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NFL Week 6 Recap, Packers Turnaround, 24-Team College Playoffs with Dan Patrick · Not So Fast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Not So Fast with Andrew Perloff and Paul Pabst,
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Speaker 1: where two longtime friends challenge each other on the biggest
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Speaker 1: sports stories of the day.
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Speaker 2: Here's Andrew Perloff and Paul Pabst. Not so fast, my friends.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in to Not So Fast. I'm Andrew Perloff. He's
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Speaker 3: Paul Pabst. And Paul, I got to say, this is
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Speaker 3: the wildest Monday that we've had since we started doing
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Speaker 3: Not So Fast.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the point of the season where things happen.
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Speaker 4: Like there's fallout from the NFL weekend. And the college weekend,
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Speaker 4: we're going to dive into that a lot more. Dan
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Speaker 4: Patrick's going to stop by. But that college football Saturday,
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Speaker 4: I wish I could go back and do that one again.
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Speaker 4: It was that impactful and that much fun.
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Speaker 3: Impactful. I have a strong take on why I am
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Speaker 3: not surprised at all that so many top ten teams lost.
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Speaker 3: Because they're all overrated. The entire sport has overrated teams throughout.
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Speaker 3: But we're going to save that.
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Speaker 5: That sounds like a warm take tease.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: We've got to talk about NFL. Breaking news this morning.
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Speaker 3: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts will be out three months with
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Speaker 3: blood clots. have moved around within his body. What do
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Speaker 3: you think? Are the Eagles my Eagles, I might point out,
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Speaker 3: a Philadelphia native? Is this it?
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Speaker 4: Well, let's stay with the football side of this. The
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Speaker 4: NFC East is awful. All the teams are obviously playing
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Speaker 4: awful right now. The Commanders have a chance tonight. But
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Speaker 4: if you look at the Commanders, no one expects them
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Speaker 4: to do anything. I would say the silver lining for
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Speaker 4: the Eagles right now is they go to Tanner McKee,
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Speaker 4: who played medium-level football the other day in the loss
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Speaker 4: to the Panthers. But now he gets first-team reps. The
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Speaker 4: team is his for the next three months. If you
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Speaker 4: look at that division, you win two in a row,
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Speaker 4: you're hosting a playoff game. So the scenario isn't that bad.
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Speaker 5: The situation with Hurts is bad.
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Speaker 3: What's the point of going 8-9 and winning the NFC
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Speaker 3: East if you're the Philadelphia Eagles? You're just going to
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Speaker 3: get slaughtered in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: It does seem like an inevitability. But then if you
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Speaker 4: look at the Rams seem vulnerable, the 49ers don't. But
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Speaker 4: the rest of the NFC does not seem threatening. You
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Speaker 4: don't love the Vikings. But I would say that the
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Speaker 4: Eagles right now, they were dealt a blow. There's a
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Speaker 4: lot more details coming out. When was Hurts hurt? When
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Speaker 4: was he allowed to play? Should he have been allowed
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Speaker 4: to play? So there's more to this.
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Speaker 3: This might be a war play, too. This is the
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Speaker 3: third most impactful injury on the Eagles this season.
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Speaker 5: Lane Johnson?
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Speaker 3: Lane Johnson, number one. They are terrible when Lane Johnson
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Speaker 3: doesn't play. The second he retired was a signal it's
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Speaker 3: time to rebuild. The second signal was when Cam Juergens
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Speaker 3: got traded. You don't trade a two-time Pro Bowl center
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Speaker 3: if you think this is the year. Howie Roseman, the GM,
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Speaker 3: knew that the Eagles were already in trouble. And third,
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Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley didn't play this week with a hamstring. So
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Speaker 3: Saquon is arguably more important than the Eagles because if
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Speaker 3: Saquon is not going to have a great year, what
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Speaker 3: is Jalen Hurts going to do? So I get this
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Speaker 3: is a big deal from a football standpoint and they
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Speaker 3: need him, but I don't think this is really changing
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Speaker 3: the narrative in any important way. They were going to
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Speaker 3: rebuild one way or the other.
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Speaker 4: It's true, but they could pick off a wild card appearance.
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Speaker 4: I know it doesn't mean anything. What I'm saying is
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Speaker 4: the Cowboys could do nothing on defense. They laid an
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Speaker 4: egg last night. The Commanders are probably going to lose
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Speaker 4: three of the next four. The Giants might be the
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Speaker 4: weirdly most threatening because they're not supposed to be threatening.
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Speaker 3: But I don't think that motivates anything in the Philadelphia
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Speaker 3: Eagles building. And tell me if you disagree with this.
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Speaker 3: I think 8-9 and making the playoffs is just the
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Speaker 3: same as 5-12. They don't see any difference.
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Speaker 5: We have more time to get into this. We can
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Speaker 5: do this tomorrow on the show.
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Speaker 4: But the Eagles' future, we want to be respectful to
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Speaker 4: the injury and Hurts has it. But Eagles' future after
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Speaker 4: this season with the result is going to be really interesting.
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Speaker 4: Does the coach get a hall pass because of the injury?
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe. The one thing about it, they are built
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Speaker 3: to get rid of Hurts after next year because the
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Speaker 3: cap hit is worse. Remember, they have two number ones
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Speaker 3: and two number twos next year. So they're all about these.
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Speaker 3: They traded A.J. Brown for a 20-28 first-round pick, and
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Speaker 3: they traded Cam Juergens for a 28 second-round pick. But
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Speaker 3: right now they sit eight in the draft order, so
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Speaker 3: this might be the end of the Jalen Hurts era.
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Speaker 4: All right, before we get to the weekend games, let's
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Speaker 4: talk about another incident that happened this morning. The Colts
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Speaker 4: got rid of their GM, Chris Ballard. Ballard's been there
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Speaker 4: a long time. A lot of people didn't want him back,
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Speaker 4: and he was back. But after the embarrassing loss yesterday,
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Speaker 4: I think people thought maybe it would be the coach go,
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Speaker 4: but the GM goes first, Chris Ballard.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, why are you firing a GM in
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Speaker 3: week six? This makes no sense to me. The GM's
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Speaker 3: busy time is in April. What's he doing in week six?
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Speaker 3: The stakes have already made. If you didn't trust him,
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Speaker 3: then you should have fired him earlier.
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Speaker 4: I can tell you why they did it, because you
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Speaker 4: have a nontraditional ownership group now. You have a new
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Speaker 4: group of ownership that is probably going to respond to
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Speaker 4: what the local media and local fans want.
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Speaker 5: They got embarrassed yesterday.
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Speaker 4: They look like a non-threatening football team. The owner is
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Speaker 4: now on the sidelines and sees everything. And she seems
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Speaker 4: like a person who's more proactive than reactionary and letting
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Speaker 4: things play out. And to get rid of Chris Ballard,
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Speaker 4: a lot of fans are going to think this is
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Speaker 4: a good day.
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Speaker 5: For the Colts.
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Speaker 3: Wait, but a proactive owner who likes to be involved
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Speaker 3: in the football, you're defining what? 25 years of ineptitude here?
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Speaker 3: Any owner who gets involved in football, you are dooming
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Speaker 3: your franchise completely. You know, you're basically Jerry Jones-like. You
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Speaker 3: are never going to win that way.
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Speaker 4: It does seem like the older Urses were more hands-off. Well, no,
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Speaker 4: Jim might have been hands-off.
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Speaker 3: But I don't think, generally, firing in Week 6, GM,
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Speaker 3: seems nontraditional to me. It says the owner's too interventionist
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Speaker 3: and doesn't know what they're doing. That's how I read it.
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Speaker 5: You know, this all goes back to 2018.
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Speaker 4: After the start of the 2019 season, Andrew Luck decides
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Speaker 4: to retire as a surprise.
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Speaker 5: No one knew it was coming.
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Speaker 4: They were 10-6 in 2018. Andrew Luck's 37 years old,
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Speaker 4: maybe 38. He would be ending his career right now
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Speaker 4: and probably a couple more Pro Bowls, a bunch more
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Speaker 4: playoff appearances. Since Luck left the sport, they've made the
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Speaker 4: playoffs once. It was a first-round wildcard exit. They've had
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks like Carson Wentz, Phil Rivers, Jacoby Brissett, Matt Ryan,
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Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew. Daniel Jones. But the one that stands out
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Speaker 4: to me there is Anthony Richardson. That's where the demise
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Speaker 4: of this franchise happened.
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Speaker 3: Swung and missed.
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Speaker 4: Big swing and miss. Fourth pick of the draft. The
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Speaker 4: guy couldn't keep his job at Florida. He was a
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Speaker 4: complete project, super athlete, not great quarterback, and they gave
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Speaker 4: the fourth pick of the draft for him.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, listen, that's worked out before. Josh Allen
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Speaker 3: didn't do anything in college.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Josh Allen didn't lose his job at Wyoming
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Speaker 4: in the middle of his senior year. Anthony Richardson was
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Speaker 4: barely in and out of the lineup. They were going
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Speaker 4: to move on from him.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about that. But, yeah, generally, no, I
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Speaker 3: don't think that's a problem. Forget all that that happened.
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Speaker 3: I know Andrew Luck got hurt. What's happening right now
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Speaker 3: this day? They thought they were 8-2 last year, thought
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Speaker 3: that they were going to be a real team. traded
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Speaker 3: for Sauce Gardner, gave up their future. Oh, terrible. But
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Speaker 3: I just definitely don't like the ownership being so involved.
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Speaker 3: Because you look at the best teams, the Hunts never
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Speaker 3: comment on football.
