitting nukes. Kike.
- 9:47Speaker 3: Everybody knows Kike for his October performances. That's amazing. Kyle
- 9:51Speaker 3: Tucker hitting his home run last game. Or was it
- 9:55Speaker 3: game one?
- 9:56Speaker 2: Yeah, game one.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Teoscar Hernandez hitting the home run in game one. That's amazing.
- 10:00Speaker 3: are the kinds of moments we need from Shohei Otani.
- 10:02Speaker 3: At least once, twice, third, three times in a series.
- 10:06Speaker 3: You cannot just be going, you know, home run. This
- 10:10Speaker 3: is not very characteristic of Shohei Otani. He just needs to,
- 10:14Speaker 3: I feel like, pick it up and fill his role in. Mm-hmm.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Yeah, and, I mean, just last year in the World Series,
- 10:24Speaker 1: whenever the Blue Jays and Dodgers went, I think it
- 10:26Speaker 1: was 17 innings, Shohei Ohtani, he was 9 for 9.
- 10:31Speaker 1: I mean, I know four of them were walks, but, like,
- 10:33Speaker 1: the fear that pitchers had or just teams had to
- 10:37Speaker 1: pitch in the Shohei Ohtani. And, like, now, like, even
- 10:41Speaker 1: as a Braves fan, like, obviously, like, you're still scared of, like,
- 10:43Speaker 1: a star player, same way, like, people, they're scared of
- 10:45Speaker 1: Ron Recugno or other players. But it's, like, now it's, like,
- 10:48Speaker 1: I don't, I don't mind throwing stuff at him. Usually,
- 10:52Speaker 1: it's like you want it high inside or he's never
- 10:56Speaker 1: going to see a fastball. You see with both of
- 10:58Speaker 1: these guys, you're seeing fastballs and they're.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Just missing it.
- 11:02Speaker 1: It's insanity to me. I know there was injuries with
- 11:07Speaker 1: both of these guys, but at this point, everybody's.
- 11:09Speaker 2: A little banged up.
- 11:11Speaker 1: It's been a long season for every single one of
- 11:14Speaker 1: these players.
- 11:16Speaker 2: It's really no excuse. I'm giving more leniency.
- 11:18Speaker 1: To Shohei Otani because he just did this last year.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna, this is from 2023 and then now this postseason.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Because even in the Philly series, he wasn't that good.
- 11:31Speaker 1: In all honesty, it's been Ozzie Albies, Michael Harris, Matt Olsen.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Those have been the consistent guys. But you need, even
- 11:40Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin, he's had some spurts too. But the main
- 11:43Speaker 1: guy is Ronald Acuna in that. And then you know
- 11:46Speaker 1: this too as far as there's just certain players. Like
- 11:49Speaker 1: With Shohei Otani, for example, when you have your star
- 11:52Speaker 1: player that has a home run or a base hit,
- 11:54Speaker 1: it just lights a different fire into the team.
- 11:57Speaker 2: It's just a different kind of juice. And it's like, okay,
- 11:59Speaker 2: the bats are live.
- 12:00Speaker 1: We haven't seen that at all with Ronald Acuna this time.
- 12:03Speaker 1: And I'm just hoping. We have Tyler Ma on the bum,
- 12:08Speaker 1: which he's had two impressive starts. I mean, well, even
- 12:11Speaker 1: going back to August, he's only had one bad start,
- 12:15Speaker 1: and it was against the Reds. towards the end of
- 12:17Speaker 1: the season, but he proved himself against the Phillies. So
- 12:21Speaker 1: it's all going to be on the table. I mean,
- 12:23Speaker 1: all your bullpen, I don't know how the Dodgers bullpen
- 12:26Speaker 1: is looking right now because I know they emptied the
- 12:28Speaker 1: clip game too. But for the Braves, for the most part,
- 12:31Speaker 1: we're looking pretty decent. So all cards are going to
- 12:34Speaker 1: be on the table. I think for game four tomorrow,
- 12:39Speaker 1: I can see us emptying the tank. Obviously, it's an
- 12:41Speaker 1: elimination game. And I think just the biggest thing is
- 12:44Speaker 1: just to get to game five because... When it's a winner-go-home,
- 12:49Speaker 1: who knows.
- 12:49Speaker 2: What can happen?
- 12:50Speaker 1: Yes, the Dodgers might have the advantage with whoever it
- 12:53Speaker 1: is on the bum, probably Tarek Skubal.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Then who knows?
- 12:57Speaker 1: You never know what can happen. So my question I
- 13:02Speaker 1: pose to you, are the Dodgers going to win tomorrow?
- 13:08Speaker 3: I feel like this comes down to our starting pitching.
- 13:11Speaker 3: Like you said, we've already kind of emptied our magazine
- 13:14Speaker 3: in terms of what we have in the bullpen. We've
- 13:16Speaker 3: pitched Alec Ivesio. We've pitched Tanner Scott. We've pitched Edwin Diaz.
- 13:19Speaker 3: As bad as he's been this season, you cannot expect
- 13:21Speaker 3: these guys to come out two, three consecutive games and
- 13:24Speaker 3: be as consistent as they are in the first or
- 13:27Speaker 3: the second. Hopefully, I'm praying tomorrow that Tyler Glassnow can
- 13:31Speaker 3: put together at least five, six innings to kind of
- 13:35Speaker 3: propel this. Hopefully, we can get on base and get
- 13:37Speaker 3: some big home runs. But if Tyler Glassnow comes out
- 13:40Speaker 3: tomorrow and does what Blake Snell did in game two,
- 13:43Speaker 3: we're going to a game five. I am a Dodgers fan,
- 13:46Speaker 3: but I am a realist at the same time. I'm
- 13:48Speaker 3: not going to be like, oh, man, we're just going
- 13:49Speaker 3: to win this game. You know, no. This is going
- 13:52Speaker 3: to be a very tough game to win because it
- 13:54Speaker 3: is an elimination game. Y'all are going to come out
- 13:55Speaker 3: with everything y'all have. And hopefully we do the same.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's unless you want to talk a
- 14:04Speaker 1: little bit more about any other of this series, unless
- 14:07Speaker 1: you want to move on to some of these other
- 14:09Speaker 1: AL series.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Or do you have a point?
- 14:12Speaker 3: You want to make? I think the only other thing
- 14:15Speaker 3: I love for this one is that if Yamamoto can
- 14:21Speaker 3: put this together for the rest and propel us to
- 14:24Speaker 3: a three-peat, he could be a potential Hall of Famer.
- 14:29Speaker 3: I think he is a Hall of Famer already. Yeah.
- 14:31Speaker 3: But I think this could put him in potential goat
- 14:33Speaker 3: talk if he propels us to a game three or
- 14:36Speaker 3: a three-peat World Series win. I'm just going to leave
- 14:39Speaker 3: it there. Hot take on the game.
- 14:43Speaker 1: He definitely has that potential. I mean, he has the stuff.
- 14:46Speaker 1: And it's crazy. It doesn't even look like he's breaking
- 14:50Speaker 1: a sweat on the bum. Like, it really doesn't look
- 14:53Speaker 1: like it. And, I mean, the stats speak for himself.
- 14:55Speaker 1: His road ERA that I mentioned, 10-1 in postseason starts.
- 14:58Speaker 2: So, it's there. I mean, it's there. The proof is
- 15:01Speaker 2: in the pudding. It's just a matter of him.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Now, it's not even necessarily as far as can he
- 15:07Speaker 1: do it. He just needs to put the consistency over
- 15:09Speaker 1: these next three to four years.
- 15:11Speaker 3: If he has.
- 15:12Speaker 2: a Cy Young or.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Two, then he's definitely a Hall of Famer. And I
- 15:16Speaker 1: don't think there's no doubt about it.
- 15:19Speaker 3: And I think that's the only thing is that I
- 15:21Speaker 3: feel like in today's, in pitching, you have so many
- 15:25Speaker 3: stars on your team, especially in the Dodgers. I mean,
- 15:28Speaker 3: look who we have now. We have Tarek Scouble, Blake Snell,
- 15:33Speaker 3: Shohei Otani. Even if he doesn't pitch as good as
- 15:36Speaker 3: he's always pitched, we still have him on our team.
- 15:38Speaker 3: Tyler Glass now. All these dudes that are pitching in
- 15:40Speaker 3: the bullpen. I think we have a pretty good shot
- 15:43Speaker 3: if Yamamoto can propel himself. I think he's a potential go.
- 15:48Speaker 3: Just to kind of pivot and turn into another segment here,
- 15:52Speaker 3: I'm going to start something called My Potential B2 of
- 15:55Speaker 3: the Week. This is a team or player that I
- 15:57Speaker 3: think has flown under the radar, done some good work,
- 16:00Speaker 3: and I think that they're an underdog and they're looking
- 16:03Speaker 3: good right now. And my pick for the MLB has
- 16:06Speaker 3: got to be the White Sox. they are tearing this
- 16:09Speaker 3: Guardians team up. I said in the prediction that I thought,
- 16:13Speaker 3: you know, this would look semi-easy. It would be a
- 16:16Speaker 3: little bit of a dogfight for the Guardians, but they
- 16:18Speaker 3: would come out on top, and it has not looked
- 16:20Speaker 3: that way so far. So hopefully the Guardians can pick
- 16:22Speaker 3: this up and force their way into a game, you know,
- 16:25Speaker 3: game four. Fingers crossed.
- 16:28Speaker 1: And I mean, great point that you're mentioning. I just
- 16:33Speaker 1: think the White Sox, yes, we both did expect them
- 16:35Speaker 1: to beat the Astros.
- 16:37Speaker 2: But we expected as it got.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Later on into the year or into these playoff games
- 16:42Speaker 1: that you're going to see the veteran team like, okay,
- 16:44Speaker 1: it's like, okay, it's like this is playoff baseball right here.
- 16:46Speaker 1: You need to go through your phases before you could
- 16:49Speaker 1: actually make the ALCS or make long postseason runs. But
- 16:55Speaker 1: that just hasn't happened for the White Sox yet. It's
- 16:57Speaker 1: just a Cinderella story like you're saying. And, I mean,
- 17:01Speaker 1: that's been their formula. I know game two was a
- 17:03Speaker 1: little bit different.
- 17:03Speaker 2: It was a close one. They won four to three.
- 17:06Speaker 1: And And they were down, actually. But game one, just
- 17:11Speaker 1: off the rip. Just scored a bunch of runs. Like
- 17:14Speaker 1: we said, the first through the fifth inning, they scored
- 17:16Speaker 1: the most runs in MLB throughout the entire year this year.
- 17:19Speaker 1: The biggest thing was, can or do they have that bullpen?
- 17:23Speaker 1: And do they have that late-time hitting that could actually
- 17:26Speaker 1: pull through? And it did exactly happen in the sixth inning.
- 17:29Speaker 1: I mean, they're answering all the questions on the test.
- 17:32Speaker 1: They're doing that as we speak.
- 17:35Speaker 3: And.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Sometimes in baseball, it just doesn't matter. If you're just
- 17:39Speaker 1: hitting the bat at the right time, you can make
- 17:42Speaker 1: it really far in postseason baseball. You really can, and
- 17:45Speaker 1: you make a great point. They are flying underneath the radar,
- 17:49Speaker 1: and I mean, I know the Rays and the Yankees
- 17:51Speaker 1: are expected, which I know we kind of get into that.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I know you want to talk about that other pitcher
- 17:57Speaker 1: right there, Cam Schittler.
