Blue By Ninety - COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS (almost) BACK + TEXAS ROADHOUSE TALK

Episode Date: August 13, 2023

The boys are buzzing and ready for a new college football season. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show.

All right. Welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin joined by Jack and Caitlin as always. It's been a minute, boys. It has been a minute. I still got it, though. Hey, you still got it. You're a pro. Hey, well, we'll take it. It's like riding a bike. It's like riding a bike here. You just it's something you just never lose. i think you know if we suck if we suck on this episode should we just we'll just can the whole thing yeah no get rid of it we'll do it live we'll do it live i i mean we let's be honest with ourselves we've always pretty much sucked and people still like we still keep putting out episodes. So, yeah.

But, yeah, boys, it's been a minute, but we're back. It's been a fun summer. We took quite the summer vacation, I'll say that. That was a hell of a, I mean, we used all of our personal days, that's for sure. This is like a teacher's position for us with this podcast. Yeah. And now we're back

it's like you know when they have like they you start getting back you go meet the teacher day um you know you start doing open houses back and see like get kids into their new classrooms and stuff like that so i think i think we're back that's the stage we're at yeah here we are it's august 10th where what is it what's that 23 days till football season right what 23 days mike barrett days i had swanky posted that and i had to post the the picture of mike barrett with the flag putting that thing on ohio state's logo in the middle of their stadium. And that still doesn't get old ever. I,

I mean, people tweet about that every single day and it's never gotten old. We get, we got to ride this wave, man. We got to ride it. Michigan's ranked what? Number two,

preseason poll. Number two. Do you like that or not? Like it? I fucking love it. Yeah. What's not to like. Yeah. Michigan's winning a natty lions are winning the super bowl same year gonna put that fucking parlay in before the season starts oh boy i don't like you saying that because you've literally never been right you've never won a bet in your entire life whoa whoa hold on that's that's a false claim

that is a false claim that's terrible i cannot forget the jj over everything bet it hit jack called it what game was that remind me ohio state was it ohio state it was ohio state. The fact that you said Hawaii and Kalen said Ohio State is perfect. I mean, they're the same team. I clearly know nothing. Yeah. Lightning strikes every now and then. That was the first game and the last game of the season.

I knew it was either the beginning or the end. Yeah. It was definitely not one of those 10 in the middle. Definitely not one of those 10 in the middle definitely not one of those i know that for a fact yeah that's that's smart um but yeah 23 days uh camp has started it's definitely like even the temperature has dropped a little bit the last like few days it's feeling a little bit more like football season can you feel it in the air dude i walked out this morning and uh sun was out like it felt like tailgating weather

was still like kind of nice and cool i mean it's still been fucking hot out and humid and i and i hate it but uh it was a nice crisp morning and it got me in the mood for uh for a little tailgating you're looking good though you you've uh you know you're looking in shape do you still sweat as much even though you're in shape no dude i was sweating today i don't know what it is i think it's just like when i have to put underwear on it just adds an extra layer when i wear jeans i can fucking breathe and uh or chinos or anything it's just it's just another layer and then i start sweating i didn't know where you were going with that but that was not what i expected no all back when you i mean i know we've talked about this in the past when you have to i know you're a you'd rather go commando i'm

very aware of that but still it's i i'm just as amazed as the first time I heard it because I just feel like out of those two, like underwear and jeans, it feels like the jeans would be the issue more than the underwear. But you got more room. You know what I'm saying? You're not all bunched up. Like I can't do – because if you're going to wear like pants, you can't wear like boxers. You got to have like brief like briefs on otherwise it's like the boxers are just moving

around you're getting wedgie i disagree i wear boxers with all i don't have briefs at all loose boxers loose boxers with pretty much all my pants yeah what about the the boxer briefs best of both worlds so what's the difference between briefs and boxers? That's why they were made, apparently, right? What's the difference between the two? Good question. I don't know. You got to ask a scientist or a doctor or something. Any scientists out there want to comment on this YouTube video

and help us out? All right. Well, that was pretty quick to go on a tangent, I'll tell you that. We're snowback. Let's get back to Michigan football here. So, all right. Campus started. The boys are looking good.

