Blue By Ninety - BB90: Rutgers Recap

Episode Date: November 6, 2022

Michigan is a 2nd half team, Ohio State is Charmin soft, and Bama & Clemson are out of the CFP race. Michigan is 9-0 and rolling. 

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The beat of Michigan ball! And they caught extra pass. And it goes to the wind! The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-Jones!

Touchdown, Wolverines! This is a presentation of Blue by 90. Find us on Twitter at Blue by 90 and shop the merchandise at blueby90shop.com. All right, welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin, joined by Jack and Kalen as always. It is November 6th. Sunday, November 6th, 9.15 a.m. There you go. 9.15 a.m.

We're coming at you hot after a late night Michigan football victory over Rutgers. I mean, we're a second-half team. Who cares about the first half? First half doesn't matter. It's all about the second half. I honestly don't even think we should call it a second-half team because the first half is just practice for Michigan. They're just kind of like feeling it out, seeing what's going on,

keeping the game close for entertainment, get all the viewership up, and then second half, like, after a halftime hardball, it's like, all right, guys, like, let's catch some bats here, right? Let's help our fans out. And then they just actually play football and they're the best team in the country could you imagine just like not turning the game on until after halftime and just be like oh my god this is the greatest team i'll tell you guys what i know i was saying this before we started recording but i watched the first half

last night passed out at halftime woke up this morning watched the second half last night, passed out at halftime, woke up this morning, watched the second half. What a great way to start the day. Highly recommend it for night games. Highly recommend it. What a time. What a time. Oh, my God. Yeah, I mean, I would be lying if I said I wasn't concerned at halftime.

I'll be honest. I was awake. I personally did stay up and watch the entire Michigan football game because I'm an adult and can stay up past 9pm. I'm an adult and I can stay up past 9pm. I always choose not to. It's so much better.

And also, yeah, I could tell you were panicking at halftime. I looked at Twitter. Jesus Christ. I told Kalen, I was like, Michigan Twitter is going to be the most unfun thing to look at right now, so I'm just tell you were panicking at halftime. I looked at Twitter. Jesus Christ. I told Kalen. I was like, Michigan Twitter is going to be the most unfun thing to look at right now, so I'm just not even going to look at it. I tweeted at halftime, everyone take a deep breath. That is good vibes. Oh, let me pull up some receipts here.

Hold it, Twitter. It was the one that I responded to this morning. I was like, this is negative vibes. Please stop negative vibes. Did somebody else tweet it? Did we get hacked? I responded to this morning. I was like, this is negative vibes. Please stop negative vibes. Did somebody else tweet it? Did we get hacked? I didn't see it. I think we got hacked.

That's what it was. Hold on. I'm trying to find it. Was it about JJ? Yeah, it was one about JJ. Oh, so it's analysis about the game on what he needed to do to improve. Negative vibes. That's negative vibes, dude.

What did you want me to say? There was a wide open guy and we didn't complete the pass. Just don't comment on it. Just be like, damn. Damn. I thought JJ was your boy, dude. Oh, shucks. You're just roasting your boy i don't think you

know what you know what i learned when i was young you know what i learned when i was young i don't know if you guys learned this i assume john and sue maybe they only told alex maybe that's why we all like him so much better but if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all i'm already annoyed this morning i'm all right we're three and a half minutes into this podcast and i'm already annoyed hey man got it got it just doing it for doing i have 100% sure if i showed that to jj he'd be like yeah i probably should have made the throw yeah but also like i'm gonna throat punch you for saying that about me probably not but i think you could do it he doesn't seem like He doesn't seem like

a fighting type of guy. He's a lover, not a fighter. This is true. This is true. He'd probably just smile and laugh at you. He'd probably be like, your opinion is very irrelevant to how I

am going to go about it. He would literally walk up to him and be like, thank you for the feedback. man, thank you. Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thanks for being a fan. Go blue. That's exactly how he would do it. He's essentially a robot when he talks to anybody or the media.

That's what I'm saying, man. Who is Justin Rao? Maybe if he just said that to me, that would be the most incredible thing ever, actually. That would be great. I mean, let's – I'm worried about, like, talking now because Jack's just going to say it's negative vibes,

even though I want to talk about the offense in the first half where it was like things weren't going well, to be honest. Yeah. I mean, lay that one out for me because I was going to go last night. Again, I only remember the second half. Second half is all that matters to me. Oh, my God. You're talking about practice now, right?

