Bussin' With The Boys - Mario Cristobal Reacts To Miami Win Over FSU & Field Yates Gives Expert NFL Fantasy Tips | Bussin'

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

Recorded: October 06, 2025 Will Compton and Taylor Lewan have a double header with Miami Hurricanes Head Coach Mario Cristobal and ESPN's NFL Fantasy Football guru Field Yates! First, Mario Cristobal hops on the bus fresh off a huge win over Florida State. He dives into the culture shift at The U, what it’s like coaching elite quarterbacks like Cam Ward and Carson Beck, and how he’s keeping Miami on the national stage and in the hunt for the College Football Playoffs. Then, ESPN’s own Field Yates joins Will and Taylor to chop it up about the official Bussin’ Fantasy League. From drama in the group chat to the wildest fantasy football punishments we’ve seen, Field breaks it all down and gives his best fantasy advice and tips for keeping your league competitive (and hilarious). If you’re a college football junkie, a fantasy football sicko, or just love some top-tier ball talk, this is the episode for you. Hop on the bus and enjoy, fellas. Big Hugs, Tiny Kisses! TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 3:41 Vegas Recap16:56 Will’s Weekend20:09 Red River Live Show23:14 Spooktober Is HERE25:19 Chad Powers Is An Electric Show 32:21 Jack’s Thoughts On The Titans 38:52 MARIO CRISTOBAL INTERVIEW STARTS 38:56 Cam Ward At Miami40:46 Transfer Portal Culture43:37 Francis Mauigoa Is A Dinosaur45:34 Importance Of Talent Acquisition Personnel46:51 Being State Champs48:09 Getting Carson Beck50:14 Staying Focused Rest Of The Season51:46 Eliminating Distractions In Miami53:28 Malachi Toney Is A Stud56:30 Coaching At His Alma Mater1:01:13 Bud Light: What Would You Do Anything For?1:02:01 Would He Go To The NFL? 1:07:26 FIELD YATES INTERVIEW STARTS 1:09:28 Getting Into Fantasy Football1:15:46 Bussin Fantasy Trade Drama 1:21:00 Does Field Want To Be An NFL GM? 1:27:41 Was Roger Goodell Behind Year 10??1:30:01 Best Fantasy Football Punishments1:34:01 Bud Light: What Would You Do Anything For?  1:38:09 True Classic Gooner Of The Month1:39:39 Fantasy Football DramaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bustin with the boys. Bro. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Bustin with the Boys. This is episode 349. with the boys is presented by Fan Duel Sportsbook America's number one sports book. Yeah, and if you're watching on this spooky little

October 7th, you know what that today is Tuesday, but real quick, we want to talk to you about Thursday because Thursdays have been treating the boys very well. If you just backtrack a little bit, last Thursday, busting with the boys, same game parlay, cash it in the first half, I might add. And again, this was a full game parlay that hit in the first two quarters.

Right. We only needed 30 minutes. Teams want to play for 60. We only needed 30. That's what's telling you everything you need to know. Kiron Williams, anytime touchdown. CMC, anytime touchdown. CMC, all rushing yards of 30 plus, 40 plus.

Cameron Williams, 10 plus all receiving yards. That was plus 518, like we said before, that cashed in the first half of the game. I want to say just north of 10,000 people were happy. But this Thursday, Bustin with the boys is cooking up another same game parlay. Stay tuned because we. are in the lab right now. And of course, we got some of Fan Dules Thursday touchdown jackpot. We'll tell them about that.

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I'll go first. Listen. But just to recap, if you all the football talk we're going to have, like we got Mario Cristobal on this episode for the interview. We're also interviewing Field Yates for some fantasy football talk. But if you want the entire recap of college football and NFL over the weekend, that was on yesterday's episode. We had on Caitlin DeBore.

We had on Greg Olson. We had a lot of football talk. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what?

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Your boys rocking the flannel right now. You look great, by the way. Thank you. Shoes matching the thing. I was excited. I took off the shoes. I took out the shoes and Rue was asking me, oh, day, you got new shoes? Audrey was like, oh, you got new shoes?

I'm like, no, these have been. You've been in the chamber. They're just, it's opportunities throughout the year. Opportunities throughout the year. Opportunities throughout the you take advantage of it. These ones right here? Dirty boys. I've been rocking these chucks for the last week straight.

And to be honest with you, I don't know why it's right now. But my phase of my life, I'm really enjoying Converse. Chucks are the move. Chuck's fuck. That's what they do. They fuck. I know you've been a big vans guy, but I think chucks are over top of vans. You like that?

Right now where I sit, I enjoy wearing chucks more than vans, but in my whole totality of life. Right. It is vans. It is vans. It'll always be vans for me. Big weekend for the boys. Obviously, let us just tell you real quick how our weeks go. Mondays, we do our football talk, and then we do our intro for the bus with the boys' episodes.

You guys are listening now Tuesday at 6 a.m. Then it's Prep City, right? Because Wednesday we shoot college football gambling show, the locker room with Josh Pete, and then we shoot the NFL locker room gambling show with Clay Walker and Clay Matthews. Both Hall of Fame nominees. Yeah, both Hall of Fame nominees. Then Will and I prep for ESPN, get on a plane at 830 a night so we can spend time with our families, get into New York around midnight, 1230,

usually put our head in the pillow around 1 a.m. We wake up at 5.30 in the morning. We go in for a pre-production meeting. Then we shoot ESPN and get up from 8 Eastern to 10 Eastern. 10.45, we're back on a plane to Nashville. Get time with our families. Then go stream. That's usually how our weeks go.

You miss one part, though. What I miss? The Rock. Yes. I was saying this is how the week. go down. This is how... Usually on weekends

will travel to a college town. We got the fall tour this weekend. We are going to the Red River rivalry, which we will talk about that in a second. Yeah, that three times fast. But this week, there was a couple more wrinkles. Yes, we'll have the rock. We'll get into that in just a moment.

Listen, hand up. Fumbled back. Fumbled. That was just abysmal by me. You put it on film and you just... You're essentially James Franklin after the UCLA game going, buddy. I don't know what to tell you guys.

Yeah. I don't know what to tell you here. I'm glad you got to that point because I know the first time we kind of watched you, you're like, there's really no coaching points here. I don't think I said that. I think I literally said I saw his eyes and I was like, this, I need to get the fuck out of here. Out of my skin feeling was what the words I was using. It was tough.

But so Thursday we do the stream, we get done at that like 11. So we have a couple of days where we're just like, holy shit, that's a lot of work. Wake up 5.30 in the morning. So me, Jack, Jared Beeman. The demon. Can't go to Vegas. Power slap. UFC.

I'm not going to get too much into it. I'm not going to get too much into it. I will say there's a couple points there, Jack, where I felt like we couldn't miss. It's true. It's facts. Boys were hot. And an incredible UFC card.

Boys are spicy. A incredible UFC card. Very spicy. I mean, shout out Alex Pereira. I know, dude. Him put, what was it, a minute? Plus 2.10. Plus 210 to win that.

And the first fight between the two of them, you could see Pereiro is kind of more in the defense. Mencemo didn't want to get taken down at all. He came out immediately, but it didn't even meet at the center of the octagon. He pushed his ass right towards us. And he was like, hey, we're not fucking around this time. Handled business the way business needed to be handled. It was impressive to see.

He hit him with the table of Luan ACT score. Yeah. Over the top. Hit him a couple of those, couple of elbows. Talking about midnight to six. That's worth that. I was wondering if, you know, it was going to get called on it because, oh, boy, as you're sitting down there in the pocket a little bit.

I'm like, is this, you know, is there a spot where you call it? You kind of let him survive it for a moment. Then, yeah, Pereira hits him with that. Buddy gets up, tries to, he's like, hey, you're celebrating a little too fucking hard right now. Yeah, but you know what? He had his time to fight it out. You can't go try to fight after the fight because the fight's over. That's done.

One thing, too, not the most exciting. What does redemption look like? Okay, we'll get to that in a second. With that, with Marab, the second of last fight. boring fight a lot of people would say a lot of technical he's thrown into the ground it goes all five rounds jack said it on the way back we're watching a guy that's going to be a champion for a very very long time one of the best ever guys and also shout out to cori san hagen he is an absolute dog for holding five rounds with him yes because the gas tank that marab has on him he does not stop he does not let you breathe for a

minute all five rounds of that fight he gets on your back and holds you wait for you to you to you for you to mess up a little bit, boom, you're on the ground. Boom, you're on the ground. Take down after, take down, after take down. And if I'm a rob and if people are booing you and all that and they're getting bored about the fight, you just essentially put up double birds to them and be like, you guys can hate it if you want. I'm going to be here for a long time.

The guy is extremely impressive. I don't know the technical aspect of Brazilian jihitsu and the octagon and all that, but just watching as a pedestrian fan sitting back, I can just tell this guy is in a class of his own right now. He is very impressive. Yeah, I agree. Okay. Didn't really get.

I'll be honest, I didn't watch the, I didn't watch the, I didn't watch the fights. I got a parlay sent to me. I blindly put faith in it. It lost. But yeah, I forget what game was on. I forget what game was on that night. What was the night game Saturday, college football? Oh, Miami, Florida State.

Miami Florida State. Buddy, um, the third to last fight. I know you didn't watch it. We'll just briefly go over it. It was the guy that fought Pereira, when Pereira hit the, hit the leg kick on him. Um, yeah, yeah, I can't pronounce his name either, but he's a Russian cat as well. He fought Roundtree Jr. Just two muscled up guys. When the fight was starting, it looked like two robots trying to get some WD40 in their joints. They see very odd, very awkward at first.

The fight just really turned into a slug fest at the end. Both guys are absolutely gassed. Everybody in T-Mobile arenas on their feet. Dudes are just trading punches back and forth. And the Roundtree ends up going down getting knocked out. One of those fights you look back and be like this is this is why it's the most entertaining sport to watch it was incredible dude all the fights were awesome but those three fights in particular you kind of get everything you need everything one goes a distance with a knockout the other one is a technique just maraub being a technician and then watching perere come out guns blazing taking back his belt overall was it ufc 320 yes ufc 320 was amazing dude amazing now shirm has brought up dexter hampton at dex hampton this tier talk

multiple times. I might as well address it. What does redemption look like for you with At the Rock? Good news is he responded to the tweet. Yeah, responded to the tweet. I'll say this. I've already kind of, I put the hand up. I said it is what it is.

I messed up in a big way. I felt very uncomfortable when I go to this ESPN break. And one of the producers like, hey, the Rock's going to be out there to say, you should go say hello. Now, we know, you know, I get uncomfortable about just kind of going somewhere immediately to meet somebody. walk away, I feel, I feel uncomfortable. I'm comfortable saying hello.

Yeah, I uncomfortable saying hello in that, in the fashion it was. So I get kind of pushed out in the middle of the area. I'm sitting there with Matt Malone. Matt Malone sees him first. He starts walking down. I do like this already walk a shame up to the middle. You could see my heart's not in it. I look up.

We make eye contact. He immediately looks back down. I think to myself, he doesn't want me bother right now. I should just get out of here. Obviously, you watch back to film. And I could just have easily turned around and said, Mr. Rock. Hey, I know we. You've DMed a whole bunch.

You've sent me over three minutes worth of voice memos. So we kind of have a bit of a rapport with each other. Nice to meet you in person. My name's Taylor Luan. Obviously, fuck that up. Obviously messed that up. That's on me. Redemption to me looks like this.

Gotta get the rock on the show. Got to get the rock on the show. We've got to have. I mean, he responds to the tweets. I already mentioned about the DMs. He said in 2024 he'd come on. Obviously, listen, man's busy. He's got a lot of stuff to do.

