Bussin' With The Boys - NFL Conference Championship Recap: Can Mike Vrabel Win It All + Which QB Steps Up In The Super Bowl?

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Recorded: January 26th 2026 | On this weeks Monday NFL Recap, Taylor is hitting this one by himself with help from the boys in the back. The boys recap the NFC and AFC Championship games from this past weekend. The first game was the New England Patriots traveling out to the Denver Broncos. The biggest question going into this game was how backup quarterback, Jarrett Stidham, was going to play. He ended up not playing that bad but the weather became more of an issue. The snow had a massive factor in that game which may have been why Drake Maye only threw for 86 yards. Taylor breaks down the game and how Mike Vrabel's coaching was an x-factor. Then the boys get into the NFC Championship where the Los Angeles Rams traveled up to the Seattle Seahawks for a rubber match between the division foes. This game was high flying with points being scored everywhere. Taylor believes that Sam Darnold has officially put the haters to rest as he threw for over 300 yards and 3 TDs. Jaxon Smith-Njigba had a massive game is basically unstoppable.  Finally the boys give their Super Bowl predictions, the bus is divided on who they are riding with. Le us know in the comments who you are taking. Enjoy fellas. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro0:09 T’s & P’s To Nashville4:19 Patriots v Broncos22:01 Rams v Seahawks 28:03 Super Bowl Preview43:49 CFP National Championship ReactionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen, if you're in Nashville, Tennessee right now, there's reports about 300,000 people do not have power. We want to let you know that we're thinking about you, myself, the boys in the back of the bus. Willie C cannot be here today because he himself, he's got himself a new beautiful home that he's very fired about. However, there's a couple of hills getting in and out of that driveway. So a few gentlemen who brave the trip are now seeing the back of the bus along with myself.

So I want to give a shout to you guys for being able to make it in these treacherous conditions. But also for everybody out there who doesn't have power, may not have supplies, power lines are down. There's a lot of chaos going on with Nashville, Tennessee, and if we can all just be a village, stay together and help each other out. If you have something to give, go ahead. If you have service, reach out to people, make sure they're doing well. Because right now it's a very tumultuous time out here in the 615. We're going to do our best to have a nice little fun with you guys today. It is a weird day because of the weather, because of all the things that are taking place.

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Just go to fandul.com slash busting to get started. Yes, that is a great spot. Thank you, Fandul, for the opportunity to talk about this game. Now, Michigan has one loss. all right. Dusty Mays, he's done an incredible job. I think Howard, one of the guys from the Fab Five from Michigan, he was a head ball coach for the Michigan basketball team beforehand. Everyone's very excited, blah, blah, left the program feeling a bit uneasy, a bit unsettled. I don't follow a whole lot of basketball, but it does feel like to me, Dusty Mays comes in

one year, his first year being last year, we make it into, I believe, the Sweet 16 of March Madness. The boys have themselves a nice little showing. Definitely exceeded expectation. And then all of a sudden came out of the gate hot, ripping, boom, going. We putting hundreds and hundreds of points on their opponents, having a wind differential of like 40. Like we were bodybagging kids everywhere. Some loser team comes in. The boys slept a little bit. One thing led to another.

Michigan loses against that team. So they have one loss going to season. Now, another team, I will speak for Will here. Nebraska is a team that a lot of people not giving a lot of respect to. They're still like 10th in the Big 10 when they're 15-0 at some point. Everyone's saying, oh, that fall, that demise will be coming. I'm thinking to myself, I hope that God Nebraska is undefeated when Michigan and Nebraska play each other. Turns out Michigan was one that had to hold their end of the bargain because Michigan's got one loss.

Nebraska is undefeated at this point. And now we're going into a nice little knockdown, dragout fight in the barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan. So it is going to be a wonderful time. If you can get on that profit boost token, go for it. Choose the Wolverines. Choose Nebraska. Whatever you choose, I hope you win unless you choose Nebraska. then I hope you lose horribly.

Now, I've gotten the basketball part out of the way. That was fun. I don't know shit about basketball. I can even hardly do these little mitts. You see my fingers right here. I got tiny little fingers. I don't palm of basketball very well. I got offensive line hand.

So that was out. Your boy used to shoot threes in the YMCA. But let's get ourselves to championship weekend. What a absolute time it was. The first game that took place was the New England Patriots, led by what Shirm has up here, Daddy Brapes. And I feel like we fought it long enough. Every time we get a text from Braves, it's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Love Daddy. Listen, Daddy. You handled business, okay? We got three and 14, four and 13 records the last couple of years. Like, and then all of a sudden, so Mayo, they throw him out the building. No disrespect to him. A hell of a player. But he's 88 and out the gate.