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Speaker 1: Steelers.
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Speaker 3: Nothing to do with it. The Steelers, probably nothing to
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Speaker 3: do with it. Jeffrey Lurie and the Eagles, he's never
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Speaker 3: calling Harry Roseman and says, I won't answer that. Generally,
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Speaker 3: how you become a bad franchise is when your ownership
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Speaker 3: puts their hands into the football side. So if they
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Speaker 3: wanted him gone, they had to do it before the season,
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Speaker 3: in my opinion.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Pearl, let's get to on the field this weekend.
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Speaker 4: It was a pretty saucy NFL weekend. What would you
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Speaker 4: say is the upset or the loss that really stands
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Speaker 4: out and has the most tentacles?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I was ready for the L.A. Rams run.
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Speaker 3: We were looking at their schedule last week. Yeah, they
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Speaker 3: had a losing record, but we're like, oh, they're going
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Speaker 3: to beat all these teams, and Arizona's the first one.
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Speaker 3: How is Arizona going to win in L.A.? But you forget,
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Speaker 3: first of all, L.A., there's not much of a home
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Speaker 3: field advantage. And then Arizona, once in a while, will
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Speaker 3: be feisty. Still, I'm shocked. Now, coming into the year,
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Speaker 3: you and I were not totally buying the dream team
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Speaker 3: undefeated season thing, but I didn't know 2-4. I did
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Speaker 3: not see this coming.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Pearl, this Rams loss is the ugliest of losses,
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Speaker 4: not just to the Cardinals, but the score is 18-16.
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Speaker 4: That's an ugly number. You lose to a bunch of
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Speaker 4: field goals. They actually scored too early at the end
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Speaker 4: and gave the Cardinals another chance to score. There was
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Speaker 4: a penalty at the end that gave them a free 15th.
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Speaker 4: Everything went the Cardinals' way, but their defense really controlled
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Speaker 4: the Rams at different points in the game. So if
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Speaker 4: I put it out there right now before we move
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Speaker 4: on to college football, if you were to bet on
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Speaker 4: the Rams missing a playoffs or appearing in the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 4: not winning, but appearing in the Super Bowl, what would
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Speaker 4: you bet?
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Speaker 3: I would bet appearing in the Super Bowl. Let me
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Speaker 3: give you some odds, by the way. They are fifth
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Speaker 3: in odds to get to the Super Bowl. Fifth. They're
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Speaker 3: at 10-1. They are 15th in odds to make the
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Speaker 3: playoffs at minus 120. Because there's an overall odds. And
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Speaker 3: guess who the team is? They're below the Panthers and
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Speaker 3: just above the Cowboys. So Vegas is either betting they
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Speaker 3: miss the playoffs or make the Super Bowl. There's no in-between.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: So Vegas thinks they're either going to right the ship
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Speaker 4: or completely wrong the ship. You do feel Puka is back.
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Speaker 4: The running back situation is a little weird. Blake Corr
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Speaker 4: may get more run. That's interesting to keep an eye on.
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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford should be fine if he's healthy. But no
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Speaker 4: Miles Garrett. Every week it stands out more and more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I read an interesting column that the Rams, because
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Speaker 3: of the way they built the team, have no depth.
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Speaker 3: They went for McDuffie and Garrett, and they got these
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Speaker 3: big names at these big positions. That's not always how
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Speaker 3: you build a Super Bowl champion. So I think this
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Speaker 3: is not a team that can deal with injuries. But
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Speaker 3: what's the biggest problem? Kicker. They just have not been
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Speaker 3: able to figure this out. Then their kicker gets hurt.
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Speaker 3: And there's just an anxiety around the kicking.
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Speaker 4: That little kicker going for the tackle. Don't be a
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Speaker 4: tough guy. Don't try to make that tackle.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think you were me trying to hit
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Speaker 3: an AFL guy.
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Speaker 5: The guy's smaller than me. He's like 5'9, 150. He
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Speaker 5: should be getting me a sandwich. Look at this play here.
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Speaker 3: What is he doing?
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Speaker 5: Hey, just push him casually out of bounds. You thought,
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Speaker 5: oh my gosh. That looked like Teen Wolf 2. It
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Speaker 5: looked like I'm making a tackle.
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Speaker 3: Well, remember last week they had that gigantic guy playing kicker,
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Speaker 3: and he cost them the game. This week could have
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Speaker 3: cost them the game. Maybe didn't.
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Speaker 4: In all seriousness, as a kicker, you can't risk yourself
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Speaker 4: like that. Your team needs you, especially in a tight
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Speaker 4: game like this.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's get to college football. An unbelievable Saturday
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Speaker 5: of college football.
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Speaker 4: No one saw this coming. Auburn drops Georgia. BYU over
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame. Miami double overtime Florida State. Ohio State Tennessee.
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Speaker 4: Tennessee over Alabama. What was the game where you said,
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Speaker 4: I can't believe this one's happening, this result?
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Speaker 3: I did not see Auburn beating Georgia.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think everyone's a little overrated. Nobody played
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Speaker 3: anybody until about this point of the season. So we
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Speaker 3: didn't really know how good Georgia was. Then they beat Alabama.
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Speaker 3: DP said it best, kind of an emotional hangover from
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Speaker 3: that one. But I didn't see Auburn, the team, to
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Speaker 3: take advantage of it.
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Speaker 5: No, nobody did.
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Speaker 4: This is a frustration of eight years for Auburn fans
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Speaker 4: finally getting this type of win. I'm going to go
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Speaker 4: Florida beating Texas because Florida just lost two in a row.
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Speaker 4: Texas supposedly got their wake-up call last week against Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: They didn't get their wake-up call. They muddled through the game.
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Speaker 4: They didn't close at all. They let Florida stay with
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Speaker 4: them the entire way. And now Texas, I think there's
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Speaker 4: a real impact for Alabama and Texas. Two losses at
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Speaker 4: this point in the season with a lot of big
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Speaker 4: games left. That three-loss team is going to be watching.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I mean, Texas last year was a
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Speaker 3: three-loss team. Lost to Florida, cost them the playoff. But
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if Texas is going to be
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Speaker 3: three losses.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 3: I don't know where there's, you know, there are a
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Speaker 3: lot of teams that could beat them right now.
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Speaker 4: I think you're 100% right. Texas, the meat of their
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Speaker 4: schedule is coming up. You know, like the Indiana loss
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Speaker 4: isn't so bad because it's to Ohio State and they
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Speaker 4: could have had it.
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Speaker 5: So we have to agree, I think.
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. With NIL, do you have any
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Speaker 3: sense of the number one is Miami, number two is BYU?
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Speaker 3: Are they any better than the 8, 9, 10 team?
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Speaker 3: And Ohio State lost their quarterback. So what's happening there?
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Speaker 3: It's chaos. I think NIL spread out the talent so
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Speaker 3: much that we really have no idea. Now, I know
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Speaker 3: these are massive upsets, but it's almost like you don't know.
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Speaker 4: If I would have showed you this top 10 list
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Speaker 4: that we have on the screen.
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Speaker 5: Eight weeks ago, you said, well, that's not possible. I mean,
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Speaker 5: that's not mathematically possible.
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Speaker 3: And Notre Dame's still favored to win it all. For example,
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Speaker 3: number nine, UCLA. If UCLA played Alabama in the playoff,
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Speaker 3: would you be surprised if Alabama beat them by two touchdowns?
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Speaker 4: No, we're at the point, we're still using the old
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Speaker 4: AP top 10, and we think because you're in the
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Speaker 4: top 10, you're a heavyweight. And it's like this entire
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Speaker 4: sport is surrounded by or encompassed by middleweights.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly. I almost feel like they should get rid
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Speaker 3: of the AP Top 10 poll because it's too much reputation,
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Speaker 3: too much last year, too much five-star recruits, not enough reality.
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Speaker 4: But you know why they will never get rid of
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Speaker 4: that poll? Because when the networks are promoting what's coming
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Speaker 4: up this weekend. Number two versus number four. They have
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Speaker 4: to have those numbers next to it.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: Coming up next, we're going to get into the 24-team
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Speaker 3: college football playoff field. DP had a strong take, and
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Speaker 3: he's going to come in and defend the 24-est. That's next.
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Speaker 3: Not so fast.
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Speaker 5: Is he becoming a 24-est?
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Speaker 3: I think he's captain of the 24-est.
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Speaker 5: He was a forest for years. First team all forest.
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Speaker 3: It's a new sport, though. It's a different sport than
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Speaker 3: it was years ago.
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Speaker 2: 24-est.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Not So Fast, Perloff, and Paps. We are
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Speaker 3: very lucky right now to have DP with us. So
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Speaker 3: you came on this morning and I think defended the
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Speaker 3: 24-team playoff field and got us all fired up. We're 24-ists. Oh,
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Speaker 3: you are. We're 24-ists.
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Speaker 2: You're Kiefer Sutherland.
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Speaker 3: But I feel like you get a lot of pushback
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Speaker 3: on this topic. A lot of people are still not
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Speaker 3: comfortable with it.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. Like, I have to look at
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Speaker 2: the totality of it. What are the positives here? Do
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Speaker 2: I like that these commissioners and presidents and chancellors and coaches,
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Speaker 2: you know, they're all greedy for this? Yes, they are.