He did nothing wrong in the internet. interaction, the lack of interaction between the two of us. But I think it's only fair that the rock sits in this chair. So that's where redemption comes to place. We might be looking at a possible rich eyes in situation. Might be looking at a possible tweet at him every single day situation. Are you going to do that? I don't run our socials.

It seems like this is a you versus the rock. Because I remember how this all went down with rich. I'm still driving my 04-4 runner about hit 300K. Yeah. So hey, that's what I'm just. Seems like maybe another bet needs to be placed for this to have. Okay. And that is something I would love to you entertain.

Would you like, do you want to throw anything out there right now for me? Uh, see, the last time I did this, I just jumped the gun. Right. So maybe give me one week next intro, I'll come correct. I love that. You weren't here for the, uh, was it college football, NFL we were talking about? Oh, it was college football. We're talking about Michigan.

And I said next time I go to Vegas, 50% of what I win, I'll donate to the Michigan and I'll file. Oh, wow. I just said it out loud. And then I just kind of, in my own brain again, double down. Also, within three minutes. So I like the fact that you're taking a week JP walks you into that Walk me in and you know what dude sometimes

That guy's got a backup camera on him like nobody Like he can parallel park anything You gotta give a lot of credit to JP The way he handled me like a child He's a technician Absolutely so yes I will now stand on that But I love the fact you're taking a week

So check back in a week with us We'll have a bet between myself and Jack Or bust him with Jack Well the three of us will get together We'll figure it out Yeah we can figure so not because J-Lay and the Rock. Would absolutely love to have the rock on the show.

Right, right. That's one of the heroes right there. Yeah. So, but yes, I let down not only myself, I let you down. I let bustle with the boys down. I let our entire company down. Opportunity for a massive redemption. Right.

And also. That's a setback major comeback. Exactly. Yeah, and I'm also going to take back what I just said. If anything, I put us in a great position to have the rock on eventually. If you really think about it, if you really think about it, my demise might be what helps us get the rock. here I feel like we were in a good situation with the rapport that you guys were building already

yeah but you know what we were in a great I was honestly so bummed I couldn't get to meet that dude because I'm back when I'm not in the blocks where were you hair makeup no I was so when it was happening oh it was during it was during get up and there was a moment where they're on and I'm standing off the side and I kind of go over to Foss and the people and I'm like hey how and the fuck can I get how can I meet the rock I have to meet the rock and they have to meet the rock and they have opportunity comes when I'm on and he's out in the block. And so it all went down and he comes back during commercial when he's come back on. He's like, hey, worst hell of all time just happened.

Yeah. Were you Loki kind of like good? No, I was bummed. I was like, oh, I got to see, I got to see the footage. And then I saw the footage and I'm like, buddy. Yeah. Tough. Just tough.

It's all good. Just tough. Learning. Learning. Every day. Just learning. It's all you can do, man. All he can do.

You're not learning or dying. Amen. Amen. Yeah. Amen. But hey, the vlog, the Vegas. vlog, I think will be. Yeah, it's going to be awesome.

It'll live up to every expectation you want it to be. It'll probably come out Wednesday or Thursday. We'll put out a tweet when we get a finalized date. But yeah, it's going to be an awesome vlog. Are you cutting it, Jack? No, Jared is over there cooking it up right now. Yeah, and Jared, I tell you, he was elated. He's so ecstatic about it.

He's like, I love the storylines we have going here. You know, Jared's little break. Yeah, he gets rocking. Yeah, and he was very excited about, which got me very excited about. Because to me, I'm just in hell and also in heaven at the same time. I got the two demons on both sides. He showed me the footage. Just a little context.

Won't give too much way from the vlog. Me and Tanner put a parlay on power slap, which is kind of a coin flip. Literally. It was a five-leg parlay. Absolute coin flip. Literally. All four of the five legs hit and one didn't.

And the one that did not, the guy that we bet on knocked this guy the fuck out. To where like normally they call the fight so fast. And they let this guy go to 10 seconds, stands up. They end up going to like extra rounds and then he ends up getting knocked out. So I still think that there's something They rigged it but I watched the knockout.

Did you say some? You pull you. I tried to pull Dana away. You'll just have to watch the vlog and see why I was not able to pull Dana away because there was bigger things at stake than my $500 parlay. I'll say this too.

Dana seemed like he was ducking you a little bit. I do think I hope there's footage of the boys having to hold you back yelling at Dana, I want answers. Oh, I want answers. I want answers. Then you'll love the vlog. Don't say that.

You'll love the blog. I'll say this. I put in a parlay for Power Slap. $750 to win $100,000 lost in the second leg. It's all good. You're going to say, yeah, go check it out. But the parlay, buddy, I'm telling you, it's, that's the thing about parley is you just get excited about the hop.

The op. What if? What if? I mean, we all know. Taylor also got like five other guys on it right as he placed it. And then they show up in the first fight, they see, they go, what happened? like, oh, it's already lost. It's already dead.

We're at the sports book and Kyle from Nell comes up because what do you guys bet? No, my power shop is. Oh, we get on it too. What is it? And we bet it us. We bet it.

Cody bet it's like five other people. To the point the sports book is like, no one else can bet this bet anymore. What? Because the odds like were, you know, $750 to win $100,000. The sports book's thinking themselves, we don't want this.

Yeah, yeah. Because they've essentially had, you know, a $6,700,000. Taylor tried to put $5,000 on it. I did. And then they capped him at $750. because five grand paid out 700,000. Yeah, yeah.

And they're like, yeah, the most you can do is 750. Right, right. So anyway. That vlog comes out. You said Wednesday? Probably Wednesday or Thursday. I say Wednesday. Yeah, let's say Wednesday.

Probably Wednesday night. Jared's the many claims to be to probably be Tuesday, but. Okay. Yeah, Wednesday. He's never grinding on it. He had a lot already cut up, so. I love it. I tried to start a vlog with the staycation that my wife and I did, but that's not for.

You got a little R-rated? You got a little R-rated. Yeah. Real sports. Marks might have went in the system. Let's go. Wife and I, we did a little, we did a little staycation down, you know, not the flags, but the four seasons on Friday.

Got back home, it was like 2.30, we shot for the dads. That episode, as you're listening to this right now, new episode for the dads drops tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. But we shot the for the dad's episode last Friday, got home around 2.30, packed the overnight bag, we're in the car, about 2.45, get to the four seasons around three. And the wife and I just have a, just have a day, have a night, have a morning. at a little staycation. We went from being a mom and dad,

the boyfriend and girlfriend for it. Fresh off the block too. Fresh out the block. And it was much needed. It was all time. Then we go to, got our little spooktober festivity in. On Saturday,

we go to Cheekwood, which I highly recommend. Cheekwood reps, if you're local to Nashville. Cheekwood does all year round, but they got a nice little, they got the pumpkin set up, you got the food trucks,

you got the live music happening. Go check out the mansion if you want to. But a good vibe, an old Papa Shirm, Pt6, he shows up a little scar, he was running a solo mission over the weekend. Jew was out of town. She was in Miami for a bachelorette party. So we got the kiddos together.

Sherm came to hang. We lasted about what, about an hour. Yeah. For a little ones had to go down. 45 minutes for me. Sherm got to meet Scott Zilla for the first time in person. She hit expectations. She rips.

She tried to take over the DJ set. Like she went up to a speaker and was like trying, DJ Zilla was why. Couldn't figure out the ox. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I had a little family day that afternoon, and then it was the Husker football. It was all eyes on Husker football.

Sweetheart, you got the kiddos for the next couple hours because I'm going to be locked in. Watching Husker football, watched some ball, had some, ordered some barbecue. The father-in-law came over to hang out. His wife's out of town in the Philippines right now back home. So we had a little family affair that evening, and then Sunday was just a nice. What did I do yesterday? You did a live, you did a live watch party. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we did the live show.

We did a watch party. Yeah, we went out. Wife's like, hey, do you want to, you want to take the kids on a little nature walk? I'm like, sure, I'm done with that, whatever you want to do? We went to this coffee shop. I hate that I'm not remembering their name right now because an awesome coffee shop down in Franklin. And you want to do a little nature walk after next thing. You know, we're driving 30 minutes outside of Franklin to go on this nature.

So we don't, I'm going to have to be back for this watch party. But we hit this nature walk and Scotty, listen, was beside herself. we figured out is because she had shoes on trying to take a nap. But I'm saying for an hour tried to put this little villain down. But got it. Nature Walk. Come back. We had an awesome little Titans watch party.

We unfortunately, we had to do some things at halftime. So we had to get out of there. But only to fail to see the Titans come back because there were some absolute sickos. Sickos. At that watch party, watching all the way to the end, including Jack. Watch party was all time. Had a good time hanging out with the fans. Great time.

Titans are one to know when the boys do a watch. Party. Tyns are one to know and you bring up ball and buddy, we're in October. We're in Spooktober right now. Everything is great. Red River rivalry is taking place this weekend. And what makes Red River River We even better? A live show from Bustin with the Boys.

We're doing a live show at Red River River Week. Terry Black's barbecue in Dallas. That's 3025 Main Street, Dallas, Texas, 75-2-2-6. That live show will start at 11 a.m. Why 11 a.m.? Because the game kicks off right after that on Saturday, October 11th. Special guest is a surprise. No.

It's a surprise. It's a surprise. The best prize is a surprise. It's a surprise. Be there, Shaday. He might have played at Notre Dame. Obviously, big shout out to our sponsors, Fandul, Bud Light, True Classic, and Neutral.

But live show, Terry Blacks, 11 a.m., October 11th, special guest. And we'll go ahead. Like the address right here, it's in Dallas, 3025, Main Street. Once again, Dallas, Texas, area code 75-2-26. You need to put it in the maps. Very close to the fairgrounds for any OU Longhorn Sickos. That's about a 20-minute walk from the fairground. Right.

And you're probably seeing the edge of your seat right now being like Red River River where the boys are going to be there. Terry Blacks. Who are they taken in Oklahoma, Texas? You'll find out. Wednesday. Oh, tomorrow. Yeah, you'll find out tomorrow.

6 p.m. Josh Payton, Taylor, the Wall, Wilcompton, the locker room, college football, a dish. Yeah. It'll be beautiful to see possible game of the week situation gotta figure out of the tears playing I think I gotta figure out

I don't think he I thought that they said that he was me playing for a few more weeks There's you know there's some rumors I don't think it'll matter You don't think it'll matter I think it'll matter I think Texas is dead for the show okay Actually you know what you're not on the show

go ahead what do you think's gonna happen I just think Texas is ass I think Arch Manning is not prepared or ready I think he's still battling injuries and I think Texas is extremely fraudulent. They went from number one in the country five weeks later to being unranked. Wow.

The real UT resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, you scumbags. Can I rebuttal? It always comes back. Yeah. Go ahead, Sherman rebuttal. Quick rebuttal, very similar to the Iron Bowl. It's those years whenever OU team is looking bad,

whenever a Texas team's looking bad, that's when they usually win. Okay. I'm just saying. Right. Rivalry. Throw it all out the window. This is rivalry.

And we're talking about rivalries too. Michigan started nine in the country last year. They ended up not ranked at all. Who they beat the last week of the year? Ohio State. And Texas is low-key in a must-must-win situation. I'll be rooting for Texas because Tennessee plays Oklahoma this year and that will be a tough game where Meteer will be back.

Don't you want Oklahoma to win? So that way it's like it's going to mean more? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. You know, you can convince me for a year. I mean, there's going to be nothing but carnage in the SEC. So I don't, yeah. Right. This is when the sickos come out there.