Enter in Mike Vrable. Mike Vrable, a guy who was at the Tennessee Titans, hey, pouring out for the Tennessee Titans, they might be our Jim Beam and Lemonade segment. Even though they didn't make the play, they got top five pick. We might have to talk about them in a minute. But these guys had something beautiful.

These guys, us, Jack, us. Look at me, us. We had something beautiful at the Tennessee Titans. And it's this cigarette smoking, vaping, sucking, daddy raves. That's the guy who's getting it done for us. He has a down year in 2022. Amy Armstrong says, get your ass out of here.

Whatever happened. I know he went in for a meeting, talk about it, an extension, came in, Rumors were struggling about Vrable won a little bit more power. Similar to Billy O wanted when he was at the Houston Texans, that did not work out. They send him out of here. They enter in Callahan. They enter in Rann, Rancarthen.

Those guys are now gone. Those guys are now gone. And Robert Sala is the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, but it's not about you guys, not about us right now. It's about the New England Patriots. And it's about this spoiled fucking fan base. This spoiled masshole fan base. that I'll be honest with them.

I love this fan base, the way they're just disrespectful, they're self-entitled, they're rude, they only care about their teams. Our teams are the best. And God damn it, boys, they're right. They just, even when they're down, they're not down for long.

And the New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl after beating the Denver Broncos and the AAC championship in a year two, Drake May, with a band of misfits. Essentially, the Indiana Hoosiers of college football. football in a way of, hey, we don't know a lot of expectations on these guys. The roster's not put together the way it's supposed to be. Yet somehow, some way, these guys come out of nowhere

and absolutely take it to everybody. They go start one and two early in the season and then rattle off a dozen wins, like, or one and one, whatever it was. Dude, it was, it's incredible to see the journey that they've had, Rable goes over and just as like defensive consultant with the Cleveland Browns for a year. He messes around the minute that New England job opens up, It's like there's not even to be, we're not even to do interview process. They might have done one or two to check a box to make sure everyone looks, feels good about it. At the end of day, that was Vrabel's job.

He comes in, listen, 2018, Vrabel comes into the Titans. And the guy is a complete asshole. And there's, Vrable will talk about this in his team. So any New England Patriot person that's in the building, whether you're a player, coach, whatever, he talks about losers. Losers getting small groups and they talk shit about the situation that they're dealing with. Mike Vrable had a lot of guys. and small groups talking shit about Mike Vrable in 2018,

about how much this guy sucks. All like, hey, he's such an asshole. He grinds us in the ground, all of those things. But regardless of what we thought about him in 2018, 2019, was a whole lot better. And then he just eases up, starts being in the players coach, starts teaching the culture. And once he establishes the culture, buddy,

it's incredible the things he's able to do. And the fact that these kids, these guys, these gentlemen, these men for the New England Patriots have been able to sit back, take in Rable his messaging his culture and turn around their franchise in the time they have it is incredible shern wrote himself a little note here will be the fifth coach in NFL history to win a Super Bowl his second season at a team that's unbelievable if if in his first season in his first season will be the fifth coach in NFL history to win Super Bowl his first season at a team i don't know why i said second that's hey they tell me it's cold down

outside, right? It's cold outside. We're out here just doing the best we possibly can. At first, I thought I had the craziest typ of all time. You're probably thinking of the stat that he's the second coach in NFL history to win a Super Bowl with a team and now coach in the Super Bowl for the same team. And then flip that, if he wins, he will be the first ever head coach to win a Super Bowl as a player with a team and then as a head coach. And I know a lot of people are saying, Mike Dicka did it. It was the NFL championship, not the Super Bowl, so it's not the same thing. Here's another step. for you too. Fuse points scored

in a wildcard divisional and conference championship games en route to a Super Bowl appearance. 2007 Giants, 68 points. The 2000 Ravens, 61 points. The 2025 New England Patriots, 54 points. Here's another stat. Hey, Mike Vrable and the New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl.

Nashville is under siege by the Ice King. How does that seem fair? How does it work, Mike? how does it work God? Question mark. But congratulations to Mike. I do love him. Listen, I hate to put the conspiracy theory out there,

but while Mike Vrable was in Cleveland, allegedly I heard he was with a lot of Saudi princes, and we know out there they can manipulate weather out there. Maybe Rabel did this. Did fuck you. Maybe Rabele said fuck you to Nashville. Once again, I know there's a lot of people that don't have power out there.

