Blue By Ninety - Blue By 90: Iowa on the clock

Episode Date: September 30, 2022

Middle-aged Justin and the boys look towards the Michigan v Iowa matchup, decipher what age is truly considered middle aged, and more hard hitting facts. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show.

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The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-Jones! Touchdown, Wolverines! All right, welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin, joined by Jack and Kalen. As always, It is Tuesday? Wednesday.

Wednesday. Wednesday, September 28th, I want to say. Something like that. Yeah, got that one. Iowa week. Iowa week, we are heading to Kinnick. Well, not we. I don't think any of us are.

But the team is heading to Kinnick to play a football game. Is that scary, you you guys are you scared no because it's at noon okay yeah i feel the same way but then i also like there i've there have been a couple times where uh this week i've just been like should i be nervous should i be like more nervous for this game than I am? Confidence is king, baby. I mean, I'm pretty scared. I mean, Jim Harbaugh. Thank you for sharing that with us, Kalen. Kalen, not king.

Jim Harbaugh has never won at Iowa. Think about that. As a coach or player or what? Both. Both? Yeah. It's been what? Four times, three times maybe maybe i think he's what

like oh and two or something like that at iowa yeah we haven't won at kinnick i think since like well five i think somebody said 2005 yeah so um i mean that scares me it's it is like in general where ranked like top five, top ten teams go to die. Yeah. Who was it? They had like what, five in the past seven years or something? Yeah. But, I mean, I think they just stink so bad.

I just – I don't see a way – I don't see a way i don't know i i don't think that we have proven that we're like this like unbelievably godly team quite yet but i just see them as like how are they going to move the ball from the deep deep deep research that i did for this podcast um hours and hours always hours and hours upon minutes and seconds of research um and i lost my train of thought oh no no they're the michigan and iowa like the one and two defense in the country is that true i think so pff i know i was i'm pretty sure i would definitely is i don't i think they're one two in total defense so okay iowa has to defend an offense with a pulse and michigan has to defend two and nothing two and four defense two and four so top five yep yeah that's legit um yeah i think I'm not worried at all. I, like, okay.

So I went on Mark Rogers TV the other day and was on like the Iowa live show with one of their guys. And he was, first of all, he told me that we ran it up on them in the Big Ten championship game. And they felt disrespected. I mean, that was pretty easy. They fucking ran it up real quick it first a here's my response it's the fucking big 10 championship game like yeah it's not like some exhibition game where you're like all right we'll call off the dogs like no no no it's big

dick ball like we're here sorry score more point yeah just be a better football team then and you'll be fine and then i went back and um like i didn't go back and watch the game but i went back and looked it up and like we scored in the fourth quarter on like multiple one yard runs and like a five yard pass and like it wasn't like he kept being like yeah we you guys ran like trick plays all throughout the game and i was like yeah we ran a couple in the beginning but i didn't feel like it was like we were just like fucking around with them we were just trying to win the championship yeah i mean fuck them who cares and they couldn't stop he was like complaining about that like iowa fans have been like pissed ever

since that day they're like oh i ran it up i've been waiting for this day to play him again that's what that's what it sounded like it was wild i i don't know. I guess that game was like a 21-3 game in the fourth quarter. So it wasn't like Michigan was up, you know, 100-0 and just – like 21-3, I mean, that's not like – 28-3 we've seen people come back and share, right? Yeah. That's literally what I brought up. That's what you were alluding to. That is what I brought up to him i was like i've watched it in the super

bowl yeah so um i think that's that was just like ridiculous to me i was like i i didn't even that thought hadn't crossed my mind that they felt disrespected they could be pissed that their nobody cares about like if you're in the big 10 west nobody cares about anything that disrespected, they could be pissed that their team got their dick kicked in. If you're in the Big Ten West, nobody cares about anything that your fan bases or fans or teams have to say. Maybe they are just talking about it constantly, but nobody cares about Iowa. I could see them being mad that they just kind of got dogged a little bit. But you lost the game. You have no offense, so i don't know what you