- 18:03Speaker 2: And I think they're going to have a really good shot.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I mean, unless something crazy happens, I really don't see
- 18:10Speaker 1: back in Chicago the White Sox losing two games and
- 18:15Speaker 1: then losing in Cleveland. I highly doubt that. I'd put
- 18:18Speaker 1: money on that. So I think White Sox advance. And
- 18:22Speaker 1: I think the Yankees are going to storm back, which
- 18:25Speaker 1: we'll kind of segue into that if you kind of
- 18:27Speaker 1: want to. The Rays are up 2-0 right now. And
- 18:31Speaker 1: Cam was on the bum, obviously the Cy Young. And
- 18:35Speaker 1: those critical errors, five errors from the Yankees infield defense,
- 18:40Speaker 1: which kind of made it look like Cam had a
- 18:42Speaker 1: bad day, but he really didn't. So do the Yankees
- 18:44Speaker 1: have a chance to come back in this series?
- 18:48Speaker 3: It's just going to depend on how they respond to
- 18:51Speaker 3: this adversity. We've seen them before in the past where
- 18:54Speaker 3: they face this adversity. They go through these errors regularly.
- 18:57Speaker 3: and they make their star pitchers look like they are
- 19:02Speaker 3: double-A pitchers. But hopefully they can pick it up because
- 19:07Speaker 3: they have a decent team. Their defense is decent, and
- 19:11Speaker 3: I think their offense is much better than what they're
- 19:13Speaker 3: showing for right now. I'm not too sure who's on
- 19:17Speaker 3: their bump next for their next game.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Max Freed versus Nick Martinez.
- 19:22Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it's a winnable game, especially with Max
- 19:25Speaker 3: Freed on the bump. But hopefully there's not another breakdown
- 19:28Speaker 3: in the Bronx and we see it get to be
- 19:29Speaker 3: a little bit more games because I think it is
- 19:31Speaker 3: an interesting game, interesting series. Hopefully they can pull it
- 19:36Speaker 3: through just for the sake of MLB postseason so we
- 19:39Speaker 3: don't have some Hooper series up in here. I have
- 19:43Speaker 3: ragged on Ken Schittler in the past you know, because
- 19:47Speaker 3: I've seen, I think Yoshinobu Yamamoto is a better pitcher
- 19:50Speaker 3: than he is, given that he does get a little
- 19:53Speaker 3: bit more help from his defense. But, I mean, two
- 19:58Speaker 3: strikeouts in your outing, I don't think that's a good outing. Now,
- 20:03Speaker 3: you can see if someone like Yamamoto has your 10 strikeouts,
- 20:07Speaker 3: but with your five errors... You know what I mean?
- 20:11Speaker 3: It's definitely a give and take. But hopefully the Yankees
- 20:14Speaker 3: can come back and win them a game tomorrow.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, they should.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Like you're saying, Max Freed in his one outing against
- 20:23Speaker 1: the Red Sox, he looked amazing. I think it was
- 20:27Speaker 1: a 1.5 ERA for the– that's what it equaled out to.
- 20:30Speaker 2: And, I mean, Nick Martinez.
- 20:31Speaker 1: I mean, Nick Martinez has been– he is– a good
- 20:37Speaker 1: to great pitcher on any given day. He's not going
- 20:39Speaker 1: to be anything more or less, so it's just going
- 20:41Speaker 1: to be that consistency with the Rays right here. I mean,
- 20:44Speaker 1: Rays could easily win this series, but obviously this is
- 20:47Speaker 1: back in New York. Honestly, I think New York, they
- 20:52Speaker 1: win game three, and I think game four, Rays are
- 20:55Speaker 1: winning it.
- 20:56Speaker 2: That's what I think. I don't think the Rays, they're
- 20:59Speaker 2: losing three straight.
- 21:01Speaker 3: I think the Bleacher Creatures play a massive role in
- 21:04Speaker 3: this one. I think the Bleacher Creatures make an absolute
- 21:09Speaker 3: roll up in this game. I think they're the ones
- 21:12Speaker 3: that make the difference. The Bleacher Creatures, I'm calling out
- 21:14Speaker 3: to you now. Win them this game.
- 21:19Speaker 2: We're calling out a bunch of people on this pod.
- 21:21Speaker 3: Come on, Bleacher Creatures. You have this full support.
- 21:25Speaker 2: TSCSA's full support, the Bleacher Creatures.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Yeah. Make sure you check out my Twitter for all
- 21:34Speaker 3: the updates on the Bleacher Creatures. But I think just
- 21:40Speaker 3: for the sake of MLB postseason, I hope the Yankees
- 21:43Speaker 3: really do pull this off. Yeah.
- 21:46Speaker 1: And now to get on to this series, the game
- 21:51Speaker 1: that we're talking about right now, the Padres are up
- 21:55Speaker 1: 4-2 right now on the bottom of the stakes. It's
- 21:57Speaker 1: kind of like wait and see with this. I know
- 21:59Speaker 1: we'll talk about it later on in the pod, see
- 22:01Speaker 1: if Padres or Brewers, they won this game. The way
- 22:03Speaker 1: it's looking, Padres should win.
- 22:05Speaker 3: But.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Let's talk about the controversial, what you called it. I
- 22:10Speaker 2: will give you credit.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Mason Miller, you were not the biggest fan, but I've
- 22:15Speaker 1: said he's been one of the best closers. But he
- 22:17Speaker 1: did not seal the deal the other day. It was,
- 22:22Speaker 1: I believe it was on Sunday, if I'm not mistaken.
- 22:25Speaker 2: Yeah, it was on Sunday.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Went in the eighth inning, ninth inning he went in.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Churro had a two-run single to walk off.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Brewers are up 2-0, driver's seat.
- 22:36Speaker 1: To make the NLCS right now unless something crazy happens
- 22:39Speaker 1: with the Padres. So, as a Mason Miller hater, how
- 22:43Speaker 1: are you feeling right now?
- 22:44Speaker 3: I feel great. I feel like a ball knower. In
- 22:48Speaker 3: the editing, I want you to put me where I
- 22:50Speaker 3: said this right here. I want you to put it
- 22:53Speaker 3: where I said Mason Miller is going to choke. He's
- 22:56Speaker 3: going to cost the Padres a game and then insert
- 22:59Speaker 3: the clip of him costing the Padres the game. But
- 23:04Speaker 3: I think, you know, Mason Miller... all in all is
- 23:07Speaker 3: a great closer. Dude has some aura. I think that's
- 23:10Speaker 3: what you need to have a closer, but you have
- 23:11Speaker 3: to be able to close out these, these games for
- 23:14Speaker 3: your team in these big moments. Like right now, like
- 23:17Speaker 3: you said, it's four to two and it's going to
- 23:20Speaker 3: the top of the seventh. If they bring a closer in,
- 23:23Speaker 3: can he close this game out for these guys and
- 23:26Speaker 3: get them to a game four? We'll see. Uh, cause
- 23:29Speaker 3: as we're seeing it right now, that was a score
- 23:31Speaker 3: and an error. Um, I'm not watching the game live,
- 23:35Speaker 3: so I don't know what the error was. If it
- 23:36Speaker 3: was an infield, outfield error, you know, catching error, who knows?
- 23:41Speaker 3: But as it looks right now, I mean, the Dodgers
- 23:44Speaker 3: are not the Dodgers. The Padres just have that. It
- 23:49Speaker 3: looks like it's going their way in this game. And I,
- 23:51Speaker 3: as a Padres hater, I hope it doesn't. But what
- 23:55Speaker 3: can you do? I can only do so much from
- 23:58Speaker 3: my seat here in Texas.
- 24:00Speaker 1: And one thing I want to talk about, I know
- 24:02Speaker 1: I kind of, kept talking about it on Monday whenever
- 24:08Speaker 1: everything happened. Mason Miller was tipping pitches, but okay, first
- 24:12Speaker 1: I want to get into the manager. I want to
- 24:15Speaker 1: get into him. Mason Miller has not pitched an eighth
- 24:19Speaker 1: and a ninth inning consecutively. He was always either a
- 24:22Speaker 1: setup man or a closer, which he's been a closer
- 24:24Speaker 1: for the past almost two years at up to this
- 24:27Speaker 1: point he's never pitched six outs so i i know
- 24:32Speaker 1: it was a close game i know you trust your
- 24:34Speaker 1: closer but sometimes they just don't have that many pitches
- 24:38Speaker 1: in them he's a closer for a reason he's one
- 24:40Speaker 1: of the best closers in the game a walk the
- 24:43Speaker 1: last walk off he had was 17 months ago so
- 24:46Speaker 1: that's that's saying something about him so not only was
- 24:49Speaker 1: he into the 40s on the pitch count But he
- 24:51Speaker 1: was tipping pitches. And I mean, the side-by-side pictures of
- 24:54Speaker 1: him with the fastball and the slider, it was night
- 24:59Speaker 1: and day difference. And I know some people, they're saying, oh, well,
- 25:03Speaker 1: I forgot who was on second base. He was letting
- 25:05Speaker 1: them know with like a neck turn or a hat pull,
- 25:07Speaker 1: like what the pitch was going to be. But that's
- 25:09Speaker 1: a game within a game. It's not necessarily stealing signs illegally.
- 25:13Speaker 1: It's just somebody's on second base and you're just tipping
- 25:17Speaker 1: your pitches away. That's part of baseball.
- 25:19Speaker 2: That's why.
- 25:20Speaker 1: Pitchers, you have to have the same setup every single time,
- 25:23Speaker 1: but that was always such a big difference. So I
- 25:26Speaker 1: just kind of want to hear your opinion on that,
- 25:28Speaker 1: the whole tipping pitches and, like, where you stand on, like,
- 25:32Speaker 1: should it be allowed by teams or, like, we're not
- 25:34Speaker 1: talking Astros, like, trash cans, but, like, just like this.
- 25:38Speaker 3: I don't, that's kind of like a shaky topic. I mean,
- 25:45Speaker 3: there is, I feel like if it's for your team,
- 25:47Speaker 3: you're going to be all for it. If it's against
- 25:48Speaker 3: your team, you're like, man, what the hell are you doing?
- 25:51Speaker 3: you know, I feel like it's just a topic that
- 25:53Speaker 3: I need to dive a little bit more into before
- 25:55Speaker 3: I can give my full, cause I didn't go into
- 25:57Speaker 3: the full Mason Miller. I know, you know, to put
- 26:00Speaker 3: it into perspective that I know, I know Rokey was
- 26:03Speaker 3: tipping his pitches unintentionally last season. So that was kind
- 26:07Speaker 3: of the issue he was having. So they brought a
- 26:08Speaker 3: gargantuan glove for him to wear that covers half of
- 26:11Speaker 3: his body, but it fixed his tipping pitching. Um, We
- 26:16Speaker 3: can see as hopefully as Basin Miller has a couple
- 26:19Speaker 3: more outings, if it works for him, what they'll do
- 26:21Speaker 3: to kind of respond to this. But we'll see what
- 26:24Speaker 3: goes on.
- 26:26Speaker 2: Look, watch.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Let me see if I could share my screen really
- 26:30Speaker 1: quick and make this. Like, as somebody who's going to be.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Okay, this is too close.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Like, the big difference between... Just think about it when
- 26:43Speaker 1: you're on second base. between the slider and the fastball
- 26:47Speaker 1: every single time. And like, even like the way the
- 26:50Speaker 1: neck is turned. I mean, that's just, that's just on
- 26:54Speaker 1: the pitcher up to that point, as far as him
- 26:56Speaker 1: tipping his.
- 26:56Speaker 2: Pitches, that's, that's up to him.