We're just having fun right now. We understand. We're doing the best we can. We're helping as many people as we possibly can. Clump, you got something else? Another stat. Sorry, Titans fans. Oh my God, why?

Since January 9th, 2004, when the Tennessee Titans fired Mike Rabel, they have won six games. The New England Patriots since December 21st this season have won six games.

Brutal. And that's why Clems the Ultimate Troll. That's a stat that they need to happen. That was necessary. I think it's necessary. I thought we did a nice job of painting a picture. We poured one out. We poured one out for the Titans.

Us, Jack, us. That was nasty. Climb or not by clump. I'm sorry, but I'm not. That's a great stat. Listen, you gotta be really excited about the Patriots. And also, let's look over at the Denver Broncos, their opponent in the AFC championship.

Sean Payton, his ability to bring boys in, get stuff going. That defense is absolutely incredible. Like, they are a top to bottom, fantastic defense with Certain, Cooper, Nick Benito. They have guys all. over the field that are just absolutely crushing it 24-7. They also didn't have a whole lot of

expectations going to season. This is where Will Compton would chime in and go, I saw him. I saw him. I saw him. I was talking about the Denver Broncos the whole time. No doubt. Will did see what they were able to do. Bo Nix, incredible professional individual. He's like 37 years old as a rookie. He comes in. He does a great job. This second year, halfway through the season, we're looking at him going, man, they really don't start fast. They don't have a whole lot, like, their second half team. I don't know if they can really sustain that unless their defense just continues to play at a high level.

As their defense kind of cooled off late in the year, that's when the Broncos' offense really started to pick it up and you saw a new evolution of Bo Nix. Throwing the ball deeper down the field, doing a great job. It wasn't just hitting the bubble screens over and over again. R.J. Harvey his emerging as a premier running back has done a great job. That offensive line led

by Garrett Bulls, those guys have done a great job protecting the quarterback all year. Things looked like it was the Broncos year. Things looked like they had the path, the easiest path to the Super Bowl, having all their games at home. They obviously get the by-week because they were the one seed that go in the divisional round against the Buffalo Bills,

which we knew was probably going to be like the hardest path knowing that Josh Allen was sitting there, even though he had an inferior roster or surrounding him, it's like, that's the best football player in the NFL right now. Josh Allen, regardless of who your MVP is, that's the best football player. And tragedy strikes the second to last play of the game as they roll out to the left.

Bo Necks gets tackled in the backfield. jogs up we all think nothing of it right they go they kick a field goal they're going to the afcc championship people are hooting honkoes are yelling that we're back and fuck everybody else we're the absolute best and then all of a sudden sean payton walks up to the podium and just hey in the phrase of would you rather have seven of the chest or one of the head Sean Payton gave us one of the head right away walks up says hey listen I got bad news bow knicks broken ankle he's out for the rest of the season the world seems like it stopped turning for a moment especially for the broncos country Bronco fan base. For that, our heart goes out to him. Now, what do you do when you're in that situation,

right? As a former player, when guys would go down, Marcus Marriota, when he would broke his ankle against the Jaguars, when Derek Henry broke his foot against the Colts and still had 66 yards rushing, he stayed in the game. By the way, what an absolute stud for that. There's a rallying cry that takes place in the locker room. Guys will walk in and the coach will say, hey, this is the situation, this is what's going to happen. He's going to point to the individual that's taking over for that person, whether it be, I don't even know, who was it for the Titans? Blaine Gabbard or, you know, a committee of running backs for Derek Henry. You guys are going to handle it.

Nothing's changing. The expectation doesn't change for you guys. We've got to keep moving forward. So we go into this week looking up Stidham. This guy gets drafted by the Patriots. He's playing the Patriots, Josh McDaniels. Apparently loved the guy when he came out. He's got eight touchdowns versus eight interceptions.

So guys really 50-50. He's very, he's well-rounded in that sense. Walks out, did you guys see this man walk into the tunnel? Did you see him take place with that little jacket on there with a beaver pelt? Handsome boy. Handsome boy. Handsome guy. Where did he go to school?

He went to Auburn. Baylor and then. Baylor. Yeah. And you know at Auburn, them ladies over there like, yew-wee. Stad him. He's coming here? Yeah.

The ladies were taking Rose Sparks. when they saw Stiddle. That's how it was. Shout out Rose Sparks. Shout out Rose Sparks. But listen, Stidham walks into the building. He's looking like, you look at it. Men are everywhere like, damn, this dude.