expected to happen the other thing too is i i went and looked at the like where michigan started all those drives and it was literally in iowa territory every single time so like and to be honest that's how i see this game going as well a little bit, where, like, I don't see them – the only way I see this game – the only way I see Michigan struggling is if – two things. If somehow they can't establish the run, if Iowa, like, you know, stops Lake Corum and they can't get it going, they have to, like, really go to the passing game. And then if they rattle J.J. McCarthy for the first time in his career

and he's running around and throws a pick or something early. Well, that's almost like when you said if they shut down Michigan's run game, then it's like, okay, JJ, go make plays. We're going to have to throw the ball, and if nothing's there, then run around and wait until somebody's open. I don't know. Maybe we'll see some more playmaking ability out of JJ. I know a bunch of people are saying,

I want him to kind of like not do anything. I'd love to see him keep making plays. I mean, that's going to be their game plan right they're going to want to force jj to throw the ball and see him make like you know young quarterback kind of mistakes because they're like super disciplined and then but even then my whole thing is like force him to make a play even if if he throws two picks, I don't even trust Iowa to move the ball out of their own territory. Right. They literally will have to return them for touchdowns. Exactly.

Which, this is a real stat. They literally have more defensive touchdowns than offensive touchdowns so far on the year. Well, that's wild. I mean, I said this on the other show as well like there should be like a case study on how you become so good on one side of the ball and so bad on the other side of the ball like it's really fascinating it's pretty insane do you see i'm like trying to like burp off the mic my mom literally called me the other day

laughing she's like i just listened to the podcast and i was cracking up that you told jack that he couldn't burp i hope she appreciates it well you're burping off mic now i am i'm a gentleman that is so nice of you you've really grown up in these last few weeks. These last, what, four days? Yeah, right. Oh, my God. Yeah, I don't know. We'll get into actual breakdowns and stuff. But let's see.

A couple things. Blake Hor won like every award this week which was pretty cool deservedly so yeah like national running back of the week big 10 offensive player of the week uh he also i bb's big house put out out there um that was like one of the best running rushing performances of all time for Michigan. Yeah, what was it, like number seven or top ten? It was top ten. I thought it was top ten for sure. Yeah, that sounds right.

Was that based off yardage or touchdowns or what? Yardage. That's what I assumed. I didn't see like Hassan Haskins in there. No, yeah. I didn't see like Hassan Haskins in there. No, yeah. I think it was 253. I mean, the most was Ron Johnson at like 320, and then Tim Bianca Batupa at 313, I think it was. Which is still also like –

Insane. Imagine if today – I know five touchdowns by Hassan Haskins was unreal last year, but imagine if somebody has 300-plus yards against Ohio State. Right. Like, that's one of the greatest performances against Ohio State. I mean, we would literally build the statue the next day.

But, dude, what I do love about Blake's performance, what, Michigan's 4-0 now. Last two games he's had a five touchdown performance and a 250 yard performance like he's he's if not heisman he's looking at doke walker award well he yeah i think we said it the other day he entered into the uh entered into the heisman chat real quick. He keeps putting up these numbers. Between him and then if Donovan's back this week,

obviously he'll split some carries. I would assume if Donovan's back, he's not going to get 30 touches. I will be curious to see how they handle that dude i'm just anticipating like they're gonna do a little swing pass to donovan and the entire iowa defense is gonna like go back into coverage right yeah we've been thinking about this for seven months yeah i i don't know um i i think so i think nine months nine months since that baby was born yeah um i i i see jj taking a lot of deep shots again because i love it so they have justin jacobs is out um is it justin jacobs justin something that one of their linebackers i don't know football one of their linebackers is out it's not the all-american um but they do have one linebacker out which is key i think um But I think that we can beat their corners. I see us trying to, I see us really trying to like get the track stars out there,

beat them deep. Love it. Get Roman out there. Can we get, can we get Mike Samer still playing both sides of the ball? I want him to have a, he's another Heisman guy for me. Ooh,

Heisman on both. I like that. And returning kicks maybe? Yeah. He's got to play receiver. They got to give him the ball and then he's got to return kicks and then he's got to play quarterback and then also coach the game

and then also do the halftime performance. He's got to do a lot of it. It felt stupid coming out of my mouth right after I said it so i'm trying to like backtrack here yeah no no if he could if they put him on the other side of the ball too like he would crush it he was a great receiver which side of the ball the one he's not playing on so often like horizontal vertical which way are we moving? Sideways? Parallel. Oh, okay.