This is like goons, goblins and specters. That's why it's spooked. People think Halloween is because of some sort of like, you know, demons back in the day. It really is because the SEC football in October. That's why Halloween starts because it's so spooky out there. We might have to figure out something to do. I forget our hours that we're actually going to be out there, but find something spooky to do out in Dallas.

Yeah, there's not enough time for that. Did you guys hit something in Vegas? Dude, no. First weekend of Spooktober and we let the squad down. Yeah, I know. But I got to... Well, you are the leader of Spookober. I know.

And listen, when you fail, what do you do? You double up the next week. I got a Halloween party this Friday right after the Halloween party. Wife and I come home, babysitter. We got a little Halloween date. All right, we got a little Halloween date. Hot at house. A little dindin'in after that.

A little bit more play. So, yes. we're doubling up this week. I failed, I failed everybody. Are we invited? My, my, uh, my gambling wants and needs took over. Can't say that. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

That's why I didn't say it. That's why I didn't say it. Your hotel, your hotel. Yeah, well, my wants and needs for gambling took over. That's a tough beat, bro. Yeah, I know. Yeah, absolutely. It's a tough beat.

Yeah. We need a lot. We need more out of you. If you're sitting at the top of the helm, you're right. Need more out of you. Starts from the top. Starts from the top. Because you put a lot of pressure on the boys to sell out for Spooktober.

And look at our bus, by the way. That's by the boys. This is the first time the viewer on YouTube is seeing the bus right now. Shout out Garrett, the boys, everybody. Forgetting Spooktober dialed in the way it should be, man. Also, Taylor, I think we're not giving enough credit. He did do a Halloween-related thing, just not in Vegas, the rock. That was scary enough.

Spooky as hell. Will could never. Spooky time. Will would have just shook his hand and been a normal adult. I knew it was spook tover. That was October 2 when that thing, all the thing went down. Will would have handled that like a normal human being.

That's what he would have did. Not me. An exchange would have happened. I would have stood there awkwardly and been like, so what's your favorite scary movie? Small talk, you don't want to do. You're doing your thing on first-stakes, buddy. You probably see busy.

Can we talk about a great show that's going on right now? A great little show. Chad Powers, dude. Listen, I got a card for Chad, but they want us to promote it. We're doing the whole thing with them. I will tell you, I love this show. It is incredible.

If you like Blue Mountain State, if you like the show Shorzy, like this show is a great blend of like, it's really just a great comedy. And they do an incredible job of blending like a Manning's place, the Eli's place this thing and blending into an actual TV show. They're connecting all the dots. I'll read the card for you, but know that I truly, I endorse this show. Eight years after Flushing his promising college football career,

down the toilet. Hot shot quarterback Russ Holiday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish and this is based on Eli Manning's Eli plays a segment from ESPN and Omaha production.

It's a new comedy starring Glenn Powell and as Russ Holiday, a hot shot quarterback who tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers. That's in there twice. Okay. A talented, a talented all ball who walks on a struggling in Georgia Catfish team.

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Now, Mickey Mouse has given us the opportunity to kind of see some of these shows a little earlier and they want us to kind of watch them and talk about them. We're supposed to be talking about episode three. I'm personally on episode five. I enjoy watching the show. When I have free time, I put this show on. Are you going to talk about episode three?

Yes. Can I get off? Because I'm on episode two, and I really do not want spoilers, because I really like this show as well. Get out of here. All right. I'll go wait outside. Okay. You want to talk about the real game.

I'll say this, too, like for people that are like kind of on the fence. So they kind of... Second time. It's a set. Jack, it's still in your hat. It's still in your hat, Jack. It's spooky season. Press it up again.

There's some of the press. You see it? Just press it up in the air. All the way. All the way. Well, you got to put on something. See that little thing in the middle you're pressing up on. That little dot.

Oh, it don't work. Get out of here. Go. Just go, Jack. Go. Yeah, all right. Look at that push. Hang on for dear life out there. That's the second time Jack's done that today. Mass is like the whole Chad Powers concept vibe. Like, this is a vessel. Oh, Jesus.

For the production team and the writers behind this show. That's where I think they do a really good job. I love the love interest with Chad Powers and Ricky going on. Love all the side. characters like this is it is a fun show it is a fun show to right in this third episode you get to dive into like some some actual ball like uh they play old miss early and dude i mean we're not giving out spoilers but we're giving out spoilers a little bit streaming now if you haven't seen it you should have seen it like chad powers is the backup and he has to sit there and he's uh what's the with the coach's

daughter what's her name ricky okay yeah rick um she's sitting back there like hey comfort two if they did aggie special ball ball all these things and so she's goes he gets an argument with her old man who's the head coach the football team storms off he kicks her off the field gets her out of there the booster some of these things are so funny because they could they will literally never happen in an actual football game but that's a fun part about it shows the booster is like getting upset up in the suite so she comes down on the field and it's like talking to go take maybe we should put powers in they end up putting powers in because the mascot trips the starting quarterback which by the way the starting quarterback is i can't remember his name he's so funny he is so

funny the way he operates like the running around like he's a team guy. It's a Sherm vibe guy right right there. It's a Sherm five guy. It's so funny. He's like running off on the sideline and as he runs out of bounds, the catfish mascot, the guy who's been helping out Chad Powers trips him and he rolls his ankle. So Chad Powers has to go in the game. There's like whatever a minute left in the game. They're down by a touchdown and Chad Powers, you know, gets the whole thing done. He actually has a big run. Don't watch it. Hold on the ball and won't let go up because he's having PTSD. from that first game before the game they first see and so and the best part is nice cameo from elie manning nice cameo is kiffin in it i don't think kiffin wasn't in it no but eliz uh has one line

who the fuck is that guy is his line yeah dude it's i'm telling you bro it's such a good show and it just gets better and the side character too you brought her up but trisha the booster lady's so funny so funny it smacks chat powers on the ass i don't is on our way out. It's just good, man. I hope you guys enjoy that show because I really am enjoying watching it. I'll just sit there and have a little free time by myself. To be completely honest, I forgot that new episodes come out on Tuesday.

And last night, went on to Hulu to see if episode three had come out yet and I was so bummed. I'd forgotten about Tuesday. I cannot wait to watch episode three. Yeah. We got a segment we're going to do fresh set of downs, custom segment where we spotlight a transfer portal player current or past who wasn't playing well, buried on the depth chart.

All they needed was a fresh set of downs or a fresh start in order to spark their redemption story and turn their college careers around. Are you about to? Yeah. Oh, oh, this week, listen, you might think to yourself, was he buried on the debt chart? Either way, this player needed a fresh set of downs, and it's Carson Beck. Carson Beck, round of applause. Somebody who transferred from Georgia to Miami

was written off by dogs fans and most college football fans after a 12 interception season. He's currently 5 and 0 at Miami right now. Over 1,200 yards passing, 11 touchdowns, 3 interceptions, 73.4% completion rate and tied as the Heisman favorite.

He's sitting at plus 600 odds right now the fan of the sports book. But shout out the boy, Carson Beck. One more. That's awesome, man. Come in, a little press conference had the chain on. sitting there.

Everyone's like, what is this guy doing this because of his girlfriend? No, he's a dog, dog, dog. He's a dog. He's actually not a dog anymore. He's a cane, cane, cane. He's doing his thing. Yeah, we dive into some, uh, to some tear talk. Watch your hat.

Watch your hat, Jack. There you go, Jack. Jack, Jack's having a. Jack had a hell of a weekend, boys. I'll tell you this. You, I don't know how much a vlog is going to highlight Jack and Tanner. But they took everything in their own hands.

Definitely took my biggest step as a gambler this weekend. Yeah. Took his biggest step as a gambler. But yeah. But it worked out for you. It worked out. With that being said,

can all go downhill. I go back to Vegas this weekend as a sicko Titans fan. Oh no, I forgot about that. But it's going to be... Get the mic was. Damn.

My best. First time on the show? He's excited. Yeah. So anyways. Are we talking about Titans at all? Too, yeah, we can talk about

Titans. Let's talk Titans. I wrote a couple things down. Got about seven minutes before Field Yates comes on. I'll be quick. I wrote some things down. Obviously, we're at the watch party. I hate watch parties.

I love being at watch parties for Bustin. I hate watching games for my teams around groups of people. I hate watching. I hate being at watch parties when you can't watch the game. That pisses me off sometimes. So I was kind of in the corner at the merch table

with G watching YouTube TV on my phone. It's delayed like 30 seconds. to what the projector was. But anyway, so a couple things I wrote down. I'll just read him off quickly. Ward's composure, out outstanding. Him in the fourth quarter, the dot to Ridley, everything that we've been wanting.

We needed Calvin to finally get some good catches, huge. Defense shifted a huge gear, night and day, first half, second half. Second out, complete shutout. Amazing. And also the explosive flipping plays. I mean, if you're an Arizona Cardinals fan, my thoughts and prayers go out to you because... Shut up coop.

just a brutal, from the interception to the Mickey Mouse fumble touchdown, Tyler Lockett scores, to the dropping of the 74-yard rushing TD. Shut them out. Yeah, brutal. But I think over everything, just a gritty, poised win that was obviously capitalized off a lot of mistakes made by the Arizona Cardinals, but this win with a rookie quarterback, this is something that can truly galvanize a locker room. I am not going to even touch on Brian Callahan.

We're going to focus on a good team win. But this is something that will hopefully create a little evidence for the Titans. Yeah. Especially for that locker room to just have something to believe in, going another road win, hopefully against the Raiders. I will be in there in Allegiance Stadium. Very excited for that. And then we come home in two weeks,

and we have a really scary one against the Patriots. We all saw what happened on Sunday night football. The Patriots are for real. but yeah and it's Vrable coming back and it's gonna be a homecoming like people are gonna be stoked to have him there

like I there will be no booze in that stadium and if they will are they will not be from me or in section 121 here's here's last week we were sitting and saying Mike Vrable is going to get more applause than when the Titans come out yes if they can stack another win

against the Raiders there might be some booze I'd be some booze for rapes probably not probably not booze for rips but it won't be a pop when Vrable is shown or something like that. Hopefully it'll be 70% full at least.

Yeah. Yeah. Excited. It's just nice to have a Monday where I can just exist in my life. Yeah, man. Right. Yeah. So that's really it, man.

Tighten up. I feel bad for Coop. Yeah. But also. Jesus Christ. Coop did. Coop kind of bailed out on his Cardinals at the live show. Which is crazy.

So I don't know if that is the reason. Coup did show up. up at a Titans watch party with Cardinal stuff on. Fair enough. Made his girlfriend wear it. Tell me to have time about Kyler Murray's the guy. I'm like, buddy. Yeah.

Nothing is ever Kyler's fault. Nothing. Right. Right. And also, what's Kyle Murray's record since the new Call of Duties come up? Oh, yeah. The Call of Duty beta dropped.

And Kyler Murray is now officially 0-1 with the Call-Duty beta. So we all know Kyler and his Call-Duty addiction. Who knows? We don't have to cut that. We don't have to cut that. But there will be a graphic. Jack is actually making poop, make a graphic for that, which is one of the craziest thing.

Yeah. Gotta have it, though. Gotta have it. Got to have it. GTHI. Yeah. Let's do a little tear talk before we get Field Gates on. We got one from at big P.P.

Pooh-Poo guy. Yeah. Seems like a shirm burner to me. Yo, gooder boys, my wife thinks my spook to over. Stoom. That's why you think it's shirm right there. Stoom game is weak. How can I up my,

Stoom game. Appreciate you boys. P.S. Hey, Taylor. Um, Sherman, was this you? Hey. Sherm, was,

God the mic, was this you? I mean, just a fully prepared graphic. You got the, the AI behind it. Big Pee-Poo-Poo guy. Yeah.