- 26:59Speaker 1: So like you cannot, I mean, still, even at that,
- 27:03Speaker 1: it's so hard for somebody who's on second base to
- 27:06Speaker 1: let the third base coach know to let the hitter
- 27:08Speaker 1: actually know what the pitch is going to be. So again,
- 27:12Speaker 1: it's all speculation. And like, it kind of does look
- 27:15Speaker 1: like it going off of video. So, like, even at
- 27:19Speaker 1: that Mason Miller, Mason Miller, his fastball and slider are insane.
- 27:25Speaker 1: To still not hit those pitches or to even get
- 27:28Speaker 1: contact on those pitches because he hit up to 104
- 27:32Speaker 1: and he fouled off, Churro fouled off a 104 fastball.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Like, that's, you still have to, you still have to
- 27:39Speaker 2: hit the ball. Like, it's still one of the hardest
- 27:42Speaker 2: things to do. So, Yeah, credit to the Brewers.
- 27:45Speaker 1: And, I mean, maybe they're better than we thought they were.
- 27:49Speaker 1: I mean, in all honesty.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Like, up to this point. Up to this point.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I still think both of those teams stink in this.
- 27:58Speaker 3: We're watching the World Series and the Braves versus the Dodgers.
- 28:03Speaker 2: I'm just hoping for a game play.
- 28:06Speaker 3: I'm hoping they just take this home tomorrow. I'm hoping.
- 28:10Speaker 2: I hope not. I want to.
- 28:12Speaker 1: I want to stress out for a game five because
- 28:15Speaker 1: when would game five be?
- 28:17Speaker 2: Game five would be a Friday. It would be a Friday.
- 28:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:22Speaker 2: What are you doing Friday?
- 28:24Speaker 3: I don't even know. Watching the Braves and the Dodgers game.
- 28:32Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to be doing.
- 28:33Speaker 2: It's at 7 o'clock. It's at 7 o'clock. We said
- 28:36Speaker 2: we're going to watch a game together.
- 28:37Speaker 3: If it does go to a game five, hopefully we
- 28:40Speaker 3: can get some live reactions of the game. And she
- 28:43Speaker 3: won't go down.
- 28:44Speaker 2: If the Braves lose, nobody's getting to post out of me.
- 28:48Speaker 2: Nobody's getting to post.
- 28:50Speaker 3: If the Dodgers win game five, I will be posting
- 28:54Speaker 3: this on my Twitter. Check it out at the Texas Sportsman.
- 28:56Speaker 3: I will be showing this guy.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think that's all the MLB talk right now.
- 29:06Speaker 1: And it's time to get into, which I feel like
- 29:08Speaker 1: we have a bunch of spicy topics to talk about.
- 29:13Speaker 1: in this last slate of college football. So week five
- 29:17Speaker 1: happened for college football. And we talked about it. There
- 29:21Speaker 1: was going to be a bunch of interesting games. There
- 29:25Speaker 1: was going to be a bunch of interesting games that
- 29:26Speaker 1: happened this weekend.
- 29:27Speaker 2: And there was, and there was plenty of upsets.
- 29:30Speaker 1: So, Brayden, I'll let you start off on which game
- 29:32Speaker 1: or which topic you want to kind of start off
- 29:34Speaker 1: with first with just your reaction from college football in
- 29:37Speaker 1: general this week.
- 29:39Speaker 3: This week. a good slate i was at work watching
- 29:43Speaker 3: these games i'm going to leave my professional duties undisclosed
- 29:47Speaker 3: but wow what a game just to say i was
- 29:51Speaker 3: distracted is an understatement it's an understatement to say the
- 29:55Speaker 3: least um Bama absolutely rolls Mississippi State. Wow, what a
- 30:03Speaker 3: game by Keelon Russell. Wow. This dude is 16 for 22,
- 30:10Speaker 3: three tutties, absolutely outclassing Kamario Taylor. What a game by
- 30:15Speaker 3: Keelon Russell. Running was okay, 66 yards, 14 carries, two
- 30:21Speaker 3: tutties by their running back. Defense looked absolutely solid against
- 30:26Speaker 3: this Mississippi State team. they just looked like they had
- 30:29Speaker 3: control the entire way through this game. And it was,
- 30:33Speaker 3: I want to say it was a little bit of
- 30:34Speaker 3: a shocker. I figured this game was going to go
- 30:36Speaker 3: a little bit closer, still going to Bama, of course,
- 30:39Speaker 3: but I still thought it was a good game. Good
- 30:41Speaker 3: to watch. I mean, Vegas had the Crimson Tide at
- 30:46Speaker 3: under three, minus 110. The Bulldogs were still your underdog.
- 30:51Speaker 3: But overall, what a good game. I just want to
- 30:54Speaker 3: hear your thoughts about what you thought about the game.
- 30:56Speaker 1: So, I kind of want to address... Or, you know what?
- 30:59Speaker 1: Let me mark this. To all the Bama fans, we
- 31:04Speaker 1: are going.
- 31:05Speaker 2: To make a public statement. We expected Bama to win. Yes,
- 31:09Speaker 2: we did. We got a bunch of slack after the game,
- 31:11Speaker 2: rightfully so. We clipped it out of context. Of course
- 31:14Speaker 2: we did. We did, of course. We had to. We
- 31:18Speaker 2: expected Bama to win. Did we expect them to win
- 31:21Speaker 2: by this much? By 33 points?
- 31:22Speaker 3: No. We....
- 31:25Speaker 2: We did not, and I am going to say this.
- 31:27Speaker 1: It's going to, I know this might piss off some
- 31:31Speaker 1: Bama fans after last week to now this week. I
- 31:34Speaker 1: think Bama's, I'm going to go into the B2 segment
- 31:37Speaker 1: that you were talking about, a team that is flying
- 31:40Speaker 1: under the radar. Yes, they did beat Mississippi State, and
- 31:43Speaker 1: it's not something where it's like, oh, it's just Mississippi State.
- 31:47Speaker 2: It's like, oh, they're a ranked team. It's like, come on.
- 31:49Speaker 2: It's like they're ranked number six right now.
- 31:51Speaker 1: I think this team has a legitimate shot to win
- 31:54Speaker 1: the national championship.
- 31:56Speaker 2: And I'm going to say this.
- 31:57Speaker 1: This is with Kaelin DeBoer's offense back in Washington when
- 32:00Speaker 1: he had Michael Penix, Roman Dunzay, Jalen McMillan, Jalen Polk.
- 32:04Speaker 1: This is on steroids right here with the level of
- 32:08Speaker 1: talent that they have right here.
- 32:10Speaker 2: And you know what makes this even better? Kaelin DeBoer
- 32:13Speaker 2: with Michael Penix.
- 32:14Speaker 1: They were throwing the ball all across the backyard. But
- 32:16Speaker 1: with Keelan Russell, who is going to be one of
- 32:20Speaker 1: the top prospects, within this next two years or so
- 32:23Speaker 1: with Kamario Taylor as well, he could actually run. And
- 32:27Speaker 1: one thing about Alabama, if you're not able to get
- 32:31Speaker 1: a pass rush on them, you're going to be screwed.
- 32:34Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
- 32:34Speaker 1: That's why I'm so intrigued with Georgia that's coming up,
- 32:38Speaker 1: which we're going to talk about a little bit later.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Can Georgia get pressure onto Alabama?
- 32:43Speaker 2: Because if they don't, Alabama's going to pick any team apart.
- 32:48Speaker 2: Is it going to be Ohio State in the playoffs?
- 32:50Speaker 2: Is it going to be Texas in the playoffs? I
- 32:53Speaker 2: don't know.
- 32:54Speaker 1: That's something that I'm really intrigued in. They're one of
- 32:57Speaker 1: the few teams. So I looked at the stat. They're
- 32:59Speaker 1: one of the few teams or they're the only team
- 33:03Speaker 1: since 2019 Oklahoma with Lincoln Riley, Jalen Hurts, CeeDee Lamb
- 33:07Speaker 1: to score 45 plus points in the first five games.
- 33:11Speaker 1: So they have the track record for it all. And
- 33:15Speaker 1: of course, Bama is going to be Bama's defense. And
- 33:18Speaker 1: I just feel like after last year, we were killing
- 33:20Speaker 1: the Boreals, kind of underwhelming for Bama standards. So everybody
- 33:24Speaker 1: kind of like took them off the radar like, oh, Bama,
- 33:27Speaker 1: they're not there. Bama's here to compete right now. And
- 33:31Speaker 1: that's my team flying underneath the radar.
- 33:36Speaker 3: That is a very, very good pick. I have another
- 33:39Speaker 3: team in mind for the B2 award and for college
- 33:43Speaker 3: football for me. And it's going to come as a
- 33:45Speaker 3: shocker because I absolutely trash talked this team last week.
- 33:49Speaker 3: But wow, I did not expect this out of Keelan
- 33:52Speaker 3: Russell and Kalen DeBoer. You know, what Kalen DeBoer did
- 33:55Speaker 3: to the Texas Longhorns back in 2023 still stinks to
- 33:58Speaker 3: this day as a Texas fan. But all props to
- 34:02Speaker 3: this dude because he's turned this program around. I mean,
- 34:06Speaker 3: last year, these dudes did not look half as good.
- 34:08Speaker 3: You know, I felt like they were kind of on
- 34:10Speaker 3: a downward trend and now they're looking really good. So,
- 34:13Speaker 3: I fully retract my statement of what I said about Alabama.
- 34:16Speaker 3: They are definitely that underdog team. As of now in
- 34:19Speaker 3: the SEC, and then just to kind of roll off
- 34:22Speaker 3: of that, a shocker in Columbia, Missouri, as number 25 Missouri,
- 34:28Speaker 3: Mizzou stuns number eight Florida. Wow. Did not expect that game. Holy,
- 34:34Speaker 3: I just want to hear your thoughts on that game.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Man, you know, like, because we were both not the biggest, like,
- 34:40Speaker 1: Mizzou fans.
- 34:41Speaker 2: Like, we're like, oh, they're in.
- 34:43Speaker 1: They're only ranked top 25 because they're in the SEC
- 34:46Speaker 1: and like, oh, like they're not going to be able
- 34:48Speaker 1: to beat the top ranked teams. And then they curb
- 34:53Speaker 1: stomp the Florida Gators and which I kind of want
- 34:57Speaker 1: to get into as far as SEC teams after having
- 35:01Speaker 1: big time games, they turn around and lose. Like let's
- 35:04Speaker 1: even go back to Ole Miss beating LSU. Then they
- 35:08Speaker 1: turn around and get curb stomped by Florida. Florida curb stomps.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Ole Miss.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Then they turn around and get curb stomped by Mizzou. So, like,
- 35:17Speaker 1: there just needs to be a level of consistency, and
- 35:20Speaker 1: that's where, like, obviously these are college football players. You're
- 35:22Speaker 1: going to have the ups and downs of emotions riding high.
- 35:25Speaker 2: But Mizzou?
- 35:26Speaker 1: I mean, them being ranked at 14 in the AP
- 35:28Speaker 1: Top 25, deservedly so.
- 35:29Speaker 2: I mean.
- 35:34Speaker 1: I just want to say this team was able to
- 35:37Speaker 1: establish a run. If I'm not mistaken, Jamal Roberts had
- 35:42Speaker 1: like over 200 yards rushing. Then Jaden Bond, we just
- 35:45Speaker 1: talked about him being a Heisman prospect or a Heisman watch.
- 35:49Speaker 1: He got shut down in this game right here. And also,
- 35:54Speaker 1: I guess I kind of revisionist history looking back at it.