First half, talking about practice? Well, it just – I mean, it felt like we were moving the ball well and then, like, you know, the illegal formation on the quorum touchdown, I'm like, okay. And then, obviously, the blocked punt, not great at all. But – Well, by record, that was a nice little move they had there. It was a good play.

They took Barrett out to the left and then looped on in. It was a great play by Rutgers, 100%. But, I don't know, it just feels like those are just mistakes that don't need to happen, right? Like, an illegal formation to negate a touchdown is a very stupid mistake. One guy needs to be on the line. That's it. You know, so, like, it's things like that that's just, like,

if you want to be the elite of the elite, then you don't make those mistakes. And it felt like in the first half we had, like, a good handful of those. I was upset about the formation, too, because that takes away from Corum's Heisman campaign, man. True. It came for him to really elevate himself over C.J. Stroud who god damn

terribly played. We'll talk about Ohio State in a little bit because I have a whole conversation about them too. Just remember, we have pickleball at 10. It's 921 right now. At 10? At 10. Aaron is very particular about what time we have to play pickleball. That's why I said 9 a.m. or before.

But let's get into it. You, you lead the way. All right. So, I mean, going back to Michigan, our defense too, I thought, like, in the first half, you know, you're looking at're looking at some of it was on the, uh, the defensive backs a little bit. I thought, I thought there were some, some guys that got burnt, but they threw it up. I, are you guys as concerned as I am with just like teams going 50, 50 ball on us?

And it be like that, that seems like the only play that works for a lot of this, but it's very effective. Yeah, I mean, I was telling Cale, and I think I don't remember which catch it was, but it was a 50-50 ball on DJ Turner. Yeah. And it just had no shot. I mean, great throw by the quarterback, great catch by the receiver.

I mean, that's something I think they just look at in film and be like, hey, maybe we try to get Will Johnson on that guy, go a little bit more length on him. Maybe we try to put, I don't know, was Jermon Green even playing last night? No. So we had one of our best DBs, if not our best DB, out for the game. I hear you. And, yeah, I think it's a valid concern going, you know,

against anybody that might have big receivers. But also I'm like, eh, who know, against anybody that might have big receivers. But also I'm like, eh, who gives a shit? We won 52-17. We held them in the second half. Made adjustments, you know. I mean, like, some of those plays are going to happen. So, like, if that's what we're worried about, like people chucking up 50-50 balls and getting 50% of them,

that's football to some extent, right? And just to make you look like the negative vibes guy here, because I'll say it too, the DBs were getting cooked in the first half. Yeah, they were. In practice. In practice, they were getting cooked. By game time, they were good to go. But in practice, they were getting cooked a little bit.

I would need to go back and look at some of the pressure on the QB too, like early in the game. Were they getting pressure or was it, you know, not as much? I do feel that we've – it seems like the last few games what has happened is we don't get much pressure in the first half, and then we kind of like wear them down. And by the end of the game, like we're just unleashing on the quarterback and getting

to him i think like if you go back we've ended games with like multiple multiple multiple uh you know times that you're getting to the qb i think that was like the end of the penn state game the end of the msu game too um so that's helpful but like again would love to get some of that going in the first half i just i don't know this is it's stupid of me but every time i at this point of the year i'm just like thinking about the ohio state game and i'm just like all right what's going to work in the ohio state game and what's going to torch us in the ohio state game and like you absolutely cannot wait to till the second half to uh to you know to to turn it on and then also like i know we ended up scoring in the red zone but they didn't make it look easy like it was like it feels like once we get in the red zone it's like we make it so hard on ourself

and half of it is just like we're everyone knows we're going to run it up the gut and we still run it up the gut and i'm like something different here may may make a difference i'll tell you what what what this may be a factor into why i'm not worried is uh i watched ohio state's defense think Michigan might run for 650. I think they run for 650. JJ, Dono, and Corum are all going to have 200-plus rushing yards. And then, you know, CJ Stokes will break one off and last play of the game or something. Nice little 50 piece. I love that.

Yeah, I mean, again, we'll talk about Ohio State in a little bit. You brought them up. I'm just going off of what you brought up, my friend. I mean, you're not wrong, though, right? Because, like, you can't – it's okay to go into halftime versus, like, Penn State, MSU, even Rutgers, where you're like, well, we're down by one or up by one or whatever, right? But, like, against Ohio State, like, we're down by one or up by one or whatever. Right. But like against Ohio state, like you're not going to be down by one. That's like, you're down by three touchdowns. Right. Exactly.