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Speaker 2: And they fast-tracked from 12 to 24 way too soon,
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Speaker 2: in my opinion. But I still think that you're going
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Speaker 2: to have 40 schools that may entertain the hope that
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Speaker 2: they can make the playoffs. 24 you're taking, you're going
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Speaker 2: to have one– one win or one loss that's going
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Speaker 2: to separate a lot of schools here. Therefore, those games
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Speaker 2: in November are going to mean something. We have games
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Speaker 2: in September that mean things. The problem I have is
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Speaker 2: we get to November, those games don't mean anything. And
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Speaker 2: then the bowl games don't mean anything.
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Speaker 4: See, I think you're kind of a realist, not an extremist.
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Speaker 4: And so you would probably prefer 12, just staying 12.
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Speaker 4: But once you get to 24, and you saw the
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Speaker 4: reaction last week, people are like, Well, the regular season
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Speaker 4: is not going to matter at all. And you didn't
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Speaker 4: like that because that's way too extreme of a take
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Speaker 4: because this weekend would still matter.
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Speaker 2: Yes. You're still going to be excited about those games.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Like if you ask the BYU fans, hey, did you
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Speaker 2: like that game? Yes. But you know what that means
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Speaker 2: down the road for our playoff? I mean, yes, it
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Speaker 2: does help them.
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Speaker 4: Like as they're running on the field, they go, this
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Speaker 4: doesn't really matter so much.
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Speaker 2: Well, how about Auburn? Do you think if you ask
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Speaker 2: those fans, hey, that game mattered, but it's not going
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Speaker 2: to matter the rest of the season for you. You're
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Speaker 2: not going to make the playoff. And they'll be like, okay,
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Speaker 2: we still beat Alabama. I think appreciating those games in
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Speaker 2: the moment won't go away because it's 100,000 people at
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Speaker 2: those games. The NFL is different. The Rams could lose
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Speaker 2: that game to the Cardinals, and then you go, okay,
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Speaker 2: that won't hurt them. They can still win their division.
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Speaker 2: But I think we get lost in the, here we go,
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Speaker 2: just like college basketball. The regular season is ruined. When
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Speaker 2: I don't think it is, you could have bowl games
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Speaker 2: now moved up into September. Let's say you wanted to
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Speaker 2: do the— Pull in Weed Eater Bull and you affix
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Speaker 2: that to a game like Ohio State and Texas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Like who's to say you can't do that? So you
14:46
Speaker 2: could front load games. What if I incentivized teams to
14:50
Speaker 2: schedule quality opponents?
14:53
Speaker 3: Please. That's exactly right.
14:54
Speaker 5: That's exactly right.
14:55
Speaker 4: Because if they somehow trick up the new system and
14:58
Speaker 4: give you really like. Oregon scheduling Portland and winning 73
15:03
Speaker 4: gets you nothing. But if Oregon schedules Notre Dame and
15:06
Speaker 4: they lose by one, you get more for that than
15:08
Speaker 4: you do for losing to a subpar team.
15:11
Speaker 2: But if you can monetarily incentivize, why wouldn't you do that?
15:16
Speaker 2: If you're trying to create a TV schedule, like you
15:18
Speaker 2: want great games, your CBS, your ABC, ESPN. If you
15:22
Speaker 2: can have a pool of money where you can go, okay,
15:24
Speaker 2: whoever schedules these games or the best games wins. We'll
15:28
Speaker 2: put you on, and then you get this kind of money.
15:31
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see the Big Ten SEC
15:35
Speaker 2: one weekend where it's just those teams matching up with
15:40
Speaker 2: each other.
15:41
Speaker 3: Oh, like a preseason.
15:43
Speaker 2: They do that in basketball. Just like the Big Ten
15:46
Speaker 2: and ACC. I think that's on the docket here.
15:49
Speaker 3: What about blowouts in the first round? I actually have,
15:51
Speaker 3: using the current rankings, some of the matchups, you'd have
15:55
Speaker 3: Missouri against Tennessee in the first round, Texas-Houston. Boise, Kentucky.
15:59
Speaker 3: Do you think you'd have blowouts early on?
16:02
Speaker 7: Yeah.
16:03
Speaker 3: But with NIL, there's so much parity. I'm not sure
16:06
Speaker 3: how many blowouts there'd be.
16:07
Speaker 2: I think the fact that you do have the parity,
16:11
Speaker 2: you can't say, well, that team has no chance. Because
16:14
Speaker 2: we're finding out that those teams do have a chance
16:16
Speaker 2: because now you don't stack running backs and linemen and
16:21
Speaker 2: they go elsewhere to play. Now you could have a
16:24
Speaker 2: program that pops up. It's like little pop-up shops in
16:28
Speaker 2: New York. It just pops up. You've got to deal
16:30
Speaker 2: with them. And I think that's what's happening with college football.
16:33
Speaker 2: So what if you have a blowout? We have blowouts
16:35
Speaker 2: in college basketball.
16:37
Speaker 5: All the time.
16:37
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. And you have upsets, too.
16:40
Speaker 5: Yes.
16:40
Speaker 4: One thing I like that you brought up on the show,
16:42
Speaker 4: because for those of us who are just north of 50,
16:44
Speaker 4: you remember when it was a vote.
16:46
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
16:46
Speaker 4: You had to tune in the next day and find
16:48
Speaker 4: out who the AP decided would be the national title holder.
16:51
Speaker 2: How crazy is that? You have coaches who voted on this,
16:54
Speaker 2: coaches who don't. They watch the least amount of games
16:58
Speaker 2: of anybody because they only care about their program. And
17:01
Speaker 2: I'm going... And we're going to have Georgia Tech and
17:04
Speaker 2: Colorado co-champs.
17:05
Speaker 4: And this wasn't like 1954. This was 1991. This is
17:08
Speaker 4: in recent life history.
17:10
Speaker 2: So we've come a long way.
17:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:13
Speaker 2: And if you said we're going to go back to
17:15
Speaker 2: the BCS or we can have 24, I'll take 24.
17:19
Speaker 2: Would I like 12? Yes. I wanted to stay at
17:23
Speaker 2: 12 for a little while longer. But, you know, we
17:26
Speaker 2: fast track. We want more playoff. Every league wants more
17:29
Speaker 2: playoff teams, more revenue. And that's what college football has.
17:34
Speaker 3: How good is Arch Manning? I know, not even from NFL.
17:37
Speaker 3: Are they going to bench him?
17:40
Speaker 2: Well, Rick Neuheisel suggested that.
17:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:45
Speaker 2: Which I found interesting, because maybe you let him sit
17:48
Speaker 2: and kind of... He already sat behind Quinn Ewers.
17:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, two years, right?
17:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what he's going to see here.
17:56
Speaker 2: And Neuheisel said, look, he's not definitive. When he goes
17:59
Speaker 2: back to pass... He doesn't plant that back foot. He
18:03
Speaker 2: holds on to the ball. This goes back to what
18:06
Speaker 2: a scout told me about him and Shador Sanders and
18:09
Speaker 2: a couple other quarterbacks. You have to process so quickly.
18:13
Speaker 2: This is college. College is supposed to be easy. Now,
18:17
Speaker 2: Shador having trouble with that in the NFL. Arch shouldn't
18:20
Speaker 2: be having problems. You're playing great teams. You should not
18:24
Speaker 2: be having problems processing. And that's what his take was
18:28
Speaker 2: on Arch. He said first-round talent matters. but there's so
18:31
Speaker 2: much more when you're drafting quarterbacks.
18:33
Speaker 4: And I'm so fascinated to see how this plays out.
18:35
Speaker 4: If somehow Sarkeesian gets another year, because they have a
18:37
Speaker 4: tough schedule to go, if it goes another year and
18:40
Speaker 4: Sarkeesian decides he wants to go with a younger, more
18:42
Speaker 4: promising recruit-type quarterback, could Arch Manning transfer? Lots of teams
18:47
Speaker 4: would line up to have him, but the ending to
18:50
Speaker 4: the story, it's like a college football saga.
18:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much heat. It goes along with the territory,
18:56
Speaker 2: but Sark is doing a disservice to the situation where
19:00
Speaker 2: he's like, if this guy is John Smith, we would
19:04
Speaker 2: be saying you've got to get that quarterback out of there.
19:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. He was right by saying we would treat
19:09
Speaker 3: him differently, but not the way he meant.
19:11
Speaker 5: No, no.
19:12
Speaker 2: But look, I think maybe Sark is not the right
19:17
Speaker 2: coach for him. It's the only thing I thought of. Now,
19:20
Speaker 2: Quinn Ewers played great at Texas, but I just don't know.
19:24
Speaker 2: There's a disconnect there. It just doesn't. Sark is supposed
19:27
Speaker 2: to be the quarterback whisperer, offensive-minded.
19:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:30
Speaker 2: They have all the resources. Like, Texas should be the
19:32
Speaker 2: best team in the country.
19:33
Speaker 3: I remember when he was at Alabama, everybody seemed to
19:35
Speaker 3: be running open, and that was when he was an OC, though, right? Right.
19:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, but at Alabama, everybody did run open, though, Andrew.
19:42
Speaker 4: Remember Lane Kiffin used to start celebrating before the play
19:44
Speaker 4: was even open?
19:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, Devontae Smith and Henry Ruggs.
19:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have been the OC there.
19:49
Speaker 5: You should have. That would have been fun.
19:50
Speaker 2: All right, my next job.
19:52
Speaker 3: I have to ask the gratuitous, are my Eagles done?
19:56
Speaker 3: How done are we? And I went, wait.
19:58
Speaker 2: It's not just the quarterbacking situation. You got injuries. You
20:03
Speaker 2: got retirement. You trade a lineman. Sirianni... just never feels
20:11
Speaker 2: truly embedded there. Like, it's just a weird vibe. And
20:15
Speaker 2: it feels like every year we say the same thing.