If he can win this game, it might be over for all of us. This might be the next one. Might be the next Jared Beeman out there, you know, sneaking all the ladies. So this man walks out on the field, totes it. He's got one sleeve, one blue sleeve. He's got a nice little swag about him, little feather coming out of the back of his helmet.

And the first three passes, boys, O for three. Yikes, right? Yikes of daisies. We're not feeling good. We're like, okay, handsome, not a good ball player. That's kind of the thought process going on halfway through the first quarter. Handsome, not good at football. All good, you have another path in life. Comes out after that.

Goes six for seven, 58 yards, starts dicing people up, left and right, killing people hitting the bubbles. And we're like, all right, this guy throws short passes, a little bit of intermediate passes. All of a sudden throws a long bomb. goes up hey clump look at me goes up 7-0 that's kind of stuff that gets juiced up a little bit now

you're like oh damn how does somebody have this handsomeness with this ability to throw the football snowfalls right drake may happens all right will campbell has himself a better game against nick benito that office line has a better game stevenson who's the running back can i get

Ramon j stevenson 25 carries for 71 yards is that what it was guy out there not a whole lot of yardage behind that ass but the fact that he can just go downhill over and over and over essentially hit him with the beast mode right hit a motherfucker in the face you're not going to have a whole lot of problems that's kind of operation that stevenson happened so to the new england patriots we say congratulations to the denver broncos and for our jim beam segment we will say presented to you by jim bean presented to you by jim bian we will say to the Denver broncos we love you boys we think you got a hell of a future ahead of you

it's absolutely heartbreaking and sean pateness is going to tell these guys in the exit interview Just because you got there once doesn't mean you're going to get there again. I'm here to tell you as an optimist. You got the roster. You got the team. If you're able to keep your star player, Bo Nix, healthy throughout the season, I have no doubt in my mind that you guys will be back in the same position next year, Vine for a spot to go to the Super Bowl 61.

So enjoy Cabo. We love you to death. You guys got some Knicks, bumps, bruises, the whole thing. I need you to get yourself better, get healthy. Have a couple weeks, right? Eat some bad food. Yeah. Take down some gym,

and lemonade, relax, recoup, recover, your soul we're talking about. And then let's get back in the gym, let's get after it, all right? I want to see more muscle definition. I want to be able to put a glass of water on that ass when you're walking out on the field, okay? That's what I want to see out there. I want to see a bunch of burly men out there beating some ass. So congratulations to the Denver Broncos. However, it is absolutely heartbreaking.

Clump, you had something? I just want to say there's one difference between both of these teams and the AFC championship and why I think one is advanced to the Super Bowl. the quarterback of the New England Patriots was on Bustin with the boys in the off season So to add to the Denver Broncos And this is a formal invite from Bustin with the boys To Bo Nix

Wow We would love to have you on Bustin with the Boys And hopefully then it gets you to that next level Of making the Super Bowl Because I think that's what helped Drake May out Now there's a chain of command That usually takes place When it comes to inviting

Getting formal invitations onto Bustle with the boys Jeremy Clump just went past all the chain of command Didn't go through any of the 15 layers You have to go through to give Bo Nix Yeah, that was from clump, per bussing to Bo Nix. And I'm here to say as one of those chains of command, hey, buddy, I'm in. Endorsed by Taylor. You get Bo Nix out here, endorsed by Taylor-L-Wan.

Yes. That's what we need. Drake May in the Super Bowl also went on bus with the boys the year prior. Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold, friend of the show. Friend of the show. And Sammy D when he was at the Panthers, correct? This is when he was at the Panthers?

They came on buss with the boys? I don't know when. I think it was in between years. In between years. Fertile nest egg is all I'll say, all right? That thing incubated for a bit. Like Jurassic Park. You sit there, you watch the egg, it cracks open.

It's a velociraptor. That's what I'm kind of talking about. That's Sam Donald. And now he's now becoming himself a full, healthy dinosaur. And that boy is headed to the Super Bowl as well. Let's go ahead and cruise over to the Rams Seahawks game. What were you to say? Mitchie, I know that's all.

I was just going to say, some are saying that you need to come on bust with the boys in order to make a Super Bowl. That's the rumor. Just think Vrable, Drake May. Sam Darnold. Right. Other people, Christian McCaffrey. Other people, Christian McCaffrey, he's been to the Super Bowl after coming on. I mean.

Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy. He's a, he went to Super Bowl. Or he went to the NFL Bowl. He went to the Super Bowl. And then came on. And then he came on. Travis Kelsey.

So you got to at least have a plan or already beyond Bustin with the boys to make it to Super Bowl. Are we all 100% on that? Slim Shady, you good? Bunny, you go over there? Do you agree? Yeah, you. I was looking at Jack. Like, are you going to say?

something. Yeah, I agree. I was thinking that already. I'm glad you all realize that. Okay, good. Yeah. For some sickos of Bussin that know the deep lore, just thought it would be fun to point out, last time Darnel was on, solo soad with Taylor. Oh, I forgot. Yeah. When you pop that up, I did think, oh, hey, where the hell is? That's interesting. That's interesting. That is interesting. Interesting world we get to live in right now. And so then maybe we could say if he wins the Super Bowl, even better chance if you do a solo episode with Taylor. Wow.

The Will curse. The Will curse. Well, Nebraska wants nothing to do with Will Compton. Will would say that. Nebraska basketball. Will's not on the bus right now? I just had to read in a bad way in his voice.

Might be a bad look for Nebraska basketball if they were taking out against Michigan Wolverines. Was that 27? 27th. That would be tomorrow. Tuesday of 27th, correct? Yeah. Correct.

Tough look for Willie C. Yeah. He's out there. I can't get out, blah, blah, blah. Yet I'm bringing him ice right after this. I said, hey, I'll pick you up. He said, don't worry about it. You bring him ice?

I'm bringing them ice. Bringing them more ice. Bringing him more. Oh, bringing him salt. Thank you. I'm bringing him salt. I love how you checked me on that. My brain still couldn't figure out that we needed salt.

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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. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special.

So how did 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. 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. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy,

not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funny. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day and headwriter, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. But yeah, dude, okay, let's umbrella this thing. I want to get everybody's thoughts on Rams Seahawks. Game was absolutely incredible. Matthew Stafford had over 300 yards passing. He was dicing him up. Sammy D. Wheeler Walker Jr., his little other running back in the back there from Michigan State,

he was out there, Dyson Kids. Buddy, did you see the play of that linebacker coming down, filling like the gap scheme play, right? Left tackle, left guard, everybody else. And now right down the middle, there's a massive hole. And it's Walker and the linebacker. We're not going to use names for two reasons. One, I don't want to embarrass the poor lad. Two, I don't know who it was. So Walker comes down, gives him a little jab ski to the right. He bites on that, jump, cut to the left, gets himself seven or eight yards. At that point, you kind of felt like, damn, hey, the run game, the CX have figured out, which is such a difficult thing to do, is they figure out a run game halfway through the

season, they've really done it. Sam's putting a good touch on the ball. J.S.N. I know. I'm watching the game with my wife, and I go, you know where he went to school? She goes, Michigan. I go, no, he went to Ohio State. And here's why. All the best wide receivers. All the best wide receivers in the NFL. I hate them. Can't stand them. Did the same thing to Brooke. Yeah. But you know where he went? Ohio State. Ohio State.

What did you say? She says, that's what you say? She says, that's Quahanna when you asked her? I think she said like some random ass cool and like, babe, I wouldn't be telling you this if he didn't go to Ohio State. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, something down. But dude, that catch he had, Sam rolling out to the left, which is an extremely difficult throw for all quarterbacks if you're right-handed to left, turn shoulders,

rotate hips over the side, overthrows JSN just a touch. And you watch that slow-mo replay. That ball has got a velocity rotation on it like no one's ever seen. That ball sticks to his glove. Like he got, he's cheating. He got something on them gloves.

Yeah. And that ball just stuck. And then he holds it out a little bit while the defenders slapping that bicep and still gets it down. This isn't a big man, ladies and gentlemen.

This is a guy, this is a, he kind of looks like a regular person a little bit. No disrespect to J.S.N., but he's not like 6'4, you know, Calvin Johnson looking ass, you know? He looks like, yeah, they get the same build. Jerry Beeman.

Quote graphic. I look like Jared Beeman and J.S.N. got the same build. Look what JSN's doing. That's the, I mean, bro. Sammy D. they're on the 10 they're on the six yard line and he throws it to the back of the end zone clearly out of bounce the boy hits the jordan pose which seems to be the new trend out in the playoffs catches the ball and brings it down and it's just like this motherfucker really just operates doesn't he go down

this game starting to get out of hand towards the end of the game and the rams or sorry the seahawks stop the rams it's fourth and 12 woolen db now listen a woolen's a hell of a football player right This is not going to be an indictment on his character. We're just going to call this a little blemish on the old personality tree. But he can't. You buddy, you walk over. You start grabbing the nads like your fucking Baker Mayfield. You're going against Kentucky.