- 35:58Speaker 1: We really didn't take how serious a Florida Gators defense
- 36:01Speaker 1: it is kind of. susceptible to giving up this stuff.
- 36:04Speaker 1: Right here, they just had a great game versus Ole Miss.
- 36:07Speaker 1: And then Lacey, Kwon Lacey, if I'm not mistaken, his name,
- 36:12Speaker 1: he was out versus them. So it's kind of like
- 36:15Speaker 1: watered down Ole Miss' offense. But Mizzou, shout out to Mizzou.
- 36:20Speaker 1: And I mean, you said last week on the pod,
- 36:23Speaker 1: anybody listen to the pod, they're like, oh, Mizzou, they're irrelevant.
- 36:26Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about them. Another top 25 team,
- 36:28Speaker 1: ranked for Texas. Now, it's going to be, the track
- 36:32Speaker 1: record is going to be crazy. Because Florida, if I'm
- 36:35Speaker 1: not mistaken, in the AP, they went down to 16.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Mississippi State, 17.
- 36:41Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to play it like this,
- 36:44Speaker 1: which I think it's so nasty, and I think you can,
- 36:46Speaker 1: and I think you will, you're going to say, oh,
- 36:48Speaker 1: Texas has beat five teams in the top 20. It's like,
- 36:51Speaker 1: this is why we should beat number, it's, go ahead,
- 36:56Speaker 1: go ahead. I kind of want to hear your takes.
- 36:59Speaker 3: I'm just going to kind of reiterate what you said
- 37:01Speaker 3: about Jamal Roberts. What a game by this dude. I
- 37:06Speaker 3: did not expect it. I mean, you have 211 rushing
- 37:09Speaker 3: yards and 24 carries and three touchdowns. You have Austin
- 37:14Speaker 3: Simmons throwing two tuds. I don't know if it was
- 37:16Speaker 3: throwing two tuds, running two tuds. I wasn't too keyed
- 37:19Speaker 3: in on this game. 23 for 30, though. That is
- 37:22Speaker 3: a good quarterback right there. 340 passing yards. Not much
- 37:26Speaker 3: you can say about that and not much you can do.
- 37:29Speaker 3: But I still think this Florida team is a very
- 37:31Speaker 3: solid team. If you have to play them at home,
- 37:33Speaker 3: it's going to be tough in the swamp. But seeing
- 37:37Speaker 3: Texas having to travel to Missouri, it's not going.
- 37:40Speaker 2: To be as easy as I thought.
- 37:45Speaker 3: It was going to be. It's looking very scary. And
- 37:49Speaker 3: I think to say this as my hot take of
- 37:52Speaker 3: the week, it's a take it or leave it. Your
- 37:57Speaker 3: SEC is your very obvious powerhouse conference in college football
- 38:01Speaker 3: right now. This conference is going to eat each other
- 38:05Speaker 3: alive when it comes down to conference play and who's
- 38:08Speaker 3: going to make it into the playoffs and who is not.
- 38:10Speaker 3: We kind of said this last week. Does an SEC
- 38:13Speaker 3: team that has two or three losses deserve it over
- 38:16Speaker 3: a crappy, let's say, Notre Dame team that we've said
- 38:20Speaker 3: that isn't a top three team, top five team, top
- 38:23Speaker 3: ten team, whatever you want to say. But I think
- 38:27Speaker 3: that you should kind of just match the schedules up
- 38:29Speaker 3: because Notre Dame playing these little, you know, not saying
- 38:34Speaker 3: that they're little teams, but I feel like you should,
- 38:37Speaker 3: I feel like the AP Top 25 needs to reevaluate
- 38:40Speaker 3: how they're going to put these teams in the college
- 38:42Speaker 3: football playoffs.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I would just looking as like somebody
- 38:48Speaker 1: who would be doing the top 12 in college football,
- 38:51Speaker 1: I think in the Big 12, it's going to be, Honestly,
- 38:56Speaker 1: I think it's going to be BYU or Utah in
- 38:58Speaker 1: all honesty. Like Tech, I know Tech's undefeated right now,
- 39:01Speaker 1: but I really don't think that they're going to be.
- 39:03Speaker 1: I don't really think that they're that good this year
- 39:06Speaker 1: as they were last year. They lost a bunch of starters.
- 39:09Speaker 1: But I think even if you go to the Big
- 39:13Speaker 1: 12 Championship, somebody's going to lose that game. I would
- 39:16Speaker 1: much rather have an SEC team like a Tennessee, like
- 39:21Speaker 1: a Florida, like a Mississippi State at that 12 spot
- 39:25Speaker 1: compared to a runner-up in a Big 12 championship. And
- 39:29Speaker 1: I know, like, people they're gonna be like oh that's
- 39:31Speaker 1: SEC bias SEC is the best conference in college football
- 39:36Speaker 1: and this is me talking about as a Florida State
- 39:39Speaker 1: fan when it was a four-team college playoff leaving an
- 39:43Speaker 1: undefeated Florida State team out for Bama so Now looking
- 39:48Speaker 1: back at it after kind of seeing it, Jordan Travis
- 39:52Speaker 1: getting hurt, it makes every sense. It makes every sense
- 39:57Speaker 1: to do that because as of right now, you have Texas, Georgia, Bama, LSU,
- 40:03Speaker 1: Ole Miss.
- 40:04Speaker 2: You have five.
- 40:06Speaker 1: You have five SEC teams right now that would be
- 40:08Speaker 1: making the college football playoff. And even when Georgia and Bama,
- 40:12Speaker 1: they play next week, none of them are really going
- 40:15Speaker 1: to move up or down in all honesty. Like you're,
- 40:18Speaker 1: you're not going to see that much of a difference.
- 40:19Speaker 1: They're going to stay at eight, maybe worse, but honestly, I,
- 40:28Speaker 1: I really don't disagree with this top 12 in all honesty.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Maybe I put, instead of tech at 11, I'd put
- 40:35Speaker 1: Oregon there, or I'd put, you could even argue Missouri there.
- 40:40Speaker 1: I mean, how do you just feel about this top
- 40:42Speaker 1: 12 in general?
- 40:44Speaker 3: I think ranking this top 12 does not need to
- 40:48Speaker 3: be as hard as the AP top 25 is making it.
- 40:52Speaker 3: Get Texas Tech out of there. Indiana, what have they
- 40:57Speaker 3: shown other than being undefeated? I mean, who were they playing?
- 41:01Speaker 1: Can I kind of defend Indiana? You have a national championship. Okay,
- 41:09Speaker 1: let this be any other team. Let this be Bama, Georgia, Texas,
- 41:12Speaker 1: any SC team. They just won a national championship, and
- 41:16Speaker 1: they start off undefeated. How many times do you see
- 41:20Speaker 1: the following year? They're undefeated up to this point. They're
- 41:23Speaker 1: not ranked a top three team.
- 41:28Speaker 3: I think you just have to see who you're playing.
- 41:31Speaker 3: I don't think Indiana is playing the stars that Texas, Georgia,
- 41:35Speaker 3: Ohio State have played, Alabama. I mean, you know, Ole
- 41:38Speaker 3: Miss has gone through two very tough games leading up
- 41:41Speaker 3: to this point. LSU has gone through so many tough
- 41:44Speaker 3: games already leading up to this point. How many tough
- 41:47Speaker 3: games have you seen Texas Tech have? Utah? Yeah. I
- 41:52Speaker 3: just don't see it. Notre Dame, get them out of
- 41:55Speaker 3: the top five and get them into a conference. You
- 41:59Speaker 3: know what's funny?
- 42:05Speaker 1: As funny as this sounds, because years prior when Notre
- 42:08Speaker 1: Dame would make the college football playoff, I'd really be
- 42:11Speaker 1: skeptical about it. But I really do think Notre Dame
- 42:15Speaker 1: has potential to be one of the best teams in
- 42:17Speaker 1: the country.
- 42:18Speaker 2: So, like, I don't have a.
- 42:20Speaker 1: I don't disagree with Notre Dame being up there, but
- 42:23Speaker 1: I do agree with the sentiments of being.
- 42:26Speaker 2: They need to be in a conference. They need to be.
- 42:30Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, they play Miami every year.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Might as well just put them in the ACC, in
- 42:35Speaker 1: all honesty. You might as well. But what about Miami?
- 42:39Speaker 1: How do you feel about Miami? Because they're kind of
- 42:41Speaker 1: the same... They're kind of in the same track record.
- 42:44Speaker 1: I mean, at least Miami blows teams out. So how
- 42:46Speaker 1: do you feel about Miami?
- 42:49Speaker 3: I feel like they have a better chance. Like last year,
- 42:51Speaker 3: we kind of see the same thing where people are like, oh,
- 42:53Speaker 3: Carson Banks is not that good, and then he goes
- 42:54Speaker 3: on to take his team to the college football playoffs
- 42:57Speaker 3: and then go to the national championship, but ultimately lose
- 43:00Speaker 3: to a great Fernando Mendoza. I think Miami is still
- 43:04Speaker 3: a pretty decent team. I think they still make it
- 43:06Speaker 3: to the college football playoffs, and I think they have
- 43:08Speaker 3: a good year. Don't carry the same sentiment as Notre Dame.
- 43:12Speaker 3: Indiana is going to be Indiana. Kurt Signetti, I think,
- 43:15Speaker 3: is a great coach. A little bit of an a-hole
- 43:17Speaker 3: at times, but good coach. BYU, I think they take
- 43:22Speaker 3: the Big 12, so them being in the top 10,
- 43:24Speaker 3: I'm not too crazy about. But just to kind of
- 43:30Speaker 3: segue into another thing that I wanted to talk about
- 43:33Speaker 3: is how many teams have these tough, absolute tough slates,
- 43:37Speaker 3: and what conference do you see them in? The SEC.
- 43:41Speaker 3: So I feel like you just kind of got to
- 43:42Speaker 3: give the SEC some props here going into this year.
- 43:45Speaker 3: I really haven't touched too much on Texas. We have
- 43:48Speaker 3: big games coming up, Red River Rivalries this week. So
- 43:52Speaker 3: we'll kind of get into some expectations, what my prediction
- 43:55Speaker 3: is for the game, kind of roll into the rest
- 43:57Speaker 3: of the schedule.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go ahead and do it right now.
- 44:00Speaker 3: Classic Red River Rivalry split at the 50. Half is
- 44:03Speaker 3: burnt orange, half is maroon, whatever that ugly color is.
- 44:08Speaker 3: You know, it's 1130 right now. And OU still sucks.
- 44:11Speaker 3: I'm going to be carrying this all the way up
- 44:12Speaker 3: until Saturday. Um, but I think this, I don't think
- 44:18Speaker 3: OU is just going to come into this game and
- 44:19Speaker 3: lay down for Texas and be like, Oh, you guys
- 44:21Speaker 3: can win. I still think it's going to be a
- 44:23Speaker 3: hard rock game. Hopefully Texas can produce some offensive plays
- 44:26Speaker 3: and get the ball rolling early. If we can get
- 44:28Speaker 3: this rolling early, hopefully we'll get another 49 and zero
- 44:31Speaker 3: game out of, out of Texas. Like we have in
- 44:33Speaker 3: the past. Um, hopefully Hollywood's mothers is back this week. Um,
- 44:38Speaker 3: Hopefully Arch Madden can produce defense. I'm not too, too
- 44:42Speaker 3: worried about defense. Will Muschamp has put together a good
- 44:44Speaker 3: defense here for the Texas Longhorns. And I feel like
- 44:47Speaker 3: we'll be just fine. Expectation-wise, I already kind of laid
- 44:52Speaker 3: that out. Prediction. Official prediction for the Red River rivalry.