I agree with you. Okay, so I want to go back to the number two preseason ranking. The reason that I don't like it is like i'd rather not have the hype i'd rather be the underdog like you know chip on your shoulder and stuff like that like now you're not the hunter anymore you're the hunted and that's a tougher place to be in yeah but i mean you look at the team i i don't know like we talked about i think we probably talked about this last year like same exact conversation because like 2021 like you were we were the hunter we weren't the hunted like we i think it was first team ever make the playoff without being ranked and it was just like a fun season to have them see them like grow and win

and be better every single game but last year was so fun because like they were ranked highly they fucking met the challenge every single week and it was just like exciting to watch michigan football again you're like all right we're gonna beat the shit out of this week and it's you know great time i love it either way either way they're going undefeated again they're being ohio state at home so we got them back home and then we're going back to indy i feel like we we know a little bit of their capabilities now. And like, and I, that makes it a little bit more exciting. Right. And like everybody else can kind of participate with me. Right.

So like we are always on the bandwagon, but now there's other people around the country who are like, Hey, we've seen them be in the playoffs twice. That's a good team. They have a great roster. Let's see where this goes. country who are like hey we've seen them be in the playoffs twice that's a good team they have a great roster let's see where this goes and so it's kind of like an element of camaraderie right we can get some other bandwagon fans but don't you a little bit want to be like fuck you bandwagon fans like we were here in 2020 when we were at our lowest you know what i mean as a bandwagon bills fan i i'll take all the bandwagoners man

i'll take my god i'm just here for a good time so just cut yeah come to the tailgate hey all right that's fair that's fair um yeah i mean listen i think there's always going to be like your diehards and we all know who we are right we all know who we are and you can tell who the bandwagon fans are too, but it's not a bad thing to have people on our side. You know who is on our side? I want to give him a shout out here. Big Game Boomer. Just giving

Michigan all the love. So we got to have him back on the pod too. Yeah, where we can actually put it out. Yeah, we did record a podcast with him and the audio screwed up. So we just never put it out. Yeah, we were record a podcast with him, and the audio screwed up. Yeah, we were trying something new. It didn't work out well.

I saw what did he put out, like best players in the Big Ten and, like, every other player. Michigan, Michigan, Michigan. Zinter was number one above Marvin Harrison Jr. I love that. Guys show love to the O-line. I know. I know. Corum was number three, I think, the old line i know i know quorum was number three i think or something i don't know that's awesome yeah but he's been he's been on the bandwagon he's

picking michigan to win the national championship i've seen him do that so hey we will take we'll take bgb on the on the bandwagon for sure oh yeah get on the wagon or you're gonna get run over so um yeah but i i think you know we've reloaded right quorum comes back obviously that's that's the biggest piece of this whole thing but keegan and zenter coming back is just as big or bigger don't you think absolutely i mean they were on what back-to-back joe moore joe moore award-winning teams they've got experience working with three different centers now and then we've got the big dude coming in from arizona state to play left tackle i assume left tackle um ld ladarius anderson yeah just fucking miles stanford miles line. Miles Hinton coming in. Miles Hinton may be the largest human being I've ever seen.

He's gigantic. And then what? Who's the other Stanford guy? Drake Nugent? Drake Nugent, yep. And he's like what? Remington Award watch list? Like all these fucking watch lists.

And then healthy Donald and Blake. Carson Barnhart as well still. Trenta Jones. Our line is deep as hell, which is awesome because last year i don't i don't know if a lot of people like remember this or took note of this but we had guys moving all over the place on the line because of injury like keegan played tackle some zinter played tackle some uh barnhart played guard some um and so i yeah and then you lose olu best center in the country and still you know replace him i think you know jim harbaugh figured it out for sure

that the line is is the epicenter of success in college football and he's like yeah we're just gonna reload there 100 and that's like you said, Jack, then all of a sudden, you got Corman Edwards behind him, and it's like, okay. And both being healthy. And we also got guys who have just been there a long time, right? I mean, guys like Gio or Reese Atterbury, right? I mean, dudes that have just been waiting. Like I heard Jim Harbaugh say something like,

we might break Georgia's record for most guys drafted. The only way I can think of that is like the whole O-line goes and maybe like some extra guys. Well, I mean, so I think the record right now is 17 and we're going to have 22 eligible guys that all are, like, legit have a shot. So it's going to be pretty crazy. And there's a chance that there are some, like,

really big ones off the board high. So, I mean, you look at JJ possibly. You look at Dono, Blake. You know, Zinter, I think think could be a big one too. Chris Jenkins. So, yeah, let's talk about the defense too. Now we're talking about Chris Jenkins. Chris Jenkins is an absolute monster.

Dude, he is the biggest, friendliest man I have ever met in my entire life. I was in the office sometimes because he's working with Carl to get fitted for a suit. And he just comes in and just chatting everybody up, smiling like the happiest dude i've seen in the world and he's just a giant just he's always smiling oh i gotta i gotta say this too so i called him today and he didn't answer it in his voicemail it's like hey this is Chris. Konnichiwa. He's just like, I know he loves anime. He's just like a big teddy bear. He's the man. But then he's like that as a person, but then you get him on the field, and he's just mauling people.