Like you can't have that. You can't have that type of taunting in this championship game. Now, as a viewer, as a viewer who has no skin the game with either of these teams, I love it because it's truly adding to like kind of the storyline that college football gets to give us every single year. The NFC West, we knew at the beginning of the year, this could be a juggernaut of a conference. Now we're looking at these two teams. This is the third time they've played in the NFC championship.

And you've got to think to yourself, like, man, this shit is badass. Like how they're all, they're getting chippy. Every punt that takes place, there's a fight or some sort of argument. Ref Surerulean, those are the kind of storylines that I love watching. Because I've really realized the NFL, love the game, everything about it. At this point in the year, it's reality TV for the men. That's what we're enjoying. We get to watch the storylines, the fun times.

Sammy D, is he gonna choke? Both times he played against the Rams. He's doing multiple interceptions. What happens this time? Matthew Stafford, he's a guy that I looked at in the locker room and I was like, I'm gonna take that type of experience over Sammy D's experience in this type of situation and prove my ass wrong.

So really what Bustle with the Boys is is a reality TV show. Where does watching it all unfold and getting excited for the next one? Now we have another opportunity to watch the Seahawks and the Patriots we know happened last time. Fourth and one, are they gonna throw it? Are they gonna run it? Well, obviously they're gonna run it because they got Marshaun Lynch,

backfield pull it Malcolm Butler Snype City touchdown Patriots win that game does it flip this year could you imagine that Super Bowl 60 takes place Patriots fourth and one they throw a quick slant to booty something Henry one of those two

digs digs and all of a son DB comes picks that thing off almost photographically identical when you put him side by side and the Seahawks win the game I think Braves are smarter than that though I think Vraib is smart than that too I think he is in McDaniels he was the OC at the time, right, when that happened?

I mean, I know they were on defense, but maybe. Maybe. He's been, he's there all the time until he's not, and then he's back. Did you see the, going back to the Rams Seahawks game, did you see, like, the stats before that game started? They had the same amount of yards, I think, the same amount of first downs, and the only, like, the Seahawks just had one more point than the Rams and, like, their two matchups this year. And that was because they went for two to win the second matchup. Like this was an unreal game and it looked like it was going to be doing the same thing. But it was an awesome game to watch. Yeah.

I mean, it was high flying. Both quarterbacks threw the ball well, but they also had great run games involved. We had ourselves a muff punt. Like a lot of miscues while also playing great football. That's Seahawks defense, man. That is a ball club right there. That's a group of 11 savages. We got walking around out there.

Quickly, I'd like to know. Blake Corum had a good game too. Blake Corum had himself a game. Boy, was eating corn right before that game, winning nine. nine carriers for 35 yards you boy's gonna be a little stud in the league in me little scamper little guy once again

not a big build on the boy all right but look what he's doing look what Jared's doing look what Jared's also doing he's killing it Jared's selling out Zanis come on but Blake Corm is getting nine nine carriers 55 yards which one's more impressive let us know in the comments let us know in the comments

they're both sold out spots no doubt no doubt we're gonna do the locker room with myself Wilcompton, Delaney Walker, and Clay Matthews, and we will break down the games. The boys in the back, you guys will not be breaking down the games. I'm sure they can go to your socials and find out. However, I'd love to know what your first thoughts are, right? We haven't watched a whole lot of film. We haven't dove into everything, but I love to start with because it's right next to Mitch right now. Mitchie, baby, give me a little lucky Lou on what

you're thinking for Super Bowl 60. I think on paper, like it feels like the Seahawks are just like far and away, the better team. And like I believe that they are. But, like one thing that's not like anecdotal and like you can really write it down it's like the coaching and everything i've heard from you and will and anybody who's who's played for braves it's like he is able to like point some things out to make the game so even to where it doesn't feel as such like lopsided in one way because like like you said the Patriots is sort of a band of misfits there's like three or four like name brand players on their team but the rest are kind of like just random guys whereas the Seahawks they got like studs every

I think I don't know what the spread is now or if it's even out yet four and a half for the Seahawks wow four and a half Super Bowl I think I like I think the Seahawks will win but like it's just if it were any other coach on the Patriots other than Vrable I would be like super confident about it but like I just think the way Braves is and like how he can coach it just makes it a lot more even but their Drake May is going to need to throw for more than 85 yards this week. and he's going to have to be like Drake May of the regular season. Yeah, Drake May had a weird postseason, didn't he? Like, he wouldn't throw in the ball well.