- 44:58Speaker 3: 100 to a 0. Texas wins it, baby. I'm just playing.
- 45:03Speaker 3: But in all honesty, I do expect this Texas team
- 45:05Speaker 3: to score above 40 points in this game. And if
- 45:08Speaker 3: they don't, it's going to be a very disappointing week
- 45:10Speaker 3: in Austin. I'm not saying that this OU team is
- 45:16Speaker 3: absolutely terrible to the point where it should be an
- 45:18Speaker 3: absolute steamroll. But this Texas team is so much better
- 45:22Speaker 3: than we've known against UTSA and how we looked against Tennessee.
- 45:29Speaker 3: I think we have a lot more potential than what
- 45:31Speaker 3: we're showing. Hopefully SART comes out. and puts the pedal
- 45:34Speaker 3: down and does not let off until the final whistle
- 45:37Speaker 3: is blown. I just want to hear what you kind
- 45:39Speaker 3: of got to say about this game.
- 45:43Speaker 1: I really want to see Texas as far as prove
- 45:47Speaker 1: themselves as the number one team. And like how everybody,
- 45:52Speaker 1: it's pretty much shoe-in right now. After Ohio State, everybody,
- 45:55Speaker 1: if Texas doesn't lose the rest of the year, they
- 45:57Speaker 1: should be number one. But I'm looking for something after
- 46:00Speaker 1: the bye. You recollected after a crazy win. Ohio State
- 46:05Speaker 1: and Tennessee, really, two emotional games.
- 46:08Speaker 2: Now you relax.
- 46:09Speaker 1: The dust has settled. Now let's see what you're going
- 46:12Speaker 1: to do the rest of the year. And it starts
- 46:14Speaker 1: right here with Oklahoma. Because, I mean, to be fair,
- 46:18Speaker 1: Texas has kind of dog-walked Oklahoma these past couple years
- 46:22Speaker 1: in the Red River rivalry. But I expect it to
- 46:26Speaker 1: be some sort of a pushback in the first and
- 46:28Speaker 1: second quarter or, like, early second quarter. But I want
- 46:32Speaker 1: to see Texas have a blowout this game. That's one
- 46:35Speaker 1: thing that I'm looking for. And it's just different. I
- 46:38Speaker 1: know some people say, oh, what if Texas just wins?
- 46:40Speaker 1: If they win a close game like in the 30s
- 46:44Speaker 1: where it's like a field goal game or a game
- 46:46Speaker 1: winning touchdown, I won't be impressed with Texas in all honesty.
- 46:49Speaker 1: That's expectations of being a top team in the country.
- 46:52Speaker 1: You have to blow teams out where if they have
- 46:55Speaker 1: no business. And that's one thing somebody with the outside
- 46:58Speaker 1: looking in who's not a Texas fan. Texas, they always
- 47:01Speaker 1: play up or play down to their competition. And that's
- 47:04Speaker 1: just one thing that really scares me in this game.
- 47:07Speaker 1: Because Oklahoma, if you play down to the competition, who
- 47:12Speaker 1: knows what can happen? A rivalry game, both coaching staffs
- 47:16Speaker 1: really know each other that well. So Texas, if they
- 47:19Speaker 1: don't win by more than 20 plus points, honestly, disappointing.
- 47:23Speaker 2: Disappointing in my opinion.
- 47:26Speaker 3: I think I'm on the same page as you. I've
- 47:28Speaker 3: watched Texas for... as long as I can remember, I've
- 47:32Speaker 3: gone through the Mack Brown days, Charlie Strong, Tom Herman,
- 47:35Speaker 3: and now we're at the Sarkeesian days. And Texas does
- 47:39Speaker 3: have that reputation. Even when we were, you know, ranking
- 47:42Speaker 3: around 10 to 15, if we played really good teams,
- 47:46Speaker 3: we played really well. And there were close games and
- 47:49Speaker 3: potentially winning those games. And now we go against these
- 47:51Speaker 3: unranked teams. And while we're in a dog fight with,
- 47:54Speaker 3: you know, back when we were in the big 12,
- 47:55Speaker 3: getting into dog fights with Kansas. So, Hopefully, Sarkeesian comes
- 48:01Speaker 3: out and puts together a complete game and blows the
- 48:05Speaker 3: Sooners out of the water. Because after that, schedule's not
- 48:10Speaker 3: going to get easy. I mean, you have Florida, Ole Miss, LSU,
- 48:15Speaker 3: Mississippi State, Mizzou, A & M. That's not an easy schedule.
- 48:20Speaker 2: The easiest game is A & M.
- 48:21Speaker 3: You need this confidence win. That's crazy to say. Is
- 48:24Speaker 3: it Kyle Field?
- 48:24Speaker 2: Is it Kyle Field?
- 48:26Speaker 3: It's Kyle Field, so it's not going to be. Oh, yeah.
- 48:29Speaker 2: That's not an easy game.
- 48:30Speaker 3: It's still going to be a rivalry game. It's not
- 48:32Speaker 3: going to be an easy game. I think the Longhorns
- 48:36Speaker 3: need this big win against OU and the Red River
- 48:40Speaker 3: to be able to propel some of that confidence and
- 48:42Speaker 3: arch in the offense. I really don't think you need
- 48:45Speaker 3: that confidence in the defense. I think they already have it.
- 48:48Speaker 3: I think Sarkeesian also needs this confidence boost as a
- 48:50Speaker 3: play-calling coach, and hopefully they put together a good game
- 48:55Speaker 3: this weekend. Yeah.
- 48:57Speaker 1: And I feel like two marquee games I kind of
- 49:00Speaker 1: want to talk about here, but let's go ahead and
- 49:02Speaker 1: talk about the heavy hitter. You have, we talked about
- 49:05Speaker 1: a big dog in the SEC, but we're going to
- 49:07Speaker 1: have two big dogs in Tuscaloosa battling on Saturday night
- 49:13Speaker 1: right here, which I am so excited to see. It's
- 49:15Speaker 1: going to be Alabama versus Georgia. And pretty much without
- 49:19Speaker 1: even saying it this is going to be the shoe
- 49:21Speaker 1: in for who's going to make the SEC championship on
- 49:24Speaker 1: this side of the bracket if that makes sense I
- 49:26Speaker 1: know not every SEC team face each other Bama's favored
- 49:29Speaker 1: by one and a half here so that shows Georgia
- 49:32Speaker 1: is kind of this is going to be a dogfight
- 49:35Speaker 1: I mean it's a one point game for a reason
- 49:37Speaker 1: so who are you picking in this game.
- 49:47Speaker 3: You're putting me in a tough spot here, Fonz. I
- 49:52Speaker 3: know who I'm going with. I think you have a
- 49:54Speaker 3: great team in Georgia. I hate Gunner Stockton, but they
- 49:58Speaker 3: can put together a game. All that said, I'm going
- 50:04Speaker 3: to be like Drewski in that one hillbilly. Give me
- 50:06Speaker 3: the Roll Tide, baby. I'm taking the Roll Tide to
- 50:09Speaker 3: win it.
- 50:10Speaker 2: Roll Tide.
- 50:12Speaker 3: Roll Tide. Roll down tight. I'm taking the roll tight
- 50:15Speaker 3: to win it. Hopefully, I mean, game day is going
- 50:18Speaker 3: to be a huge game. If I'm not mistaken, Bama
- 50:21Speaker 3: has that home field advantage. Yeah. That's going to play
- 50:24Speaker 3: in big. Give me the roll tight.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
- 50:30Speaker 1: After that whole spiel that I had as far as
- 50:33Speaker 1: Bama being the sleeper team, I think that ends this week.
- 50:39Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is they put the
- 50:41Speaker 1: entire world on notice by upsetting Georgia right here. And honestly,
- 50:48Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's this crazy. They could be,
- 50:52Speaker 1: if Texas doesn't have a good outing and win, they
- 50:55Speaker 1: could be the number one team in the country. I mean,
- 50:57Speaker 1: I really don't think that's that crazy to say in
- 51:00Speaker 1: all honesty. And I just think just with this offense,
- 51:04Speaker 1: like I said, and Keelan Russell, he's living up to
- 51:07Speaker 1: the moment right now. And just Kalen DeBoer is... The
- 51:11Speaker 1: perfect sediment to what college football should be right now.
- 51:15Speaker 1: Heavy passing, mobile quarterback, get the ball out. You have
- 51:18Speaker 1: Ryan Williams. You have other amazing stars. And like I
- 51:21Speaker 1: was saying, if Georgia's able to get pressure on Keelan Russell,
- 51:25Speaker 1: then yes, they have a great shot. But that's a
- 51:30Speaker 1: big if. That's a big if right there. And I
- 51:32Speaker 1: just don't see that happening. So I still think this
- 51:36Speaker 1: is still going to be a classic game to watch
- 51:39Speaker 1: right here. But I think Bama wins this game. This
- 51:41Speaker 1: is going to be in the 30s, maybe 40s. We're
- 51:44Speaker 1: going to see maybe turn of the tide freshman year,
- 51:48Speaker 1: Ryan Williams. We're going to see that come back out.
- 51:50Speaker 1: We're going to have another classic moment like that. But
- 51:53Speaker 1: such a great game. I can't wait for that game
- 51:55Speaker 1: to happen right there. So any other takeaways before we
- 51:59Speaker 1: get into this next game?
- 52:02Speaker 3: I'm going to give Alabama the win, 35-33.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's definitely going to be in the 30s. And, okay,
- 52:15Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about this game, but
- 52:18Speaker 1: I feel like I'm higher on this team than others.
- 52:20Speaker 1: I'm not saying high where it's like national championship expectations,
- 52:24Speaker 1: but USC ranked 19th going into Beaver Stadium versus Penn State,
- 52:30Speaker 1: where it's going to be a wideout game.
- 52:33Speaker 2: This is a very tough.
- 52:35Speaker 1: Game for USC, which you can see Penn State winning,
- 52:38Speaker 1: but the better team is obviously USC right here. So
- 52:41Speaker 1: who do you got in this one right here?
- 52:46Speaker 3: I'm going to, right off the bat, I'm going to
- 52:49Speaker 3: take USC. I think Lincoln Riley gets it done after
- 52:53Speaker 3: that upsetting loss against Oregon. I think he kind of
- 52:56Speaker 3: bounces back. I think they just have a better quarterback,
- 53:01Speaker 3: better running back. defense being shaky as it is i
- 53:06Speaker 3: still think usc gets away with the win here.
- 53:09Speaker 1: Yeah i think i think usc wins this game it's
- 53:11Speaker 1: going to be a tough game honestly okay like i
- 53:14Speaker 1: was saying there's different expectations between a texas team blowing
- 53:17Speaker 1: out of oklahoma usc they just need they just need
- 53:20Speaker 1: to win this game they just need to as long
- 53:22Speaker 1: as they have a w at the end of the
- 53:23Speaker 1: day then they're going to be a top 15 ranked
- 53:25Speaker 1: team maybe potential for college football playoff but Okay, I
- 53:30Speaker 1: kind of want to get into something else. I don't
- 53:32Speaker 1: know if you kind of heard the whole thing as
- 53:33Speaker 1: far as there are some USC fans saying they want
- 53:36Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley fired, but just the contracts and dollars don't
- 53:41Speaker 1: make sense. I saw Joe Klatt breaking this down, which
- 53:44Speaker 1: Joe Klatt, he's one of the best college football guys
- 53:46Speaker 1: as far as just watching him podcast, stuff like that.
- 53:50Speaker 2: To get out of Lincoln Riley's contract is like $ 70 million.