He was, Hey, Taylor, Stoom. He was sitting back here typing away during Greg Olson. Probably giggling to himself. No, not even giggling,

dying laughing. No, he was giggling. He was walking out, and I'm sitting on the couch out there, and he's like, dude, you think they're going

think this is AI. Like 100%. Hilarious, though. But I will answer big P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-U guy. Buddy, the best thing you need to do with a student is go full commit. Like, you got a full commit. If you have the opportunity to wear makeup, wear the makeup,

you have an opportunity to buy, go the extra length, spend a couple extra bucks for the nicer costume. Go the extra mile for the, for the costume. And it's just coming from a guy that let everybody down on week one of spook-tover. I should be answering this question. But however, As a man who loves and breathe this holiday, you'll only get 31 days. You might as well take full advantage if you're going to up your stoon game to this random individual.

We got another one here from at Tier 1 Tony, the gooner guy. Hey, yo, Will and Taylor. I got fired for my old job because I dressed up as the Hulk for Spictober at the office. And apparently my shorts were a little too tight, sue me. Did I fuck up or was the old job the problem? Should I dress up this year at my new job? It's a good question. Great question.

Another AI graphic. Another AI graphic, the AI graphic gave me Will's old teeth. You see that? That is insane. That is pretty wild. There he is again. He's operating behind the computer. There he is again.

What's he giggling about? But if I was going to answer this random individual's question, I would say, absolutely. And if you get fired from your job for dressing up, that job is not for you. That job should be done. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news?

Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special.

So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And, well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas.

And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm CJ Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin

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Dude, talk about Cam a little bit. I mean, he gets his first win yesterday. I mean, statistically not the greatest, but from a press conference standpoint, from a leadership standpoint, as a rookie, I heard an amazing. story about him when he first transferred to Miami, that he was basically M-Fing a lot of guys talking about being great right in spring. Like, tell me about Cam Ward. Well, the best story was he got here and, you know, we really needed an alpha at quarterback.

And so right away, right, I want all the wide receivers numbers. I want to call him up. I want to get some routes in on Saturday. And he gets him all rounded up except for one. One hit him up with, you know, like a big time attitude like, no, man, I'm in Fort Laudrieverdale. I'm going to throw with Lamar Jackson. And Cam says, all right, mother, you want to go throw with Lamar Jackson? He better throw you passes during the year because I'm going to throw you squat.

And that made the receiver get in the car and come back down in a hurry. Hey, that is incredible. That is really cool. What are your thoughts like when he's coming out last week after the press conference and saying, I'm going to keep it a buck right now? We asked. That was obviously going viral. You know, people kind of get uneasy, like, you know, about him being so blunt and

transparent about it. But as, as his former head coach, what are you sitting back and thinking when he's going out to a press conference saying something like that? Yeah, I mean, we talked about it. You know, it's, it's almost like nowadays, you guys know, you guys were ball players. It's like everything is so intrusive, man. So if you're feeling something and it comes out, get ready for it to go viral and you almost have to conduct yourself in a manner where you got to almost script your mouth sometimes. But, I mean, that guy is just pure raw emotion. He is the ultimate competitor. And He wants nothing more than to win. He could give a rats, you know what, about anything except winning.

So he's going to be unfiltered, but you're going to get the very best of that guy every time he sets fell on the field. Coach, we're living in such a unique world with college football right now. You're one of six schools that had a top 25 recruiting class and transfer reporter class in the last three seasons. How do you get so many new faces to bind into your culture week in and week out? Because it's when, I mean, obviously when Will and I played, the school you chose the school you went to. and if you were to transfer, you have to sit out for a year, there's a whole bunch of things where that didn't really happen a whole lot. So the guys you're with in year one,

you're within your four or five, how do you keep a culture and keep guys blended together in such a way when you have so much turnover every single year? Well, we've been learning and improving at that process because you're right. Like it's almost like every year you're coaching a one-year team, right? And the goal is get them all here early, get them here in January,

and then go right to work and go right to every opportunity you can have to get these dudes together in a competitive environment and then an environment where they could open up and find out a little bit more about each other, that's when you get to know people because you really can't respect anybody until you get to know them until you work your butts off with them.

And so we provide that for them. It's really that simple, but we have done a really good job choosing the right guys because we work to a level where if you don't like work, you're going to hate it around here. How has the process, because you talked about how it's kind of developed and changed? How do you develop that process?

because again, it's like we can rattle off that in the last three years, you have a top 25 recruiting class and transfer portal class. But how has that kind of evolved over the course of the last few years? Especially it's like your first season, you're only a five-win team. So you're pitching this vision. You're trying to sell the program while also trying to get better. Like, hey, there are some things I liked about this process in year one on having a top 25 recruiting class and transfer portal class.

How has it developed into where you currently are? Well, I learned as a GA, I came to Miami as a graduate assistant when they were really bad. They were coming off probation. That roster was abysmal. And I quickly learned the value of talent acquisition along with player development and then personnel use. And so arriving at Miami three years ago, it was the roster needed a massive overhaul. And now that you can construct your roster in a couple different manners, I mean, of course, the portal in high school recruiting, but you also have junior college. You have overseas recruiting. You have the preferred walk-on route. You can find really, really good

quality players that are made of the right stuff. And there was a second transfer window. So spring was almost like mini-camp. And again, I was never in the NFL except for, you know, a cup of coffee as an undrafted free agent. But you kind of use the springtime as mini-camp and found out what fit, what didn't fit, and then make more adjustments and additions from there. But it all related around the culture, man. And it was all about getting hard work and tough-ass SOBs that want to be part of it and aren't willing to compromise the right stuff. You talked about your roster. You had three years ago, one guy you have that is a homegrown individual. Considered a top 10 pick is Francis Moe-Noa.

Did I say that correct? Oh, you know what? Okay. Talk to me about, I'm an offensive line. I'm an offensive line guy. I played it. I love it. This guy seems like an absolute grinder.

Talk to me about his development. And now he's staring down, you know, possibly millions of dollars in a, and a, great NFL career on the horizon. But talk about this guy's leadership, his abilities, what he's great at? Unbelievable leader, an absolute freakazoid of a human being. I mean, every day it's him and Ruben Bain head to head.

It's Jurassic Park out there in practice. Jurassic Park. Great pull. Well, the best part about this is when we got here, those guys were recruits. So they'd wait for us outside the stadium in our first year when we were getting our faces kicked in. And they'd wait, and we'd sit with them,

we were very transparent, very honest, like, man, we are not good right now. And the whole plan is to get you and the class here with you and build upon that. And you're going to have to be guys at the forefront. You're not going to have to sit around and wait your rot counting on you to make it happen. And they believe the vision. They stuck to it. They saw what we had done at previous stops. And brother, they were the building blocks, man.

Those were tough ass sons of guns because they saw how bad things were. And they were willing to still come here and do it. And now you got, you know, Francis, we call him Cici. His bone density is at like a Bronosaurus. I mean, he's 350 pounds. I love the doctor. This dude's prehistoric. Yes, yes.

Yeah, he's, you know, and we had Penae Soule when we were out west as well. And it's just a different breed of creature. I mean, just athletic, physical, super powerful, twitch beyond measure. And then football, instinct, smarts, and an elite human being. Like he's one of the best community leaders you'll ever be around. And then when you watch him and Bain and Mesidor and those guys go out of every day, man, iron sharpens iron for real. How important, like how quickly was the importance of getting your staff and personnel right on the talent acquisition side? You look at a team like yours right now.

You basically revamped the entire back end in the offseason. But also you look at teams like Texas Tech. Oregon, I would put up there as well as far as people, the whole talent acquisition thing, grading talent guys coming into your, coming into your facility. How important was that puzzle piece? I don't know if it's like GM, like you got kind of a scouting department now, but how important, how quickly was that importance established at Miami? It's got to be everybody on board, man.

You know, nothing worse than a coach that thinks that he's the secret sauce. You know, like, oh, yeah, it's my plays, it's my design, it's my teaching. BS, you know, the magic is the players. Now, players with mentality and culture creates real magic. But getting everybody to understand that you have to bring in high level, high ceiling talent. That's willing to work their butts off because nowadays in college football, everybody has good players. And if you're crazy enough to think that your opponent on a weekly basis doesn't have enough talent to whoop your ass, you're out of your mind. Everybody has talent.

So talent acquisition and then the right type of talent, the right type of mentality, the right type of DNA. So you play in this last game. and they're talking to you on the field and you look directly in the camera and you say, we're state champs. What does it mean to be a state champ in Florida, which a lot of people say that's the mecca of high school football,

football, speed, talent, everything. Like, what does that mean for you guys? It means autonomy as a former Miami Hurricane as a former player here. This game was everything to us, man. It always was, you know, playing the in-state teams. I mean, it seemed like the national title always went through Coral Gables

or one of those other cities or South Bend. So the stakes were always high. The intensity was off the charts. You know what? When we got here, we were so far behind. We were so far, so deep into just a bad roster spot, a bad culture spot that I think people took joy and kind of beating us around a little bit.

So we've been a very, how do I say this politically correct? We've been a very driven team and a hardworking team to just get better. And we got a long way to go. I mean, we have massive improvement that we need to make to accomplish our goals, but we're progressing. We finally had the opportunity for two years straight to be, say, champions for Florida. And that means a ton to us. Our alumni, they're all about the in-state games, man.

They love it. So glad to see them get to enjoy that. We were telling, we were telling stories about Cam Ward and the leadership that he brought in the intangibles that he brought to the locker room to kind of go with his talent. Carson Beck is somebody you guys go out and get and walk us through that process. is thumbnailing through or combing through. This is the right guy for the program, especially when you look at,

he's transferred from Georgia. There's some off-field drama, whether people make stuff up on the internet with girlfriends, stolen car, like just different things for Carson Beck. You go out and beat Notre Dame and he has such an emotional post-game presser to where you're starting that,

it feels like people kind of start to root for the guy because he seems so emotional like he's grown and everything else. What was the process like of being like, this is the guy we want to be the quarterback of our, team to kind of success, Cam Ward. Yeah, it starts with the film. Like, and actually, let's go back to high school. I mean, I was, I was at coaching at another place, but I watched him in high school.

I'm like, man, that guy's a dude. Love to have him. And then you watch him in 23 at Georgia, and it's off the charts. I mean, let's, let's go back in time when entering 2024, Carson Beck was a projected top quarterback to be taken. And Cam Ward was a projected fifth to seventh rounder, right? Yeah. Fast forward a year later, Cam Ward comes over here.

He works his butt off. We give him a great offensive line, the right pieces around him, and opportunities to make plays, he becomes the number one pick. So it's fast forward again. And then now we have watching Carson on film, we thought that his 24 season was not a complete reflection of him, his play, his ability. We thought that some of the thing, not being critical of anybody.

I don't believe that type of stuff. I just think that they didn't look in sync, and he wasn't playing to his capabilities due to some of the pieces, some of the schematic stuff. So we're like, we can, that guy over here in our scheme, we can be really damn good. And we're not there yet, but we're certainly progressing. And he's really starting to take off now.