That's they, they have that offense where you blink and they score three times in two minutes, you know, type of a thing. But we proved that we have a similar offense. Yeah, we can do, I mean, obviously yesterday, what did we, what was the, it was like three touchdowns in 90 seconds or something like that or whatever it was. You know, thankful to the defense.

Mike Barrett. Dog, Barrett. Dog. That's good, man. Out of nowhere. That was another thing. I got up early and I was like, I'm going to work on a graphic tee for Barrett. Love it.

I just need the new high-def picks to to come out on flicker of him wearing the buffs yeah uh i know i mean i mean the defense what is it 100 to 3 in the second half is how much we've outscored uh teams in the last four games so like holding teams at three points in the, in the second half total and four games is wild. Uh, you know, but I, I don't know. I,

I love how we're finishing games. I would say to, to, to spin it positive for Jack here, you know, I, I absolutely love, I would much rather we finish games like we are right now than to flip it

and say, we come out hot and then struggle to close the game. So that is what I think, like, that's a sign of, like, a really strong team is, like, even when you're struggling, you finish strong, you wear a team down, you do all that. And you know what? I know it's Rutgers, but, like, I still will forever and ever say this for both football

and basketball is you win on the road in the Big Ten, and it's a good win. I don't care who it's against, especially when I think you're Michigan and Rutgers has – everyone's going all out. They circle that Michigan game, and they're bringing out every single crazy atmosphere thing. It's the game of the year when Michigan comes to town. Well, I think we can speak about that for everyone across the country too. I mean, Ohio State struggled this week against a one and seven

Northwestern team. Clemson looked like dick against the team, but Clemson fucking sucks anyway. So that kind of just doesn't help. That was a huge loss for us. Huge loss. What? Clemson. Huge loss win for us.

Right, exactly. I didn't know if you were talking from the Clemson perspective because you are partially a Clemson fan now. I know. I know. I told Jacqueline. I said, I don't care. I don't know who to root for.

I know. It was tough. A couple weeks ago, I was wearing orange and, I said, I don't care. I don't know who to root for. I know. It was tough. A couple weeks ago, I was wearing orange and, you know, cheering for them against Syracuse. But ultimately, it was, you know, I'm very okay with it because we're going to be in the top four now. We'll be top three. Yeah, we will be top three for sure.

It should be Georgia, Ohio State, us probably. Fuck no. it should be georgia ohio state uh probably fuck no it should be georgia us ohio state all right should be should be but it won't be should be yeah i'll see if i can cast a cast a vote call me in i think we should get a vote for sure you should get a vote very unbiased yeah get a vote. Very unbiased. Yeah. All right, we can talk Ohio State now. They looked like ass. God, they looked like ass. Listen, you can talk about the weather. You can talk about whatever.

I don't care about the weather because they got, like, manhandled in the trenches by Northwestern. Like, they got pushed around. It wasn't like, you know, oh, it's so sloppy or it's so windy, CJ Stroud. No, they got like – I mean, Northwestern ran the ball like crazy. And then on the defensive side, stuffed them. Absolutely stuffed them. Multiple times.

Yes, on fourth and one. Plus, the Northwestern running backs, me and Jack were talking. Oh, dude. They might be the second best running back duo in the country. At least for yesterday. At least for yesterday. At least for yesterday, for sure. I mean, they did kill it.

It was – that's what – so there's that. They ran the ball, and they – Northwestern straight up said, like, we're not going to throw. We are – they went wildcat like 50% of the time yesterday, too. It was amazing. And it was, yeah, I just thought that Ohio State got pushed around. And obviously, I think we can all agree that they're going to be way more up for a game in Columbus against Michigan than they would be on the road against one in seven

Northwestern. But, like, with that weather, they just look so soft. They looked like they did not want to be there one bit. It was like I loved every bit of it. Dude, I really hope it's like a fucking shitty weather. Hey, did you see what I retweeted from our account? President Santa Ono? He tweeted something.

He's like, I'll go back and read it. Hold on. I'm on Twitter right now. I can find it. He said, from my days in Ohio, I recall that it can, on occasion, be windy and cold in that state in late November. And he's like, it's the gif of he's trying to make it happen. That's awesome.