- 53:53Speaker 3: $ 70 million.
- 53:54Speaker 1: To get out of the assistance contract is another $ 4 million.
- 53:58Speaker 1: To actually have a competent roster, that's another $ 20 million.
- 54:02Speaker 1: And then get another coach, that's going to be another
- 54:06Speaker 1: $ 10 million at least. So how do you feel about
- 54:12Speaker 1: the whole Lincoln Riley thing? I feel like that's always
- 54:14Speaker 1: been a big thing, even since when he was.
- 54:17Speaker 2: Back at Oklahoma. So how do you feel about that?
- 54:20Speaker 1: I mean, you've had firsthand experience with Lincoln Riley, both
- 54:24Speaker 1: at Oklahoma being a Texas fan?
- 54:27Speaker 3: I think if Lincoln Riley can get him a good
- 54:29Speaker 3: defensive coordinator, an actual solid one, if I'm not mistaken,
- 54:33Speaker 3: the one that was at TCU, name is just slipping
- 54:37Speaker 3: my mind right now. He's over there at USC. Hopefully
- 54:40Speaker 3: he gets one better than him. I don't think he's
- 54:42Speaker 3: the guy for the job. USC defensively has looked shaky
- 54:46Speaker 3: year in and year out since Lincoln Riley has got there.
- 54:50Speaker 3: And that was his downfall. I owe you as well.
- 54:53Speaker 3: I mean, he was letting Texas, Charlie Strong put up
- 54:55Speaker 3: crazy numbers against him. Tom Herman, Texas put crazy numbers
- 54:59Speaker 3: up against him. So I think if he gets a
- 55:02Speaker 3: solid defensive coordinator, this USC team can be very, very
- 55:06Speaker 3: dangerous this year or in the upcoming years. So I
- 55:09Speaker 3: think USC would be dumb to move on with Lincoln.
- 55:13Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure. I agree with that.
- 55:16Speaker 1: I just saw that and I felt like I had
- 55:17Speaker 1: to bring that up, but Is there any other marquee
- 55:20Speaker 1: things or just college football? Or actually, I want to
- 55:25Speaker 1: get into this. So I told you about this a
- 55:27Speaker 1: little bit before. Ohio State, they went into Iowa, which
- 55:32Speaker 1: it's a tough place to play. The last time they
- 55:34Speaker 1: gave up 30-plus points in Iowa Stadium, or Iowa actually has,
- 55:40Speaker 1: was back in 2016. So it's hard for a team
- 55:43Speaker 1: to score 30 points where Iowa's at. I want to
- 55:48Speaker 1: have an uncomfortable conversation as far as Jeremiah Smith is slowly,
- 55:55Speaker 1: I don't even think slowly at this point. I think
- 55:57Speaker 1: he is reaching those uncomfortable conversations with the Archie Griffin, the,
- 56:03Speaker 1: one of the greatest Ohio state players, Orlando pace, Eddie George.
- 56:08Speaker 1: I think he might be one of the greatest Ohio
- 56:10Speaker 1: state players ever, ever at this point. And, He has
- 56:16Speaker 1: all the tools and tangibles as far as the receiving yards,
- 56:22Speaker 1: the receiving yards, the catches, the touchdowns, what he's doing
- 56:24Speaker 1: ever since his freshman year. He broke it, I think,
- 56:27Speaker 1: week two or week three. He's going to win the
- 56:30Speaker 1: Bolitnikoff this year. I really don't think that's a question.
- 56:33Speaker 1: He should have won it last year over Makai Lemon,
- 56:35Speaker 1: but he got hurt. I mean, at this point, he
- 56:38Speaker 1: already has 823 yards and nine touchdowns. The insanity of
- 56:42Speaker 1: that through five games is crazy. I think he, up
- 56:47Speaker 1: to this point, should be the Heisman winner. I really
- 56:51Speaker 1: don't think that's a question up to this point. So
- 56:54Speaker 1: if he wins the Heisman, the Bolitnikov already has a
- 56:58Speaker 1: national championship, pretty much has all of those. I know
- 57:02Speaker 1: Orlando Pace has an offensive lineman, won a two-time Lombardi Award,
- 57:06Speaker 1: and finished fourth in Heisman as a lineman. And obviously
- 57:10Speaker 1: Archie Griffin won back-to-back Heisman's craziest thing ever. I think
- 57:15Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, bare minimum, a top three running back ever.
- 57:20Speaker 1: People are going to say, oh, Eddie George. Eddie George
- 57:22Speaker 1: had one great year. Jeremiah Smith has done this for
- 57:26Speaker 1: three consecutive years. RUB being the best wide receiver. From
- 57:31Speaker 1: wide receiver you, Jackson Smith, Chris Carter, Chris Olave, like Mark.
- 57:38Speaker 1: Let's not say Marvin Harrison up to this point right now.
- 57:42Speaker 2: But Emeka Igbuka.
- 57:44Speaker 1: There's plenty other guys that I'm forgetting at the top
- 57:48Speaker 1: of my head right now. He is the best wide
- 57:50Speaker 1: receiver in Ohio State history. And I don't think that's
- 57:53Speaker 1: a question from wide receiver you. So I don't know
- 57:56Speaker 1: how you feel.
- 57:57Speaker 2: About that right there. So just hearing your take.
- 58:02Speaker 3: I think it's a solid take. I think you've hit
- 58:05Speaker 3: every point that I was going to say. I think
- 58:07Speaker 3: this dude is legit. I think you're a ball-knowledgeable dude.
- 58:16Speaker 3: The sleep deprivation is getting to me. Long hours. It's
- 58:21Speaker 3: a ball-knowing take. This dude is hard to stop for
- 58:25Speaker 3: any defense, no matter how good they are. Dude's a dog.
- 58:31Speaker 3: That's all I can say. Dude is an absolute dog.
- 58:34Speaker 3: He's going to be... I think someone takes him number one. He.
- 58:40Speaker 1: What sucks is that he's not going to go number
- 58:42Speaker 1: one just because there's going to be quarterback needs or
- 58:46Speaker 1: somebody's going to trade up for a quarterback.
- 58:47Speaker 2: But he should be.
- 58:49Speaker 3: I mean.
- 58:50Speaker 1: I mean, you know how crazy it is for Emeka Ibuka,
- 58:53Speaker 1: somebody who's going to be a first-round pick, to say,
- 58:55Speaker 1: I want to stay back another year just so I
- 58:57Speaker 1: can play with Jeremiah Smith.
- 58:59Speaker 3: Like.
- 59:00Speaker 2: You know how crazy that is right there? So I
- 59:05Speaker 2: just wanted to say that right there. And I don't know.
- 59:10Speaker 1: If you have any other college football takes or anything
- 59:12Speaker 1: before we play this mini game or some or mini
- 59:16Speaker 1: game before we get into NFL so any other college
- 59:19Speaker 1: football things.
- 59:19Speaker 3: College football we'll see we'll see how we look at
- 59:23Speaker 3: the end of this week like I said we have
- 59:25Speaker 3: two one rivalry game and then one real I don't
- 59:29Speaker 3: see it um alabama and georgia as a rivalry game
- 59:33Speaker 3: um tough game yes rivalry game no yeah we'll see
- 59:37Speaker 3: how we look after this week there's some it's not
- 59:39Speaker 3: as good of a slate this week other than alabama
- 59:42Speaker 3: georgia red river usc penn state we'll see how we'll
- 59:46Speaker 3: see how the top 25 lines up after this week yeah.
- 59:49Speaker 1: I mean just very quickly oregon ucla ucla they've been
- 59:54Speaker 1: pretty good this year but i think oregon should win
- 59:56Speaker 1: i mean i don't think that should be no conversation
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: Right there, if I'm not mistaken. So this last thing
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: right here, let me go ahead and share my screen.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: This is going to be, if people, they've watched other episodes,
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: we've played this game before.
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: It's called Build the Quarterback. It's where there's different skills.
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: This is NFL.
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: So while we're doing this, we'll just be talking NFL things.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: So there's physical, mental, and then there's, I don't know
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: why this is in the way right here, but I
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: believe it's attributes.
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: Attributes.
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: So there's different things that build a quarterback. It's an
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: NFL style. We're going to spin the wheel.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: You have two separate spins.
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: You could re-spin a team or you could re-spin the
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: quarterback off that certain team. So while we're just talking NFL,
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: giving quick updates, we're going to be playing these games
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: right here. So first spin, but just overall, Brayden, what
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: have you seen from the NFL or this week that
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: has you intrigued?
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: Bears? Dijon Robinson. Wow. B. John... This dude is a dog.
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: Dude, I.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Okay, here's... So, okay, there was this one thing I
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: told Braden before that I said, let me tell you this,
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: or actually, I'm going to wait until I say this
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: on the pod so I can get your genuine reaction
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: of this.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: I feel like B.
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: John Robinson, just as a talent, as a talent, and
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: up to this point, up to this point in their
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: respective careers... Bijan is better than Barry Sanders. And I
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: don't feel like it's that crazy of a take. I
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: really don't think that just as far as a complete running.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: Back, there's no flaw in his game. So how do
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: you feel about that?
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: You're saying this through the biggest B. John Robinson stand
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: in the world. If there are a thousand people that
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: love B. John Robinson, I'm one of them. If there's
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: a hundred people that love B. John Robinson, I'm one
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: of them. If there's ten people left in this world
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: that love B. John Robinson, I'm going to be one
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: of them. And if there's nobody in this world that
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: loves B. John Robinson, that means I am dead. I mean,
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: the dude is a class act, amazing running back. Dude
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: makes some amazing mustard. Shout out B. John Mustardson. The
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: dude is just a dog. I mean, I've said this
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: since he was at Texas. If Texas keeps him, we
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: win the 2023 National Championship. That's a rant for another day.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: That's another take we'll kind of get into later on
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: in another episode.
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Whenever I was saying this, people thought I was crazy,
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: but I really don't. I really don't see it as crazy.
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: And I mean, okay, now with this thing right here, so, okay,
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: let me just break it down to you a little bit.
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: So like there's these nine different attributes, like you see
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: up here on the screen, there's arm leg size, pre-snap leadership,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: post-snap accuracy, touch pre playmaking slash creativity and pocket presence.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: So we got Caleb Williams with the first spin right here.
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: I want to take something as far as skill wise,
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: because with legs and arms, We can find this with
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks or lesser quarterbacks.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Like a Joe Milton. We can find that.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: So I'm kind of leaning towards playmaking and creativity because
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: I don't think there's.
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: Anybody better than Caleb Williams to do that.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: So are you wanting to do anything else?
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: I'm on board with that. Okay.
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: All right, let's see what our next spin is right here.
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: So, okay, by the way, so it gives us an
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: overall in the top right, and then we simulate a season.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: It's pretty quick, and we see if we could win
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: MVP– Or something along those lines right there. So that's
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: the main goal.
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: Cowboys? Okay. See, this is what I mean. This is
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: what I mean.
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: We got Sam Howell for this. We have two separate re-spins.
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: A re-spin team and a re-spin quarterback. So we could gamble.
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: We could re-spin quarterback.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: We could get Dak.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: Or we could get Joe Milton because his arm is
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: A +. Or would you just want to go with
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: the B arm of Sam Howell?
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: I'm going to take B-arm of Sam Howell.
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: So we got the B-arm. It's an 89. It's an 89.
- 1:04:29Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: Now let's see. Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow. Josh Johnson. So
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: hear me out. Hear me out.
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: If we re-spin quarterback, we're going to get Joe Flacco
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: or we're going to get Joe Burrow, which I feel
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: like they will have a lot better attributes.
