Blue By Ninety - HARBAUGH BACK

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

JACK HAS RETURNED FROM ILLNESS. THE BOYS ARE READY FOR BIG TEN PLAY.

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The beat of Michigan football! And they caught extra pass. And it goes for the win! 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 actually Jack and Kalen today. So Jack, I'm glad you made it. In the wise words of Justin Rowe, maybe he took this quote from somebody else. You know, don't get bitter, get better. And, uh, I was feeling a little bitter. Now I'm feeling better and we're, and we're back. It is. Is that like the, um, the Michael Scott, like Wayne Gretzky,

Michael Scott, Justin Rowe, Jim Harbaugh. Um, we are this, uh, this podcast is brought to you by hail ipa from north peak brewing um so grab that little do you guys hear that that's a good crack that was correct cheers got my blue 90 beer here got my hail testing for uh competitor companies so i'm not going to advertise what i'm drinking but um you know just making sure we're staying up to up to snuff with the other beers all right perfect perfect good way to you get you know it's kind of like the um what is it

what's the saying like uh keep your friends close keep keep your enemies closer. Exactly, dude. That's the only reason why we never drink another beer. Yeah, I wish it was a Hale IPA. That's the best. Number one. Maybe number one beer in America. That's what people are saying. People are talking about it. So, alright.

Yeah, I had a good time on Saturday. Again, shout out to Hale for providing all of our beer. We had the Blue Mountain ID beer and the Hale IPA there. Good tailgate. Good tailgate. I mean, better tailgate than a game, I would say. Dude, I've got – I had so much FOMO.

Just fill me in. Fill me in on the tailgate. Then we can talk about the game and how terrible it was. How was homo let just fill me in fill me in on the tailgate then we can talk about the game and how how terrible it was how was the tailgate fill me in you can't start with the tailgate you got to start pre-tailgate moving into around 10 a.m okay oh yeah how was the commercial yeah i mean we are movie stars now. That's pretty impressive. I mean, you got the looks of movie stars.

I mean, have you seen Entourage? That's what it's like. That's like you guys. That's exactly what it is. You look like a Tanner. I look like Tanner? Yeah. And then Justin's just a taller E.

It's great. I thought you were going to say Turtle. No, no. I'm Turtle. I think we all know that. I do love Turtle. I might be Johnny Drama. I don't know.

No, Tanner might be Johnny Drama. We did a little video shoot to promote North Peak and Hale and Pretzel Bell. So watch out for that. Coming soon. Coming soon. But yeah, it was a good day. Started that at 10 a.m. I mean, people think it's easy just to be us, you know, but they don't understand the work we're putting in of a it was like a 15 hour day you know for us to go from commercial to tailgating to the game i mean it's hard to drink 15 beers you know not everyone can just do that somebody's got to do it though and that and that's what we're here for you guys fun

fact remember the last time we were doing a commercial i think it was for blueby90.com i was also sick then i don't where what were we doing i don't remember it was like uh remember you saw um jimmy king and you're like hey you're here to Blue by 90? And then you guys were doing the shoot downtown, asking people about it. I was on the phone. You guys FaceTimed me and I'm head against my bed just fucking dying. It's starting to sound like it's a you

problem. It is, dude. I get sick once a year and it's the day we have commercials. Are you scared of the camera? I am. I've got a very dark of the camera? I, I am. I've got a very dark, you know, room right now. I've got my,

my hat on low. I just, you know, I don't want anybody to see me. Fair. That's fair. Yeah. I mean,

shit. Well, it's coming out soon. Hopefully. Yeah. It was pretty cool. We'll see. We'll see.

I will say one really funny moment at the tailgate. We were watching Kansas State-Mizzou or one of those games where it's right down to the wire. It's the last play and the generator runs out. TV goes black. And everyone's like, wait. I don't think anybody even noticed. And then I go back there and rose just like dumping gas into the jet it was a panic mode for sure for sure i i i filled

it up earlier i don't know why it uh it burned a lot quicker i thought than like the first week so i don't know if we were pulling more i love the the subtle flex of we have a generator now as opposed to two years ago. We're hooking up cables to the fucking car. I'm like a mad scientist hooking up wires to my truck to draw power from that. Don't cross the wires. Don't cross streams.

