Andy & Ari On3 - Tennessee's Dylan Sampson teaches the world to DANCE | SAUCY takes for Gators, Ducks and Buffaloes

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

Wendy’s New Saucy Nuggs take the Crispy and Spicy Nuggs you love and turn them up to 11.Choose between flavors like Buffalo. Honey BBQ. Garlic Parm. Or, if you’re a real heat seeker,try Spicy Ghost Pepper, only on Wendy’s signature Spicy Nuggs. The Money Game is a compelling six-part docuseries that chronicles the introduction of the groundbreaking decision by the NCAA to grant NIL (name, image and likeness) rights to student-athletes, permitting them—for the first time ever—to earn endorsement compensation while maintaining their amateur athletic status. The Money Game features inside access to LSU stars Jayden Daniels, Angel Reese and Livvy Dunne through last year. See the world of NIL through their eyes. Watch The Money Game on Prime Video. https://www.amazon.com/The-Money-Game/dp/B0D9KQWC97?tag=on302-20 This show is also sponsored by PrizePicks, America’s most fun daily fantasy game. Use the code STAPLES to play $5 and get $50 instantly. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/STAPLES (0:00-2:43) Intro(2:43-8:27) Riley Leonard Injury Update(8:28-14:09) NCAA Lawsuit Update(14:10-16:12) Watch The Money Game on Amazon(16:13-30:28) Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson joins(30:29-32:30) PrizePicks Ad(32:31-44:19) Billy Napier needs to START DJ Lagway(44:20-54:34) Time for Deion Sanders to show he wants to stay(54:35-1:01:09) Are we sure Oregon is good?(1:01:10-1:03:00) Conclusion, Dear Andy & Ari tomorrow! Andy and Ari head to Knoxville, where Tennessee tailback Dylan Sampson teaches them the finer points of end zone dancing. Plus, Andy delivers his three sauciest takes on… Florida coach Billy Napier’s quarterback choice… Deion Sanders’ future at Colorado… Oregon’s season so far… Which will be the sauciest? Ari and you will be the judges!  Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River Bailey, Pete Nakos (Co-Producer)

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Home on 3 in Nashville. We are presented by Wendy's, and we got spicy takes for you today. Yeah. I'm super excited to get into your spicy takes. Um, yeah, you have to pick the sauciest take. Now we, we, we let you blast away with the takes as the new guy last week, but now, now I get to bring my takes to the table. Yeah.

I mean, I came in kind of hot last week, so I'm super excited to see if you can blaze through that. Um, I will say that this is a wonderful setup I'm super excited to be here at the on three headquarters and cannot wait to hear what you have to say Andy well it's going to be very interesting that we've already got folks in the chat trying to guess what my saucy takes will be we will get to the saucy takes we do have some news to talk about and we have a just an amazing interview Dylan Sampson Tennessee running back he does nothing but score touchdowns and gain yards uh he he's going to be a star this

season but he's just a star period he's the best end zone dancer in college football he's also just one of the more interesting people in college football and uh we visited with him in Knoxville and he uh he taught us how to dance in the end zone yeah he's uh one of these people that you just get a sense that regardless of where they're headed they're gonna be successful and the good news because this is a football show is that he's very successful at football much more successful than you and i are trying to dance so like a part of the job i guess is humiliating yourself uh please be kind to to both me you Or not me.

You can take it all to him. Blast away. It's going to be quite the show to see us trying to figure out how to dance in the end zone. And I just did learn something when we did the interview, Andy. It's just how athletic you have to be to just dance. Well, that's the thing. You actually are more athletic than you realize. Yeah.

I mean, I think I could do some stuff. Oh, yeah. And you have more athletic than you realize yeah i mean i think i i think i could do some stuff oh yeah and you have more you have more rhythm than me i think we we made that abundantly clear so it will be a lot of fun to well you guys can just do what you will with it and i and i accept whatever you sling my way after this but we do have to talk about a little news first story. Our Pete Nacos, who's sitting right back there, reported on Tuesday that Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard deal a little shoulder injury. We don't yet know what that means for Notre Dame in the Purdue game, whether Riley Leonard is going to start, whether he's out. Steve Angeli, who started the Sun Bowl for the Irish, would be the guy if Riley Leonard can't go.

I kind of wonder because the way that game ended, that Northern Illinois game ended, really bad interception from Riley Leonard. I don't know if he was already dealing with the injury and that was hampering him in the game, but I do think it was probably in the back of Marcus Freeman's mind, do I do something here anyway? Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about a really rough week for a program that came, what, 10 days removed from saying,

I think they're going to go undefeated. And I think that, you know, it is interesting to wonder whether or not this NIU loss has something to do with the fact that their quarterback was injured. But the fact remains, regardless of when the injury happened or, uh, you know, how long it's going to take, they cannot continue to exist in a world where they can't move the football against an IU. So, um, that said, they have two young quarterbacks that are on the roster. One of whom is the literal future of the program. So, you know, I always wonder, that'd be CJ car.j car yes uh and i always wonder too because in some areas of the country you have quarterbacks who are true freshmen who are out here slinging the ball around and are awesome and then on the other part of the country you have five-star

quarterbacks like car was who uh hasn't played yet and it's like well is he ready to play is this the time to turn the page because we have seengelli start a game and be very effective. Now, obviously, there was a Sun Bowl against an Oregon State team that was about to lose it. I believe that Jonathan Smith was already gone. But Notre Dame looked very effective in that game. Steve Angelli looked like he was very at ease running the offense. So that would seem to be the way to go in that situation.