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: Than Josh Johnson.
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: No disrespect to Josh Johnson, who's been on like 12
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: different teams, but are you with me on this?
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: I say we roll for Joe Scheisse and hopefully not
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: get Joe Poopy and Joe Flacco. Let's see.
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: Respend quarterback. Joe Burrow. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, he has
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: an S tier. Okay. There's pre-snap S, but accuracy and
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: touch is S. I would go accuracy and touch.
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: Give me that accuracy and touch. Give me that accuracy
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: and touch.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: Yes, up to 97, yes. See, okay, we might not
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: have the biggest arm, but the accuracy and the playmaking
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: is there.
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: Yeah, we are accurate.
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: Okay, Giants, give us Dart.
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: Shout out Michael Penes.
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: Dart.
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: That dude is not accurate.
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: Okay, so Jackson, Dart. There's legs and there's... But we
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: could find a quarterback with size.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: But you don't want to have a Kyler Murray. That
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: is true.
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: We can find backups with who could run.
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: And legs.
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: Yeah, and legs. So, okay, let's take size. Okay, we
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: went down to 96. That's just one. 6'2, 225. Okay. Okay,
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: that is very good. Okay. Seahawks.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: Oh, God. Oh, no. Drew Locke. With an absolute.
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: Stay away from me, fellas.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: Horse cock lock. Horse cock....
- 1:06:21Speaker 3: It's fine. It's fine. We're going to have a cock
- 1:06:23Speaker 3: attribute here. We're going to have a cock attribute.
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: So, we can take a C or we could re-spin team,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: but for our last four attributes, we'll just have to
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: roll with whatever they give us.
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: I'm a gambling man.
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: I gamble. If that says... That says Jalen Monroe. Like
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: I said, I think that says Jalen Monroe. We can
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: take some good legs off of that one.
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: We can't re-spin quarterback off that team. We have to
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: re-spin a separate team.
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: Re-spin the team. Okay. Re-spin that team. Okay.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: So we're going to have no spins left. So give
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: us a good one.
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: Shout out. No. Oh, God. Okay.
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: Hindenhooker, B-legs. That's not bad. That's not bad.
- 1:07:05Speaker 3: We'll take B-legs. Yeah.
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: We'll take that.
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: This is where the fun part gets in here. We cannot.
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Have a bad quarterback. We have pre-snap, leadership, post-snap, pocket presence.
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: So the whole mental thing, we didn't get at all.
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: So that's kind of a little bit scary.
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: But let's see. Okay. Cleveland Browns. Literally the worst. Literally
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: the worst. The worst scenario we could have had. Literally
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: the worst. Okay, I guess we got to go. I
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: would say leadership. I would rather be an asshole quarterback
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: who doesn't know how to lead. I don't know. That's
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: just me. Pre-snap and post-snap are so vital.
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: We can just take a leadership here.
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: Okay, 89.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: I feel like we would have gone down a lot more.
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: We would have gone down a lot more with those
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: other ones.
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: So, come on. At least pre-snap.
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: Lamar.
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: Joe Fag? That's... I'm not going to say that.
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: I'll say it. Joe Fag. Shout out Joe Fag.
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: Nano. Make sure you complete those sentences right here.
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: Okay, so Ravens quarterback.
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: I didn't even know this.
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: Yeah, your mic was good now.
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: So, pocket presence, post-snap, pre-snap are all C. C's get degrees, baby.
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: Take me on the pre-snap.
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: Or pocket presence isn't bad either, honestly.
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: But it's a skill.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: Like, if we can't... Okay, here's my thinking. Here's my
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: thinking right here. We have playmaking and creativity, so post-snap,
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: I feel like that kind of negates it compared to pre-snap.
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: Do you buy what I'm saying? Or would you rather
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: go pre-snap?
- 1:09:17Speaker 3: Take me post-snap.
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: Post-snap or, oh, man. But, okay, let's just say pre-snap
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: were terrible, but just post-snap were just a demon with
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: the playmaking creativity. So I'll let you pick this one
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: right here.
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: Give me pre-snap because I feel like Caleb wouldn't want
- 1:09:39Speaker 3: to negate that. Okay.
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: Pre-snap were an 84. That is a big. Panthers, Bryce Young.
- 1:09:47Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Okay. A minus. Okay. We need to think about.
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: This very critically because we don't know if we're going
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: to get another guy this good.
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: Pocket presence.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: Pocket presence with legs and accuracy and touch, but post-snap.
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. We kind of need both of these
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: right here. I would say pocket presence.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: That's just me.
- 1:10:17Speaker 3: Yeah, because we already have the post-snap in your playmaking
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: and creativity. I feel like we'll be fine. Go Parker presence.
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: Okay, we're in 85. Or you know what? Let's just
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: get somebody who's great post-snap. Give us a Dak Prescott.
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: Strength again.
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: Jordan Love. Okay, that's a B. That's a B. That's
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: a B. Okay, 84 overall. Not the best.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: Okay, now here's where it gets fun here. We need
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: to have a good team. So we're a Pro Bowl quarterback. Okay,
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: let's see.
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: Spin.
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: We are on the Pittsburgh. Okay, Pittsburgh Steelers have some weapons. Okay.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: Now let's simulate this season. We have some weapons. 1-0, 2-0.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: 11-6.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: That's not bad. Hey, look at our stats.
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: 67.6 completion percentage.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: 4,200 passing yards.
- 1:11:07Speaker 3: 29 touchdowns.
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: Nine interceptions. Hey, 631 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns. That's
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: a pretty good quarterback. Hey, that's a pretty good quarterback
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: right there. Okay, now the playoffs.
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: Versus your beloved Broncos. Oh, no.
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: Come on.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: Okay, 10-3. This is a wild card. 10 up. Come on.
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: Bo Nix, fourth quarter comeback. 18. Yes.
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: We went for two. I don't know why.
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: 13-18. Bo Nix, fourth quarter comeback.
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: No.
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: Come on, Bo Nix. Yes, we won. Yes.
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: Hey, divisional round. Come on. We're versus the Patriots. We
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: got this. Come on. Okay, they're up 7-0. Okay, come on.
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: Why do we keep going for two? And I don't
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: know why. Yes, we scored again.
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: We're just getting them, dog. Yes. Drake Mayweather's out there
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: throwing meatballs once again.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: Hey, we're in the conference championship versus the Ravens. Steelers-Ravens. Oh, 10-6?
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: 17-6?
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: 26?
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: Hey, no. Oh, no.
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: Oh, overtime.
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: Oh, no.
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: Oh, no.
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: Come on.
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: Score.
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: No. We lost. We lost in overtime in the conference championship. Okay,
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: let's see. Almost 4,900 total yards. We got an MVP.
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: MVP. We made an.
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: Hey, MVP made it to the conference championship. I don't
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: know if you want to run at this again, try
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: to make a super bowl, or.
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: What are you thinking?
- 1:12:44Speaker 3: I'm writing this down so we can keep track of this.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: Okay, 11-6, conference championship, MVP. Okay, you got it?
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: All right, let's see part two. Let's see if this
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: gets a little bit better right here. First man, Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: T-Law? Quinn, you heard.
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: Shout out, Quinn. Shout out, Quinn.
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: Okay, so I guess take the B-plus arm. I mean, we.
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: B-plus arm's not bad.
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Okay, 85 overall.
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: Not bad.
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: Chargers, give us Herbo. Or Trey Lance's legs isn't bad.
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: It's not bad. His legs isn't bad.
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: I'll take Trey Lance's legs all day.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: Arm and legs. We got that. Jax, T-Law.
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: Yes. Give me the size. Take that size, baby.
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay. We keep needing good... Jax again? T-Law?
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: We'll take T-Law again. That's perfect. B plus accuracy and touch.
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: I know it's not the best, but that's his best attribute.
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: So....
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: So are you fine with that?
- 1:14:09Speaker 3: Hopefully we get some Joe Sheisties down the road, yeah.
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: So we can keep our spins.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: Well, look, we still have our spins. We still have
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: our spins. Or re-spins. Denver, give us Bo.
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: Come on, Bo. Steady.
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: I would say re-spin quarterback, but I'm afraid of getting
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger.
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: I'm terrified of Sam.
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do not guess
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: on Sam Tree Trunk Ellinger. Sam, I think your hate
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: is not tolerated.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: It is not allowed on this podcast.
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: It is not allowed on this podcast when I am
- 1:14:44Speaker 3: on it.
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: Just to give an update, the pitcher king for the Padres,
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: it's 4-3, top of the ninth, one out. There's a
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: run on first and second with Christian Jalik up to bat.
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: So they might get walked off once again. Or they're
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: going to have a chance to bat because they're in
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: San Diego, but still. But re-spin team, you're good with re-spin.
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: Team right here?
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good with re-spin team. Okay.
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: Come on. Give us a good one. Green Bay, Jordan Love. Who?
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: Kadon Slovis?
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: Pingus Pingus.
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: Who's Tingus Pingus?
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: Shut up. If you know IG Real Ball, you know
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: Tingus Pingus.
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: Tingus Pingus.
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: Hey, we have our basketball pod coming out tomorrow with Pingus.
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: With Josh and Ryan.
- 1:15:37Speaker 3: So make sure you guys. Shout out. Yeah.
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: I say pre-snap. That would, that's C plus or pocket presence. I,
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: I would prefer pre-snap. I don't know if you're, you
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: think some somewhere else.
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: We're going to have an absolute hooper at quarterback. Go
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: ahead and take that pre-snap. Okay.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: The Padres, they close it out. They had a double play.
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: So Padres survive. Chargers, give us Herbo.
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: Yes. Okay.
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: That's what I like to see.
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: Playmaking. Yes. Give us that playmaking.
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: Okay, we're at an 83. We're at an 83. We
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: need good ones. Niners, Brock.
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: Yes. Brock, okay.
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: Post snap.
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: Low-key pocket presents. I like pocket presents.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: I'm good with pocket presents, too. Okay, we're at an 84.
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: Come on. Denver?
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: Denver, Bo Nix. Come on.
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: Okay, we could re-spin quarterback, but there's a chance we
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: get Sam Ellinger.
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: Sam Ellinger is not going to be tolerated.
- 1:16:48Speaker 2: Okay, fine then. We're going to re-spin quarterback. Please give
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: us Bo. Please give us Bo.
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. Yes. Give me that leadership, baby. Or post-snap, too.
- 1:16:59Speaker 3: Post-snap's a B. He makes me play down the field.
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: Okay, we're at 84.
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: You know what we need? We need Jameis Winston leadership.
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: Give us the New York Giants. Give us the Giants.
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: Shout out Jameis.
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: Tennessee. Cam Ward leadership's an A-. Okay, I'll take that. What?
- 1:17:18Speaker 3: Okay. Did he just say they were a butt on?
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. He said, bro, we're ass.
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: I guess that's A- leadership right there.
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: But, okay, 84 overall quarterback once again, Pro Bowl-level quarterback.
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: Now we need to figure out our team. We need
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: a good team.
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: Baltimore.
- 1:17:41Speaker 3: Baltimore.
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: That is a really good team right there. Let's see.
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: Something about the AFC South or AFC North.
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: Hey, 12-5? Okay, 67% completion percentage.
- 1:17:55Speaker 3: Once again.
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: 3,700 yards, 28 touchdowns, 14 interceptions. That's a little brutal.
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: 640 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns, so not as
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: good as the first quarterback.
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: But let's see if we can make a Super Bowl here.
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: Let's see. Wild card. Somehow we didn't even get our
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: own division. We're down 10-0 to the Colts.