20:19
Speaker 2: I mean, if Sirianni doesn't win the Super Bowl, I
20:21
Speaker 2: don't think there's any way he's still the head coach there.
20:24
Speaker 3: Really? No.
20:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:25
Speaker 3: No.
20:26
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, you won the Super Bowl. All right,
20:29
Speaker 2: you get to keep the job. And I think that that's,
20:33
Speaker 2: it's always going to be there, but it's tricky because
20:35
Speaker 2: they have so much talent and that division is winnable.
20:38
Speaker 7: Yes.
20:38
Speaker 6: Yes.
20:39
Speaker 2: Like, everybody's going to lose. If the commanders lose tonight,
20:41
Speaker 2: everybody's going to lose. That's back-to-back weeks where everybody lost
20:45
Speaker 2: in the division.
20:46
Speaker 3: Somebody's got to win. Are you doing a watch party?
20:49
Speaker 3: Is it the Eagles, Cowboys?
20:50
Speaker 2: I've got to find out if Shea and Irving wants
20:53
Speaker 2: to go through the pain again.
20:54
Speaker 5: It gets ugly, doesn't it?
20:56
Speaker 2: Oh, it gets great. Yeah. Like, if you like to
20:59
Speaker 2: see a grown man cry, then it's for you. And
21:03
Speaker 2: you want to see the Cowboys lose, then it's great.
21:05
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit afraid of coming to the Watch
21:07
Speaker 3: Party because I'm afraid if the Eagles do beat the Cowboys,
21:10
Speaker 3: I think Shea would beat me up on the live stream.
21:13
Speaker 2: It's good content.
21:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would.
21:15
Speaker 2: I mean, that's... No, no, Shea just loves the Cowboys.
21:19
Speaker 3: He does.
21:19
Speaker 2: Like, he truly... It impacts his life. Way too much. But...
21:24
Speaker 2: It impacted his life. Like, he was ready to leave.
21:27
Speaker 2: He was going to leave, and he stormed out, and
21:29
Speaker 2: he comes back, and he's just miserable. But it's awesome.
21:35
Speaker 3: All right, Dan, thanks for the time. All right, we've
21:37
Speaker 3: got to break down more of the college football. We've
21:41
Speaker 3: got to break down more of the college football upsets,
21:43
Speaker 3: and I have a warm take on the Green Bay Packers,
21:45
Speaker 3: who is my new team. Is that fair?
21:48
Speaker 2: And they're playing great defense.
21:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:50
Speaker 5: Your Packers.
21:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, my Packers. And Jordan Love.
21:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:53
Speaker 3: Remember when I was an Eagles fan?
21:54
Speaker 2: Last week.
21:56
Speaker 3: Weeks ago. All right. Thanks, Dan. We'll be back. Not
21:58
Speaker 3: so fast.
22:00
Speaker 5: There it is.
22:00
Speaker 3: That's it.
22:01
Speaker 2: That's how we do it right there.
22:03
Speaker 3: That's how we do it.
22:04
Speaker 5: Corduroy hops.
22:05
Speaker 2: Corduroy.
22:10
Speaker 4: Back on Not So Fast. Passing Pearl off NBC Sports now.
22:12
Speaker 4: Noah Eagle joining us from NBC Sports tomorrow.
22:15
Speaker 7: Here we go.
22:16
Speaker 4: Watch this play by Josh Allen. This doesn't look real. See,
22:22
Speaker 4: when he does it, it works out, Pearl.
22:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.
22:25
Speaker 4: When most quarterbacks do this, it goes pick six the
22:27
Speaker 4: other way.
22:28
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like there's only two QBs who can
22:31
Speaker 3: do things like this, Mahomes and Allen. And now Allen
22:33
Speaker 3: loves doing this. So I got to tell you, I
22:35
Speaker 3: have seen times where it has not worked out.
22:37
Speaker 5: That looked farvian. That looked like a power shovel pass.
22:40
Speaker 3: It looked like a dad in the backyard playing with
22:42
Speaker 3: the kids.
22:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it worked out. It had another great game.
22:45
Speaker 4: He's entering the point of his career where... Mahomes is
22:49
Speaker 4: having fewer of these highlight-type plays, and they all are
22:53
Speaker 4: sort of kind of going to Josh Allen these days.
22:55
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, Mahomes hasn't thrown a left-handed
22:57
Speaker 3: pass or a no-looker in forever. Stafford throws a no-look.
23:01
Speaker 3: That's really cool, but when you're 2-4, nothing looks good.
23:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mahomes, spice it up a little bit. We're keeping
23:05
Speaker 4: an eye on you. All right, it's time for Warm Takes.
23:07
Speaker 4: A little warmness to get you ready.
23:09
Speaker 5: For the October cold.
23:10
Speaker 3: Here we go, Pearl.
23:12
Speaker 5: For those of you.
23:13
Speaker 4: Who love college football and love college football chaos, Saturday
23:16
Speaker 4: was fantastic.
23:17
Speaker 5: But do you know who really loves Saturday and college football?
23:20
Speaker 4: The creators and supporters of a 24-team playoff. We talked
23:23
Speaker 4: about this, but this was the perfect scenario. You drop
23:26
Speaker 4: the intentions for a 24-team playoff on Thursday.
23:29
Speaker 5: It gets chopped up on Friday.
23:31
Speaker 4: And then on Saturday, you have a bunch of heavyweight teams,
23:34
Speaker 4: air quotes heavyweights, getting taken down by air quote subpar teams.
23:38
Speaker 4: This looks like the first round of the playoffs. Florida
23:41
Speaker 4: versus Texas, it can happen. Ole Miss-Mizzou, Mizzou got smoked. Tennessee-Alabama,
23:47
Speaker 4: that sounds like a first-round playoff game. This was the
23:49
Speaker 4: perfect scenario for those who want a 2014 playoff, which
23:53
Speaker 4: again is happening next year. Now, that said, did this
23:56
Speaker 4: lessen the impact on people? Will this lessen the people
23:58
Speaker 4: who don't want a 2014 playoff? Maybe a little bit,
24:01
Speaker 4: but this day will have a different feel next year.
24:05
Speaker 4: Next year, When this happens, Texas won't feel like they're
24:08
Speaker 4: in a jam and Alabama won't feel like they're in
24:10
Speaker 4: a jam. There'll be a lot more room for them
24:12
Speaker 4: to breathe or a lot more room for them to
24:14
Speaker 4: fail or lose another game.
24:16
Speaker 5: That's the only thing.
24:17
Speaker 4: Like Dan Patrick said 10 minutes ago here on Not
24:19
Speaker 4: So Fast, if you're watching that BYU-Notre Dame game or
24:22
Speaker 4: that Texas game, Florida, you're not going to be like,
24:25
Speaker 4: As you're cheering your team on to the upset, you're
24:27
Speaker 4: not going to be like, well, this won't matter that much.
24:29
Speaker 2: No.
24:29
Speaker 4: But during the week, as you chop it up, you're like, well,
24:32
Speaker 4: that game didn't have a whole lot of impact.
24:34
Speaker 5: Still, a great college football weekend.
24:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, look at when we went from 4
24:37
Speaker 3: to 12. I still think college football is as fun
24:40
Speaker 3: as ever. Right. So there was no huge downside. Now,
24:43
Speaker 3: I think, and Dan brought up in the last segment,
24:45
Speaker 3: there is a little bit of a fear that it
24:46
Speaker 3: gets too big. Maybe 16 would have been a better number.
24:49
Speaker 3: But I always go back to it. I've said this
24:50
Speaker 3: many times. Last year, Notre Dame was 13th. Basically. They
24:54
Speaker 3: didn't get in. They could have won the title last year.
24:56
Speaker 3: They might have been the best team in that field.
24:57
Speaker 3: They would have played Indiana very closely. I think Notre
25:02
Speaker 3: Dame could have won last year. And this year, you
25:03
Speaker 3: might have a team in the bottom half of the
25:05
Speaker 3: 24 who is threatening.
25:07
Speaker 5: Well, that's the real point here of this new 2014 playoff.
25:10
Speaker 4: Is that teams who are ranked in the top 30
25:12
Speaker 4: will still be in play. Like if you're Wake Forest,
25:14
Speaker 4: you're having a season of your life. Now, you'll have
25:17
Speaker 4: room for maybe one mistake, but I don't think you
25:20
Speaker 4: get much more than that if you're Wake Forest. But
25:21
Speaker 4: a team like Missouri, you could afford that mistake. Ole
25:25
Speaker 4: Miss had a mistake early in the season. Now Ole
25:27
Speaker 4: Miss is riding the ship. So there's a little more
25:30
Speaker 4: room for the people who are trying to work their
25:31
Speaker 4: way back up.
25:32
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. I mean, that being said, Texas, I think,
25:35
Speaker 3: is still– possibly floating around 25.
25:38
Speaker 5: Every game's a playoff game.
25:40
Speaker 3: That's a team that has enough talent that if they
25:42
Speaker 3: snuck in in a 2014 playoff, they could win the
25:44
Speaker 3: whole thing. Although it's definitely not going to make the 12th.
25:46
Speaker 5: Like Notre Dame last year.