But it's interesting because you say, oh, it's Purdue. Okay. They just lost to Northern Illinois. You can lose to Northern Illinois. You can lose to Purdue. Oh, for sure. And Purdue's got some punch to it. So I've seen at times Purdue really rise to the occasion and been really good in, in certain

situations. So, yeah, I think that the whole Riley Leonard scenario is very interesting because if he is hurt or it turns into a season ending injury somehow, like what do you do with him? Because he probably could get another year somewhere while you have, you know, CJ Carr waiting in the wings to take over. Like the whole program aspect of this is almost as interesting to me as what are you going to do yeah this year

with your guys well there's also deuce knight who was yeah hasn't flipped to auburn yet so still committed yeah so and and the thought was well if cj is really the guy well that would explain why deuce knight would want to flip because he'd want to go to a place where the job's going to be open i guess we don't know that right now. Yeah, we don't. Because here's the other Riley Leonard thing. If the injury is serious enough, do you shut it down and try to redshirt this year and try to play in college again next year, whether that's at Notre Dame or somewhere else? Yeah, I mean, I think that a person like him

when fully healthy has a lot of potential. That's why we were so excited about Notre Dame all year. Um, the problem with it is, is that we haven't been able to see him for long periods of time at any point in his career. Um, so I, I think that playing a year where you're not healthy and not effective probably isn't the best plan for him personally. The problem is, is that that means that we're going to probably have to start over. Let's just be honest. Start over and go somewhere else and figure it out

because I don't think that he's going to be on the team next year. Yeah, because I think it does seem like they're working toward a C.J. Carr ascension at some point whenever that happens, whether that's later this year, next year. That does seem to be the plan. And in college football, Andy, you have to have a succession plan. Like you can't more now than ever. There has to be a natural progression to things at that position because people aren't waiting around.

They're not patient. Yeah. CJ Carr probably wouldn't want to say, okay, I'll give it another year. Five years ago, people did that. I don't think people do that anymore. No, I mean, you see the Garrett Nussmeyers or the carson becks who do it but they do it with the i don't think there's a guarantee necessarily but there's definitely kind of a wink and a nudge and hey it's gonna happen for you because if you string somebody along it's gonna end very badly for you yeah and you know if

the best scenario for you is to stick with the program that you committed to out of high school for another year and you have multiple years potentially at the end of that line to start for that place, that's a heck of a lot different than the path that Riley Leonard's taken to. You have to remember, like he didn't come to Notre Dame out of high school. This is, he's been on campus for what, six months yeah so it's it's just a little bit different and you're probably more loyal and more true to the guys that you are developing and bringing up through the high school ranks which gives them more leeway to potentially keep them so i don't know how this is going to play out but it is a tough week for notre dame and certainly might explain what happened on saturday if this injury occurred while he was playing or before he played. Yeah, and we'll find out. We'll find out more about that. We'll find out more about the Florida quarterback situation. Graham Mertz apparently practiced full speed on Tuesday. That was going according to plan, basically, because the plan was Monday was a non-contact, then Tuesday was full, and so we'll see what that means. We'll talk a little bit more about that Florida quarterback situation later.

The other piece of news that we do need to address, Ari, did you sue the NCAA yesterday? I mean, I feel like with that suit being as broad as it is, I probably should have. I mean, everybody else did. So Denard Robinson and Braylon Edwards sued the NCAA and the Big Ten Network. Class action. There should be a commercial about it at 2 a.m. while you're watching infomercials. That's right. Did the NCAA keep you from making money?

That is the same complaint as the House versus the NCAA case, which they've got a settlement for, but the judge hasn't approved it yet. And they may have to go back to the drawing board. It may get blown up. It may go to trial. And it's like, they're just piling back on because this settlement isn't going through. It gets worse for the NCAA though, because the attorney general of South Dakota filed suit on behalf of South Dakota State and South Dakota saying, hey, these FCS schools are being asked to pay all this back money in the house settlement, which is still proposed, which they have not approved yet. But basically, the way the house settlement works is the FCS schools would have to pay

a disproportionate amount of money in back damages to the athletes who were supposed to get NIL or who got robbed of money because they weren't allowed to use NIL deals. So that's yet another thing because we've been told the settlement's going to go through. The revenue sharing is going to start next year. I don't know if it's going through. Andy, if you go back in time and think about how much money it actually would cost to make people whole who weren't able to make money off their NIL for the last even just cut it off at 20 years. That is a mind boggling amount of money. It is. And I don't even know how you would accurately account for all that money.

And that's why they settled it at $2.4 billion. Yeah. Because the fear is if you go to trial, so it's an antitrust case. If you lose an antitrust case, it's called treble damages. I don't know why they don't just say triple. Because that's what they mean, multiply by three. So let's say you lost and the damages were determined to be $6 billion,

then you actually have to pay $18 billion. So two is a lot less than that. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I was up thinking last night, Andy, has the Big Ten Network or any of these other... This is the first one of those to get sued and i and what makes this very interesting is it remember who the big 10 obviously is part owner of the big 10 network who's the other owner andy did they ever use your

si covers on the on the channel oh because you could get in on this dude oh they have but see i i was on a team that's that was in the video game. I actually was eligible to file a claim in the O'Bannon case. Well, you would have made a few hundred bucks, but you should have done it. Well, here's the thing. Taking me to Popeye's. So one of the people who worked on the case told me I could have filed a claim. I was like, are you sure about that?

Because those teams only went too deep. And I was like 90 yeah so because because the 96 florida team is in you know was in some of those games as one of the classic teams because you know first national champion university of florida history the last first time national champion i still haven't seen his ring guys yeah i know we were talking about it in the car yesterday i really want to see it you can see it it. I'll show it to you. Yeah. But no, my thing was there's no way because I know I wasn't actually in the game because they only went too deep on the depth chart. So I probably would have been denied the settlement money.

But this whole thing, and look, NACOS and I have been telling you all along, this settlement was not cut and dried. It was not going to be that easy for them because they're still trying to arbitrarily cap somebody's earning power by deciding unilaterally amongst themselves. And remember, they're competitors, the schools. So they're colluding that boosters can't pay above this or or it has to be, you know, real NIL. Well, who determines real NIL? Like if somebody wants to pay Ari a million dollars to make Instagram posts about their protein drink, who am I to say that Ari's not worth that?

It's an unwinnable proposition. Whenever you get into the realm of capping income. Yes. Period. There was one, there's one way to do it Patrick Mahomes can't sue the NFL over the salary cap because Patrick Mahomes union agreed to the salary cap collective bargaining is the only way but here's the thing Ari and I've said this is the only way it'll work where you can have rules but if I'm a player right now I don't want to join a union i don't want to collectively bargain because it is never going to be better than it is right now

for the players yeah the the power dynamic it's so crazy how much it's changed andy because four years ago they had no power like none none and now they have all of it they have all of it so the the pendulum has swung very dramatically in the other direction. Schools in NCAA, the kids have a term for this and we can show it on the graph.