We've come a long way. Come a long way. For sure right how was the game you guys tell me how let me i want to hear what you guys think about the game i mean the i'll say this uh let's start with the light show light show is awesome um i've got an opinion about it you've got what i've got an opinion about it from so you were you were in the big house right watching the game yeah did you feel like sometimes it was just too much i i said it to kaylin right before we just uh jumped on here i said i we i think our our our collaborative opinion was they were just too a little too excited about it yeah you know i thought it was

really really cool but there were times where it's like all right maybe we scale that one back a little bit you know it's not even like the the maze and blue lights it was like when they sprinkled in the fucking bright ones even like i'm watching from home on my fucking laptop and i'm like jesus i feel like i'm about to have a seizure yeah sometimes i wasn't sure if it was like the broadcast because like don't even get me started on BTN. But, like, there were times where I'm like, it's, like, dark and I can't even see what's happening right now watching from TV. Yeah, it was – I mean, it was really cool at times,

but definitely there were times where it was, like, you don't need it every time. Like, I said to Kalen, when you are marching down the field and trying to score a touchdown but have to settle for a field goal and then they still do the lights after a made field goal, I'm like, what if we didn't do that? You know what I mean? Like 50, 45, 50-yard plus, sure.

Game winner, sure. Buzzer beater, sure. Home run, we'll take it you know when you're like when your drive stalls out and you have to settle for like a 25 yarder then it just feels like we're like really trying too hard yeah i'm just imagining like sharon moore's like writing up something on the sideline goes dark he's like i did think of that like honestly you know harbaugh wasn't on the sideline but i was thinking about how much harbaugh is going to hate that like for the future night game he's gonna be like what the fuck is going on like i'm

trying to figure shit out yeah i think it goes one of two ways there it's either he goes it goes that way or he's just sitting there like a senile old man like what is this this is great i don't think there's an in-between it's one or the other yeah i agree with that so we do have him back this week um what do what do we think is going like what's going to change? Are you guys – so, I mean, we'll get into like actual like more deeper analysis of this game. But, you know, I would say there are some people out there that are like underwhelmed by how Michigan played in the first three games or at least how the score, you know, ended up after four quarters. And you get Harbaugh back.

Do you think things change when he comes back? Like, what do you think he brings to the table now? Dude, I'll be honest. I hope things don't change. Like, as far as, like, play calling and whatnot, I think I really enjoyed the play calling the first three games. I think the last game, it was like, all right, like, this team's not perfect. Right?

Like, you're bound to have a game where you have a few fuck-ups. And I think there was a couple throws where J.J. was like like all right like this team's not perfect all right like you're bound to have a game where you have a few fuck-ups and i think there was a couple throws where jj was like all right we could have just thrown that away and uh i think even that one pick near the end zone it was like you know the receiver might not have ran the route that he was supposed to like i feel like he should have been in front of his defender that whole way and looks like he got behind him um and maybe that's not what it was intended for so i mean i don't know i think there's hiccups along the way it's game three get them out before you play uh ruckers undefeated powerhouse football team i'll tell you what i don't know what the line is but i'm probably gonna take ruckers with the points

they're not bad no greg shiano baby I mean, what does Harbaugh bring? He's definitely going to bring stability, right? I mean, kids come to Michigan to play for Harbaugh. So having him coach on the sidelines and everything like that, I think that's going to be huge. Another question, though, that does spur for me is now you've seen a little bit of the portfolio of all these other assistant coaches as a head coach.

So for you guys, who would you hire as a head coach based on what you've seen? Ooh, good question. I, I will, I'll say this. Maybe next time you have just one interim head coach in hindsight.

Like, I think that's like, you know, it was cool. Whatever you get a lot of people experience and you know, all that stuff. But like, I think that for the guy, for the players, it just felt like there was just so much going on. There's somebody new in, I mean, even each half, you know, in that UNlv game and i don't know it just felt a little odd didn't it i'm gonna i'm gonna gaslight the shit out of you guys i don't think i'm using the word correctly there but it feels like it's the right word for

this this conversation okay do you think that each of those, you know, games that those – we had three different, four different, however many interim head coaches. Do you think those were a job interview because Harbaugh's taken off after we win the Natty this year? Well, first of all – Maybe he wants to put them in the best hands possible for 2024. First of all, you're – I mean, you weren't even close with the definition of gaslighting.

No? Not even like with the definition of gaslighting no no not even like in the right realm i feel like it's been explained to me a million times and i still don't understand i i don't even know what you like what word you were trying to to describe it's like misleading you right it was what it's like misleading or like fake news or right you know what gaslighting is? I mean, kind of a little. I feel like we're just reading off the like Miriam Webster's new words of 2023. I don't hate it.