25:47
Speaker 3: Like Notre Dame last year. No, I love it. I'm
25:49
Speaker 3: a 24. It's full on. All right, let's go to
25:52
Speaker 3: the NFL. We haven't really talked about this team who
25:55
Speaker 3: was dominant on Sunday Night Football. The Green Bay Packers
25:58
Speaker 3: beat the Dallas Cowboys. The Packers defense all of a
26:01
Speaker 3: sudden is great. The last three games, they've let up
26:04
Speaker 3: 14 points to Tampa Bay, 7 to Chicago, and 13
26:07
Speaker 3: to Dallas. And Dallas, by all the analytics, has one
26:10
Speaker 3: of the best offenses in the league. So this is
26:12
Speaker 3: a great achievement. Offensively, Matthew Golden stepped up a couple drops,
26:17
Speaker 3: but a couple amazing plays. All of a sudden, Green
26:19
Speaker 3: Bay is back. Now, this to me proves a bigger point, Paul.
26:22
Speaker 3: You have no idea what's happening after the first three
26:24
Speaker 3: weeks of the season. Green Bay was 1-2. If you remember,
26:28
Speaker 3: they blew that big lead against the Vikings in Week 1.
26:30
Speaker 3: Then they went to overtime against the New York Jets,
26:33
Speaker 3: who were terrible. Then they got blown out by Atlanta 35-14. Ugly.
26:37
Speaker 3: We were ready to totally give up on this team.
26:40
Speaker 3: They didn't look good on either side of the ball.
26:41
Speaker 3: Now they look great on defense, and they're still getting
26:43
Speaker 3: Micah Parsons back. and they look great on offense, and
26:46
Speaker 3: they're getting Josh Jacobs, the running back, back. Their one
26:49
Speaker 3: flaw is they can't run the ball, so they get
26:51
Speaker 3: their running back back. Jordan Love, I think he's putting
26:54
Speaker 3: to rest any questions about whether he's an elite quarterback.
26:57
Speaker 3: He looks like the heir apparent to Aaron Rodgers as
26:59
Speaker 3: far as talent goes. Now, he's not quite as accomplished.
27:02
Speaker 3: He's so good. He was beautiful to watch last night.
27:04
Speaker 4: A couple things that stand out there. I heard an
27:06
Speaker 4: announcer say that Jordan Love throws an easy ball.
27:09
Speaker 3: Yes, I love that.
27:09
Speaker 4: He goes, he's just playing pitch and catch out there.
27:11
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what that means, but I think
27:13
Speaker 4: it was a compliment. He does not have like a
27:15
Speaker 4: laser arm. He just kind of cruises through the game
27:17
Speaker 4: and easy throws right on the money.
27:19
Speaker 3: That being said, he has plenty of arm strength.
27:21
Speaker 5: Plenty of arm strength.
27:21
Speaker 3: He can get the ball in anywhere he wants.
27:23
Speaker 4: But you go back to, like you said, in September,
27:26
Speaker 4: everybody was off the Packers. One thing we should learn
27:29
Speaker 4: and we won't learn for next September. is that the
27:31
Speaker 4: extreme things that happen in September, you should ignore. Like
27:35
Speaker 4: how bad the Patriots and Drake May were, you should
27:37
Speaker 4: actually ignore the extreme, but we won't in September.
27:40
Speaker 3: Well, maybe we're, you know, the thing is looking forward.
27:43
Speaker 3: Are we underestimating the Rams for the same reasons? Once
27:45
Speaker 3: they get Myles Garrett back, maybe they're going to be
27:47
Speaker 3: the best team in football because it's only six weeks in.
27:49
Speaker 5: All right, my next warm take is this.
27:51
Speaker 4: The end of the BYU upset game versus Notre Dame
27:54
Speaker 4: on Saturday night was a wild scene. You could easily
27:56
Speaker 4: make the case that Notre Dame was interfered with by
27:59
Speaker 4: BYU on that final throw.
28:00
Speaker 5: Maybe, maybe not. It looked like it, but even so.
28:03
Speaker 3: There's no maybe, maybe not.
28:04
Speaker 5: Let's watch it play. This looks like P.I.
28:05
Speaker 3: Okay, great.
28:06
Speaker 4: Now, the other bigger picture is there was one second
28:09
Speaker 4: left on the clock, clearly, when this ball hit the ground. Now,
28:12
Speaker 4: once the fans run on the field and the refs
28:14
Speaker 4: don't say the hold up, hold up thing, there's nothing
28:17
Speaker 4: you can do about it, right? So the Big 12
28:20
Speaker 4: issued a statement after the game. They said quickly, within
28:22
Speaker 4: 12 hours after the game, The Big 12 review of
28:25
Speaker 4: the final play determined that it was one second left
28:28
Speaker 4: on the clock when the ball hit the ground, and
28:30
Speaker 4: the play was incorrectly cleared by the replay officiating crew.
28:34
Speaker 4: So even in replay, they didn't signal down. The conference
28:37
Speaker 4: will conduct a complete review, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
28:40
Speaker 4: Doesn't help Notre Dame.
28:41
Speaker 5: Totally helps BYU.
28:42
Speaker 4: Now, the refs really can't clear 30,000 people off a field,
28:47
Speaker 4: or can they? I guess they could if they just said, hey,
28:49
Speaker 4: this game isn't over. The PA guy says it's not over.
28:51
Speaker 5: They could do it. I don't think they had a chance.
28:53
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons they didn't have a chance.
28:56
Speaker 4: Was BYU legend Steve Young.
28:58
Speaker 5: Watch in the bottom of your screen here.
28:59
Speaker 4: When this ball drops, there's a guy in a blue
29:02
Speaker 4: vest on brand for Greenwich guy.
29:04
Speaker 5: Who runs on the field first. There's Steve Young.
29:06
Speaker 4: The ball hasn't even settled yet, and Steve Young is
29:09
Speaker 4: leading the charge.
29:10
Speaker 3: Brilliant.
29:10
Speaker 4: If I'm in the stands and I see BYU legend
29:13
Speaker 4: Steve Young running on the field, I'm running right with him.
29:16
Speaker 4: So he actually helped his team in the moment because
29:20
Speaker 4: imagine nobody runs on the field.
29:21
Speaker 3: There he is.
29:23
Speaker 4: They're still tumbling around the field, and Steve's high-stepping like
29:26
Speaker 4: it's FAMU.
29:27
Speaker 3: I love it.
29:27
Speaker 4: Great job by Steve Young to push the envelope. I
29:30
Speaker 4: think he did it on purpose. I love where his
29:32
Speaker 4: head's at. But that is a BYU legend leading the
29:34
Speaker 4: fans on the field. And once those fans got on
29:36
Speaker 4: the field, there was nothing the refs could do about it.
29:39
Speaker 3: I don't think Steve would admit that he did that
29:42
Speaker 3: intentionally to screw up the refs, though. I think he
29:44
Speaker 3: would say in the moment.
29:45
Speaker 5: If it's unintentional, it's great. If it's intentional, it's great.
29:47
Speaker 4: But it really did have an impact on the refs
29:49
Speaker 4: because you can't see the ref on the bottom by
29:51
Speaker 4: the pylon. because he's already being swarmed by BYU faith.
29:55
Speaker 3: I still think the ref sort of had his hand
29:57
Speaker 3: in his back pocket. I think they were still thinking
29:59
Speaker 3: about throwing the play. It was a maybe, maybe not.
30:01
Speaker 3: That is defensive pass interference. I don't care what point
30:04
Speaker 3: of the game it is. He grabbed both arms. It
30:06
Speaker 3: was obvious to me there was some jostling, but I
30:09
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm not even worried about the one second
30:11
Speaker 3: because I would have called DPI. But that being said,
30:14
Speaker 3: hopefully both teams are alive for the playoff, and I
30:16
Speaker 3: think they will be.
30:16
Speaker 2: Should be.
30:17
Speaker 3: Okay, for my next warm take, back to the NFL.
30:20
Speaker 3: I think that we can forget the rest of the
30:22
Speaker 3: season in the AFC. Just everybody can relax and take
30:25
Speaker 3: a break. We are going back to the early 2020s.
30:29
Speaker 3: The Bills and Chiefs are playing in either the AFC
30:32
Speaker 3: championship game or the AFC divisional round. Now, they played
30:35
Speaker 3: four times since 2020, and the Chiefs have won them all.
30:38
Speaker 3: But that being said, Josh Allen's got a breakthrough at
30:41
Speaker 3: some point, and right now he's playing better than Mahomes.
30:43
Speaker 3: So if you look at the odds, San Francisco is
30:45
Speaker 3: the overall favorite. Then Chiefs and Bills are two and three.
30:49
Speaker 3: What are we doing here right now? This feels like history.
30:51
Speaker 3: They're basically bird magic for the NFL. And Josh Allen's
30:55
Speaker 3: playing like Mahomes now. Mahomes still rounding into shape after
30:58
Speaker 3: the injury. But it strikes me as crazy. It's like
31:02
Speaker 3: nobody in the AFC really matters except for these two
31:05
Speaker 3: teams since 2020. And I'm sorry, I don't even see anybody.
31:09
Speaker 3: They might play in the divisional round, but I don't
31:11
Speaker 3: see a real serious threat. to these two teams, and
31:14
Speaker 3: I think history continues and wants Josh Allen and Patrick
31:17
Speaker 3: Mahomes to have many showdowns, and it's coming. It's coming
31:21
Speaker 3: at some point in the playoffs, and I cannot wait.
31:23
Speaker 4: Does this remind you, not too long ago, when it
31:25
Speaker 4: was Brady with the Patriots, Manning with the Colts, and
31:29
Speaker 4: it felt like it was their division, sorry, their conference,
31:32
Speaker 4: and someone else had to sneak in, but when you
31:33
Speaker 4: look at this, There are some all-time possibly great quarterbacks
31:36
Speaker 4: who may not get a shot at the Super Bowl. Now,
31:38
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow had his shot, but Joe Burrow is going
31:41
Speaker 4: to have a hard time getting back.