Yeah, a lot of the conversation was Carson Beck was the issue for Georgia. And now we're sitting in this part, well, maybe Georgia was the issue for Carson Beck. And Carson Beck's actually the dog out there. You guys are now sitting with an undefeated season so far. We look to last year and we see the end of October, November, where the wheels kind of fall off a little bit. What is the conversation taking place with you guys in that building of keeping your eye on the prize, winning the ACC, getting in the playoffs,

making a real run at a national title. Reality, man. You know, one week out of time and being where your feet are. I mean, any, there's no value in looking at a poll, a projection, anything of that nature. I mean, I know everyone's always, and I work for Coach Saving back in the day, and the whole rat poison speech, there's a lot of value to that, but humility is a week away. brother. I mean, it is right around the corner. You want to think you've got it all figured out and you take an arrogant approach to this game and to your opponent. You're going to get your face kicked in.

And we've learned our lessons the hard way. We are extremely rigid and regimented and what we do on a weekly basis. And we're just working our butts off to make sure that all the focus is right here on the University of Miami and us getting better. Because we have to get a hell of a lot better to be one to know every week. You brought up, sorry, Will, you brought up Nick Saban, and we had Greg Olson on just earlier. And he said a quote that you told him, which is when the tiger comes into the palace, you make him a part of the ceremony. We were talking about Jordan Addison. He went, they went across the pond, the Vikings went across the pond, and he wanted to go sightsee for a little bit in London, misses a meeting so they hold him out for the first quarter. And the question was, would you do the same thing?

He brings up that quote and gave you credit for giving that quote. talk to us about keeping these guys in line distractions all the thing especially in a place like Miami buddy I've been down to Miami very limited clothing in Miami a lot of distractions out there in Miami how are we handling business out there I mean I think it's a look I'm I'm born in 19th I'm you know 70s baby so I live through the days of Miami Vice and scarface and I get it like that probably it will stick around forever and it's cool I love Miami because of what Miami always was and always will be. But brother, those days are like, you know what I mean?

Like when people recruit against us, they make it sound like it's like, you know, Pablo Escobar and company going crazy now. We're in Coral Gables, which hopefully you guys get a little time. Put it on CAMS tab. You could afford it. Get you down here so you could spend some time in Coral Gables. There isn't a nicer city in the country. And the trajectory of this city economically and from a quality of life standpoint,

is through the roof. So like our setting is off the charts like perfect and private so that our guys could take care of their stuff and we keep them so busy. There's, I mean, I coached all over the country and I always felt that there were more distractions in the smaller college towns than there ever were at Miami because of the location of Cole Gable. So I don't know if that answered the question or not, but these guys from a focus standpoint, but we're just very real.

We don't we don't play at games or whatnot. There's if we want to accomplish what we say. we want to accomplish. We got to cut out all the BS and keep the focus on what needs to be done. We'll go ahead and we'll take that as an offer to come out to Miami for our spring tour next year. Cam Ward is. Yeah. Yeah. I do. How fun is it to watch Malachi Tony? He's nicknamed Baby Jesus. He turned 18 just two weeks ago. He seems to be like he is one of the most electrifying players in the country. How fun is it to just watch that dude go to work from the sideline on game day? Yeah, it was the same thing with my son.

First day of school, he asked if he could skip school. I say, what do you want to skip school for? He says, I want to go watch baby Jesus. What are you talking about, dude? And he tells me that's Malachi Tony's nickname. Well, you know, Malachi Tony's dad was a legend down here. He was an unbelievable football player. In fact, one of the most famous moments down here was when his dad race Devin Hester,

street race, which was, again, just I can't. iconic day down here. So Malachi's DNA and his football background, his mom, awesome person as well, he's like, he's a football junkie. His approach to ball is out of a professional and spend in the game for 20 years. He's an auto correct guy. He's a relentless get here early, stay here, late guy. I, um, maybe I should check his birth certificate. Maybe he's not 18. Right. Right. What's it really? Benchformers when he heads in the car that says, I am 12? What's that? What's the movie where they're playing like Little League Baseball and there's a Dominican guy comes in. He ends up a piece of paper.

And it's a I am 12. Guy hits like 15 dingers. That's Malachi Tony. I don't doubt. I mean, he just goes, man. He just goes. There's no flinching the guy. But he works at it.

There's no BS to him. And he just wants to get better. He's another unselfish guy. If you get a chance, please watch him in the run game at how he throws his body around. He is absolutely physical and reckless. That's always like the best. I feel like when a coach is trying to give wide receiver, their praise, their flowers,

they talk about them in the run game because you're right. It's like when the tape gets turned on and you're kind of watching one of your teammates because you don't, wide receivers that, you know, they catch the football. But when like Rable's showing off somebody, like showing guys getting dirty, getting in the box blocking,

I feel like they kind of like juices up the entire team. Yeah, no, I'm with that. You, this is your, November 1st will be your first game outside of the state of Florida. How did you all get that front-loaded Florida schedule? How did that happen? Yeah, who'd you have to be? to pay for that. Yeah, that sounds nice.

The list is long but distinguished, you know. No, I have no idea how that works out. This thing was said while back, man. But you know what? I mean, how many teams have faced a first five games like we have two now? You know, I believe we're the only team to face three ranked opponents coming out the gate. And we're good with that. And when I played here at Miami, that's what it was all about.

So we're we feel like we're improving. We've been tested, but again, when I watch them film with the player state, we got a long ways to go, man. You know, so it's like, let's just keep working our butts off. That's all we want to do. That's all I really care about. Obviously, you guys are only half, like, not even halfway through the season. There's a lot of ball left, and you've already alluded to it.

There's a lot of improvements to be made if you guys want to get to where you want to go. But what is it meant for you to kind of turn around your alma mater in a sense? Because you got the documentaries that you, everything else, you're a two-time national champion. But to be the head coach of your alma mater, what's it been like for you to kind of be in that chair and get this thing going the right way? Man, when I got the call, because, you know, in football, you know how it is, man, the timing's never right. It's always in the middle of something. There's no just clean and easy way to do it. And we were doing really well.

You know, we just won a couple of conference titles out West. And we had an unbelievable class committed. But for 20 years, I was so just enraged and pissed at. the way the University of Miami was playing football. And that it just kind of came to that point where I had had enough. I mean, our own people were attacking the hurricanes. And that was never the case. I mean, I came here as a player because I used to come on and watch Alonzo Highsmith

and Michael Irvin and Benny Blaze, Jerome Brown, all those just creatures just crushing it and getting after it. And I just got pissed to the point where it was like, I've had enough. Like, if I don't do it, who is going to do it? And I owe Miami. And I want everyone to feel that way that I ever played here. I mean, I owe the, I'm on nobody. I'm a local nobody that got a shot because Jimmy Johnson

decided to give my brother and I scholarships come and play ball, which we had just started playing for a couple of years in high school. And it changed everything. So I'm one of those like just super high levels of gratitude for opportunities. And this was one where I owe Miami, I owe Miami Hurricanes and let's just keep working.

That's exactly how Will Compton feels about the Nebraska Cornhusters. As he saying that story, I'm like, this might be my destiny. You will, hey, coach, know this. Will Compton will be the head coach of Nebraska Cornhuskers one day. I feel like we, I feel like we just met. This is the first time we've really talked, but I feel like we have a nice foundation of a friendship already established. So I have a hypothetical for you, all right?

I just, I pluck this one in a thin air. Let's just say, I don't do predictions, prognosticate. I promise. I promise. It's not a prediction. Just, and I say that. I'll do respect. And I say respectful.

I just, I don't do predictions or hypotheticals like zero. You know what? I'm the most part of me you'll ever have. I promise you. See this right here? I don't know if you can see me. I'm crinkling up my paper right now.

I love the situation. I love the situation of Baltimore. I know, I know. But you just, I felt like, you know what coach has? He has the presence of a head coach.

I'm here to make a joke and he's like, listen, back up a little bit. He didn't even know what the question is. Yeah. So I'm back. In the states that we're in, it's like, you know what? We've taken a, I don't know.

Like, if the players ever saw me, like, I don't ever, like, act like that or talk like that. So I would hate to do some unnatural on camera or, like, are dudes that I trust and believe in and were, like, super tight than to see me act in a way. We're like, what is that coach? You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. This could be more of a spring, a spring type hypothetical. Okay, go ahead.

You know, on your Miami visit. Yeah, on the Miami visit. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Miami. Absolutely, absolutely. Where everybody's been undefeated. Everybody. Yeah, spring is the best time of year,

because everyone's, everyone's got everything in the back. Coach Cristobar, are you a, are you a spooktober guy? You a big October guy? You like Halloween? I don't know, in terms of having, like, embracing, yeah, just a holiday itself. Like, you got a favorite scary movie. This is more of like, this is more off football talk, just like getting to know you as a human being.

Because we, I don't know if you see our bus set up, but we embrace Spook Toad. for all 31 days in October. So this is more of like a fun chill segment. Like the Michael Myers mask right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Big Michael Myers fans. Big Michael Myers fans.

The history of the mask, I think it's actually a mold of William Shatner's face, isn't it? Star Trek. That is actually correct. And I love the fact that you know your spooky movies. Where does holiday, in the holiday category, where is Halloween for you in a tier system? You know, when my kids were growing up,

it was, was, good to get them out about, but I mean, it's, you know, as a coach, man, and as players, you guys know, I mean, you're just, it's groundhog day, right? So you just keep going. There's, you know, hopefully when all the big holidays are rolling around, you're playing significant football and your favorite holidays, the one where you're staying in a hotel to play for a championship game. I love that. I can't wait for Coach Cristobal when he's retired in one day and he's done and he's experiencing these holidays for the first time and be like, man, I've really missed some awesome little holiday moments. Hopefully it's with some national titles.

that way he's not thinking about it long. But he's going to be sitting there like, oh, it's kind of nice to not have a whole lot of stress and pressur going on. Coach, before we get you out of here, we are sponsored by Bud Light, and we have a Bud Light question for you. Everybody knows that anyone would do anything for a Bud Light,

but for you, Coach Cristobal, what is something you would do anything for? Now, can't say family. Can't say family. What I would do anything for in terms of, like, legal, illegal, anything? No limits, no bounds. No limits, no bounds,

maybe a massive ambition of yours, but just something that you just, you know, it always comes to mind every now and then, maybe at least once or twice a month. Oh, man, you'd have to give me forewarning on that. I mean, my mind kind of goes, you know, so pretty complicated, open-ended question, man. I'll have to think about it and certainly get back to you.

I mean, the first thing that comes to mind that just jumps out is always winning. Yeah, that's the only answer, too. That's the only answer, win in a national championship. Would you ever down the line be like if when you take national titles at the collegiate level going to uh putting your head in the ring for the NFL uh no no that's not uh i have i've always had a one destination in mind that's the university of miami always some people like to you know throw around things and

you know this job that job this i remember being a ga and butch davis asked me he's like why in that high-pitched voice, you know, Coach Davis could get after it. He said, why do you want to be a GA? Because back then a GA, what'd you do, right? You made sure dry cleaning was set for the coaches. You had to help with all the BS assignments. And then you got to coach some, but I just looked at them. I said, I want to sit in your seat one day.

And that was 28, yeah, 28 years ago. So this has always been it, man. It's always been Miami. I'm a, you cut me open. I'm orange and green, man, all the way through. I love that. There is, I'm curious, too. like just as somebody who's aspired to be a coach,

especially like when I committed to a school, like I always had like coaching in mind, getting the play in the NFL, kind of seeing the hours between or like what goes into collegiate football, NFL football. Like what was it for you on determining like college football? Obviously you're in the place you want to be. But as a coach,

kind of figuring it out along the way, what were some deciding factors for you being like, I don't want to go anything beyond college football? Like this is the spot. This is the place. This is the league I want to be in. No, that's a fair question. I mean, my high school coach is the best leader,

best mentor, best human being I've ever known in my life. I still call him for every major decision. And I was actually in the process of being a Secret Service agent when I took the GA job and then was hired while I was finishing up year two and had that big decision to make. And I had completely fallen full bore into coaching and loved it as a GA. Because back then there weren't any analysts. It was one GA on each side of the ball, right?