I love him so much. This is great. He is the best. Yeah. It was cold and rainy and stuff and windy, and they still were trying to throw the ball they don't they can't run it and i know travion henderson was out but like i'm i i see travion henderson and maya williams like pretty much interchangeable i think travion is like a little bit better but like they still should be able even with maya and williams to

run the ball at will against a crappy Northwestern team. I'm going to say something right now, and it's totally off topic, but some people on Twitter are so fucking stupid, man. Who, the block spot? Yes. I don't know who this person is. But, like, I don't know. Some people just can't take a joke.

Like, they don't, like, see something and be like, that's fucking clearly a joke. I agree't know. Some people just can't take a joke. Like they don't like see something and be like, that's a fucking clearly a joke. I agree with that. It's up. Like the only one that can save us. People are like, damn, you guys are rolling on your quarterback already.

I'm like, dude, I'm literally a Michigan fan. You know, Milton went to Michigan, right? You seem to be a Michigan fan. It just blows my fucking mind,

man. I, I, at some point, like, I don't understand that people... You have to just assume everything is a joke on Twitter. I just assume that people are sarcastic.

You have to be. Otherwise, it's not fun. Just people complaining about people complaining. Yeah. And I 100% have turned into... I will not get in a real argument with anybody on twitter i will always turn it into like a meme or some type of sarcasm because somebody comes back at me on stuff like typically and i'm just like there's really nothing i can say this i'm just like shit like damn like like i'm there's There's nothing worse than, like, a 20-tweet thread of people going back and forth.

Yeah. Just get each other's numbers and go text each other because, no, I don't want to say this. Yeah. No, so the block, the reason I think it's the block spot is his name that everybody just shat on yesterday because he's an Ohio State fanboy blogger, and he said that every game, every football game needs to be played in a dome. Every single one. He said something like don't let –

It's supposed to be like a talent show, right, or something. Yeah, don't let weather ruin a beauty pageant or something. Yeah. I was just like, first of all – You're a special loser. Yeah, that is the softest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. And if – I commented under it. I was like, if Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes read that,

they would punch you in the face. Yeah, 100%. 100%. Calling football a beauty pageant is the most hilarious thing of all time. It's the most brutal sport ever, and it's meant to be just physical and crazy. He obviously never played. Yeah, 100%. Again, he's an ohio state

fan right like that's what ohio state teams are you know they haven't beaten michigan in what 1200 days 1100 days it's getting up there man it's pretty getting pretty close to three years you know that's what they are they don't show and they just show off and when you see it when the quarterbacks get to the league, you know? I just like – How do you not beat your rival in 1,100 days? Couldn't be me. Couldn't be me. We're not going to bring up pre-2020.

I'm talking about this decade. According to MSU's countermeasure, it doesn't count. This decade. It's true. 2020 doesn't even count. So, yeah. I mean, I agree. i live in the present i live in this decade um i don't look need to go back in the history books and if you want to michigan's the all-time winningest program in college

so if you're gonna go to the past don't pick and choose the past that's the whole thing right thing, right? That stat they showed during the game, last team to win by 40. We have to score 40 plus points in consecutive amount of games. Michigan 1901, 1902.

I think it was a point a minute. The coach was wearing a bowler hat. Yeah, building Yost. I love it was a point a minute difference. The coach was like wearing a bowler hat. Yeah. Building Yost. I love it. I love when they bring up like old, old Michigan stuff. The scores are just hilarious. It's like, all right, Michigan went 7-0.

They beat the University of Chicago 118-0 or something like that. Or, you know, sometimes you beat your third or fourth rival 119-0. I like that. Or sometimes you beat your third or fourth rival 119-0. I saw that stat. Third or fourth, yes. They're creeping higher. It's getting close to basketball season. I watched the games with

my buddy Scott, who was a big Spartan fan yesterday. Huge win for the Spartans. Huge win. And actually, I love that because it makes us look better. Love that. Also, it made

Illinois look very, very beatable because we got to play them in two weeks too. Yeah. I would be worried about that game, but here's my take on it is they are – they run the exact same thing on both offense and defense as we do, but we're just way better than them. Yeah, you got more talent, better coaching.

And then when they got behind – Anything can fucking happen. They've been 7-1 this year, but – Yeah. But when they got behind, they literally couldn't throw the ball once. I don't know if you watched that game at all or if you were watching... They were trying at the end.