I mean, gaslighting is when you're like, you're like, I don't, I don't, it's hard to describe, but you're like projecting onto somebody or you're like egging them on or, you know, like – not egging them on, but it's definitely just not what you're doing. You're like convincing them that – I love that I can almost get away with this because we're all too stupid to know what gas lighting actually is. Well, no, Kalen was about to say it.

Kalen's right. That's why I had to cut him off. I couldn't let him. Let's just leave it there. Regardless, another big word. Do you think that could be... He's got three syllables, baby.

I definitely think there was a little bit of that for Coach. Let's get some of these guys you know some experience um you know i think that i don't know chiron i i like chiron a lot i think jesse mentor is i he he was the most surprising to me and how well he handled that because i don't think before game one this year anybody was talking about him being a head coach yet you know a lot of people talking about Jerome Moore being a head coach even Mike Hart I don't know that anybody was talking about Jesse Minter

and you know he he's done really well now Michigan leads through three games leads the nation in scoring defense we've only given up 13 points Through three games I think there's a lot to say too With like another thing Like my mind's kind of all over the place Right now but When you're a head coach The biggest thing

You're trying to do right is just like Kind of set the tone Set the tone for the team Coordinators do majority of the work as far as like working with players play calls matchups etc right yes i didn't have anything after that that's just kind of right i don't know i don't know where i was going but i'm just going to hand it off to somebody here um i mean, yeah, definitely. You're not wrong. I'm not wrong.

You're not wrong. The coordinators are definitely the ones that, like, that draw up the game plan on defense and offense. You know, Jim is giving his, like, oversight, and then the position coaches are helping with those one-on-one battles, I think, and finding the weaknesses. But, like, I think Sharon and finding the weaknesses. I think Sharon Moore draws up the game plan

on the offensive side of the ball, and Jesse Minter does it on the defensive. You're correct. I think based off what I just said, as a guy who you think would set the tone, set the best tone, I think Sharon Moore. If I had

to pick any of them, I'd be like, he's a fucking dog. Jay Harbaugh slept on out here. I do like Jay. Yeah. I love Sharon Moore's passion. I'd bring Don Brown back to head coach. Well, that's why

you sit out. Go to UMass. Somebody said something to me the other day about jay harbaugh like it was nepotism and i'm i i snapped back on him like i think you could have gotten away with that comment five years ago but now he's been a different position coach like every year for michigan and they've excelled in his position group every single year and i mean special teams has been phenomenal obviously for us shout out brad robbins i'm rocking the brad robbins let's go baby the mustache so shout out brad shout out moody who's just dominating the national

i'm a fantasy team he's my fantasy kicker that's awesome um how awesome is it to be able to draft our friends in so fucking cool i put in a support ticket that we're friends with jake moody i put in a um support ticket to espn fantasy football i was like hey can we like draft punters instead of just a full special teams unit and uh they didn't get back to me so but i was trying if you're listening i was trying to get you on there they will get back to you i'm sure that it's a little backed up i'm sure yeah a little busy yeah um no i like chiron a lot um i yeah i i i think chiron is the obvious pick there but i i'm gonna say jesse jesse surprised me in a good way. In a good way. The only thing I had for this last game is like JJ's last pick, they put Orgy in, then put JJ back in.

Why did that happen? I know. Even the commentators were like, yeah, like you want to be able to have like a run pass like threat. But if you're switching out the quarterbacks, they kind of know what's coming. Right. It becomes obvious yeah so i was like and just in my own selfishness i wanted to see orgy sling the ball a little bit but yeah i thought that was a little strange like what's the point

it's almost like when uh back in 2016 jabril was like taking snaps and you're like okay every time he's running the ball one time he's gonna throw it and the guys will be wide open like maybe that's the scenario there's like game planning for ohio state already which i love and that's what i'm just gonna think is happening um i'll do you one better moment for sure even more michigan even more on brand for michigan right putting in dylan mccaffrey who is your backup quarterback and all he did do is run. And you go like, you know, at some point the guy's got to throw, especially for Orgy, right? The whole point is you want to see who your backup quarterback is. Your backup quarterback better be able to throw the ball.

So I'm just like a little bit – I'm sure they have a plan, but as a fan I'm like, what is going on here? Where did McCaffrey end up? At like North Dakota State or something like that. I thought it was Colorado State. Yeah, North Colorado or something. North Colorado. Oh, yeah, Colorado.