The F around axis and the find out axis. You found out. There's a lot of F-ing around though. There's decades of F-ing around and yeah yeah there's a lot of there's decades of effing around and now they're finding out yeah all right speaking of this topic if you want to learn more about this or just be fascinated and entertained go to prime video watch the money game so they followed athletes at lsu all last year so we're talking about Jane Daniels, Angel Reese, Flo J. Johnson, Libby Dunn.

And it's all about how they capitalized on NIL, adjusted to the NIL world, dealt with the NIL world. I watched the first two episodes last night. All six episodes have dropped and it is absolutely fascinating. I had no idea how much Jane Daniels' mom helped him navigate things and how differently Jane Daniels handled his situation than say Angel Reese or Libby Dunn. And everybody had to attack it their own way. And it's just really interesting. So if you are a Prime Video subscriber,

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I'm watching the Lord of the Rings show, the Rings of Power. It's awesome. Elves, dwarves, men. Ari hates all this stuff, but I love it. Was that all comic book stuff? J.R.R. Tolkien did not write comic books, Ari. But the money game is where it's at.

The folks who watch this show, I know you're interested in all this stuff. It is absolutely fascinating. I can't wait to watch the next four episodes, but hit that link in the show description and you can also watch the money game. So if you're not signed up for Prime Video, get yourself up if you are just hit that link it'll take you right there all right all right it's time for one of the greatest interviews we've ever done definitely one of the best this week dylan sampson tennessee running back man who finds the end zone with great frequency. He's going to become your favorite football player.

I'm telling you right now. Here's Dylan Sampson. We are in a room named after a great Tennessee Vol from the great state of Louisiana, Peyton Manning, with a great Tennessee Vol from the great state of Louisiana, Dylan Sampson. I mean, I'm trying to think. So Peyton Manning, Raynard Thompson, like you're right there on that list of Vols from Louisiana. Try to make it bigger.

Well, all right, you were making it big. I mean, and I think you knew a year like this was coming. But these first two games, has it even surpassed what you thought? No, not really. It was just really something I planned for. I didn't plan for it, just worked for it, you know. I never go into games worried about stats, worried about anything. I just know if I take care of being this thing, at the end of the day,

I'm going to get the result that I've been working for so you know i think i'm really just showing everybody what i knew i was capable of this whole time dylan we're in the peyton manning room here at the tennessee facility and we have super bowl pants and record setting pants and all this beautiful pants like a lot of great pants, but just like a wall with all the accomplishments, everything that Peyton did. What do you think you would have to do for there to be a room named after you in this building? I don't know.

I don't know if they even have space for that. They're probably going to have to add it on, but I don't know. I don't know. For a running back, I might have to go crazy, win the Heisman National Championship. All things to be planned to do, you know. I don't know. I don't know, but shoot.

Ask the people above me. So you have talked, you just said that you don't plan for stats, you don't plan for touchdowns. Obviously, they have happened for you this year. But one thing I'm curious about, you are the best end zone dancer in the country. I don't think there's a question about that. How much do you prepare? And do you have different guests? So that against NC State, you had a tribute to Rich Homey Kwan, may he rest in peace. And you've

had something else week one against Chattanooga. Like, how much are we planning this out? How much are we thinking ahead? And how much of it is right now I'm in the end zone, holy crap, I got to do something? Oh, some of it is just stuff we just do throughout the week. The funny part is I never actually liked to celebrate, especially coming out of high school,

because I just never wanted to have the, like, persona of a snowboat. But I think now that you realize while on playing field you know what i'm saying um we all kind of made it to the levels so now it's like you you want to let it loose and have fun with it you know what i'm saying that's a big mantra that i want this team this year is just when people turn on tv people come to the games this team that's having fun so it's like you know if i get a little in zone you know my teammates have persuaded me you got to start doing something you know what i'm saying i i really haven't even danced real people ain't even seen all my movies yet i don't i'm gonna keep them keep them in but it's really

just if we mess around at practice it's just like hey you do this yeah and then everything else if i get in on more than one thing it's just like celebrate my team do whatever but first of all i'm going to try to get a preview of those dances that you have in the bag, but I've got two questions because I always think to myself, Dylan, like if I were somebody in your position, I would be so insufferable as a human being and just dancing and enjoying it. Why did you feel reservations for that? And then two, well, why don't you go ahead and answer that one for someone to ask you a follow-up um i think it was just a mentality i had just coming out of high school

um you know i was probably like the only person at my school that actually got recruited for real and i never really wanted to it was just something about me that i just kind of wanted to keep that humble persona not necessarily i couldn't have fun with it but my thing was i score get my alignment on five and get ball line in the high five, and get the ball back to the ref. And, you know, times last year I kind of started to do some things and old zone where you see me doing things in the end zone last year. But, you know, anytime I got in a game last year,

I really wanted people to know that just I'm straight business. And it's still that way. But, you know, my opportunities, I never knew when they were going to you know what i'm saying so it was hey you know it's all celebrating my thinking let's do it you know i'm saying now it's transformed into our you know i don't want everybody to be stuck up i feel like we play uh freely at this one we just like having fun you know so they look at me they say knowing i'd love it even like i wanted to do dances they get hyped now you know what i'm saying know that i am doing things and that's on stuff so it's just have you ever practiced an end zone dance by yourself in your place in front of the mirror no

no no so i was watching that interview with you and apparently though we are at home you're strumming on the guitar quite a bit. What are, what are we playing when we're strumming? Anything really? I like, uh, I really like a lot of intros,

a lot of finger picking movements, but, um, down out of country where I got R&B guitar intros, maybe some rap songs with that good intro. What's your favorite that you've, that you've learned? I like playing Tyler Childress on the guitar for real.