A parallelogram. Sure. That sounds right. I think that sounded pretty smart. Confuse him. Confuse him so bad. The Pythagorean theorem. Use the Pythagorean theorem. What was the please excuse my dear aunt Sally

PEMDAS that's the order of operations right I don't know I was just going along with you I could have said anything there and you would have said yes now we both look stupid what's the percentage of just like knowledge

you think you retained still today from high school um all the shit that i never thought i would use what does that mean so i retained only useless information from what we learned okay i love that um example yeah give me an example the pythagorean theorem or the quadratic formula like why do i know that i don't need to fucking i've never used that a day in my life since i got done learning it in that class they should literally like when you're walking into that classroom to like you think you want to be an astronaut or like an engineer or something if you're like no you're

like all right don't even think only astronauts use the you know what i mean formula well i said engineer also you didn't say engineer all right sorry but like yeah like you know other than that or like project production manager i don't know but like i'm like no i'm not i don't want to be fucking interested in that like let me do something else teach me about taxes what taxes teach me how to change my oil. Teach me how to do all that shit. I am mad at them that they didn't teach us taxes. That seems ridiculous. It's literally something you have to do

every single year. For the rest of your life. One of the most important things you need to know how to do. Otherwise, IRS is going to throw you on an IRS jail. Also, I think big oil keeps us down from they they were like no we're not teaching these people how to oh big big you know yeah how to lose into aliens and that's the whole rabbit hole that nobody's prepared for and we don't have time for

yeah i know i'm not gonna allow you to go down the aliens trail here 755 we got 25 minutes yeah usually 745 yeah um okay cool sounds good i was just gonna let you know whatever um but watching you try to come up with something else you learned other than quadratic formula and pythagorean theorem was really something there you couldn't come up with anything. You said production management. Project manager. Why would he have to know the quadratic formula? I don't know. He's got to put together blueprints or something?

No, he's just managing. Why would anybody need to know the quadratic formula? You don't. You just Google it. You're not going to have a calculator in your pocket yeah that's my favorite thing i do and i can like i mean imagine though imagine talking to those teachers now i mean my parents are teachers i love teachers but talking to those teachers now and being like yeah everything you said right now or everything you said i wouldn't be able to like access i literally can get you in the palm of my hand right i can google and youtube literally

anything that's how i learn shit i go on youtube like i had to replace uh caitlin remember when my windshield wiper stopped working on the way to fucking nimky's's bachelor party. Yeah. So I had to like YouTube, how do I fix this? Like whatever. Watched a video, like kept it up, like watched it a couple times. I was going through and like I fixed it. No problem. Like it was legit. That would have been a whole semester in fucking school.

You know, I watched it in five minutes. One on one. It's like, it's's ridiculous about to open a crash yeah well isn't that what miller said or you said like don't regret the car taken care of and um like that you asked guy that like what if you don't know how to do something like oh he's going youtube and like yes yeah i was talking to somebody who said i think it was miller i think miller told us that or nate or something somebody who said that their friend owns a garage and he just like chills in the bahamas or whatever and like his mechanics will just be like call him be like hey like we got this vehicle and we don't know what to do and he's like okay and he'll just

watch a youtube video and then he'll call him back and tell him what to do it's fucking incredible i i actually i don't know why i like work i don't know i feel like there are people that have just figured out how life without like really putting in much effort and they somehow make a lot of money gotta have money to make money that's the problem he took a small loan of a million dollars. Yeah. His credit was just immaculate. He was already a good jillionaire. He was like, oh, let me do this. Wow.