- 1:18:18Speaker 3: 10-3. Okay. 16-3.
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: Come on. Let's come back.
- 1:18:19Speaker 3: Okay. 16-10. 17-16. Hey. Hey.
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: Look at the comeback. The comeback.
- 1:18:22Speaker 3: 24-16.
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: On to the divisional round versus the Patriots once again.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: 3-3 right now. 6-3.
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: 13-3.
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: 16-13. 13 all. 20-13. 20-20.
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: Overtime? Not this again. Come on.
- 1:18:36Speaker 3: Deliver. Yes! Bang!
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: We won an overtime. Conference championship once again. 2020. Overtime.
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: Not this again. Come on.
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: Deliver. Yes.
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: Bang.
- 1:18:46Speaker 3: We won an overtime.
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: Conference championship once again. This is back-to-back. Versus the Jaguars.
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: Down 3-0.
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: 11-0.
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: 14-0. Okay. 14-all.
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: 21-14.
- 1:18:53Speaker 3: Hey. 21-all.
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: Overtime again. No way we're losing overtime again.
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: 28-21.
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: We lost again. We lost again in the conference championship.
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: In overtime. Okay, 4,300 yards, 31 touchdowns. We won MVP again.
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: We won MVP again.
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: Okay, this third spin or this third set of spin,
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: we have to follow up conference championships and MVPs for
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: both of them. 11-6 versus a 12-5 record. You know,
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: I'm feeling this one right here, Brandon.
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: I'm feeling it.
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: I feel like this should be the last one we
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: ended off on. So the pressure's high. The pressure's high
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: right here. We know how this game works. Let's see
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: where this goes right here.
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: Let's spin.
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: We need a first good one. Dallas Cowboys, give us Dak.
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: Sam Howell once again. We got to take the B arm, right?
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: We got to. It's not bad.
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: Hold on.
- 1:20:03Speaker 3: I can't hear you.
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:20:06Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: I can't. Yeah, I can hear you now.
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: All right, cool.
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think the B arm.
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: Unless you want to big ball or risk it, we
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: get Joe Milton arm or size or Dak Prescott.
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: I'll let you make the call on this one.
- 1:20:27Speaker 3: Let's just spin that QB.
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it. Dak or Joe?
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, see what I'm talking about right here. Now
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: we have the pickings. Pre-snap, we could have one of
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: these smartest quarterbacks. I mean, there's so much to choose
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: from right here. I don't even know where to choose.
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to you. Where are you leaning?
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: I say, I scroll up.
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: We could get size for anybody else.
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: We could get size, arms, and legs. I would say....
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: Pre-snap? Leadership? No, I don't feel like... I don't think leadership.
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: Honestly, accuracy. An A accuracy can be much better than that.
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
- 1:21:17Speaker 3: 97.
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: That's something we love to see. That's a big risk.
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: Give us Cam Ward. Cam Ward's size?
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: You want to take... Oh!
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: Do you see his playmaking and creativity we should take
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: that in a heartbeat you're.
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: Good with that okay that's fine there we go there
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: we go we have we have accuracy and playmaking and
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: creativity at a this is a great start right here
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: andy a rich size yes yes okay should we go
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: arm This is really any of the choosing right here. Arm, legs,
- 1:21:53Speaker 2: and size. This is.
- 1:21:54Speaker 3: I say arm.
- 1:21:58Speaker 2: This is crazy. Okay.
- 1:22:00Speaker 3: Arm.
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: We have A's across the board right here. Looking pretty good. Arizona? Jacoby? No,
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: this isn't bad. This isn't bad.
- 1:22:10Speaker 3: Size isn't bad.
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: Do you want to go pre-snap or you want to
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: go size? Because pre-snap being B plus.
- 1:22:17Speaker 3: I think we can get size from somebody else. Give me...
- 1:22:20Speaker 3: Give me a pre-snap.
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: Pre-snap. Okay. Again, veteran quarterback, seen everything.
- 1:22:27Speaker 3: Baker. Baker.
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: Jalen Daniels' legs. That's actually really good right there. That
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: is really good. We will take that.
- 1:22:35Speaker 3: I'll take that. Yeah. If we can stay above this
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: 90 threshold, we'll be all right.
- 1:22:39Speaker 2: Minnesota. Kyler. Kyler's eyes. Dude, look at the picture of Kyler.
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: He's fairly over.
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: Yeah. Shout out Short Kings.
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: Shout out Short Kings for real.
- 1:22:54Speaker 3: Shout out the Short Kings.
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: I really think Conor's kind of tall, in all honesty.
- 1:23:01Speaker 3: No, but, okay. Shout out the Short Kings.
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: Post snap and pocket presence are both B- right here.
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: Honestly, I would take pocket presence. He's a little looser.
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: Yeah, and he has the legs, too.
- 1:23:17Speaker 3: 89. Okay, we.
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: We have leadership, post-snap, and size left. So let's see
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: what we get. We could still re-spin quarterback.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. Give us Caleb. I say let's take leadership.
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: Last two, we have a re-spin team. Yeah. Okay, leadership
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: went nowhere. That's perfect. That's perfect right there. Okay, spin.
- 1:23:48Speaker 3: Ball from the wall.
- 1:23:50Speaker 2: Come on.
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: Come on, Walton. Tampa Bay.
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: Okay, this is where we respin team. Come on. Give
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: us a good one. We haven't got Buffalo. Cleveland. Oh,
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: my gosh. Cleveland Browns. Deshaun Watson.
- 1:24:08Speaker 3: Diddy Deshaun Watson.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: We have to take size right here.
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: We have to.
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: We have to take size.
- 1:24:16Speaker 3: Size is probably your best bet. Okay, 6'2.
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: Hey, 6'2, 215. That's not bad. That's not bad size
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: for a quarterback.
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: 87 overall.
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: Post snap. We need a processor. We need another Dak Prescott,
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: in all honesty. Mahomes.
- 1:24:35Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: Post snap S. That is amazing. That is amazing. This
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: is by far our best quarterback.
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: And 89 overall. Definitely our best quarterback. We saved our
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: best for last. Definitely saved our best for last right here.
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: Now it's time to see which team we get. We
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: need a good team. Give us an NFC team. Green
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: Bay Packers.
- 1:24:59Speaker 3: Green Bay. Okay.
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: This isn't bad. Okay.
- 1:25:03Speaker 3: Let's see.
- 1:25:05Speaker 2: Shout out Matthew Golden. My fantasy football. Okay.
- 1:25:09Speaker 3: Seven.
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: Ten and seven barely squeaked into the playoffs right here.
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: But by far our best season ever. Almost 70% completion percentage, 4,300 yards,
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: 30 touchdowns, four interceptions, five rushing touchdowns.
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: That is almost 600 rushing yards.
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: This is insane. This is an insane quarterback right here.
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: Wild card facing the Cowboys. You know what?
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: I give up. I give up. Why is this just
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: a slap in the face right here?
- 1:25:43Speaker 3: 7-9.
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: Game winning.
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: Oh, no.
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: Third quarter.
- 1:25:49Speaker 3: 14-9.
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: I can't even enjoy this.
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: 16-14.
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: It's going to be a game winning drive by the Packers.
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: And I knew it. I knew it. Why do I
- 1:25:57Speaker 1: have to get slapped in the face like that again? Cowboys, Packers. Again,
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: Green Bay, San Fran. This is actually looking like the
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: 2023 playoffs.
- 1:26:04Speaker 2: 10-7 right now. Up against San Fran.
- 1:26:05Speaker 3: 14-10. Okay.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: Still 14-10. 13-14. Come on. 20-14.
- 1:26:06Speaker 3: 20-17.
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: Come on. Pull through.
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: 20-20.
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: Game one and touchdown. The Clutch Gene. The Clutch Gene.
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: Bo Nix.
- 1:26:24Speaker 2: Versus Philly.
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: 3-0.
- 1:26:27Speaker 2: Come on. We made the conference championship every single one.
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: We need to get past the hump. Still 3-7.
- 1:26:34Speaker 3: 10-7.
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: Come on. This is a nitty gritty. 17-7. Are we
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: going to make the Super Bowl? Are we going to
- 1:26:39Speaker 2: make the Super Bowl? Yes, we make the Super Bowl. Yes,
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: we make the Super Bowl. Okay, MVP award, 4,900 yards.
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: Brayden, this is by far our best quarterback. 4,900 total yards,
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: 35 touchdowns, four interceptions, 109 quarterback rating, almost 70% completion percentage.
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: But to end off this perfect episode, can we win
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: the Super Bowl?
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: Let's see.
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: Versus the Steelers, our first team that we played. See,
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: this is all, this is coming together. Seven to three.
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: Why did the Steelers go for two?
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: 14-11.
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: Come on. Come on. 14-21. We lost.
- 1:27:23Speaker 3: We lost. We lost. Lost in the Super Bowl.
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: To the first team that we played.
- 1:27:35Speaker 3: It was.
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: Honestly, it got better and better.
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: It did get better and better. But yeah, that's going
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: to wrap up this episode right here. Before we end off,
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: Our so-called MVP of the week. One player that stood
- 1:27:51Speaker 1: out to us throughout the entire week. It could be
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: college football, baseball, football, like we talked about. Brayden, who's
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: your so-called MVP of the week?
- 1:28:01Speaker 3: I can't just pick one. You know this. For MLB,
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: got to give it to my GOAT, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. College football,
- 1:28:13Speaker 3: give me Keelan Russell. NFL, B. John Robinson.
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: So you kind of did take my Bama or Bama
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: Keelan Russell, but you know what I'm going to go with?
- 1:28:25Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Jeremiah Smith here. I'm going
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: to go with Jeremiah Smith. This dude is just insane.
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: Greatest Ohio State player ever. I'm going to go ahead
- 1:28:33Speaker 1: and say that. Baseball, I'm not going to give it
- 1:28:36Speaker 1: to nobody at all.
- 1:28:38Speaker 2: You know what? I'm going to give it to Ray Kerr.
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: Ray Kerr.
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: Ray Kerr, my 7-11 legend right here. Shout out to him.
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: Pitched better than Chris Sale against the Dodgers. And football,
- 1:28:51Speaker 1: give it to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott had an amazing day.
- 1:28:54Speaker 1: But Brayden, any last words before we get out of here?
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: Not much.
- 1:29:00Speaker 3: We'll see how this game in Atlanta goes. Hopefully, the
- 1:29:05Speaker 3: Dodgers can pull through. College football, we have two pretty
- 1:29:08Speaker 3: good games coming up. An interesting one out of there
- 1:29:11Speaker 3: in Penn State. NFL, we'll see how this slate kind
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: of looks out. Stat-wise, we'll be watching some fantasy points.
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: We'll probably break down some stats coming out next week
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: regarding fantasy.
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: And just a quick update, probably should have said this
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: at the beginning of the pod, but I know we've
- 1:29:29Speaker 1: been doing Tuesday, but we're going to move it over
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: to Saturday. So it might look like a little bit
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: of a delay, but just to make it easier on
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: our schedule, not recording on a Tuesday slash Wednesday morning.
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: So just letting you guys know, it's not going to be, oh,
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: we stopped recording for college football and baseball. There's just
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: been a little bit of a schedule change. So we're
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: going to be doing it on Saturdays from this point
- 1:29:50Speaker 1: moving forward. But Before we get out of here, make
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: sure you find us on Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: under TSESA or the so-called Sports Analyst. We'll see you
- 1:30:00Speaker 1: guys soon when the Braves come back and beat the Dodgers.
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: You guys take care.
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: Peace.