He has a lot of good songs, like Follow You to Virgie, Her and the Banks. He got a lot of good songs. Oh, yeah. You can get him with the fan base here, too. He's big in East Tennessee, so he got a lot of good songs. My son plays piano, and he hated piano lessons and didn't want to do the songs in the book and it was like he he figured out he liked it when he could teach

himself the intro to still be re yeah like that and i hear him doing that outside i'm like oh yeah oh how much fun is that when you start figuring out like, oh, I can make this. I can make this work. No, it is. It is. It's like and I love playing the guitar because it's just like it's like a getaway from me from, you know, I'm saying stressful leaving. I could just sit there all day. And when I do that, you know what I'm saying?

To just play my guitar. Like when you learn a new song, it's like running a touchdown. You know what I'm saying? Like getting a first down. It's like that feeling of accomplishment. When you do learn something that you like, it makes you fall in love with that even more.

Dylan, just to ask you a football question because I know we have to do that. If that stinks, I don't know, Andy. You tell me. Coming into the year, I don't know that people expect Tennessee to be one of the top five teams in the country. So far, you guys have had an incredible start.

You have an exciting new quarterback. You just beat a really good team by 41 points. You're scoring touchdowns every, what, two minutes in real time. What has it been like in this building for your your whole team to realize that you know now this might be a top five team this might be a team that can make some noise in the sec and kind of recapture some of the magic from two years ago i think the best thing about it is like everybody's just left with you know it's really not listening to outside noise you know because you know the same people that will hype you up when kind of trip up a little know, the same people that will hype you up, when you kind of trip up a little bit,

be the same people that can get in your ear, you know what I'm saying? So I think everybody's doing a good job just staying there week by week. You know, we know the work that we put in from January, spring ball, fall camp, you know what I'm saying? We started to realize the pieces that we had coming together. You know, now we just have the ability to go out there and show it, you know, connect with ourselves, get a deep level with ourselves. People obviously start seeing it too.

But I think the best thing we can do for ourselves is taking it week by week. Now, you knew that this role was coming for you. You knew this offensive line was going to be blocking for you. How much do you talk to them in the offseason about what a special time this can be? Yeah, we definitely had a couple conversations um you know just going throughout obviously especially got a lot of guys with experience um especially able to teach the other guys on their own too so it's all working out in many

ways but it's really too much didn't have to be said didn't have to talk about it too much we knew what it was we came to work every single day you know every single day whether that was through injury during offseason or not like we were doing everything we needed to attack so i just love running behind those guys you know i'm saying i already know they're gonna go out there give they all you know i'm saying regardless they fit so i gotta give too what's this place like like what's your life like when tennessee football? I can imagine you've never seen a game in Neyland. That's something I'm going to have to correct one day. Yeah. Hey, I've got Mr. SEC here who's going to help me out with that.

I was up in Big Neyland. I've seen a lot of games in Neyland. I've seen some good ones. I've heard it's one of the loudest stadiums in the country, and the most FOMO I've ever had in my entire life was the Alabama game two years ago, just watching it on TV. Yeah, I know. I don't know if I can go back in time and be one place for one event.

It might have been that. But what is it like day to day? Because you can just feel the energy. You can feel the excitement. And what's it like to be a part of the reason why people are ready to wake up in the morning? Yeah, definitely. You come in the building, I definitely you come in the building i

think you could it's a different type of energy kind of than we had last year um like i'm saying like you know even on days when we kind of might be a little tired it's still like we having fun you know and we come in learn oh learn work hard you know and so obviously you know you got off the class i think the emphasis or vibrant and uh first of all i've seen this but when we're rolling you know i'm saying so you obviously have people like shout out to you and stuff and you know talk to you if they recognize you but you know it's still so root driven you know you can't get too caught up in because you got to be level-headed for that one it's an amazing time the skies move you know to see for pause around when we roll them you got to keep rolling so you got an

nil deal with cheeses how often do people come up to you and say i woke up feeling cheesiest coach i hate that commercial so much it was a it was a good couple months, like, for the bowl game and after the bowl game. You know, like, let me get that team to chain. You sling the team in. Like, yeah, whatever. You got to hear you. So, can you explain the rose on your chain? Yeah, okay. So, rose is one of my favorite symbols growing up because two players,

he wrote long-lived rose the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared um so it just basically talks about um you know he was that rose that grew from concrete not the prettiest rose he was uh kind of with it and uh it was falling off but um concrete obviously being his struggle's hardship situation so it was like you know if people will walk on the street and walk past the roads like you can concrete, they will marvel at the roads because it was able to go concrete. So he was like,

why am I any different? You know, he's like, why don't you, you know what I'm saying, respect me for what I came out of and, you know, even though I might be like broken and damaged, that's what I come out of. So it's just a representation to me that everybody has their own hardships, which is the country.

We're never perfect. We'll never be at perfect roles. But you know what I'm saying? The Rose is one of the strongest plants that's allowed to grow all that. So it's just like a reminder to keep going through space adversity and not feel the challenges at all. That was deep. Yeah.

No, I'm just saying, like just like you know hearing you talk about it it's it's a really moving thing and and forgive me for going back to something that's not as serious as that but i have to get a cheese takeoff do you mind um and it isn't for health reasons or anything but i think the reduced fat cheese it is the goat cheese because they're less greasy and they're crispy and they're just trying for me okay well for the representative i'm not the guy i'm gonna try it he's got a two-year-old so there are cheeses all over his house and car like this it's nothing but cheeses the pantheon of cheese it is reduced fat number one toasty number two and then the regular is number of these ranking i mean you ever had a parmesan i think yeah the parmesan is pretty good too yeah

well we we've talked about moving we've been moved by you now. But we now need to get moving. So if you would not mind, you are the best end zone dancer in America. We need a little tutorial for me and Ari. And it's not going to be pretty. I'm warning you right now. But can you just get us up to speed if we find ourselves in an end zone?

Give us what we can do. And we're going to have the dance floor on the Peyton Manning 16. So let's give it a shot. You kind of just want to do like this with your knees. Like this with your knees. Yeah. And then when you're on like this.

Yeah. Then you can speed a little. You can speed a little. This is beautiful. This is like, that was quick. Do you do that? Huh?

I mean, I can't. All right, let's see how it's supposed to look, though, please. No, you do it.