Not really. They were trying, but they couldn't. They can't do it. I saw a couple nice catches right at the end. A couple highlight reels. I mean, their defense is pretty legit. They got big boys on that D-line, honestly. Illinois, though, yeah.

What do you guys think is going to be the new top four? One through six for the playoff when it comes out. What, it's Monday, Tuesday? What do you think is going to be the top four? One through six? Well, it's going to be the first two out. So, top four plus the first two out. We'll do that.

I think it's going to be Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan. Then who cares? Agreed. I'll agree with your top three. And then four, I think you got to put Tennessee. But they look like shit, dude. I think I'll put TCU there. T see it for tennessee at five or six

and then um lsu lsu might be at five or six dude no can we not like oregon or something there right possibly i don't i don't watch west coast games i got east coast bias i'm sorry oregon could be oh and eight or eight no and i would would have no idea. Here's my thing. I saw multiple ESPN SEC people talking like LSU should be in the playoff picture. They have two losses. Yeah, but that's what they do. That's what they do is they just put the SEC teams up there. It's ridiculous.

You're not wrong. There's a bias. Oh, fuck. They beat Bama. Anybody beat Bama, the best team in the country. We saw what happened. And I wanted them to beat some. I'm like, I'm making fun of myself, but that's just like how it kind of works.

I don't understand how we've never, ever in a million years, had a discussion about a two-loss team getting into the playoff. We have discussions about one loss team in week nine. It's not like they lost the championship game for their second loss like what are we doing they're not even are they even going to be in the in the sec championship i don't know so five and six will probably be like oregon and tc or oregon and tennessee i'm sorry that got me That got me worked up. I'm only thinking Oregon because Oregon has one loss, but it was to Georgia at game one. Right. So they're good.

Can we just, like, all agree? I'm putting my Michigan-Manton bias aside. Like, Georgia's going to win the national title by probably 100 points, whoever they play. I don't know. They look pretty unstoppable, yes. They look like, you know, I mean, they looked unstoppable most games, but, I mean, everybody's got, you know, playoff for a reason now.

I mean, we did think the same. I don't know. I think Bama probably has the best shot at them in an SEC title game. Yeah, Bama typically doesn't lose twice to the same team. Right. Let's see what happens. Yeah, I mean, TCU, they won yesterday, right?

So they got to be four, for sure. They didn't look great. They didn't? I didn't watch that at all. They didn't start off great, but then I think they got hot, kind of like Michigan did. Yeah, in the fourth quarter quarter they were slinging it. And then, I mean, there are three Pac-12 teams that are all 8-1, I believe. Okay, Pac-12.

Oregon, USC, and UCLA. UCLA? Ole Miss is 8-1. Oh. Wait, is there anybody undefeated in the Pac-12 right now? Or no? I don't think so.'re all no they all have one loss those are the top three teams in the pack 12 they've all beat each other or except no oregon hasn't lost in the pack 12 they just lost they

got georgia absolutely demolished by georgia, the Georgia-Tennessee game was, I thought, just like very disappointing. I mean, I feel bad for Tennessee fans, to be honest, because this is the pinnacle outside of

Peyton Manning, and then you just get boat raced. I mean, they could say the same exact thing for us going against Georgia last year, 1,000%. Oh, for sure. But I – Not bad for myself, dude. I picked Falls Moneyline, and for them to score over 70 points.

So I lost $20 yesterday on that. That's tough. But I did end up having two bets that did hit because i live bet northwestern um plus 20 and a half so i was sweating it out a bit at the end i was like you know they might fucking ryan day might try to run up the score and you know make their stats look better than they really are so i was sweating out the end of that game, but I won that. And then I won the I think it was like four times your money or five times your money on Fox.

And it was Michigan to win by 26.5 and have over 46 points. So thank God for that second half. Yeah, I mean, that helped you out a lot.

It also helped us to So thank God for that second half. Yeah, I mean, that helped you out a lot. Helped me out a lot. It also helped us to – That positive for sure. It helped us. The second half just helped the final score look good, which is nice. It's nice. Here's the thing about what the final scores mean for everyone is all these college football playoff, like, voters

that don't watch college football, they just look at the box scores and then they vote based on that. Right. So it's nice to put up a 50-burger and make it look good. I did see also, talking back on Fox Bet, my favorite betting app, I think. No free ads, please. No free ads.