Yeah. And you had to sleep in the office and do everything. And I love making about four bucks an hour. And I just absolutely loved every bit of it. The development, the connections, the relationships, the competing, they're getting after it. It was the free metrics. That's why you ate as a GA metrics products, right? You used to get those for free when they expire.

That's what they used to give you for food. So, and then just that was a crossroads. And it was, the choice was tough. was clear it was football. There's secret service I can put that together now. Yeah, we've kind of had a conversation about, you'd crush it.

You would be amazing at it, no doubt about it. Four bucks an hour or two to where you are now. Like, that's, dude, that's awesome. That really is cool. Hearing, hearing the stories about being a GA, having sleepless nights. I mean, Dan Lending has told the stories about that too, where you truly have to love what you're doing

to be in that position consistently in day and day out, weekend, year out, all that stuff. So we appreciate you. I can't imagine the feeling of being a head coach of your alma mater. that is absolutely incredible. And let's give a round of applause for Coach Cristobald. Thank you so much, sir.

We look forward to seeing you in the springtime. Appreciate you guys. Thank you for having me. It's been an honor. Go, thanks. Yes. And tell your son we said what's up to. Absolutely.

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What's going on, guys? Can you hear me okay? Yeah, we can hear you great. We're trying to see you right now on the monitor. And we got some technical difficulties. No, you got a great face. You got a great face for TV. Yeah.

We just, we had more. I think the hair's coming in nicely, Willie. I kind of like it. I'm not going to lie. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. I'll go ahead and show it off a little bit. The buzz is coming.

It grows fast. You could have way worse, growth patterns. Oh, I kind of like it. 100%. I know the haters are sick that the hair is coming back in right now.

Yeah. I did not think it would come back that fast. I'm very impressive. Will's Chiia peters. abilities. No, I still can't sell. How's it going so far up on the get-up thing? I mean, it seems awesome every week. Bro, it's been so much fun.

I think every week gets more and more fun because there's more of like a level of comfort, understanding what everybody kind of wants from you. And you get to talk ball once you get into the season. You're not like doing the whole prediction. Right, right. If I had one like, ah, about it, it's every single week's like an overreaction as opposed to like, as a normal human being would like give grace to a team if they lose here or whatever. But every week seems like it's got it's a be all end all. and that to me is like a little harder to do naturally.

Yeah. Yeah, that's like the morning show ESPN formula, right? It's like everything is, I don't know, this morning. I don't even know what the conversation would be. But, you know, is Drake May the best quarterback in the AFC East or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get uptake. It's like, all right, pump the brakes a little bit here.

But it seems like you guys have the right mix, too. Like the exact right people to be doing it with. Like, Schefter is an entirely different version of himself around you guys. That is hilarious to see. Yeah. No, I do love it, dude. a man. I've obviously been around him a bunch, him being a Michigan guy. And his, like, he, I love how he just, he's got this, he's just like an ultimate professional, but he's,

like, willing to be one of those boys. So a lot of time you get around these, like, really, like, strong professional individuals and they always keep a professionalism about him, having him feel like they're loosening up, getting a tie. His laughs are all the time to me. If you can get to actually laugh, it's one of one, man. It really is. We, I mean, we are recording right now, right, Mitchie? Yeah. We're recording right now. Dude, tell me how fantasy football became your thing.

Like, what, how did that process even go down? Yeah, kind of by accident. So I was working at ESPN. I started the SPN, like around 2013, 2012 football season. I was doing some stuff, but not full time. And 2013, 2014, somewhere in that range. A guy named Seth Markman, who is still at ESPN now and kind of oversees all of NFL TV.

came up to me and said, I know you consider yourself a football guy, having sort of worked in the NFL world of scouting for a little bit, just a brief cup of coffee. But still, you probably think of yourself more as an analyst than you do a fantasy guy. But I think you'd be surprised by how much those two sides intertwine and how a lot of what you would analyze for real football

would apply to fantasy football. And he sort of described that it is kind of like a rocket chip that was going to continue to grow and grow and grow. And it's what, 2025? And as you guys know, fantasy football just gets bigger and bigger by the year. I tell people all the time, it's sort of like the NCAA basketball tournament in the sense that you don't really need to change anything in fantasy football. It's still going to be extremely popular year over year because to enjoy 18 Sundays with tons of drama. And it's been an awesome home for me so far.

So let's talk about how's your, how have your stats been in fantasy football? like are you winning this thing year and year out in the leagues that you're in? Like I would just assume that you're the guy, right? You're the guy everybody's trying to knock down. You know, the greatest, like the best baseball player had an average of, I think, like, 320 this year and all of MLB and like people are like crowning him as one of the best hitters in the league accordingly. I think like, you know, somewhere in like the 10 to 20 percent winning percentage is a good

mark for me year every year. If you just do the math, right? Like I play in leagues that are 16 teams where I don't know. That's like one in, that's like a 6% chance, I think, if I, if the numbers are somewhat even. So, uh, I would say that where I'm probably different than the average player is I don't win every league that I'm in. I wish I could say that was the case. I don't have too many duds throughout the years, like too many last place finishers. Um, but, you know, every, every once in a while, like, you just draw the wrong hand.

And, uh, I've had some teams. I already have some teams this year that I have some draft regret over, but that's part of the fun of it, too. It's finding a way to dig yourself. out of the hole. Yeah, yeah, I do need some help with my fantasy team right now. Right now I am three, I'm three and two, probably going to go four and two, but I'm looking at my running back position. And I have, I have Derek Henry, friend of the show, friend of mine personally, teammate of mine. The last couple of weeks, the Ravens haven't been utilizing him in the way that is the most conducive way for him to be successful, not only on the football field, but on my fantasy league team. What do I need to do with Derek Henry at this point? I think we've got to be patient

for two more weeks. Next week, we'll see if Lamar plays, and then they've had the buy week after that, which makes you think that Lamar maybe won't play next week because if they can buy the extra week, they would help us up and give Lamar basically a month. And then they'd have to go on like an absolute tear for the last, let's see you. Next week would be the sixth game of the season, 11 games after that. Now, the Raven might be saying, hey, listen, man, we're one and four already. If we don't have Lamar against the Rams, like we're probably staring at one and five in the face. And I don't know how many teams have gone one in five and then went on to make the playoffs, but not many throughout the course of NFL history. Henry is one of those guys who,

as you know, from blocking for him and plant. He went out on my end. Same. Crack 100 yards and a touchdown every single week. But when they're playing from behind like they were yesterday, all of a sudden it became like kind of the Justice Hill show in the second half for Baltimore. So the Ravens got to find a way to get Lamar back on the field because once they have Lamar. The offense can keep them in games, even if the defense is not great. And because of all the injuries, I don't think they're going to be a great defense. But it's been frustrated in the past three weeks for, or past four weeks now for those that have Derek Henry on their roster. But this guy's way too good to give up hope on. He definitely is going to have, you know, three, four, five more games

this season where he ends up being the player that wins you his week. When you are an Ofer team field like myself, I believe I haven't won a game yet in. I don't believe that. I do it. I'm telling I don't believe that. It is true. When you start off, how many weeks are we done? Oh, and four? What week are we on right now? Five.

Yeah. We're on week five. When you start off O and four, what is the front office for your team need to start looking like? Is it, hey, let's move our best players and try to get some starting capital across the board? Is it let's live in free agency, depending on how big your league is? What are you doing? when you're starting off 0 and 4.

Because right now Matt and Will's fantasy thrill, we're 0 and 4 just made a big trade last week. But where does your head go when you start off 0 and 4? Yeah, I think there's this thing that we do in fantasy football where we try to make perfect trades. So here's a good example. Like I've seen a lot of teams coming out of the gates that are struggling with like Jamar Chase's, right?

Because Joe Burrow gets hurt next thing you know, Jamar for two straight weeks was nearly the pair that you drafted it would be, maybe number one overall. You're saying to yourself, all right, if I can trade Jamar Chase, that's great, but I have to get, you know, massive value,

perfect value on return because he was the number one pick of my draft, probably. The minute the draft is over, how and where the players were drafted kind of goes out the board, or goes off the board, I should say. And so sometimes I'm willing to,

and I think others would disagree philosophically, but if I can find a trade, maybe gets to be like 85 cents in the dollar because I get two starters, neither of which is as good as Jamar Chase, but if you have Jamar and you're struggling, it probably means you don't have great depth beyond that, then I'm okay with doing that.

And I've got to think that, like, players-only meetings have already taken place on this squad. If those haven't worked so far, then I'm willing to shake things up with some roster management through trades. I also find there to be one of the best parts of fantasy football, right? I mean, that's fun. The closest I'll ever be to becoming an NFL GM. So if I can find something that works reasonably well for me

and works really well or reasonably well for somebody else, I'm talking shop. What do you think about this trade that we made? again, Matt and Will's fantasy thrill. This is a double GM league that we're doing at the shop with Busts with the Boys. We shipped off Josh Jacobs and J.S.N. Clearly, two of our best players. In return, we went and got Devante Adams, Zay Flowers, and A-chan.

A-chan, A-Chane? A-Chane. A-Chane. A-Chane. A-Chane. What's your feedback on a trade like that? That's a good example of where, like, you turn two pillar pieces into three, right? I mean, A. Chan's right there with Josh Jacobs. A. Chan, who had just 16 rushing yards on Sunday, but had a ridiculous receiving touchdown. He's going to be, I don't know, top five, top six running back at worst, at least in the rankings going into the week. And Josh Jacobs is in that same territory, maybe a little bit lower than A Chan because he doesn't catch as many passes.

But the Packers obviously run the football a whole lot better than Miami does. And then you turn, so I look at it as almost like those two are equal parts. and you basically turn JSN into Devonte Adams and Zay Flowers, who came out of the gates red hot. That's a good example, though, of being willing to not, again, I don't know if it's perfect value. Nobody can tell until the season's actually over, but you turn two pieces into three for a struggling team.

That's a good way to go about it. By the way, double GM league. That's tough right there. That's tough. Tough. It is tough. If you guys have to make a decision in a pinch, like who gets the ultimate vote?

Well, I think on this team that Will's referring to, It's very clear who the owner, the 51% are in that group. Our roles are defined and established, which you've got to have in a successful organization. You've got to have it. I have a hypothetical for you. Field Yates, if you were in a league where you're 0 and 4

and you decide to make a big trade where you get rid of a JSN and Josh Jacobs, but you make the trade on Thursday night as the Thursday night football game is starting, should you be able to use those players that you traded for in the same week? I get hypothetical. This is all hypothetical, but have you ever heard of a player getting traded the day on a Thursday and playing a full game and being successful?

Oh, man. And we're talking about character integrity from that standpoint. Yeah, I can't think of too many instances where that's happened recently. I can't think of that. Totally hypothetically, of course. I can't think of that. that, man, I almost feel like, you know what, if we're willing to execute a trade and the players available when the game starts, you get the points. I'll live with it.

Wow. That went the exact opposite. I was hoping it would go. We made a trade. Hypothetically, that's that went the exact opposite. It's like the trade takes 24 hours to take place right before you actually get them on the roster. But the commissioner is telling you he'll put the points on the board. because we're hypothetically this is happening in front of the majority of the league.