You do it like this. Like this. Look how smooth it is when he does it, versus when you do it. You got to do it again, baby. What's that? You got to do it, You the cat, you gotta do a cat daddy. What's that? You gotta do it and go down. I mean, I told you I'm a waist bender, not a knee bender.

So wait, down, down, down, down, down, down. You can really like grab like, go outside, like go outside. Yeah, like look, you wanna set your feet like this. Okay. On some rear, you can like grab, and then it's like rolling really. Oh yeah.

He told me to roll. Oh yeah. I think Peyton Manning would enjoy this. I shouldn't have squirted. At the end, yeah. Beautiful. I should have dropped it like it was hot you got some ass there

yeah yeah I should have just twerked Ari at the end say that on the show just make it drop and bend and snap bend and snap would have been tremendous

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sauciest, which is the windy, spicy ghost pepper of takes. I've been, uh, very much looking forward to this. Uh, we came into it blindly last week. Let's just get right into it. I cannot wait to see how spiced you looking forward to this. We came into it blindly last week.

Let's just get right into it. I cannot wait to see how spiced you're going to get. It's a podcast, so get spicy now. All right, all right, here we go. Take number one. Billy Napier wants to start DJ Lagway against Texas A&M. It's the only way to save his job. Starting Graham Mertz,

and here's the problem with this. I struggle handing out this take, even though I believe I am right, and I believe this is the only path forward. Because Billy Napier is a very nice guy. I don't want him to get fired. I know a lot of Florida fans want him to get fired, but you talk to people who work with him,

talk to people who work for him. He's a nice guy. He's a decent human being. You don't want this to happen, but part of being a decent human being is he does things like Graham Mertz is back. He's been cleared from concussion protocol. He's practicing full speed. You

start him against Texas A&M. And Grant Mertz, by the way, fantastic person. We've had him on the show. He's awesome. I remember at SEC Media Days, he was coming to do a spot with JD. And I told JD, I'm like, he's going to be your favorite quarterback after this. I'm warning you right now. And JD does the interview.

I'm like, how'd it go well he's delightful and he is but it ain't show friends it ain't show family it's show business and DJ Lagway gives them the best chance to win and he also gives Billy Napier the best chance to continue his Florida coach look I get that pretty much everyone affiliated with Florida is out on Billy Napier after the Miami game, including some of the big money people. But I will tell you this, that's a very emotional crowd. If they win some games and they see a hope for the future, they might change their minds. I don't know if they will, but they might. And the last chance you have, if you're Billy Napier,

is to let that guy who has multiple years of eligibility remaining, who's a true freshman, who throws the ball like, I don't know. I mean, you haven't seen somebody throwing the ball at Florida like that in a long time. Because I actually think he's more accurate than Anthony Richardson. Anthony Richardson maybe had the bigger skill set. But DJ's accurate with that skill set that's fairly comparable. If you're Billy Napier, there is no other choice,

but I'm not sure that's the choice he's going to make. I don't know if we're going to take, this is me judging your takes, but if we take the step forward, and I'm going to add a little bit extra to the take and you can add this to it, but if Billy Napier does start Graham Mertz, Andy, what does that mean in terms of whether or not he's even showing us if he's equipped for the job? I think he's showing us he's not because you, you have to be a killer in this job you have to put sentimentality aside you have to do the thing that helps your team and you the most and right now that's start dj lagway and it's like reminds me of the column that you have up on on three right now

about ryan day and whether or not he's a psychopath enough to, to be a head coach. And we mean that in an endearing way. Are you a show business person who will put everything above everything in order to win football games? And you have to have a certain mentality. You have to have a certain ruthlessness and you have to have a certain way about you in the way that you approach this job. And, you know, I don't know if there's a lot of places at the top for just nice dudes you know like ryan day's a nice dude we're gonna get a case study

this year and this isn't a ryan day conversation but it reminds me a lot of like similar type of dynamic of like your job's on the line florida seasons and futures on the line. Florida's seasons and future's on the line. There's no room for feelings here. Came a leak in the chat. Who has the better QB, Texas A&M or Florida? Which one? Yeah. Are we comparing Conor Wegman to Graham Mertz? Or are we comparing Conor Wegman to DJ Lagway?

Because I think if it's DJ Lagway, then it's Florida. I mean, I'll rank them one through three if you want. Go for it. Okay, I'll take, if it was players that I had to take on my team this year, I would take Lagway one. I would take Wegman two and Mertz three. And there's your answer. And there's your answer.

And so we'll see what happens because we have actually Florida and A&M will make their first appearances on the SEC availability report tonight. Yeah, so that's going to be a difference. We're going to figure out really, I think, where Florida stands on Wednesday evening now that the schools are forced and have to give us injury information that is more revelatory than maybe it has been in the past. But, Andy, you're in a situation right now as Billy Napier's sitting in his chair. If I, in this studio here in wonderful Nashville, Tennessee, sit next to my best bud, can't give you at least one reason why Graham Mertz should start from a rational standpoint. Right.

Then why, like, then why would you do it? And I would love to hear what Billy, if he does it and I were at that game, I would ask, why did you do that? I had a Florida fan tweet at me earlier this week, and I thought it was interesting. They said, if he starts Graham Mertz, we're going to boo. And I want you to know we're not booing Graham Mertz. We're booing Billy Napier. Yeah.

And they will. And there's going to be no Smithers standing behind you to say, it's Booerns. Like, they will be booing you and they'll be letting their feelings be known. Now, listen, we're all going to look incredibly stupid if

Graham Mertz starts, balls out, and they beat Texas A&M. I don't think so. I don't even agree with that. But you and I were there at the Miami game. Yeah. And we've seen what Texas A&m's defensive line looks like and we've seen what florida's offensive line looks like and we see what florida's defensive line looks like like texas a&m on their second center i understand that but i don't know that i think miami's offensive line is very good i don't know that it's that good that they made florida's defensive line look completely incapable of anything yeah cam ward was basically not touching that game we were sitting in the press box watching it i was just like are they going to even make him sweat like we're

talking about going on the road to the swamp and we've been analyzing what how much of a test this is going to be for somebody who's at a new program going into an sec environment and it was very easy for him to pick Florida apart because he wasn't touched. So like that is a realistic thing. But going back to the Mertz thing, Andy, as you were talking, it's like Florida plays A&M. They start Graham Mertz.