That's probably what it was. Yeah, never mind. Deion. I think that's where Deion coaches. Well, I was going to say, do you think if McCaffrey was quarterback of Colorado State, they would have beat, you know, prime times Buffaloes? I don't know, but that was a great game.

Great game. I'm not going to lie. I went against the grain i was rooting for colorado state in that game why because i don't know i just think that like they're the underdog for sure that like everyone in the world is is rooting for dion and that and colorado state was like the worst team in the country last year when we played them. And for them then to, after all that shit talk was going on, for them to still, as

whatever, 30-point underdogs or whatever they were, to play with them, I thought it was pretty cool. That's fair. I love how Offset was at the game going, like, buy my mixtape. What did he say? buy my mixtape? Pretty much.

He was like, check out my album, check out my new mixtape, like something. I was like, what is going on? Incredible. It was – the Colorado game was like the staple center for the Lakers. Like the Rocks there, Lil Wayne little wayne's there offset like it was absurd what was going on like i mean deon's obviously doing it i mean it's all a ploy and bryce underwood if you're listening to this it's not cool at all it's pretty

before you finish that i was gonna say it kind of of reminds me of Harbaugh's first year. Like, got Jeter there. You got Michael Jordan in his second year. Yeah, like, he had everybody over there. It's kind of, like, very similar to that. Totally. Yeah, when I play USC, right, I expect NWA to be there or something. So, to bring this back to Bryce Underwood,

do you want, when you go to college, do you want Harbaugh year two or do you want Harbaugh year whatever he is at Michigan? They're the same guy. I'd rather be – where he's at now. So you're saying Deion is Harbaugh year two? Deion is Harbaugh year one right now. Right, but next year you're saying he would be Harbaugh. Correct.

Correct. Yeah, I think that's an interesting recruiting pitch. We'll probably leave the recruiting to the recruiting directors, I would guess. But – They need a second opinion. I'm here. I'm available. Yeah.

I think that's good. Appreciate you, as always. Do that, Candidate Sports team, you know. All right, let's talk this game uh michigan versus bowling green uh 14-6 at halftime that part was super underwhelming um you know they pulled away in the third quarter the the second string still didn't uh still didn't score for the third straight game a little concerning on there um jj's three picks very concerning i would say um but you know here's my take on it is i think there are a lot of people that after week two were saying jj for heisman right and then he

has one including jack which is fine and then he has one, including Jack, which is fine. And then he has one, you know, let's just call it what it is, a really bad game. And then you're like, you know, complete panic mode doomsday. I don't think you can be on both ends of the spectrum there. You know, like that's just overreaction one-on-one to me. Yeah, no, I'm still JJ for Heisman. You know, I no i'm i'm still jj for heisman you know i still think joe milton has a shot at the heisman he's at a not so great year but you know when i when i'm in

i'm i'm all in you know diving head first regardless if i know how to swim or not that's that's where i go and uh yeah i mean it could have been a four pick game for jj if corneal had that ball you know around that might be another pick cj cj uh bailed him out there for sure i think you know it you know sometimes you just have a bad day and it was very obviously not jj's day um you know i think he showed us he has shown us that in the past from you know he's still a very good quarterback, obviously. If he were to do this a few times in a row, then I'm like, okay, let's – then we're cause for concern.

But right now I'm going to call it a bad day for a 21-year-old kid that's still super young and has the weight of the world on his back right now. Yeah, agreed. I mean, if ever there was a week to not play your best, I mean, we're just blending in to the scene of college football right now. Yeah, dude, holy shit. I was rooting for South Florida against Bama. Oh, my gosh.

South Florida, too. I mean, literally every game, right? Georgia. It's a literally every game, right? Georgia. It's a good program, you know? Georgia was down like 13-3 or something at halftime. Oh, I almost live bet that game. I think Texas. Texas, Wyoming, it was like 10-3 or something I have.

Like literally it's all around all of college football. Nobody can figure it out. There's always one of these weeks like early on in the season i feel like where it's a bunch of and it and this was the week where there were no good games right like there wasn't really a good game you know until colorado colorado state and that still was like a 30 point you know uh spread and so i think somebody pulled it up on the stats that like this similar week last year was when a bunch of upsets happened.