Alright, so back... Streets back. Oh, man. Back to football. Alright, he's back. Alright, back to football. I got nervous for a second i remember when uh sorry no i'll stop i'll stop you go you go that was i'm so proud of you i am

so proud of you right there i know you're on a time constraint here so just go for acknowledging that you were about to go on a tangent big tangent dude we would have got and i swear we got lost again for 10 minutes i swear to you literally wait for me to be like all right we're gonna like redirect here i don't know your voice is like something it's like uh pavlov's dog right like you ring a bell like and the dog eats like i hear your voice and like i feel the need to talk over you oh my god it does feel like that and now i'm on another rabbit hole so just say whatever you're gonna say you sent us down the wrong path i me you know why the people are here they're not here to hear hear what justin

fine i'm gonna say what i was gonna say so on twitter it was uh a smile fixer justin bennett or somebody was like i would i would rather have heard rose like audio from going to the bathroom than you idiots like bablon like trying to fill that time i was like yeah i mean that's just accurate i did not go back and listen to what you guys said but i imagine you guys just doing i think we're trying to figure out miami's points per game i thought it was getting cut so i was just oh no i do eating shit no i don't cut shit we don't cut unless it's just like something crazy fucking happens like a murderer comes down here and like kills me why would we cut that that would be the best content of all time cut it from the pod put it on social imagine if you got murdered on the pod we'd get happy would you be oh my god the

numbers we would get on that podcast would be incredible roads can be like yeah i'm gonna record for my car today and then like oh i gotta step out real quick and then like in the five next five minutes you're stepping out you see you like come down the stairs back here and fucking like saw my head off or something oh shit that's hilarious how would you do it how would you kill me how would i kill you um i think you could strangle because then i could see like i could watch life like pain in your face yeah yeah that's good yeah could you get your hands around his neck though oh that go not a lot of chin didn't expect that from you kaylin props to you don't worry i'll cook something up that i love that got a couple weeks till the next

tailgate i might poison you you know your next beer might be your last just be careful man um love it all right all right football what do we think should we talk about it go ahead yeah um all right what are you okay so we're excited to see the offense um i i am excited to see the defense because i obviously think that iowa's offense stinks but i think if you go back to the maryland game i think our defense showed out pretty well that maryland offense i think is going to end up being a top five-ish offense in the big 10 and i i mean we essentially held them to i i'm gonna call it 20 points because they scored with like less than a minute left um i i thought they played well

i agree but we already saw what they they can do on defense against shitty offenses in the first three games of the season. Okay, so what do you want to – are you just going to, like, turn the TV off when they go on D? No. I'm just like I know what's going to happen, I feel like. I don't know, man. I'm trying to create a conversation here with you. I had I feel like. I don't know, man. I'm trying to fucking create a conversation here with you.

I had plenty of conversation. I was trying to get us back to football. We do this thing called a podcast, and I was trying to do a little back and forth. Hey, we talked about the offense. Let's talk about the defense. I'll give it back to you. That take was terrible.

All right. I'm not worried about the D. I mean, yeah, it'll be fun to watch. I guess if that's what you're saying, like, yeah, it'll be fun to watch him, like, dominate again. Is that what you were saying? Maybe I just misunderstood. I probably misunderstood. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.

I mean, I think the interesting thing, though, is, like, those first three games, like, the talent level was just astronomical difference. I don't know what it is about Iowa's offense that's so bad. Honestly, I haven't watched a lot of them. Is their QB bad? Their QB is the worst quarterback in the history of quarterbacks. Their offensive line also stinks to be honest really which is like yeah which is so surprising i agree like they them them nebraska and wisconsin like the one thing you should those three teams should be able to bring to college football

is like you literally grow offensive linemen in your they should be top three every year for the fucking uh john henry trophy or whatever what is it the trophy was online trophy the joe moore award joe moore awards you were so close you were the first letter of the first name right joe moore yep good job um uh let's talk about davis warren for a second they tried to clown on davis again um and post the video of him recycled the unnecessary reference one right yeah yeah barstool iowa recycled the the video well first of all they posted it as if it was jj mccarthy everyone thinks it's J.J. Right.