Graham Mertz throws for 220 yards and two touchdowns, no turnovers, and they win. Like that is still in your mind the right call? Was he vindicated there? He's vindicated for this week the question is they start mertz next week and then it's back to some of the stuff that we've seen and they lose like i don't know that this is a short-term thing this is a we're not talking about go win the a and m game and i guess maybe for him if he's in a position where every single loss that piles up on their resume now is a potential job-ending loss, but I'm thinking

if I'm Billy Napier, I want to do everything I can to make this season about hope and progress. And I don't think that beating A&M in a one-and-a-half-point spread game with the quarterback that was on your team last year that won some games like this yeah really does prove anything when it comes to whether or not and that's the thing if DJ Lagway is going to save Billy Napier's job if Billy Napier is going to save his job winning against Texas A&M is the minimum winning against Mississippi State is the minimum winning against UCF is the minimum you've got to be able to beat Tennessee. You've got to be able to beat Georgia. You've got to be able to beat

Texas. Not all of them, but you've got to be able to beat some of them if you want to keep this job. I'm looking back last year at Florida's schedule as we speak and Florida beat the number 11 Tennessee Volunteers 29-16 in Grand Merck. Tennessee can't

play in Gainesville. It's a thing. They also beat South Carolina at home. No, they beat South Carolina on the road. In a game where that was back and forth. Neither team played defense. Florida actually probably outplayed Missouri. Missouri made a miracle play on 4th and 13 to win that game. That was on the road too that was on the road but the point i'm trying to make here andy is that florida before they lost five or six games to end the season last year already proved they could win a game like this a and m game right

it's not about like showing that you can win a pretty solid it's about showing improvement, giving people something to latch onto. And it's like, I think that a win against A&M with Graham Mertz starting, this is a take. You want a take? I'm going to throw one back in your face. Go for it. Go for it. I think that a Florida win by 17 with Graham Mertz as the quarterback would not be as inspiring as a Florida win by four with DJ Lagway. I think if you were a fan, you'd feel that way.

If you're the coach, you might not feel that way. But I think that if you're the coach who is hoping to be the coach for a month, that you want the sentiment as a fan to be that. Like, that's the thing. It's like, we're not looking at, well, how can we feel the best on Sunday in the film room? And that might sound stupid. I know that you want to win by the most amount of points and have the best possible game. But from a perception standpoint, for a passion standpoint, this win,

a 17-point win over A&M, does not help you escape apathy. Apathy is the enemy here. You want enthusiasm. You want people to want to come to the games to see something the people who write seven figure checks are the biggest fan yeah that's what i'm saying the most passionate who do you want what do you want people to talk about at dinner wow we really turned it around gram like they're at their steakhouses after the game that night with all their their uh nice blazers and their pipes you know that's how i think all boosters are by the way you think they all smoke they all smoke pipe uh you know just like rich person behavior you know

they they would be first chronicles every single person that's a booster in college football is exactly dressed at dinner the way they did in first class in the titanic that's well the question the question is are they are they cruising on the titanic or not we're gonna find just like that type of outfit. But all kidding aside, at dinner, you want them to be like, holy crap. We got somebody in Lagway. Holy crap. Look at this kid.

The sky's the limit. Holy crap. It's all about optimism, future, reason to keep writing checks. That's everything. Even in our coverage. Yeah. What do people care about more? Current team coverage or who the

five star they could get is everything is about the future and billy napier is not we're not at the point in the season anymore where we're worried about sec championships and winning 10 games that is out the window like you got to play the game like if you were to where were we talking about having the best possible season or giving Billy Napier the best possible chance to save his job? Cause those are two very different discussions. So I'm on the conversation of happy, happy fans enticed by Lagway has a better chance of saving your job than

five and seven because Graham Mertz had a few good games. Agreed. All right. Next take. Deon Sanders had better show that he wants to stay at Colorado long-term right now. And the way you do that is you start recruiting high schools now. I don't care that you're behind.

I don't care that you weren't doing it before. Time to start doing it if you plan to stay there. Otherwise, all those critics, and we weren't among it before. Time to start doing it if you plan to stay there. Otherwise, all those critics, and we weren't among them at the beginning, but all those critics who say this is daddy ball on steroids, they're going to be right. And Deion's going to be gone, and Colorado's going to be looking at exactly what it was

before he got there. The best time for Deion Sanders to start recruiting high schools was yesterday. And yesterday it was the day before. Every single day that goes by where that doesn't happen is a wasted day. So here's the thing with Deion and Colorado. On one hand, he has unquestionably created a better sentiment, a place where people want to buy tickets. They've won games that they probably would have lost in the past.

They have two of the most electrifying players in college football that would not be there if it weren't for him. He has done good. But we are talking about Colorado a lot of times to people who don't follow college football the way that we do and the great fans in our chat do and there's a lot of Deion fans there's not a lot of Colorado fans right right the the tried and true Colorado fans exist but I think that they know if they pay attention to how the sport works what you have to do to create something that isn't just a flash

in the pan or a cool story you have to create something with staying power by building it with a foundation. And that foundation is built through adding players. And I, we, we had a conversation yesterday, but if Dion would have come out of the gate from day one, recruiting high school players.

And again, we doesn't have to even be five star, four star. It can be three star plus good. Yeah. Like Kansas state type classes where they brought in 20 dudes. And again, it doesn't have to even be five-star, four-star guys. No, it can be three-star plus. Just really good, like Kansas State-type classes where they brought in 20 dudes. They would have 50 people on their roster right now

that they came up through the high school ranks that they could have accentuated with the players that they wanted to get out of the portal, not needed to get. And they could have gotten some really good skill position players. Shador would still be there. Travis Hunter would still be there. And they might actually have a chance to win eight games this year. But he has done nothing. And I'm talking to you Colorado fans who are only Colorado fans because you're Dion fans.