So who do we have on the D-line? We have Chris Jenkins, Mason Graham, who's going to be a fucking monster again this year. Brady McGregor should have a big year. Who else we got? Jalen Harrell. Jalen Harrell. Yep. Linebackers.

We got Barrett back. Junior Colson. Jimmy Roelder is going to be a sophomore this year. Jimmy Roelder is looking a lot bigger this year as well. We got, oh, the fucking Coastal Carolina transfer. Josiah Stewart, he's another undersized guy. A lot of people are comparing him to Josh Uche, where he's definitely not a – he's actually, I think,

Zach Shaw put it out that he's the same size as josh uche was back in 2018 where josh uche led us led the team in sacks yeah so i see him he's super quick off the ball too so which is i mean like to add like you got jenkins in there and then uh in the middle uh kenneth grant absolute monster mason graham is gonna be possible like first team big all big 10 um yeah benny right it's another guy rachon benny for sure like all of a sudden okay somebody was talking about this the other day as well um the like we've come a long way on the d line from us having to put like ben mason a fullback on the at nose tackle like we did that in 2019 like it's crazy yeah so like we've we're beat we're way beefed up. Junior Colson is up for the Buckus Award too. I think people underestimate just how good he is.

And then, as you said, Mike Barrett, like, that's that dude. Sixth year. Like, it is so valuable to have a guy like him, even though he's gone through so much. He's never been the most athletic guy in the field or the biggest guy in the field, but he knows where he's going, so much he's never been the most athletic guy in the field or the biggest guy in the field but he knows where he's going and i love that and the the guy in the secondary that's just like him with in that scenario sander still mikey sander still god i fucking love mikey

my favorite corner on the team i mean he's just so underrated. He's great. You got Will Johnson back there. We got Rod Moore. Rod Moore, Makari Page. Baller, Makari Page. Now, Will Johnson got some surgery, what, in the offseason? Yep, but he's in. He's playing. He's in camp. So, we had a decent amount of guys get surgery or, like,

that are injured in the spring, but all of them are back so we're we're pretty healthy right now which is good we're live so i think that uh that other corner spot is going to be interesting josh wallace is coming in um from umass i believe it is uh kian sab sab i don't know how you say it, to be honest. But he's getting some play. Morian Walker, I believe, getting some play there. We got a UMass DB transfer? Yes.

Don Brown country? Don Brown, straight from it. I talked to him. He talked some really great things about Don Brown still. So listen, I know we all have our feelings about Don Brown, right? But he's a great dude. Solve your problems with aggression. I love it.

Great mustache. Fantastic. One of the best mustaches out there. That's for sure. That's for sure. Yeah, man. mustaches out there that's for sure yeah that's for sure um yeah man i think like also let's talk about our fearless leader jim harbaugh what a beauty who's coaching the first uh four games great question i think that is like – Did we bring that, Gaddis? Josh Gaddis.

Josh Gaddis coming back to – We need you for four games. We'll give you four. We'll give you four. Stay away from our players, mom. No, it's just a Twitch chat. The Twitch chat is calling the players. Oh, my God.

Okay, let's be real. Do you think like – Okay, against against our first we'll call it three games because we go to you know we play rutgers in that third game they're you know at least big 10 somewhat worthy football those those first three games like what do you think like who could coach this team and still have Michigan win those games? How low do you go? Yeah, exactly. I think I could coach a team and like literally they would be fine.

Like you could call the offense, do you think? All right, we're doing four verts every play. We can get audible anywhere. I'll let you just handle that. Just hot route. JJ, you hot route whoever you want. We'll know Jack's coaching when they just yeah they don't punt they go for every fourth they go for every two point conversion i think you for sure could just have some like super like 12 year old madden player kid that

could run the offense and you win those first three games oh yeah that's one of 80 points yeah um how did okay here's another one how do you think uh how do you think they play the first three games they're obviously inferior opponents are we trying to run it up because i kind of think now that jim is out i think he wants to give a middle finger to just about everybody. I think they run it up. I think starters play the first half. The half, yeah. Let me get our boy Davis Warren out there

and just fucking sling some deep balls to Peyton O'Leary. Yeah, I think JJ should play first half. My personal pick is Alex Orji for second half. True. Fair enough. I like Orgy. Jack Tuttle. Nobody's talking about Jack Tuttle.