31:42
Speaker 3: But I don't think, is he all-time great like Josh
31:44
Speaker 3: Allen's all-time great?
31:45
Speaker 5: No, he doesn't have the plays, the explosive.
31:47
Speaker 4: But Josh, there was a point when Joe Burrow, when
31:50
Speaker 4: he made that Super Bowl, was like, oh, the NFL
31:52
Speaker 4: is now his. And because of injuries and some things
31:54
Speaker 4: with his team, he kind of reverted back a little bit.
31:56
Speaker 3: I think it's really Patrick Mahomes. I mean, it's almost
31:59
Speaker 3: like Michael Jordan was in the 90s, basically. But Josh Allen,
32:03
Speaker 3: particularly to me, is really, really pushing up against it.
32:06
Speaker 3: Like he's close to breaking through. I don't know what's
32:08
Speaker 3: going to happen to Joe Burrow. He's stuck in Cincinnati.
32:10
Speaker 4: And if you look at Mahomes, his first 10 years
32:12
Speaker 4: is as good as any first 10 years of a quarterback.
32:14
Speaker 5: But will he have that gap?
32:16
Speaker 4: He already has a little bit of a gap, Patrick Mahomes,
32:18
Speaker 4: because of injury and some things that have happened to
32:20
Speaker 4: his team. But Brady had a nine-year gap between Super
32:23
Speaker 4: Bowl victories, and no one remembers it because he was
32:25
Speaker 4: in a couple, and they lost to the Giants twice.
32:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I feel like the way they've
32:30
Speaker 3: started out this season, it doesn't feel like the gap's
32:32
Speaker 3: going to be that long.
32:32
Speaker 5: It shouldn't be that long. The defense is pretty good.
32:35
Speaker 3: Even though Holmes is coming off the knee injury, if
32:38
Speaker 3: it's the fourth quarter of a playoff game, isn't he
32:39
Speaker 3: the guy you still trust?
32:41
Speaker 5: That's the thing.
32:42
Speaker 4: We talk about this here on Not So Fast that
32:44
Speaker 4: who's the best quarterback in football. I think everyone's going
32:46
Speaker 4: to say Josh Allen right now. But if you just
32:49
Speaker 4: change the semantic one word and say, Who would you
32:51
Speaker 4: want down seven, three minutes to go, no timeouts? I
32:56
Speaker 4: think you're lying to yourself if you say Josh Allen
32:58
Speaker 4: over Mahomes, even today.
32:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, I think that Allen is right there.
33:03
Speaker 3: Right there. We'll see in the playoffs. Can he really
33:05
Speaker 3: go 0-5 against the Chiefs in this decade? That seems unbelievable,
33:10
Speaker 3: but very possible.
33:10
Speaker 5: And as we say every year, this feels like the
33:12
Speaker 5: year that the Bills get over the hump. We say
33:14
Speaker 5: that every year.
33:14
Speaker 4: All right, coming up next. Oh, a lot coming up next.
33:18
Speaker 4: We'll talk about the NFL, college football, and a lot,
33:20
Speaker 4: lot more. Plus, your constructive criticism in just a little bit.
33:23
Speaker 5: Stick around. Not so fast.
33:27
Speaker 3: God, I can't wait to see Josh Allen go. You know,
33:30
Speaker 3: he's going to be in a key playoff game. Is
33:32
Speaker 3: he going to get over the hump?
33:33
Speaker 5: By the way, NFL Play of the Year, Josh Allen's
33:34
Speaker 5: going to be cemented.
33:36
Speaker 2: Oh. What is missing from this ingredient here with Arch
33:44
Speaker 2: and Steve Sarkisian?
33:46
Speaker 1: The ability to go back and hit your back foot
33:50
Speaker 1: and the ball come out of your hands. It just
33:52
Speaker 1: feels like arch for whatever reason is holding the ball.
33:56
Speaker 1: And when you hold the ball and you have any
33:58
Speaker 1: vulnerability in your front, uh, which clearly they do, arch
34:02
Speaker 1: has been harassed. What seems like all season long, uh,
34:07
Speaker 1: Now you're in harm's way. And even some of the
34:11
Speaker 1: big plays this year, go back to those fourth down
34:13
Speaker 1: conversions against Ohio State, go back to that beautiful touchdown
34:17
Speaker 1: to Cam Coleman in the Oklahoma game. Those are off-schedule plays.
34:21
Speaker 1: He's kind of running around. The idea that you go
34:24
Speaker 1: back and throw the ball beyond the line of scrimmage,
34:26
Speaker 1: down there 10 to 15 yards, and hit your back
34:29
Speaker 1: foot and let it go, it doesn't happen at Texas.
34:32
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why.
34:34
Speaker 4: Back on Not So Fast, that was Steve.
34:35
Speaker 3: That was off.
34:36
Speaker 4: Rick Neuheisel with Dan Patrick talking about Steve Sarkeesian and
34:39
Speaker 4: Arch Manning.
34:40
Speaker 5: What did you think of that? There was a lot
34:41
Speaker 5: to that clip.
34:42
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I agree with one thing that
34:44
Speaker 3: he said that people are not talking about. The offensive
34:46
Speaker 3: line is god-awful. It's not just bad. It's god-awful, and
34:49
Speaker 3: they get paid more money than any offensive line probably ever,
34:53
Speaker 3: which is weird. They can't run the ball at all.
34:56
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people near Texas say, there's
35:00
Speaker 3: plenty of problems besides Arch. Arch is just one of
35:02
Speaker 3: the problems. Now, I just don't know why Arch is
35:04
Speaker 3: not getting rid of the ball. I can't figure it
35:06
Speaker 3: out I blame Steve Sarkeesian largely because isn't that the
35:10
Speaker 3: coach's job to teach the quarterback to get rid of
35:11
Speaker 3: the ball?
35:12
Speaker 4: Right, and as an offensive coordinator, he's worked directly with quarterbacks.
35:14
Speaker 4: He's not a D.C.
35:15
Speaker 5: Who happens to be the head coach of the team.
35:17
Speaker 4: When you watch it, again, as a civilian watching, you
35:20
Speaker 4: do think that the guy pauses a lot in the pocket.
35:22
Speaker 4: And like Rick Neuheisel said, I don't know why it's happening,
35:26
Speaker 4: but it is happening.
35:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, is it lack of processing? You know, one thing,
35:30
Speaker 3: I kind of disagree with Dan a little bit. I'm
35:32
Speaker 3: not sure Sark did the greatest job with Quinn Ewers
35:34
Speaker 3: because Quinn Ewers was the number one overall recruit.
35:36
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:37
Speaker 3: And he ended up being a seventh-round pick. Arch was
35:40
Speaker 3: the number one overall recruit. He's probably going to end
35:42
Speaker 3: up being, at this rate, a second-round pick. So I'm
35:45
Speaker 3: not sure that Sark has that quarterback magic right now,
35:47
Speaker 3: or the players are just a little flawed.
35:49
Speaker 4: You know, I think I said maybe three or four
35:50
Speaker 4: weeks ago, and not so fast, I would talk about, like,
35:53
Speaker 4: could Arch Manning, if he wants to play another year,
35:55
Speaker 4: look to play another place?
35:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:57
Speaker 4: Be, like, proactive and say, like, look, this might not
36:00
Speaker 4: work out. Also, Texas may be bringing in a younger
36:02
Speaker 4: guy because they want to attract a top recruit, and cutting...
36:06
Speaker 4: Arch Manning is not really possible because of the TV
36:09
Speaker 4: fallout it may be. Could you see Arch Manning proactively
36:11
Speaker 4: joining another roster next year?
36:13
Speaker 3: No.
36:14
Speaker 5: It's Texas or NFL?
36:15
Speaker 3: So I think the first person to go will be
36:17
Speaker 3: Steve Sharkeesian. So the question is, if they fire Sark,
36:21
Speaker 3: does that mean Arch goes to the pros or goes
36:23
Speaker 3: to another school?
36:23
Speaker 5: Or stays and is part of whatever the coach that
36:26
Speaker 5: comes in.
36:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems unlikely.
36:29
Speaker 5: That seems unlikely.
36:29
Speaker 2: To me.
36:30
Speaker 3: But also, I think Sark and Arch have a great
36:31
Speaker 3: chance to come back. If Arch says, I'm coming back,
36:34
Speaker 3: if Arch... If Shark comes back, what does that remind
36:36
Speaker 3: you of? What movie? Oh, Hoosiers. Yeah, it's Hoosiers. But
36:39
Speaker 3: although he's not playing as well as Jimmy Chitwood, I
36:41
Speaker 3: do think... Nice reference. And by the way, Arch was
36:44
Speaker 3: good enough to beat Ohio State, who is probably the
36:47
Speaker 3: best team in the country. So it's just inconsistent. But
36:51
Speaker 3: why can't they run the football? It's college football. It's
36:53
Speaker 3: not that hard to run the ball.
36:54
Speaker 4: And I looked up their running backs. They're top recruits.
36:56
Speaker 4: These are big-time running backs.
36:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, they paid time for these guys. They're both out
37:00
Speaker 3: of transfer portal, and it's not working. Now, Arch is back,
37:03
Speaker 3: but if Arch off-platform, that play that he made that
37:06
Speaker 3: looked like to get the ball on the fourth down
37:09
Speaker 3: to keep them in the game, that was incredible. He
37:11
Speaker 3: still makes great plays.
37:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's better rolling out.
37:13
Speaker 4: All right, let's go back to that BYU-Notre Dame game.
37:16
Speaker 4: You know, BYU, did they get the benefit of a
37:18
Speaker 4: call or two late in the game? A lot of
37:19
Speaker 4: people think so. Marcus Freeman, the head coach of Notre Dame,
37:22
Speaker 4: was asked about the refs after the game.
37:24
Speaker 7: It was chaos, man. I'm obviously going to probably.
37:30
Speaker 7: Feel some type of way when I'm out there.
37:31
Speaker 2: We'll watch it, but.
37:34
Speaker 3: It is what it is.
37:35
Speaker 7: I know people are going to look for me to
37:37
Speaker 7: put blame on somebody else. That's not what we do
37:40
Speaker 7: around here. We own it, and we've got to be better,
37:43
Speaker 7: and we've got to execute no matter what the situation is.
37:45
Speaker 4: So I think this is a smart move by Marcus
37:47
Speaker 4: Freeman because he's going to let other people rip the
37:49
Speaker 4: refs at the end of that game and how they
37:50
Speaker 4: handle it because it's pretty clear There was at least one,
37:53
Speaker 4: if not two, mistakes. The one thing, though, Marcus Freeman
37:55
Speaker 4: doesn't answer to anybody. If he decided to rip the refs,
37:58
Speaker 4: there's no conference office that's going to find him. There's
38:00
Speaker 4: no NCAA office that's going to find him. He's not findable.
38:04
Speaker 4: So he actually took the high road, which is probably
38:07
Speaker 4: a smart move. I'm curious what we'd be talking about
38:10
Speaker 4: today if this were reversed. and Notre Dame was on
38:13
Speaker 4: defense there, and BYU was on offense.
38:14
Speaker 3: Everybody would say, oh, Notre Dame getting all the calls again.
38:17
Speaker 2: Yes.
38:18
Speaker 3: 100%. One thing about Freeman, though, and Notre Dame, is
38:23
Speaker 3: this part, to me, the fact that they never schedule
38:25
Speaker 3: anybody and that they have no idea how to play
38:27
Speaker 3: a good team in a close game because they have
38:29
Speaker 3: basically Navy, Army, all these terrible teams on their schedule?
38:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, they schedule years in advance. They have Boston College
38:35
Speaker 4: as like a legacy game. Navy's a legacy game. Stanford
38:38
Speaker 4: is a legacy game on the roster. And those games
38:40
Speaker 4: are often friendly. Sometimes Stanford's good. Sometimes Navy's threatening. But
38:45
Speaker 4: more often than not, they're a C-level team. But I
38:48
Speaker 4: do think, though, Notre Dame's in a situation like, was
38:50
Speaker 4: that a good game for them?
38:52
Speaker 5: Because they got tested hard. They did lose.
38:54
Speaker 4: And they have Miami on November 7th at home. That's
38:57
Speaker 4: the one they have to win. More so now.
39:00
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, last year the committee did not let
39:03
Speaker 3: them in. So now they kind of have, let's say
39:05
Speaker 3: they have two losses to BYU and Miami. They're not
39:09
Speaker 3: going to have the teams. There's no conference title game.
39:11
Speaker 3: There's no way to get that back.
39:13
Speaker 4: I think two losses really hurts Notre Dame in the
39:15
Speaker 4: fact that there's so many teams jockeying for these 12 spots.
39:18
Speaker 5: Notre Dame has a provision in their deal with the
39:21
Speaker 5: NCAA right now.
39:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forgot about that.
39:22
Speaker 5: In their deal with the college football playoffs.
39:24
Speaker 4: If they're ranked in the top 12, they're in. Nothing
39:28
Speaker 4: else supersedes it. No other conference deal supersedes it.
39:30
Speaker 3: So if they lose to Miami, can they stay in
39:33
Speaker 3: the top 12? But how are they going to earn
39:34
Speaker 3: those wins without strength? By the way, I think next
39:36
Speaker 3: year they do have a hard schedule, I believe.
39:38
Speaker 5: Yes, harder.
39:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, a much harder schedule. So then they'll be at
39:42
Speaker 3: 24 teams. And Notre Dame, that would be so embarrassing
39:45
Speaker 3: if they didn't make the 12-team playoff.
39:46
Speaker 5: This year, it would be really embarrassing.
39:47
Speaker 3: Because they really only have two games on their schedule.
39:49
Speaker 5: Yes, that should be worse than last year.
39:52
Speaker 3: Okay, our next clip comes from our guy Jim Harbaugh.
39:56
Speaker 5: Becoming regular.
39:57
Speaker 3: There's nothing Jim Harbaugh can say to help the Chargers
39:59
Speaker 3: right now, but he gave it his best shot and
40:02
Speaker 3: commented on offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.
40:04
Speaker 6: We're going to look at everything. The job I'm doing,
40:06
Speaker 6: it starts with me. The plan is to watch this
40:13
Speaker 6: and get with our offensive coaches. I see the I
40:20
Speaker 6: see the effort. I see the, you know, the work
40:23
Speaker 6: being put in, in the meetings on the practice field. And,
40:27
Speaker 6: you know, to get that to translate to the field
40:32
Speaker 6: is what's necessary. You know, I feel bad for our players,
40:39
Speaker 6: our team, our coaches, our fans. And, He's a good wrestler.
40:45
Speaker 5: Someone give my man a cup of coffee or a
40:47
Speaker 5: nap or something. He looks beleaguered.
40:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, or sort of confused about what's happening.
40:52
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he is confused.
40:53
Speaker 3: I don't think he ever saw this scenario playing out.
40:55
Speaker 4: He's never been part of a losing team. I mean,
40:57
Speaker 4: a real bad losing team. Even the early days at Stanford,
41:01
Speaker 4: he was going uphill. But he seems like a guy
41:04
Speaker 4: who has no answers, and he's Mr.
41:06
Speaker 2: Positive.
41:07
Speaker 4: He looks like he's struggling for a positive spin on this.
41:09
Speaker 3: Right. Remember before the season how me and many other
41:12
Speaker 3: people said, oh, my God, they got Mike McDaniel as
41:15
Speaker 3: the best offensive coordinator hire. The other teams wanted him,
41:18
Speaker 3: but the Chargers got him. Turns out it was a
41:20
Speaker 3: bad idea.
41:20
Speaker 5: So let's see how this plays out.
41:22
Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh probably not fireable at this point in the thing,
41:25
Speaker 4: but Mike McDaniel is. You could easily get rid of
41:28
Speaker 4: an OC. Every head coach gets one OC or DC firing.
41:32
Speaker 4: So do you expect him to get fired during or
41:34
Speaker 4: after the season, Mike McDaniel?
41:35
Speaker 3: You know, I... I think it'll be during the season
41:39
Speaker 3: because I don't see them turning this around anytime soon.
41:41
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be some more brutal losses ahead. Also,
41:45
Speaker 3: poor Justin Herbert. Does anybody get hit more than this dude?
41:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
41:49
Speaker 3: He randomly took a knee to the head that would
41:52
Speaker 3: have knocked out most people. He's just getting destroyed.
41:55
Speaker 4: Him and Arch Manning have similar things. They got all
41:57
Speaker 4: the spite on them. And they're not getting a lot
41:59
Speaker 4: of support. People week to week don't really care why
42:01
Speaker 4: they're not doing it.
42:02
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, he's not playing well either. But he's taking
42:04
Speaker 3: brutal shots every week because they're so desperate. But I wonder,
42:09
Speaker 3: do you think Jim Harbaugh would step down after this year?
42:11
Speaker 3: Say they were 2-15. Not 2. Maybe. I don't think
42:14
Speaker 3: it would be that bad.
42:15
Speaker 4: No, I thought about that as well because he doesn't–
42:18
Speaker 4: I won't use the word quit, but maybe he says
42:20
Speaker 4: this is not right for the franchise.
42:21
Speaker 5: I'm going to do what's best for the franchise. But
42:23
Speaker 5: he doesn't seem like a give-up guy.
42:24
Speaker 3: By the way, he's got a show cause, can't go
42:26
Speaker 3: back to college. You pointed that out.
42:27
Speaker 4: He can't go to college until like 12 more years
42:29
Speaker 4: or something like that. Coming up next, it's time for
42:31
Speaker 4: your feedback from the weekend, constructive criticism, and to get
42:34
Speaker 4: you ready for Monday Night Football.
42:36
Speaker 2: Stick around.
42:37
Speaker 5: Not so fast. Pabst and Perloff.
42:40
Speaker 3: He'd be good in the booth, though. I would love
42:42
Speaker 3: me some Jim Harbaugh on TV.
42:44
Speaker 4: I like him on a college football show. I'd prefer
42:47
Speaker 4: him on a college football show. Drinking milk, yelling at
42:49
Speaker 4: the co-eds.
42:52
Speaker 2: The Colts' first call will be, has been, to Peyton Manning.
42:57
Speaker 2: The call will not only get names and suggestions, but
43:01
Speaker 2: the call will explore whether or not Peyton would be
43:05
Speaker 2: interested in being a general manager for the Colts as
43:08
Speaker 2: the entry point that would include ownership interest in the Colts.
43:15
Speaker 2: This would be the first major hire by Jim Ursae sisters,
43:21
Speaker 2: the next generation. So now you have an opportunity to
43:24
Speaker 2: put Peyton back in Indy as a GM and part owner,
43:30
Speaker 2: and he gets to pick his quarterback. So now, all
43:34
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the community is going to love this.