He has done nothing in his time as Colorado's coach to incite or imply that he has any design of being there longer than his kids. And I just, you know, Andy, your take is just if you follow college football your take is well and that's the thing if you don't dion dion fans don't understand college football because they're just here for dion like they weren't here before so they don't understand how the sport actually works so they believe dion when he says i have a plan it's different well we who actually

follow the sport know there's a way that works and there's a way that doesn't work and he keeps doing the way that doesn't work and you buy it because you don't understand how the sport works and i've never really been that comfortable predicting uh well let me give you some numbers predicting whether a coach is going to be there at the end yeah it's like i just do not think deon's going to be the coach let me let me give you some numbers okay let's hear them so in the classes of 2023 and 2024 how many high school offensive linemen did deon sanders sign is it both classes you're asking both classes combined three correct yeah that's correct so he signed two in 2000 or one in 2023 and then two in 2024 jordan seaton yep and a british import who's the three star plus type with kind of a project

but also understands who that most colleges want five to six a class wait wait okay yeah how many did kirby smart sign at georgia in the classes of 2023 and 2004. I would guess 11. 12. Yeah. 12. Because Kirby Smart is worried about winning at Georgia in 2026. You sign offensive lineman in 2023 and 2024 if you'd like to win in 2026 and 2027. That's how it works.

But also, too, win in 2024 if your left tackle blows his knee out. There's also situations, and Georgia is a really good example, and I'm happy you looked up those numbers, but you have to maintain a certain level of athlete on Georgia's roster to continue to be Georgia. So the five-star, four-star type players that they're signing in those classes are more likely to play from day one, even though the offensive line is the hardest thing to transition to in college.

They don't play from day one. I'm saying they're more likely to than the players that the Colorado is bringing in in year three of the transfer portal. Yeah, exactly. But Georgia understands that you might not. Look at Amarius Mims. He hit the transfer portal because he didn't play right away at Georgia. And they're like, dude, hang here.

You'll be first round draft pick. So, but they almost lost him, but they kept him. And you know what? If they'd lost him, they would have done signed another high school offensive lineman who that was similarly built and talented to him. Yes. So, you know, I do think too, and I've made this mistake in the past, Andy, but comparing Colorado to Georgia, I think is a dangerous game because they're not playing the same sport.

Okay. Who should we state? That's who we should be comparing. But here's the thing. And here's the thing with Deion Sanders. And this is the part that should frustrate you if you're a Colorado fan or a Deion fan, because if they sign classes, I'll give you another one. Utah. Yeah, no. fan because if they sign classes i'll give you another one utah yeah no i'm like kansas state or utah and then use your deon sandersness to sprinkle some five stars and four stars on top

of that at the skill position players which those programs typically don't have right you are talking about a team that could legitimately win a playoff. They would dominate the big 12. And that's the thing that's crazy. Cause I think back Andy watching the TCU game last year, the opener. And when they beat TCU and again, you got to put yourself back in at that time. TCU was the defending national champion. Um, I have a heck of a lot of respect for Sonny Dice and what he, who he is as a coach and what he built at TCU.

I was like, if they are beating TCU, and I believe it was on the road, if I remember correctly, on the road in week one of Deion's first thing, like Colorado is a legitimate problem nationally. Yes. If Deion is, because I say this a million times, and I'll say it a million and one, Deion Sanders' number one qualification for being a coach at this level is fame and stardom. If he is to weaponize that fame and stardom, his qualification for being the coach at high schools and everywhere else he's allowed to be from a recruiting standpoint, by this point in his tenure,

their bottom half of their roster would be twice as good as the bottom half of the roster already is. But I think that, and this is a hypothesis as I, as a word I learned in science in high school, um, about this is that he knew coming into this. And this is what I actually think. This is a podcast. I'm going to be real with you. I actually think, and this might not be groundbreaking to some people, that he took this job to be there along the way with his kids to make some extra money both for him and his kids on the side, his production company for his other kid, get Shador drafted and Shiloh to his ceiling, and then that was it.

There was nothing that he has done. What his most derisive critics have been saying all along, and if you don't know the term daddy ball, if you have a kid in youth sports, you know this term. Daddy ball is when you've got the best player on the team and that kid's dad starts coaching the team and basically builds everything for their child to be raised up and doesn't really worry about any other players on the team.

That's what daddy ball is. And that's what this looks like. And to wrap it around to your original point, he has done nothing. And when I say nothing, I mean with a capital N to show that he is interested in building up Colorado's football program long-term. Yeah.

Did you say TCU was the national champion or something? Defending national champion going into last year's opener. They were not the defending national. I believe Georgia won that game 65 to seven already. Yeah. They had played in the national. I know that. It was a brain fart.

Thank you for correcting me. They were defending national championship. I just saw the chat line up and I'm like, wait a second. Did that fly over my, did I already? Yeah already yeah did already hand the horn for national somebody who paid three months worth a mortgage on that game knows that they didn't win that football game but it was a mistake and uh thank you for correcting me some of the game day people picked tcu in that game some of the athletic people picked yeah you remember what we did i said it wasn't even worth watching we left we we we did a taco tour with Dan Rubenstein around L.A.

We went to Media Day on Saturday, and we flew. I went to the coaching convention, and you went home because we knew what was going to happen in that game. I remember being on that taco tour with Dan Rubenstein, and we went around because it wasn't just eating tacos, but we were also talking about like how we were supposed to. Mike Golick Jr. Yeah.

It was a great night on the bus. Yeah. And they were going around and asking everybody, how interesting is this matchup? And I was like, this is the least interesting matchup I've ever seen in my entire life. And the entire bus is like, not,

not me. I'm sorry. I do. I do have this thing. And this happens to me, Andy, um, at home with Brit to my wife.

Um, do i do have this thing and this happens to me andy um at home with brit to my wife um i say different things sometimes than what's in my head thankfully it hasn't gotten me fired but like i will think i know a week and a half into the job you know but i will say things like during an argument or while we're talking and she'll be like you realize that's not what you said i'll be like that's exactly what i said and then like I think it occurs to me that I said the wrong thing. So hopefully it doesn't amount to me getting fired here, but I meant a TCU team that made it to the national championship. There we go. Okay. Glad we cleared that up. Take number three. Are we sure Oregon is good?