And so, you know, as much as you want to be concerned, you want your team to play well. And, you know, we'd all obviously rather have JJ go for four touchdowns and zero picks and play perfectly. But like you said, get this stuff out of your system now. I think my take on it is that it's your third, like, shitty game in a row. It's hard to get up for it. For a night game against Bowling Green, too,

you're just sitting around all day long. There's a million opportunities for distractions and to be not locked in. You know, it's not like you're preparing for the Penn State night game, you know, or something or whatever else. And so I think, you know, and also guess what? For the third straight week, you have the fourth different head coach. Your real head coach is still not there. There are so many factors here that I think it gives a little leeway

for these guys to not play so well. And still you end up with a completely like dominant win on, you know, on paper too. So I think I'm not, I'm definitely not sitting here hitting the panic button after week three. No. And, Kalen, I'd be curious. I know you've got these models you're running for betting.

I'm curious if you can find this out too. I think we always know the two weirdest weeks in college football or two most exciting, however you want to categorize it, is always like Halloween weekend and then the last game of the regular season. Is week three the third? It might be i mean i i would always fall back to the weirdest year in college football 2007 right well let's not talk about it yeah which we started off week one never happened but i mean what week three of that year i I think like Kansas was number two or something like that.

Really? Fucking Jayhawks. I've blocked that year out of my memory. Yeah. So that's a weird year for sure. Except for when Michigan beat the Florida Gators in between their national titles in a bowl game. True.

True. And Lloyd Carr got hoisted, you know, carried out. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think I hear my take, too, is like this game was way more us being stupid than it was us being bad. Right. It wasn't like bad. Like it wasn't like we were getting dominated anywhere. It was just making stupid decisions and like newsflash if you've ever watched college athletics before young kids make stupid decisions it happens a lot and so as mature as jj is and and you know a lot of people are saying

yeah he can't do that he's in his third year now, blah, blah, blah. Like this stuff happens, you know, all the time. And I'm not going to say I'm okay with it, but I'm still not going to hit that panic button right now. And I fully expect Coach Arbaugh to come back, JJ to feel comfortable. And, you know, even though it's going to be a very good rutgers team i fully expect to to for them to go out and be 100 more locked in than they were this past saturday yeah i mean it's exciting right big 10 football again i don't know what the spread is but i think i'm taking records with the points i think it'll be a close game i just looked it up i was shocked 27 and a half yeah records and the points fucking lock it in that

i mean i got no chance we have a couple spread once this year that seems absurd to me but put your money on that now am Am I looking at the right thing? I got to pull this up because I can't. Yeah, there's no chance. This is good podcasting right here. Oh, while we have a lull. Michigan might have 24. That's still a lot of points.

I'm taking Rutgers in the points. For a 3-0 really solid Rutgers team. Yeah. They run the ball. They're an Adidas school. Although they're an Adidas school, they're probably the most talented Adidas school in the country right now. Who are the other Adidas schools?

There really aren't that many left, I feel. Who cares? Kick them out. Who cares is the correct answer yeah from the fcs where they belong oh man what were you gonna say before i rudely interrupted you oh no um so i was making my bed today for the first time in god knows how long and uh a thought occurred in my mind as a man like you know i don't know i i know we all sleep differently than women and how we're supposed to sleep and whatnot do you put a sheet between your blanket and your body when you go to bed or do you have the blanket touching your body the blanket is in like the comforter. Sure. Like you've got your bed sheet,

right? And then you've got like the top sheet. Do you have the top sheet touching your skin or do you have the comforter touching your skin when you sleep? I think you're supposed to have a sheet. I know what you're supposed to do. What do you do? I have a sheet right now. I have,

I have like sheets that are on the bottom that I lay on. Then I have a sheet and then I have a comforter. Interesting. Kalen? I'm just a straight comforter. Straight comforter. Let's fucking go. So maybe I have shitty sheets.

I don't know. But it's just like not comfortable. I'd rather feel this soft, beautiful. Look at this. This is my summer fall blanket. It's got a nice weave texture to it you can see my hand through it very comfortable very comfortable i want that touching my skin when i sleep i don't want this fucking i think i think the like point is that you can much more easily wash a washer or sorry wash the sheets than a comforter or Or duvet. I know my... That's a word.

That is a word. Spell that. I'm gaslighting the shit out of you guys right now. Do you think I made my bed today, idiots? Look at these guys sleeping on beds. Yeah, the real answer should have been, I sleep on the fucking floor, dude. What's a bed?