It's tough because Orgy and Warren are so fucking likable. I know. Alex Orgy is Joe Milton 2.0 with some more accuracy. I don't know. Milton might win the Heisman, dude. He's my Heisman pick. I can't wait for the Heisman to be Joe Milton, J.J. McCarthy, and Blake Corham. That's my top three.

Incredible. I mean, that would be the most ridiculous New York City Heisman ceremony of all time. That would be must-tune-in, like must- like must watch tv yeah like we'd have to go tailgate the ceremony yeah michigan jersey to the to a ceremony wait no actually they have four players so you know who the fourth is kade mcnamara facts facts don will be there don will be there don will be there oh man do you think don big 10 championship michigan versus iowa what's he wearing split jersey

absolutely split jersey like the like the like mom or girlfriend yeah absolutely yeah i think it's like yeah it's like the mom that like was it james laurinitis or something who had that years back where it was like ohio state notre dame or something maybe i think he goes split jersey i know like the uh amanda st brown's mom she She did it with lions and bears jersey. Or his dad did that too. Actually, it was put together pretty well. I kind of liked it. I like the beard design.

One side is... Now you're talking. Now you're talking. I don't hate it. I mean, Don will be the most popular person on the planet that week literally you will absolutely have to tune into his twitter you will absolutely have to man he should host the space three times a day that week i'm thinking for beer design it'd be like black blue and then yellow stripes and maize stripes

split up i think that's kind of sweet i don't hate that i think i don't like that um what do you guys think uh let's talk game day you what do you think about, first of all, Peacock? Peacock at noon. Yeah, what's the game at noon? The game's literally only on Peacock. I don't like it. I hate that. I hate that.

I don't like it. Yeah. Come on. We got to be better than that, don't we? Yeah. At least do, like, Max or Prime or Hulu or disney plus you know only fans any any of those interesting interesting anything with peacock only fans you caught me on the same level i didn't know how to respond to that. I just feel like it'd be a better option.

You know, who's the, who's the, who's the person though? Like, it's just, it's coach Harbaugh. Okay.

Okay. Actually, here's a great, great thing, though. Great idea. Coach Harbaugh has got to go live on Instagram during the first game. That would be unbelievable. How much would you pay for a pay-per-view live stream of Coach Harbaugh

during the first four games? What is he doing? He's uncut like fully entire game he's sitting in his basement in his favorite chair just watching the game and like freaking out you know i'd pay 100 bucks a game at least at least i mean that's that's fucking i mean that's i might rather watch him react to the game than actually watch the game. Especially for those first couple because, like, nobody really cares. You know how Barstool does, like, the electric chair? They live stream these games where Portnoy watches the Patriots game or whatever.

Yeah. Like, imagine him in a den somewhere watching that. That would be the most unreal content of all time. I'd love it. i'd pay for that do you think he's like playing drinking games while he's watching where do you think he's watching it for real though texas roadhouse for sure no question unlimited peanuts he's just got like mounds keep the peanuts coming keep it so accurate and the rolls and the cinnamon butter i need more cinnamon butter yeah i think texas roadhouse is my favorite like middle tier establishment just easy to go to right you get great amazing steaks for the value it's just a great value spot not not as good a value as Red Lobster, but, like, it's a great value meal.

I don't know that I've been to Red Lobster in a decade. Dude, we went to Red Lobster. You can get all-you-can-eat shrimp entrees. There are, like, five different entrees you can choose from. $20. How long did you stay for? Just eight hours? Did you eat? No, you eat after the overrun and uh i don't know like we got to go there we should do a live pod from red monster we actually should it's an

incredible deal downing shrimp i mean there was like uh what i have i have some like shrimp pasta thing they had shrimp um right we're in like forrest gump territory now yeah dude it was fucking unbelievable and they're like all right what do you want next i'm like i don't even know what do you like it's great we got coconut shrimp shrimp linguine shrimp scampi i will say texas roadhouse does great – it's usually like the two for 25 or something like this, two for 20 deal or whatever if you're going with somebody. And they've got a good – I feel like they've got a good deal. I also usually get full off of the peanuts and the rolls anyway.

Yeah, I just crush those rolls too. Yeah. They're so good. If you're a good waiter or waitress at Texas Roadhouse, you've got to be bringing back another thing of rolls pretty much right away, right? Yeah. I think every five minutes, just keep them coming until my food comes out. Yeah.

What do you think about – I don't know if I've ever actually done this, but it just popped in my head. I think next time I go, slip the waiter a five, $5 bill, $10 bill or something, right away and be like, hey, we need rolls that just nonstop. Yeah. I think that's a good call. That's awesome, yeah. Not a bad idea.