Are we sure? I think Boise State's actually pretty good and I think Oregon beating Boise State, when we look back on it at the end of the year, going to be looked at as a good win. But I look at how much they struggled with Boise State. I look at how much they struggled with Idaho, which they absolutely had no business struggling with. I look at Dan Lanning saying,

we're trying different offensive line combinations. We're not sure where we're at on that. Are we sure they're good or are they just still figuring it out? Here's the thing. If the Boise State game existed on its own and they would have beaten Idaho 59, I wouldn't be saying this at all. We're not talking about this. So they go into the Oregon State game against a team that is righteously pissed

off at their entire program that would love nothing more than to shove it right up there. You know what? They're feathery butts. Yeah, I'm doing it like a duck. Oh, feathery. Yeah, yeah. But Oregon State wants nothing more than to humiliate them in the most public fashion.

The spread has moved from 13.5 to 16, I think. So the money's flowing in on one side. I just keep waiting for Oregon to break out, to be the team that we think can compete with Ohio State and win the Big Ten. Are we sure we're going to see that team?

No, we're not sure. I don't think we can be sure because coaches and people have told me over the years, and as I'm sure you've heard a hundred times, Andy, and even people in my life, if somebody is telling you who they are, believe them. And at a certain point you have to start believing them. Now, I don't know if we've gotten to that point yet, but if Oregon beats Oregon state on the road by three, and it's just like another game, like the one that they've had the first

two weeks, that's what they are. Then I think you go into it with a recalibration of what you think they're going to do in the big 10 but that said i think what this also could be and what i think is more likely this is my opinion they had a clunker in the first game of the season because it was idaho and they just weren't playing well and then it's possible that they just played a game against the team that's fired up who happens to have one of the best players yeah actually number one on my heisman list so secondly yeah and they just played a really good game and you know that happens sometimes and then they could beat oregon state 59 to 20 because i always feel like too if you go look at oregon's past schedules and stuff like oregon has a few of these games where it's like

what the hell is that and they follow up with 55 to 10, 42 to six, you know, and then they play Washington state 38 to 24. And I was last year to just like, what happened? It's like, I think that it happens. I'm not there yet, but I did move them down. I didn't move them down at all in the bubble watch or my top 10 after week one, because I'm like, but I did move them down after the Boise game. So I think that this is first of all, rivalry game. So I think that this is first of all a rivalry game, so I think it's inherently interesting to a lot of people. But two, I think this is very interesting because we need more context of what this team is. But I don't know how a team that has the two receivers that they have

and Evan Stewart and Tez Walker on their team cannot be good at offense. It doesn't compute to me. And the problem is they've not figured out the right five on the offensive line. Our friend Jeff Schwartz, who played offensive line in Oregon, played in the NFL, he broke the tape down earlier this week and said there's just a lot of mistakes.

He said there's a lot of mistakes on their D-line too. Mental errors, things that shouldn't be happening right now. Dan Lanning addressed it. He said they were trying to find the right combination on the offensive side of the ball. And maybe they do. Maybe they figure it out.

And did you watch their game thinking their whole line was having problems? Yeah. It was like two in the morning, and I was kind of like... Yeah, because that line... You look at Josh Carneline and Johnny Cornelius, and those are NFL bodies at tackle. And you're just like,

why can't you just blow open some holes and and take control of this game like why is this continual back and forth like this what why don't you just start dominating and that's that's the thing we expect them to be dominant oh they only had 109 rushing yards in that game. It was a lot of throwing. They had a fumble recovery that helped them a lot. They had a special teams play that was huge. They had some grab ass in there. They've not been dominant yet on both lines of scrimmage. We came into the season with the assumption that they would be. I need to see it.

Now, this week against the Beavers, would be a great time to show us that before you hit Big Ten play. Just saying. Because I'm not sure you're good yet. I would like to see it. Corvallis is a great place to show it. All right, Ari.

Okay. What was my... What is the ghost pepper of those takes? Okay, so... Wendy's saucy nug ghost pepper of those takes? The Wendy's saucy nug ghost pepper of those takes. So here's the thing. I think that the Colorado take

is actually the mildest. You're right. It's the sanest. It's just a factual statement. And it depends on who gets it. And then the other two were Billy Napier. And the first one was the Oregon one. I think that your sauciest ghost peppery take is probably the Oregon one, because I think they're probably good. I think they're probably good. And I think

that early on in the season, I have a tendency and a lot of people have a tendency to over react on the positive when teams get off to a good start. I don't know if I am at the point right now where I'm questioning whether or not Oregon is the second or first best team in the Big Ten. And the other thing too is that your takes, your Colorado take and your Florida take are interesting and real but i agree with you and i think that they are so i think most people agree with me on that like yeah you know hot take to me is just like you think something that nobody else thinks and if you think oregon

is not who you thought they were, then to me, I'm worried. If you are worried, that would be the ghost pepper. Okay. Yeah. I think you're right about that.

Yeah. And I am legitimately worried, but we got to wrap things up. How are we going to do that? Are we going to celebrate your own more? Michigan coach has signed his contract. You know, they've been depositing the checks all along. Yeah.

So it really didn't matter whether he signed it or not. It does kind of matter, doesn't it? I mean, you signed the memorandum of understanding, which has all the basic stuff. It's not like they could have just fired him like no problem. Right. You still would have had the buyout, all that stuff.

Again, you still have to send the direct deposits, but for all of you who might've been worried because Sharon Moore had not signed his contract, sleep easy tonight. He has signed it. Bring me my money. I don't know why that became a thing. It's amazing.

I watch it every day. I just, I don't know why that became a thing. It's amazing. I watch it every day. I want Malkovich from Rounders because it feels like they're just perverting that. But the way that the bot, it was the voice and the mannerisms. I think that were so funny. But yeah, pay this man his money. Exactly. That's the line.

That's the perfect one. So pay Sharon Moore his money. Signature on the dotted line. Actually, it's probably a solid line. Tomorrow, Dear Andy and Ari show. We need your questions. You know how to find us. At Andy underscore Staples.

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