Better for your back. This is like when Kinch was like, I've never seen somebody more comfortable than Kinch when he slept in full clothing on the couch. And we were like, do you need a blanket? He's like, no, I'm good. Do you like in the park nearby do the man is just so ready to be homeless he's so ready he's prepared for life oh my god that's incredible um all right that's a good tangent i like that um yeah i think i mean

this is when you know we need like more women in our lives i think oh the only reason i know what a duvet is because of that i'm like what it's like a dessert is that like a croissant it's a dessert not a croissant i feel like if if a duvet definitely could be a dessert for sure yeah oh, yeah. Sounds tasty to me. Yeah. Your dinner tonight is some swordfish with some duvet afterwards. Yeah, I'd be like, okay. That sounds incredible.

I'll take two. Shout out to the women at the Blue by 90 tailgate because the difference between week one and two and three for the food spread was unbelievable. It was only because we had more women there. Really, that's it. And it's because women are smarter than men. Oh, it's not even close. From burgers and dogs

to a charcuterie board. I know. I saw charcuterie boards. I was like, oh, somebody must be in town. They must figure something out. Shout out to my mom. Shout out to my mom and kaylee she's a beauty yep now i mixed it up a little bit took the burger and i took some of the cheese from the charcuterie board spread it on the burger game changer that's a boy dinner right there baby can we also bb's big house my guy um there he's recording a pod with uh with tanner right now so go give that a listen uh after you guys listen to

us that's a smart podcast that you want to know it's it is the smart podcast this is what he just texted me if you're watching this on youtube i'm about to put it on the screen it's just look at this right it's absurd that is absurd let me see i i mean that's great i'm not going to try to interpret what that is about or what it says but it's beautifully highlighted and the dude's just a maniac content he's loves this it is position by position breakdown from the BG game of snaps, pass plays, run plays, their overall grade. I mean, this is ridiculous. How does he make the grade?

I think it's got to be a PFF grade. You know who BB is? He's CJ 20 years from now. I swear to God, the man doesn't sleep. He just lives, breathes, and eats football. I mean, it's ridiculous. That's like a lot of work. Yeah.

A lot of work. He needs to work with somebody way better than us. Like ESPN. Yeah. I'm like, dude, make your own site. Seriously. Oh, my God. That's good stuff.

That's good stuff. let's talk some defense oh i do like the defense so as bad as the d or as bad as the offense i guess was on saturday the defense stepped up um i you know the first thing i noticed all game long was just how much in the backfield we were at all times. Even on the run plays, it was like we're meeting them two yards deep into their backfield. Kalen, you go. I'm not a defense guy. No, it was great. I love seeing Chris just get penetration into the backfield. Jalen Harrell,

another guy, started hearing his name a lot more often. I think that they're starting to find their edge rushers. I also thought it was interesting, and I was kind of thinking about this today, was I don't think we've seen very many linebacker blitzes yet. That's a whole

other thing that we should start seeing more of. We did see a corner blitz, though. Mikey had a pack. Chris Jenkins had a pick. Well, okay, this is my contribution to defense right here. Can we talk about the thick boys we got in the middle? Cam Good and Kenneth Grant. Holy shit.

Some big boys. He needs a wide load sign on his run. And it's not like he's tall and big like he's kind of he's girthy he's girthy for sure he is he is an absolute square shape it's my man yeah i'm glad he's on our side yeah absolutely um yeah this defense is is doing really well. Yeah, I think that they're animals. Chris Jenkins is incredibly, incredibly athletic for how big he is. It's really ridiculous. And we're still waiting on Rod Moore. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah.

They finally came back. Rod Moore we're still waiting on. Dude, there's some guys on defense that are, like, even on the team that's been playing, and I consider myself a semi-casual fan. But I'm like, who the fuck are these guys? I finally figured out that that transfer from Coastal Carolina was number five on defense this past game.