He was a bit of a turnover machine, the wild car round, and the divisional round. I wonder the weather's playing a factor for him. I wonder how much is weather and how much is pressure because me as an office alignment, I look at the weather and I just think to myself, all right, like everyone's kind of slowing down a little more. It feels like a bit of an equalizer for me. From a quarterback's perspective, Matthew Stafford, he was quoted perfectly after the Bears game saying, Like this has a big effect on me. And so Seattle, I'm not sure what the weather was there.

I'm assuming it was a little chilly. 40 degrees. Okay. So a little chilly is a perfect way to put it. And then you got, they're in Denver, starts snowing a second half of the game. New England, both games were frigid and cold. So getting to San Francisco, does that change? Or was this really a pressure thing?

And is that kind of the Drake May we're seeing because he's such a young lad. He's 23 years old or 22, whatever he is. He's so young and being in this position of, If you play well, we win. That's kind of the idea for any quarterback that's playing in the NFL. If you play well, we're probably going to win the game. So there's a lot to look at that, but also you look over at Sammy D. Sammy D.

C, right, gets drafted by the Giants, correct? Jets. Gets, gets drafted by the Jets. He has the infamous quote of, I'm seeing ghosts. Banoy, friend of the show. He's asked after the game, did you hear that he said he was seeing ghosts. And Van Noyes look on his face is like, I cannot believe this kid just said that. goes into an absolute tunnel of chaos for a little bit,

bounces around a little bit, goes to the Panthers, find himself over to the Vikings, and now all of a sudden goes to the school of Kevin O'Connell, he's feeling good about life, and then he's had this crazy resurgence ever since then. So it is extremely impressive to see Sam Donald. However, this is also the first time he's been in the situation. So do we see nerves from both quarterbacks,

and we watch these Seahawks and the Patriots kind of lean on the run game a little bit more and see what happens there? I think Sammy D kind of put those nerd like the nerve thing like away after this past weekend. I mean, he threw for 350 against the Rams. I agree. Yeah. Like a solid defense like Patriots defense with Raids like who knows. But I think the Seahawks like match up a hell of a lot better against the Patriots than like vice versa.

Yeah. So you're saying it could be a hell of a blowout. Possible blowout situation taking place. The only X factor here is Mike Rable. Yeah. And I think he's he's going to make it so it's not. not going to be a blowout. I like it.

Because this is also Mike Ravel, this is also McDonald's first time. We don't know, like, Rabel will speak from a player's perspective what the feelings and the emotions are like, what the confetti looks like when it comes down.

But McDonald doesn't know that. All he knows is, University of Michigan, winning great defenses. Clump? Sam Donald did make a little joke. Everyone's like, he made his first Super Bowl,

the first quarterback from the 2018 NFL draft. That is incorrect. Sam Donald made the Super Bowl as the backup quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. in 20, 23.

So he made a little joke about that that he's been in the Super Bowl already. Nice. Keeping it loose. He knows how that week plays out. So I think that might be a good factor for the Seahawks. He kind of knows what to expect.

He's been there. And they look at Stevenson and Walker. And if you were going to draft a running back, who are you drafting? Walker. Kenneth Walker. Kenneth Walker. Book it.

Remonti Stevenson. He's solid. But Kenneth Walker, man. He's good play. He's a great player. The ball player. After that juke moved, too, they went right back to him on a screen. I know.

Picked up like 14. With no Charbonnet as well, because they're saying in the beginning of the broadcast, they're talking about how he, can he take all the carries, you'll be able to take all the snaps. We're in the first series, second series of the game. And I think he had the ball three times in a row. And it's like if you're not worried about his, you know, durability and all that right now because you're down, you know,

your one-two punch, you're just down to your one punch. And buddy, he is operating. He's had a lot of growth. this season as well. Earlier in the season, especially that first Rams game, you see him kind of that east to west move where he's making shifts and turning his shoulders towards the sideline behind the line of scrimmage. Now you can see he's taking the coaching that he's obviously been given of taking his foot in the ground, making one initial cut and getting straight downhill. And it's paid dividends for that entire team, especially himself from an individual player standpoint.