I'm going to bleep that out. You can bet $10 on DeAndre Swift or Jamal Williams to score the first touchdown today. I think you win. I think it's like plus $4.50. I'm not going to lie to you guys. I haven't watched a Lions game in the last like four weeks because it's just really difficult to watch.

It's tough. But to play in the Packers. And there's also six times your money if Amonra St. Brown has 100-plus receiving yards and scores a touchdown. I might just take all that money that I won and just hammer the fucking Lions. I love that.

I thought you just said you lost $20. But then I won back, hammer the fucking Lions. Love that. I thought you just said you lost $20. But then I won back, so I'm positive. I lost $20 on that bet, but I'm not positive like $18. One score that I didn't notice until just now, too, is that Syracuse scored nine points and lost to Pittsburgh 19-9. So that means that Clemson now has a really crappy loss to Notre Dame, and their only good win is to a Syracuse team that's not good. Beautiful.

Clemson, drop the fuck out of the top ten for all I care. I think Oregon – You don't have to be talent. You're not going to be good. Yeah. Oregon beat the crap out of colorado yesterday so they're they're for sure like a head above of everyone else in the pack 12 um because uh let's see what was i just looking at uc usc won 41 35 over cal and then ucla won 50-36 over Arizona State.

Those are such Pac-12, like, scores. Is the Pac-12 the new Big 12? I don't know. The SEC might be the new Big 12, too. I'll get true. SEC, they seem to have high-scoring games. Big SEC matchup this weekend, Ole Miss-Alabama. Go, Kiffin, baby.

Put Bama to three losses. Do you think Kiffin goes to Auburn? I hope not, dude. I actually know that would be kind of sweet for the rivalry. And then he starts kicking Saban's ass at Bama. But I think if you've already built up an SEC program at Ole Miss and you're in the top 10 or whatever, why switch? Just to fuck them.

Just to fuck – save them. And also, I don't want Deion Sanders going to Auburn. I want him to stay at Jackson State. Because I want to go to a fucking Jackson State game and get that whole fucking experience, man. That would be awesome. Yeah. People are saying he's got ties there.

I don't know. I mean, they're going to pay ridiculous money, Auburn will. Which is just like their buyout for the last two coaches is like $54,000 a day, something like that. That's my favorite thing ever for the people of NIL where it's like, where's the money going to come from? How are we possibly going to do this?

Like, Notre Dame's still paying Charlie Weiss not to coach. Yeah. Notre Dame's paying Charlie Weiss still from 2002. That dude's got it.

He's raking in the money. If you want anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. I'm not going to say it. One more stat, too. I'm pretty sure that Northwestern outgained Ohio State. 285 yards for Northwestern, 283 yards for Ohio State. That's wild. 283 yards has to be the lowest in the last decade for Ohio State, right?

I mean, got to be. They put up 283 in like a quarter. Yeah, usually. Jesus, dude. Speaking of yard stats, we'll take it full circle back to Michigan. Both Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards, 109 yards. Love that. Rushing yards.

Love that. How many times have we had 200-yard rushers in a game? 200-yard rushers or 200? 200. 200-yard. Yeah yeah before this past weekend yeah i weekend before that and then the weekend before that with donald like there's crushing it i don't know i mean we did it against penn state obviously but i don't think we did it against msu did we maybe i don't think we did it against MSU, did we? Maybe. I don't think so. The only time before, let's say before Dono-Blake connection,

I think it was Chris Evans-Cron Higdon against Minnesota back in 2018. And they almost went for 200 each. That might be. Yeah. That was crazy. I think Evans was like, it was either Evans or Higdon was like five yards away. They were like finished with 195. I'm like, this is fucking ridiculous. I believe you for sure.

I know you're the stats guy. You would never lie to me. Big stats guy. Big stats guy. Yeah. You just kind of go off the dome, off the brain, just, you know, whatever that first game that comes to your head. Yeah, dude.

You got to keep the flows going. By the way, pickleball starts in 12 minutes. So, what do we got? I wish you were on the podcast. But we got nothing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. You keep talking about Pickleball, but I would roast you in Pickleball.

Thousand percent. We're going to do this. So we're going to do this. We're going to get – I'm going to get old Feefer to steal some stuff from UM. And then we're going to get like sick, like boomsticks and cameras and shit. Nolan will take a bunch of pictures for us. He's going to be our new photographer. And we'll make a whole like content day out of it.