I was like, oh, shit, that's where he's been. He's just a number I didn't recognize. Yeah, he's there. He's there. Yeah, no, I mean, Ke keon sab has been playing really well on the back side uh makari i think finally got in right um yeah we're playing yeah who would the transfer from uh university boss umass continues to play well. Yeah. I like him. One thing, okay, I wasn't really sure what was fully going on in the second half because Bowling Green was just running the ball

like four straight downs every series. I was confused after a while there. But, like, I think they just had a loss for what to do because we were just swallowing them up now they definitely came like it was uh it became obvious to me that they scouted us when we started seeing their special teams right and they were doing that pooch kick thing our poor guy bready was just not he was like uh wait a second dude i mean it broke my heart broke my heart he's uh he's really you just gotta fair catch it my man just fair catch it don't be the hero i was rooting for him i was like you i was like return it take it to the house

i mean i'm gonna fucking rock this guy and then it's like oh shit as much as I love him and as much as I would kill to see him take it to the house on that just throw up the hand throw up the hand let's get into the next series you'll be good to go

you'll keep your job one question I have is why is Brayden mcgregor on kick return oh yeah pretty far back too yeah like i feel like he should be like front lines if he's on it if he's on the then then he needs to be in the front line for sure yeah yeah yeah that was interesting that was definitely interesting um yeah i don't know who was the head coach for that game, Sean Moore? Yeah. Fire him. Get him out of there.

Live voting. Absolute live voting. What are you thinking? The sad thing is if you scrolled Michigan Twitter during that game, there were probably tweets saying that. Oh, I'm sure. What are we doing? This is ridiculous.

Yeah. No. I try to stay off that avenue of twitter best i can i had some friends that were like texting me saturday night and sunday morning and they're in the doomsday just like you know i'm like we're here's i i think i I think I said this on the last podcast or two podcasts ago too. We're 28-3 in our last 31 games. We should probably just enjoy that. I'm not saying you can never have any, like, negative thoughts. You know, when JJ throws his third pick, I'm not –

it's not like I'm, like, super happy. But I'm just saying when we're still winning whatever – what was it, 35 to 6 or whatever the final score was, like, you can be concerned but still, like, hey, I think we're pretty good. We're still the number two team in the nation. Like, we'll still be all right yeah i think the biggest thing too is like uh the only thing i could think of to like complain about from that last game is like if we have a clean game maybe michigan's the number one team in the country that's the only thing to complain about but doesn't even fucking

matter dude made to the playoff you You just got to be top four. But I think if they play a clean game, you might be number one. I mean, that's very true. But at the end of the – I don't know. It doesn't matter. No. Still got to go beat Ohio State and go do it all, right? So I'm like, just go win the games.

Last year, this was the whole thing last year where everyone's talking like oh their schedule sucks you know blah blah they they don't play anybody in the in the non-conference it's like they threw up the double middle fingers everyone and just went out and won every game and then it's like now what are you gonna say to me you know so it's wild that people have that like oh they didn't play anybody. And then you cannot see anything from ESPN on Instagram without them going like, Colorado! Colorado beat them too! And I'm like, dude, what

happened? Exactly. Which is, you know, they're playing Nebraska, who's bad. Colorado State, who they're better this year, but statistically, they were like one of the worst 10 teams in the country last year and, you know, have to go to double OT. But it's still like the greatest win ever for DL.

I get it. They were 1-11 or whatever last year. But, like, let's be fair here. Come on. Exactly. Exactly. So, I don't know. It just gets me riled up a little bit when people are overreacting like that.

You know, just go sing hail to the victors. Enjoy it. Enjoy another Michigan victory because, you know, there were times when we weren't having Michigan victories, guys. There were times. It wasn't that long ago. Drives me nuts. Drives me nuts. It drives me nuts.

So, all right, I'm excited for Big Ten play, though. I think we'll plan to have another pod coming up this week. Shout out to Andy Conkler because he was mad that we didn't have a second pod last week. I fucking love that guy. For him, we have to shout out to him for coming coming by the tailgate as well do we think we can get into um grizzly peak or giant pumpkin and dexter or something for a live pod yeah we probably sick that sounds good i'm

down i'm down for that um yeah with that do you want to do a little ad read for them? Go for it. Hell yeah. Dude, North Peak Brewing Company. Shout out to them. Justin's drinking a Blue by 90 beer right now. And, you know, Hail IPA. Actually, he's drinking a Hail.

My apologies. I got both. I got both. My new favorite IPA. You know, some people are talking about it. They get it confused with Two Hearted. I'm like, no, that's Hail. They're like, oh, this did taste better.

So I thought it was. I wasn't sure. But yeah, North Peak Brewing Company. You can get a Jolly Pumpkin, Pretzel Bell, North Peak, Grizzly Peak, Traverse City, locations all across Michigan. We love their beer. And shout out to those guys for teaming up with us this year. We're excited to keep drinking and advertise as much as we can for them.

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Smooth finish. Go Blue. Go Blue.