Even Davis is like, yeah. Yeah. Like, everybody must age me for J.J. all the time. Yeah. And, like, yeah, it's had, like, to the back. Like, maybe that's what everybody thinks. It is J.J. I didn't even realize that. I'm pretty sure they said, like, come get your QB.

So, I assume that they're, like, saying J.J. So, they're real stupid out there in Barstool iowa i mean yeah i maybe this is me like showing my age too but like is it like are you are you do you get clowned on for having an attractive girlfriend and like cuddling and hanging out with her? I guess, man. I don't get it. I don't like that one. I'm like, great. Good for him.

Bro, like to me, that's a joke. What are we clowning him for? Like, I don't get it. To me, he's got a good looking girlfriend and like she and they like each other. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't get it. Just because he's on top and not like the other i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't get it just because

he's on top and not like the you know is that is that her audio from her tiktok i think no it was they added it on maybe i don't know i mean maybe the audio is weird i don't fucking know i don't get it i don't understand i'm too old i am old. I watch a lot of TikToks, though. You are middle-aged also. All right, let's talk about that for a second. You fucking called me middle-aged on Twitter. You were 30, dude. So I'm only making it to 60? Is that what you're saying?

I mean, you're middle-aged in your prime. What does that mean What After 60 it's downhill man I think After 60 Listen my parents are living the best Years of their lives right now

I'll tell you that You're at the beginning of your middle agedness It's like 30 to 50 I I say, is middle-aged. No. Yeah. That's a big spin. Why? What else would middle-aged be?

I would call a middle-aged person. 40 to 50? At least 40, yeah. Okay. All right, fine. I took a big offense to that, to be honest. And I obviously showed it because I literally said I was going to beat the shit out of you you also that fucking uh that one comment got a bunch people like that that was fucked up oh here you go oxford english dictionary middle-aged about 45 to 65

that's a big range that's a big range which i don't mind so i'm nowhere close i mean you're closer than i am i will you're you're closer to it than you are from it that is true and that doesn't make me feel good i'll be honest that makes me feel bad about myself um yeah you know what does make me feel good is that i i mean you literally did lob me that well i didn't even think about it like oh why would this guy make a dick joke right now oh are we above that no i'm just like it didn't cross my mind that that would even be a thing well should have thought of that earlier. I mean, I'm fine with it. I was just like, whoa, that came out of nowhere.

I'm not. I was angry at you. I feel like I just got slapped in the face with like a fly swatter. I feel like it hit me like here. Weird. Anyway, sick new bio, dude. Thank you.

You like that? Did you like my quick Photoshop skills? Jared looked up from his desk. He's like, how did he do that so fast that was funny um i mean also true though to be honest thank you so thank you wait wait what do you think for what for doing it so quick no i thought the end of it was true that the end of the bio is true yeah i am him with you that yeah i gotta give you compliments every now and again man yeah appreciate that man i made you angry

before the pot i was worried well i knew it was very i knew it was very genuine from you nothing that you do is ever sarcastic so no how mad were you when i sent you that picture of what of the guy pointing to himself in the mirror. Oh, I mean, I immediately spat back in your face. I was like, oh shit, he didn't like it. Can we talk about this amazing comment? Oh, he's pissed. What did you say? Can we talk about this amazing comment as well?

20 minutes in, Justin has completely gone off the rails. Ignorant, stupid, false narrative after narrative. Bye. Can't take any more. I love it. I don't even know what we were talking about. Like I listened back around 20 minutes and I was like, I don't like what part did she not like or he not like. I, I, I think I was talking about the defensive line and that sounds right i think i was like if if this is correct if this is the correct part i was like talking about how

there were times when uh like in a game you can just like get tired and stalemate at the line a lot oh yeah you feel feel like they were taking it off or something? Or they weren't playing defense? I don't think I said that they were taking, like, what? Offensive line, maybe? I thought I was talking about our D line. I don't know. Oh, yeah.