What are we going to put on it though? Like what's the bet? I think we need to do three activities too, because I'll roast you in pickleball. You'll roast me in basketball what's the third what's like a fair thing we can go off of baseball home and derby what about like an eating contest do you think that's fair i think i can eat more than you thank you that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me i I'm down for that. Eating contest. Hot dog eating contest? Chicken wing. I think there needs to be a drinking component as well.

We did this challenge that I think we just made up, me and actually a couple of the softball girls in college. It was like eat a medium pizza, drink like eight beers or something like that. Oh, my God. Yeah. We need a time lapse for that one. I don't know. The fact that I did it with girls is wild.

Do I have a week to do it? It was one night. I think a medium pizza is, you know, I think that could be okay. Dude, I'm old now. But I think we need an appetizer. I think we need like five dogs before that. Five dogs? Five dogs.

I was going to say, yeah. Oh, don't worry. I'll have the Tums in my back pocket. My digestive system does not work as well as it did when I was 21. Throw a diaper on. We'll hang out in the backyard. Just make sure. Diaper on?

Holy shit. You never know what's going to happen. You never know how your body's going to react. Oh my god. You always got to be prepared. What if we... No performance enhancers. Come on. What if we do... We eat or take

like laxatives and like the first person to shit. I don't want to incentivize shit. Great idea. You'll have to hold it. You'll have to hold it you have to hold out your system so you can keep eating just cheating that's a PED relax and it's loud

I apologize to the listeners for that one sorry but no let's do that alright so we got pickleball we got basketball and then we'll do an eating contest of sorts yeah or just chugging too as long as it's not shotgunning i will kill you in chugging i just can't shotgun dude i don't know what it is put it in a glass

down the hatch you i will say i said this i think last time but the greatest shotgun of your life was in the most under pressure moment of your life on stage was like i knew i would crush it it was i've never i was like oh no this is gonna go so badly for jack right now and then you just murdered it and made clayton look like look bad i've got a i've got a i took like a screenshot of the video and it's just like after i finished my cans on the ground i'm just staring at him and he's i need to get it like to find an artist to like draw that oh i'm gonna hit up caleb i'm gonna be like caleb recreate this and like make it into like a framed thing and then i'll just like put it behind me on the on the podcast his greatest achievement i'll send

it to clayton he'd probably love it i love it yeah oh my god did you guys talk about them at all on the podcast last week the band those, we talked about how great the tailgate was. It was fucking awesome. Literal greatest tailgate of all time. Yeah. I don't know if we can have another one. Everybody was great. I will say, Soaring Eagle, we're in talks to bring it back for Illinois.

Ooh. So I don't know if Clayton will come back up, but I need... Thank God we got a 3.30 for Nebraska. Thanks to Lord. But I need a 3.30 for Illinois. Absolutely need a 3.30 for Illinois. Yeah, that's like perfect.

It would be... Oh, so question for you. Do we know the time? Because somebody asked me. I can't remember who it was. Do we know the time for the tailgate on Saturday if we do a 3.30 kick? Great question. I need to talk to Martin. Would love like a 10 a.m. start. Safe bet, I'd say noon.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. By noon. I'm going to push for a 10 a.m. start, I think. That'd be great. Okay. I just don't know if that'll happen. Yeah, that's a little optimistic. I agree.

I mean, listen. I mean, we'll be out there at 10. I was going to say, whether it's at our tailgate or just sitting at my truck, I will be drinking a beer at 10 a.m. If you're listening out there and you're out wandering and our tailgate officially doesn't start until noon, just hit us up. I will have a beer for you at the truck.

Yes. So, all right, we'll end it with that. We've got a couple home games to end the season here. I'm excited. This is how the same way that Michigan has finished their game strong, we need to finish the season strong on tailgating. So that's my pledge here for the next couple weeks. That's right.

Control what we can control. Contribute to what you can contribute to. Let's fucking win a natty, dude. Wow. Let's go. That was natty, boys. That gave me goosebumps. Motivation.

Love that. Go win a pickleball game. I am, dude. I'm going to fucking crush you in pickleball. I'm taking no prisoners, man. You should see me on the court. I'll have Kaelin send you some videos. I can't wait until you're like Tennessee where you're like,

oh, my God, I'm the greatest team ever. I'm unbelievable. And then I'm Georgia. And you just run into a buzzsaw. Yeah. Okay. All right. Love it.

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