Okay. So it's kind of like. This is one of those leagues where you need 24 hours for it to actually process. Yeah. Yeah. So you're sitting there and you're asking the commissioner like do, so do I leave these three spots open like you're putting the points back on the board? Do we need to go ahead and roll with the guys we got?

Because we're looking at our first win of the season. And hypothetically, if that trade can't go through, it's like, all right, well, then we can throw, we should be allowed to throw JSN and Tony Pollard back on the roster and get their points in. Yeah. But also hypothetically, the GM or the commissioner is the guy who made the trade with. Right. Okay. So there's a conflict of interest. There's a kind of complicit in this too. Yeah. Sounds like there's a lot of up to no good going on. Well, it did it did happen in front of the league. That would be the argument. Coup was trying to say this is there's a there's a conversation taking place in front of people but it's like guys are doing other things.

They just happen to be in the same room while whispers in the corner are going on. with the GM of the league or the commissioner of the league with these two teams, hypothetically. Hypothetically. Right. It wasn't like a vocal, hey, we're having this conversation right now. It was a conversation taking place in a room. I think maybe the commissioner needs to be a little more cutthroat after further review here.

Okay. Now it's going back to the way I want. All right. Hypothetically. After further review here, just, just, you know, making sure I play both sides of the coin. Yeah. I'm everybody in the group happy. But just so we know what you drew the line in the sand, you would say this is

not a good move. I'm thinking not a good move. Again, after careful consideration, not a good move here. Listen, as a GM in the league, I just need to be told what to do. Is it the 40 points with J.S.N. and Tony Pollard? Is it the 40 points with Zay, Flowers, Devante Adams, and A. Chan? Like, I'm just listening for direction. I'm not trying to get nobody. I'm just trying to, hey, one of these lineups need to play. Well, it's all hypothetical. And I think if they're not in your lineup and you go through a trade,

you essentially bend the knee for that week. Hypothetically, the two co-host you're talking to are also playing each other in this said game of the week. Oh, okay. Even more layers to this. This is just, so again, however the commissioner wants to handle it, like, listen, we're not, we're not, this isn't gotcha ball. Sounds that the commissioner is the one hypothetically that's in this kind of like conflict of interest category. Yeah. Hypothetically.

Yeah, definitely. Philiates hypothetically. Yeah. Do you ever see yourself going back to the NFL in a way of, I don't know, maybe. an actual GM, maybe an actual upper scout. See, you know ball, man. You understand it all and you've been in that world for a little bit. Could you see yourself doing that?

I don't think. I think that shit probably sailed. I'm not sure any NFL team would express much interest in me. As you guys know, though, like this side of the, this side is a pretty cool place to be too, right? You guys obviously had highly successful NFL careers and live that life of playing for, I'll give you 10, Willie and Taylor, long career. as well. Thank you.

You know the toll that it takes on you, not just in terms of like the physical rigors of it, but also, you know, just the family and the balance and the things that matter. I know both you guys obviously are very passionate dads as well. That's one of those things that like in the scouting world, there's not a lot of balance in the world of football scouting. Right. You're kind of addicted to the game, which is a great. And I admire that trait in the guys that do it at a high level. But I like the fact that while I haven't won a game in the NFL for over a dozen years,

I also haven't lost the game in over a dozen years. I remember sort of that feeling where you prepare. You guys know that even the worst NFL teams are preparing like crazy Monday through Saturday to get ready for Sunday. But I love what we do here. I love just talking football and having the opportunity to watch it. And I think that I'm happy being at ESPN for hopefully a long time. How long did that transition for you happen mentally?

Like, you know, as you're transitioning back in 2011, if you can remember that time, it's like were you kind of transitioning at first and kind of back, man, I just, you know, kind of buying time until your next potential opportunity in the NFL to get in the front office spot or as you start tasting it, it kind of, that thought process kind of fades away as you're getting to spend time at home. Yeah, for me, like, and not to get like, you know, too serious during a relatively light conversation here. But, you know, I was a few years out of college.

And all I'd ever known since I was 16 years old was being around NFL teams. I was very fortunate to be around, you know, some quality organizations. and great people and, you know, guys that I think, you know, taught me a lot about life, not just football that I consider, like, influential my life to this day. But I remember, like, five-year high school reunion came and went. It wasn't even a consideration to attend that because there was just no chance to do it. First wedding I got invited to, missed it, couldn't make it to that one. You know, a lot of my buddies were living in some of the major cities around, you know, the U.S.,

and they did their boys weekends, couldn't make any of those. So it just felt like to me a life decision. I knew at that point, too. I'm 23, 24 years old. Like, I don't have kids, mortgage, more consequential things to have to worry about and have to make decisions on. So when I left football, I was sort of thinking to myself, I might go into the non-sports world.

I got my real estate license. I quickly hated that. So I realized I had to find my way back into sports in some way, shape, or form. I always tell people, though, like when you're in the world of scouting, you can love football, but you definitely have to live it. I love football now. I don't, I mean, I certainly live a lot of football. But, you know, I have interest outside of football that I get to explore now on the career path that we have.

So it gives us the balance that I just don't know that scouts are afforded. So for me, I wish I could say it was like this epiphany that happened overnight. And I said, hey, I'm going to leave the world of scouting. I'm going to go work for ESPN. It wasn't as smooth as that. It took a few years to kind of get from the world of the NFL into the ESPN vortex. But once I found my way here, I kind of felt like maybe this is what I was supposed to be doing from the jump. You know, that's a great story.

one thing I took away from it was, sounds like your first wedding you were invited to was a fall wedding. Is that, am I correct? I assuming that? Yeah. It was a borderline illegal call by that person. That's what I was going to say is, should we completely abolish the fall wedding?

Does that need to go away? Totally. 100%. I don't even acknowledge fall weddings now. Yeah. You know, I feel like I skipped a couple. You guys would love this.

You know, so when I was first getting started in the world, I was working, I was actually like ballboying for the Patriots way back in the day. from Massachusetts, and I was there during some of the glory, some of the best, I mean, it was a long run, but some of those glory years, I was there. And I'll tell you, there may not be of the players that left like the greatest impressions on me during my time working with the Pats. Braves is right up there, man. He might be number one. And the thing that I loved about Braves was I was like a 14 year old who at the time really thought that I was like going to become

something as a football player, not an NFL player. But I thought like, I'd have a chance to go on and become like a very successful high school football coach, high school football player, excuse me, and then maybe play at the college level, which I did. I suck. But you know, I have D3 backup bench warmer only. Right, but at the time. But at the time, I was thinking big, right? I was thinking, you know, Michigan, Nebraska, that kind of stuff. And Braves used to humble the crap out of me every day, man. That guy, and that's the thing about Braves, is that one of the greatest qualities he has. Doesn't matter if you're best player on the team, last player on the roster is going to tell you exactly how it is.

And I'll never forget, I was, you know, I think there was one time where Belichick had made a comment of Rabel, but how, you know, hey, I'm going into whatever year it was. And I'm trying to, you know, maybe get on the recruiting radar for some small Division III colleges. And then later on, like a practice a day or two later, I was maybe running wind sprints or something or running routes on air as the team was going through walk through, whatever it was, doing something to try to help out, do something meaningful. and Braves just chirping me from all out of out of nowhere. Just like, something to the effect of like, Bill, you told me this kid's trying to get recruited to play football in college, watching the way that I was running.

So Braves let me have it then. He still lets me have it to this day. And one of the many reasons why I admire that guy. And Meyer is an interesting way after telling that story, I should say. No, you know what? Hey, I learned a lot of lessons from him. If you can handle, you know, some honesty from Braves, you're going to be all right. Yeah, listen, you're talking to two guys that have been on that exact end of the story.

Yes, absolutely. The feeling you have psychologically and mentally is the same as a seven-year NFL vet when he's beating me down verbally or a 14-year-old boy trying to play some high school ball. I know, dude. I just got to get my spirits up. And Braves, like, just, he's going to, no matter who it is. Again, 14-year veteran or 14-year-old kid, he's going to be honest with you, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I tend to think if there was like a, like the military, how they have like P-O-Ws. Yeah. If they took Vrabel and they just had them like look at the POWs and like just be demonstrative toward them, they get a lot more information out of them. They just beat them down verbally over and over again. Do you think Roger Goodell was behind Will Compton year 10? I have some, yeah, you know, I thought about that a lot. I do have a lot of questions about that.

I mean, I want to say that year that like you were like it was the year. year prior in which, like, you were undefeated with the Raiders, and they went something like 0 and 6 down the stretch and then like 2 and 0 when you were on the roster. I'm just, I'm merely pointing out numbers here. That's all. The playoff. Yeah, I've, I've wondered a lot, you know, like, are we talking about a Canton career if he gets one more year? That's what I'm wondering. Yeah, we're talking about a Atlanta Falcon's Super Bowl. We're talking about a lot of things that would mess up the script. In the mix, hardcore, when all that was going down in field. shout out you. You were massive.

Like you had fun with it. Massive supporter of the year 10. Always getting the breaking news. I don't know what source you had it from. But the Falcons were in the mix. They were in the playoff. Willie timed. It wasn't allowed. All of a sudden they drop a few. Yeah.

Very into the season. We maybe still like they're already out of the playoffs. The magic's over. Yeah. I'm with you. Weren't the Titans? Like did you have like a visit with the Titans too and the whole city in Nashville was buzzing for like 24 hours?

I'd that make that part up. Oh, city was buzzing when Willie C did have a workout with the Titans. Raiders were on the table. That was the year before and year nine. Okay. Or was that year eight? I, dude, I kind of lose. You talk about 2020?

Yeah, 2020. 2020. 2020 Raiders were on the table. Yep. I was holding out. I'm like, listen, I ain't got to do night yet. There ain't no signing bonus on the table. I'm just getting vet minimum here.

I can kind of just chill because the resume is there. You can drop me off in the helicopter and I'll figure out the playbook overnight. And then I got a visit with the Titans. got to do a little workout. They end up signing me. I think we go, what, 11 and 5 that year first? We had the one seed. We lose that game.

Then the next year was kind of wait and see. Then it was the Raiders. Get us into the playoffs. They cut me. Yeah. See what happened. They lost. Remember that.

Lost the next game, right? Yeah. Lost the next game. Once you get a real, real comfortable. Things just go downhill, man. But yeah, that's massive. That's massive for you to have whales back in a situation where a lot of people were just siding on the edge of power of Roger Goodell.

who they were afraid to take on the big dog and you were a man that stood 10 toes down. We appreciate you for that. I do have a, again, bringing it back to fantasy. What are some of the best and worst fantasy punishment ideas that you've heard of? Or maybe some that are currently happening. Yeah, I mean, so like the most popular one these days,

definitely number one is some variation of either you go to a bar or Waffle House and you get 24 hours to start. Every, it's like shot or beer is 30 minutes off. Maybe a shot and a beer like at the same. same time is like, you know, 90 minutes off. There's some sort of like, you know, almost like a supercharge there. If you can take two down at once in one sort of one fell swoop. Waffle House, it's like every waffle you eat, you take off an hour and you go until, you know,

some people are there for eight hours because they pound 16 waffles or something like that. That's always a fun one. The person always comes out worse for it in the end. I play in a league. It's a bunch of buddies who all work at a brewery. and the loser every year has to run eight and a half miles from one location to a specific bar. And these guys, you know, they can all drink.

These guys can all really drink. And during the time that that person is running, the rest of the group is at that bar running up a tab on that person's card. And, you know, if you find an athletic guy, it might be an hour and a half. You find an unathletic guy, and that might be 2, 215 and 2.15 and 2.15 and 2. two hours and 15 minutes for 11 guys at a bar, 10 of which work at a brewery. Like, that number gets pretty significant in a hurry there.