43:36
Speaker 2: The league would love this. Would Peyton love this? So
43:40
Speaker 2: that's the information I just got.
43:49
Speaker 3: Actually, really into this. I thought that was a great idea.
43:52
Speaker 3: It reminds me of John Elway taking over the Broncos.
43:55
Speaker 3: Peyton Manning, of course, is associated so strongly with the Colts,
43:59
Speaker 3: and he's obviously a brilliant football mind. I don't see
44:02
Speaker 3: the downside. I think this makes so much sense.
44:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was quite saucy.
44:05
Speaker 4: When the news broke about Chris Ballard, Dan went right
44:07
Speaker 4: back to his phone during the break, and I saw
44:08
Speaker 4: him texting his source. And when he brought that up,
44:10
Speaker 4: that's a real source. I look at Manning as a
44:13
Speaker 4: competitive person. He's got this huge production company. He's got
44:16
Speaker 4: a lot going on. The Manning cast has been going,
44:20
Speaker 4: cooling off a little bit. I want to be fair
44:22
Speaker 4: to it. But I could see him saying, okay, let's
44:24
Speaker 4: pivot at this juncture in my career. The big part
44:27
Speaker 4: for me is, can Peyton Manning be a competitor part-time
44:30
Speaker 4: and still be able to watch his kids' football games?
44:33
Speaker 4: I think that would be the biggest dilemma for him
44:35
Speaker 4: in some role with the Colts.
44:36
Speaker 3: We were arguing about this off-camera. There's tons of people
44:39
Speaker 3: who have big jobs in the NFL who have kids
44:41
Speaker 3: playing football, and they all make it work. Now, if
44:44
Speaker 3: he's the president and GM and his son is playing
44:46
Speaker 3: on Friday night, if he's a GM, where else is
44:50
Speaker 3: he going to be? Just go fly and watch your
44:52
Speaker 3: kid play.
44:52
Speaker 4: I think he could work it out. I don't think
44:53
Speaker 4: Peyton's flying commercial anymore. I think he would work it out.
44:56
Speaker 4: But I could see his competitive Jones now starting to itch.
44:59
Speaker 4: He's been away from the game for a while. He's
45:01
Speaker 4: got Omaha Productions flying.
45:03
Speaker 5: He could do it now.
45:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the funny thing is, I said, why fire
45:06
Speaker 3: your GM in week six? They're not doing anything in
45:08
Speaker 3: week six. Their job is in March when they're evaluating prospects.
45:12
Speaker 5: Well, you want to paint the office, get it ready
45:13
Speaker 5: for the next game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Peyton doesn't have to watch his kid when
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Speaker 3: the most important thing for the Colts, and Dan said it,
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Speaker 3: was they really have to make a decision at quarterback.
45:20
Speaker 3: I did not really get the Daniel Jones re-sign thing,
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Speaker 3: but they can get out of that. I think this
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Speaker 3: makes all the sense in the world. If I could
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Speaker 3: bet on this, I would bet on Peyton being signed. Okay,
45:30
Speaker 3: Monday Night Football, Paul. Ooh, this is interesting. Okay, so
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Speaker 3: it's the Niners hosting the Commanders. Now, everyone remembers Jaden
45:38
Speaker 3: Daniel holding onto the ball at the end of the
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Speaker 3: Giants game. But what people don't remember is that Jaden
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Speaker 3: Daniels actually came back from injury and played pretty darn
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Speaker 3: well and ran for over 100 yards. So the spread
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Speaker 3: is only 7.5. Only? Yeah, I mean, yes.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no, we're showing it again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, this is bad. But it just struck me
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Speaker 3: all week. It's been at 7.5 and has not moved.
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Speaker 3: The Niners are arguably the best team in the NFL
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Speaker 3: at 5-0. They're hosting a team that really doesn't beat anybody.
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Speaker 3: You would think it'd be bigger to me. I think this...
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Speaker 3: Points to the Commanders being sneaky competitive.
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Speaker 4: This is an opportunity game for Jaden Daniels to remind
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Speaker 4: everybody what type of quarterback he has. Monday Night Football
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Speaker 4: against a good defense, a team that should beat them.
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Speaker 3: Should kill them.
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Speaker 5: Should kill them.
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Speaker 4: This is on a plate for Jaden Daniels to have
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Speaker 4: a very good game, get a win, and completely reset
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Speaker 4: his career, not only their season.
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe.
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Speaker 3: I feel like even if he plays well, I think
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Speaker 3: the defense is going to have trouble containing the Commanders.
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Speaker 4: Again, you win by one point and you play well.
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Speaker 4: Everyone will be like, oh, Jaden Daniels, yeah, I remember him.
46:37
Speaker 4: And you'll... Push that thing from last week. I know
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Speaker 4: what you're going to say.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I say, but what if they lose by three
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Speaker 3: and he plays well?
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Speaker 4: It helps because they have a tough schedule coming up. But, like,
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Speaker 4: he needs a statement game on national TV.
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Speaker 5: Like, nobody's business.
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Speaker 3: See, I think he could have that statement game and
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Speaker 3: they could still lose because if Brock Purdy's playing like
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Speaker 3: an MVP, they have all those weapons. And I think
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Speaker 3: the Commanders have some real— even if Jake Daniels is good,
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Speaker 3: they have some real problems. They're a bad franchise and
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Speaker 3: a bad team. Meanwhile, the Niners— are a juggernaut right now.
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised. You think the spread would have been higher?
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Speaker 3: I mean, or the same? I thought the Niners would
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Speaker 3: be favored by 14 like the Rams were with Cardinals.
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Speaker 5: I thought it would have been 9.5. I thought 9.5
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Speaker 5: or more. I think it's going to be fun.
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Speaker 4: Let's get to a little constructive criticism, your feedback from
47:17
Speaker 4: the weekend. Hit us every day on Twitter. Send your questions.
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Speaker 5: We'll pop them on the show. NotSoFast at NotSoFastDP on Twitter.
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Speaker 5: First one, Pearl.
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Speaker 4: This has been an incredible day of college football, watching
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Speaker 4: nine screens for 12 hours. That's my boy, by the way,
47:31
Speaker 4: Montreal Max. He's my connection out in the desert.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I know Montreal Max.
47:34
Speaker 4: You know Montreal Max on Twitter. He's a great follower.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a little different. He's got financial investments.
47:38
Speaker 5: He sure does. And he's a 9TV guy. I'm so jealous.
47:42
Speaker 5: I'm rarely jealous of anybody. All right, one more. Here
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Speaker 5: we go.
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Speaker 4: Top says, there's going to be a new football pack
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Speaker 4: with a PSA Walter Payton rookie card in a pack.
47:53
Speaker 4: That means you find a Walter Payton rookie card?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, PSA 10 means it's in perfect condition. PSA 10
47:59
Speaker 3: is worth a lot.
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Speaker 5: I do have one of my own here.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's PSA 10, but I know
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Speaker 4: it's PSA 34, which means it's Walter Payton looking awesome
48:08
Speaker 4: before the jerry curl.
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Speaker 3: Here, let me see this. I'll tell you the PSA
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Speaker 3: in real time.
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Speaker 1: Be nice.
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Speaker 3: Ooh, Paulie, this is... It's not looking good. You got
48:16
Speaker 3: a little hand down there.
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Speaker 5: You're not saying anything negative about Walter Payton, are you?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm saying something negative about your card and your college, kids' college.
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Speaker 4: It's probably not worth that much. It's got a little tear,
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Speaker 4: a little bit there. That's because Walter was laying people out.
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Speaker 4: That's why it's all banged up.
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Speaker 3: So are you going to invest in this PSA 10?
48:31
Speaker 3: Does Not So Fast have a budget for any of that?
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Speaker 3: Of course we do.
48:34
Speaker 4: It's time for the feel-good here in Not So Fast,
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Speaker 4: something for the weekend that.
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Speaker 5: Made you and me feel great.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: Look at this young fella. Brewer's fan, gets a card
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Speaker 5: from Pops, Jackson Turio. That's cool, Dad. Thanks. What's on
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Speaker 5: the card? What's with the card?
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Speaker 4: With this card comes two tickets to the World Series.
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Speaker 5: Love, Grandma and Aunt Kathy. Grandma and Aunt Kathy.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 5: Always great gift givers. Everyone knows that. Look at my
48:57
Speaker 5: man tearing up.
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Speaker 2: Good tears, dude.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Too bad he can't stay up for that at
49:03
Speaker 3: the night game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you get him a nap. You take him to Starbucks.
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Speaker 5: He won't know what he's drinking. Get him all pumped up.
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Speaker 5: Get him ready for the game.
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Speaker 3: I'll be on the weekend, too. No, this is amazing.
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Speaker 3: Could you imagine when you were a young kid going
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Speaker 3: to a World Series game?
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Speaker 4: No, I didn't get to go to Burger King when
49:18
Speaker 4: I was a kid. It's good for you, young kid.
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Speaker 4: Good job by Aunt Kathy and Grandma.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kathy.
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Speaker 4: Coming up tomorrow on this show, Noah Eagle from NBC Sports,
49:26
Speaker 4: the launch of the NBA season on NBC Sports, and
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Speaker 4: the Dan Patrick Show before us on Not So Fast
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Speaker 4: right after.
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Speaker 5: We'll get you ready. Enjoy the football and enjoy the
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Speaker 5: baseball tonight.
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Speaker 3: Take care.