I like that. Okay. Tailgating season. Almost here. It is. It couldn't be more ready, I'll be honest. Couldn't be more ready. Is there anything better?

No. No. There's not. I wish I had something. Maybe a Texas Roadhouse steak. I'm such a big Texas Roadhouse guy. I fucking love the Roadhouse. He's craving it right now. Oh, God, I would kill for a Texas Roadhouse meal right now.

This whole pod just got emailed by... Brought to you by a Texas Roadhouse. You were sponsored. No free ads, bro. What the hell? I need a Texas Roadhouse t-shirt to fucking wear on the pod they do have a ton of tvs there so you can watch the game there like a great spot yeah all right get us back on track i just tried to get us back on track by saying all right let's

talk about the tailgate you're like yeah what but tailgating texas roadhouse though you put it on t for me i don't know i don't know what to tell you oh man i will say you want to know something funny jack real quick it kind of looks like if you're watching this on youtube it looks like it looks like the fan is the mic. I love that. That's the illusion I'm going for. I can't tell if you're really big or the fan's really small. A little bit of both. Yeah. You look pretty yoked.

Diesel. So diesel. So diesel. Shoulder doing that. Yeah. I mean, that first fall Saturday where you get there 8am crack your first beer and just this

I can smell it can you smell it I feel like I can smell it what do you smell it just the vibes you smell football in the air I thought you were going to roll with me there You smell football in the air. I thought you were going to roll with me there.

Why don't you give me a full description of the sense that you've got? Like the grass, the broken down asphalt, the fumes from the truck, the generator. Now we're breathing in exhaust fumes. I don't know if it's that first sip of beer. It's maybe just the fumes that are getting to your brain. I love the smell of gasoline in the morning. I really thought you were going to play off of that there. I didn't have anything.

I didn't have anything ready for that one. You know what does smell good? A good steak at Texas. Texas Roadhouse. We're going to have to bleep that out. They're going to come for a season. Why are you still got it boys our name we definitely still got it i spoke too soon in terms of still got it

that is for sure um but yeah i mean i'm so ready for football to be back um honestly when we were on the – when we were Zooming with Tanner and Ty and BJ and Caleb earlier, got to give a shout-out to the squad, the board. The board of advisors for Blue by 90. Board meeting. Yeah, board meeting. Waddy – I hit up Waddy. He said he had something going on so he couldn't join. What's more important than an emergency Blue by 90 meeting?

Oh, Waddy. What are you doing here? Jeez. Anyways, he owes us a shotgun for that. He'll listen to this, and he better do a shotgun. He will, absolutely. But, I mean, Tanner just talking about, like, what are we doing for week zero? What are we doing for this?

I just love the enthusiasm. Everyone's just so ready for football. The man's full of excitement and ideas and he just can't be stopped he's a freight train of tailgating i can't wait he's like he's just fuming off of cj stroud throwing a pick on his first series of preseason nfl he's like yeah he was a bomb oh and two versus michigan he's a bust already. I love it. He's just so bought in at all times. He loves Michigan football like I love Texas Roadhouse. We have the same amount of love.

Let me tell you about Texas Roadhouse. This feels like how Colin Cowher does his ads. It's like he tries to like it's so forced but he tries to like make it feel like you're transitioning to it yeah and let me tell you about texas roadhouse by the way they've got a deal going on for two or two for 20 right now uh you can get two stakes for anyone listening if you come to a blue by 90 tailgate we will have texas roadhouse we'll work that deal out this disclaimer we might not either we may or may not yeah i'll tell you it's texas road it's either one or the other it's either one or the other yeah there's gonna be like there's gonna be like hot dogs on the grill

yeah this is texas roadhouse What are you talking about? Very obviously. I don't understand the issue. Oh, man. All right. Well, it was a quick one, but we got a lot. I think that was a good call ending it there. I almost said something. I was like, we're off the rails.

Yeah. For not doing a pod for like six months, I feel like we went off the rails pretty quickly. That was good for us, though. Very on brand. Very on brand. That felt like we were back to our roots. The podcasting, it's a muscle, right?

We're getting it warmed up. Season gets closer. We'll get a little better. Yeah. We're back to 225 soon the hope for sure too is that kaylin can like turn a light on next time maybe as well i love it i love it just got the fucking laptop screen fucking illuminating everything illuminating his whoa all right never mind you were correct way better than the other one you know

that's not. Don't put that on us. Don't put that on us. Don't cancel me. All right. Let's end it while we're hot. Does he still have attendance? All right.

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