That's always one of my favorite ones each year. I love that. I do. Our punishment this year in our league, I'd like to get your evaluation on it is whoever gets last in the league, because we are doing a 2GM league, as we'll point it out earlier. We have a stream room. They have to spend 24 hours in that stream room together. What are your thoughts on that?

They will be strong. Oh, that's a long time, man. that's going to be what kind of what kind of like entertainment do they have available for 24 hours basically nothing we're working on that viewers yeah I think it'll be the viewers will be up to them I think every hour

maybe we take something away I like that yeah do like that right there like a Mr. Beast video that'd be good so of a sudden you take off your pants you don't get that pants on your hair no pants anymore for you or no underwear anymore as well and and a lot of these hypotheticals this is not a hypothetical will is

oh and four and because of your judgment sounds like he's going to go 0 and 5 because he's missing three slots this week that's Wilcompton and Matt Malone are looking at a tough situation right now in our fantasy league long season though long season we gotta dig her a lot of all left I will you know I'll say this

of all the teams that I would prefer to go last place in our league it's by far Wilcofton and Matt Malone it's by far the dynamic of those two for 24 hours and it's nothing against either Will is my best friend it's nothing against them it just seeing that for 24 hours will be must-see TV. Well, you know, and I got to say this,

and I'm not, again, I'm not trying to come on the show and just make someone feel good about themselves. But if I know one thing about Will Compton, it's that you make lemonade, you know, like that's what you do. You get lemons, you make lemonade, right? That's true, he does. 24 hours, that would probably be an incredibly,

like, there'd be a ton of viewers on that stream right there. You got to shave your head on national TV, you'll do it. You got to sit in a streamer for 24 hours with nothing to do. You'll find a way to make it entertaining for America. love that. I love your compliment. I kind of want to go less, though. I know now I want you to finish. I want you to go, oh, and 17 this year. Yeah. I love your compliment. Let me come in with a little cut down at the knees. Here's something Will Compton's great at. Great at content, great at sitting

with a microphone and delivering some of the people. What Will Compton's not great at is spending 24 whole hours be entertaining. The boy gets sleepy quickly. He gets grumpy quickly. And with Matt Malone on there, that's where the content's going to come from. And that's what makes it so beautiful. I guess you're right. Yeah, it's going to be musty TV. We'll get it. I think it might be at his demise, which, yeah, it's just getting better and better than more I talk about it.

Oh, man. Before we get you out of here, we have a Bud Light question we give to everybody. Bud Light, it's something that people would do anything for, a clean, crisp, cold, but light. BLD-Eates, what would you do anything for? Can't say family. What would I do anything for? Right.

We had Brock Bowers on here. He said he'd do anything for a nice steak. Oh, nice steak. Yeah, nice steak. Who, um, me eater. Who's me eater? Steve Renella. He said there's a documentary that he doesn't care if any, no one cares about it.

He wants to make it. He wants to do it. At some point his life is going to make that documentary. So what is something you would do anything for? All right. So we started off talking about some of the ESPN camaraderie. I play, there's a 16 team fantasy football league at ESPN. It's called the War Room.

Uh, Schefter's in it. Rex Ryan's in it. Brucey's in it. a lot of the names that you know from ESPN are in. It's a great, great league. I think this is year seven for me, and I've yet to win the league. And it's one of those things that, like, once you get one, I mean, I really would say it's basically like winning the Super Bowl.

Like, you just have to have one in your ledger and you're forever a Super Bowl champion. I would do anything to win the War Room League. Oh, I respect that. I get one. I could go O for infinity after one championship. If I get that one championship, and I'm telling you, if anybody in the World War, War Room League happens to see or listen to this, they will agree with that assessment right there. How many out of the 16, how many are champions? Do we have some repeat cats right now?

So I believe there's been just one multiple time winner in league history. And we've had a little bit of turnover. So the only parameter is someone on the, you have to work at ESPN. So we've had some people that either previously worked at ESPN that are no longer there, people that have just elected to leave the league for whatever reason. So I know the league is like 15 or 16 years old. I'm not one of the original members, but I think there are maybe like one or two people that have won it multiple times. I don't believe there's ever been a repeat champion. Is there a multiple time champion currently in the league? Yeah, I actually, I believe the only one that's in league right now is Seth Markman, who I mentioned earlier, who is ahead of the NFL TV stuff. So he's got the

secret sauce on fantasy football. You know that pain. field to say his name too. Yeah. He is the number one dog right now. Number one dog. Mr. Yates. We're getting there though. As an individual who's won back-to-back league championships, I will tell you, it is, it is

such a great feeling. It's so hard. The bragging rights are awesome. It is, it's nice. And you just kind of let you do your thing. And you let everybody, they forget about it. And then once fantasy football comes back up in the fall, you just quietly let everybody know.

You know when the last two? Back to back, baby. Back to back. It's beautiful. We appreciate you. We appreciate you coming on the show. Yes, dude, thank you. This has been a great time.

Good laughs. Listen, we'll have to get another check in at some point as this league gets close to the end or gets come playoff time. Yes. I might have to invite myself down to Nashville. I think it would hit a little bit different in person on the bus. Oh, yes. I would love that.

Yes. I invite myself down to your domain. That's how we prefer it. We would rather have people on the bus. We're getting used to this whole Zoom thing right now, but being in face-to-face is the best move for sure. Yeah. And you guys have just a slight edge over Connecticut weather.

or start. I mean, actually, it's nice up here in New England today. But, you know, in about three weeks, it'll be getting dark at 4.30 and probably about 35 degrees out. Yeah. Yeah. Time to get the hell out. You're telling me. Yeah. All right. We appreciate you, man. Nice guys. Can we wait for the check-in soon. Big hugs, tiny kisses. Thank you, feel. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts.

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Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Ryan, pick up the mic. There's, as you know, controversy's been trying to come to the top around our fantasy football league. You know, I'm assuming you have questions that you would like answers to?

No, I mean, I got all the answers. I need it from Field Yates. So I just think. But shouldn't you bring those to somebody who is the commission? Might notice how I feel. Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. Yeah, we talked about yesterday. We've had the conversation.

If that's how you guys want to handle business. I just don't want to hear anything else about me and how I handle my business from now on. If that's the road, do you guys want to go down? All good. Are you comparing it to the situation a couple years ago? Comping it to the situation a couple years ago, there's always this thing around Taylor about, oh, Taylor, you know, he always bends the rules a little bit. It's okay.

All right. If everybody wants to throw stones at a glass house, that's fine. Just to know that you also live in a glass house now. Hang on. There's no, just to be clear. What you were trying to pull a couple years ago there is, hey, you can drive my vehicle around for the next few months. Like, there's money under the table.

Hey, can we let this? Like, there was actual, all alleged. Actual collusion going on. That is all alleged. An actual collusion, this is actual collusion. Hang on, pull up the definition of collusion. You guys are hanging. Sure, please do that for us.

You guys are hanging on the, we were talking in front of everybody as if it was like a conference meeting room taking place about an action that was going to happen. You guys were talking in the corner with yourself while we're all getting ready for finance football. I remember talking about entourage. It was set out loud on the trade. That was happening. Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to change.

cheat or deceive others. It was definitely set out loud because I was on the complete other side of the stream room and heard it being talked about. It was set out loud. Listen, and again, questions were being asked because again, as a GM of the league,

I'm more so leaning on the group and the commissioner. Hey, how do we want to function with this trade? Because if we're playing our guys this week, we can obviously put in the guys that we have on our bench right now. But if we're going to get points back because the trade's going to go through, then we will leave our spots open. So trying my best as GM to kind of follow the rules.

Again, there's no secrecy, nothing, nothing with collusion trying to take place. No secrecy going on. Nothing illegally trying to get done or get on top of anybody. Simply trying to follow the rules. Right. And you're bringing the question up on, you know, you brought it up yesterday versus saying something then because you are down right now. And Pacheco needs to put up like around 25 or 24 to win the game.

I do. I grew up. If anything stays the way it is right now. Right. But we have three spots open because. because our points are getting put on board. That's what we're talking about. Right.

But if that trade wasn't going to go through, we still have JSA, like we have guys that we're still getting 40. Like the game would still be, Pacheco would still need to have a big game away. So we're playing a football game. I trade for a bunch of guys, but they end up playing the game for their team.

I just go, oh, all the points, they scored, that counts swords are scored now. So we get more points. But going into. These guys, we sat these guys. I understand the conversation. What I'm saying is even if he didn't make that trade and had those guys still on his team,

they still scored 40 more points so he still would have won All right, right, yeah Coulda shit or would have all the things I look at the scoreboard on my fantasy app and I see what it is and if you guys want to change the outcome in the game, you guys go ahead and do that

I'm not going to take it personal I went in with my draft and I was like if I can go three and three in the first six weeks That's a huge win So for me it's like Yeah, all good It doesn't sound like it's all good

It sounds like you're pretty fired up right now No no no I've literally said You guys do whatever you want Do we know what the score is right now? The score would be Pacheco would need like 24 or 25 for them to win the game. Without even your players in, you guys are beating them.

139 to 116. So you're winning by 20 without any players in. So they might not even be used. Look at their matchup right. Yeah, you got to look at the players. Club, you got to read the things before you say things. Oh, who did you train? I traded Devonzei Flowers and Devon

Agent. None of those people are in their lineup. Oh, mine. Because they're on my roster. Oh, I'm saying you're winning even without anyone. Because they're still labeling. We have 96 points. Oh, you added. Look, if you go to my team and you add the points between the three of them.

Yeah. I took that total, added it to Will's team total. I did, I just want to throw this out there. We did consult chat, GBT, to see if there was any collusion in the past with Taylor with the bus in fantasy league. It said no collusion to be found. Yeah. That is, that's on chat GBT. Right.

That's never wrong. Look, Taylor's got a scummy resume. I understand he's trying to clear right now, but... Classic will defense mechanism. Let's attack Taylor's character. All good, man. You guys do what you want. Okay.

You handle your business the way you want to handle business. Just hope a Checo wins. Like I said, I go three and three. I said at the beginning of the year, if I go three and three in the first six weeks, I feel real good about it. All right? We had every guy on buy this week. We had a make shift a bunch of things.

It's all good. Yeah, it doesn't even seem like it was going to be a topic of discussion. What do you mean? Like I'm saying this was never, like the game was going to play out the way it plays out. People were just saying there's some collusion going on. People are trying to, you know, bring some drama to the league. And it only came from a couple spots. And you were one of them.

I think a lot of people were talking about there's a lot of collusion going on, especially with the situation. Who else? I think every other team. I don't think so. Jeremy was like, hey, Clump was like, hey, he heard it out loud. Everybody knows the train was going in front of you. There's a lot of things different in front of me. I'll say that.

It's all good. I'm not here to put anybody on blast. I said I understand. I'm not here to put you on blast. Yeah, it's all good, man. I understand people being like weird about it if they weren't talking about it out loud in front of everyone. No, I did hear them saying.

I questioned it. I was the first one. He questioned it. And I was the shirt one down. And Ryan will tell you before the game started yesterday. I'm like, hey, I just want to be clear. I'm leaving these spaces open because the points are getting at it. If not, I need to put in the guys who were going to play yesterday.

I said it out loud very loudly in the stream. Wait, hold on a minute. What are you guys doing over there? Very tried and true, you know, just making sure we'd go about it the right way. At the end of the day, boys, it's all about if you can lay your head on the pillow at night, and it sounds like you guys can, so we're all good. No worries. Fantasy football, it's a hell of a time.

It's just a game. It's just a game. We're having fun. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Exactly.

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