Because they weren't getting a bunch of stats. Yeah, because we weren't getting to the... Getting pressure, but false narrative after false narrative. You got to stop doing that, man. I love how he said bye. I loved it.

Oh my God. Tough to lose a listener like that. I appreciate all our listeners. Yeah, especially the comments. Actually, I would love some compliments from our listeners. Yeah, especially the comments. Great. Actually, you know, I would love some compliments from our listeners. If you're listening out there right now, if you could go and give Jack and Kalen a compliment, that'd be great. Not you?

You don't want one? No. You get too many on a daily basis? Yeah. Ever since I became director of partnerships at valiant everybody just compliments me all the time all right speaking of that you guys fumble around i've got to take this call real quick oh shit okay um all right uh what are you like trivia really good we had another really good comment and uh and you responded to the guy. And he was like, that's all right.

I listened to the next pod. And you're getting better. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He was like, this is one of the worst podcasts I've ever heard. Or something like that. So, yeah, thanks, dude. We appreciate your support.

Man, we'd be getting roasted on YouTube, man. I love it, though. I love it. Because that's like my comedy. I'm like, go fucking roast Ro. It gets mad at me. But I love that shit. Back and forth.

Yeah. What you got? Trivia? I don't know. I don't have anything. Ooh, new merch going up on the site. Hey, yo. Getting some outerwear.

Getting some more beanies. Getting some more NIL stuff. Flags. Flags for sure. We got hoodies. Yeah, gonna be a bunch of hoodies. Bunch of hoodies. Alright, what do you got for us?

Who called you? Can you leak it or is that confidential? It was very confidential. Oh, shit. Harbaugh called you can you leak it or is that confidential it was very confidential oh shit harbaugh called you again yeah damn dude well he just wanted to know kind of he was like so um i'm he so this is what he said he was like i'm super excited to see this defense against this offense this week i was like that's what I was just saying. Coach, I was just telling him that. Oh, God. You need me on the sideline, Coach.

Justin, you're sitting. Does he still have somebody that holds his wire or no? I think so. You could be that guy. The get back coach. Oh, yeah. He's put Coach in the sleeper and be like, get back, get back. How long do you think it is until I have a headset?

What? You could buy one on Prime right now if you want. Well, I was... I got... I mean, I was thinking maybe somebody would give it to me and it was connected to other coaches or something.

You're not very technically sound. I wouldn't give you a headset to fix. Why would they give it to you? What if I was there? Why wouldn't they give it to me? Kalen's an engineer. Why wouldn't they give it to Kalen? Are you implying we're not important enough

to be in that same conversation with you? Justin? I would never. I would never say that or imply it or anything. Just making sure. Making sure we're clear here. Yeah, I'm going to say never. I don't know.

I don't know if they'll ever let you. Maybe they will. You could be like Doug Karsh. You can have that kind of headset. You and Sidekick Kitty. Me and what? Is that your cat? Yeah, my cat is meowing for sure.

You and Little Kitty could be there chilling. All right. you and little kitty could be there chilling um all right i do i do have to to uh to wrap it up here it's god thank you i mean it was nice to be able to really go in depth and break down this michigan football matchup with iowa i learned a lot um i do appreciate you uh i appreciate everyone listening and um maybe we'll do another podcast where we actually do break it down. I'd love to hear some in-depth stuff. That's what we're here for. Are you doing ASMR with your mustache? I was. I was wondering if Kalen could hear it.

Oh, that's good stuff. Could you hear it? Barely. Oh, yeah yeah this is my mustache all right well you can follow us at blue by 90 on twitter instagram facebook at blue by 90 podcasts on youtube blue by 90.com oh my i i apologize for this one i'll be honest but we appreciate it go blue and if you don't know what we're talking about then we definitely cut it out