So it's really cool to see both these teams. There's a lot of fun things to break down when you watch these teams because the Patriots. they don't get a lot of pressure unless you're rushing more than four you have to simulate rushes in order to get pressure however every once in a while you'll sit there and you're like oh that guy just they'll get quick wins you look at the seahawks they can get pressure with four they like to bring a lot of blitzes they do a great job of covering up those zone holes when they bring those blitzes so it's very hard you have to nickel and dime yourself away down the field and then they're fantastic in the fringe area that fringe area is like the the 35 to 25 year line like

you're in field goal range, but you're not quite in the red zone yet. It's all about punching yourself into the red zone, and then they just get even better and more stout from there. It's going to be very interesting to see the kind of shots that the Patriots take in the middle of the field in order to just, hey, let's get past that fringe area and red zone area all the way and just take shots. Because Drake May, other than these last couple of games,

has been the best quarterback in the entire NFL throwing the deep ball. So it is going to be incredible to watch. On the offensive side of the ball for the Seahawks, you clearly have JSN on your outside, you have Barnum, the AJ Barnum, Michigan man, Barner, who has done a great job of like kind of coming up as a receiving threat and a blocking threat as a tight end. So if you're the Patriots, you're like, oh, we got to take away JSN.

Take him away, making them beat him with everybody else, and then also your next game plan of that is take away the run game. If you can take away those two things, you've now equalized, you know, your ability to win that game. And that's what Mitch is talking about with Mike Brable and having the keys to victory and getting guys ready to play game. Two weeks to prepare is incredible. And before this year, Mike Vrable was undefeated on biweeks.

And then he goes in against the Patriots, against the bills, they end up losing that game. So a lot of different things to break down, a lot of exciting things to break down. And what I'm most excited for are these parlays that we're going to dive into on Fandall Sportsbook, buddy. I mean, my God, it is going to be incredible. Mitch, you got the Seahawks.

Is anybody else taking Patriots? Oh, we got Pats by Pats. I'm taking bets. Okay. I'm going purely off storyline, though. I love the, like... It's just reality TV, baby. Yes.

I love the Sammy D. Like, reclamation. He's proven himself. But I feel like Mike Vrable has that same story, too. And he's obviously a very big friend of the show. So I'm going Patriots. God, it would be so great to watch Mike Vrabble win a Super Bowl with his team. That would be sick.

It also could be the worst thing that's ever happened to us. Daddy's going to be. Daddy's going to be. He'll be Super Daddy. And I don't like that. I already do. don't like the idea of me calling Rable Daddy. Because he's kind of pounded me and, well.

Hold on. Hold on. Let me figure something out here. He's kind of beat me and Will and Will in a submission. All right. Okay. Right? Yeah.

Beat is way better than pound. Way better than pound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, right? Oh, shit. Anyway. We're just having fun. Club.

Just having fun. Yeah, I'm going to... Pounded, clump? I was going to make a joke. Didn't do it. But I'm going Patriots. Yeah, I feel like Drake May, Mike Rable, but there's like the secret weapon no one's talking about.

Cardi B. I mean, the Patriots have Cardi B on their side. We had the Taylor Swift with the Chiefs for a while now. I mean, Cardi B was celebrating on the field, Stefan Diggs, after the game, saying we're going to the Super Bowl. She's bought in. Bought in. So I think it's funny.

the NFL needs to cover her a little more because I feel like they really covered the Taylor Swift stuff. Cardi B's bought in. Cardi B's bought in. She's a diehard hanging out with Robert Kraft. I mean, I'm going, I'm going Patriot. Her story's incredible too. Let's get her on the bus. Yeah, her story's incredible.

Yeah, you want to tell it? I mean, I know Spark notes, this chick was, she was, she was heal, get it how you live. She was just getting how she lived. She was stripping, allegedly. Yeah. She was robbing people, allegedly.

She was getting it how she lived, right? Yeah. Very attractive woman. How do I handle business? This is how I'm going to decide to handle business. She goes and handles it that way, but it's not good enough for her. The rap, all the things. She is crushed it.

She follows me on Instagram ever since myself and Quentin Nelson made that video in Cabo San Lucas after her. And her ex, who we will not bring up out of respect for Stefan Diggs, made a little video in the hot tub. I'm sure other things happened to the hot tub that Quentin Nelson and I did not do. But we made the video that they posted online. She followed. She also follows like 3,000 people online Who gives a shit, dude? File a video.

Jackie, who you got? For my mental health, I think it's obvious. Yeah, I got to take the Seahawks. A Patriots win would hurt a lot for Tennessee fans. There's going to be the cheap shots, the low-hanging fruit jokes that clump likes to make, all that. But I feel like we're not talking about

that this year has been the year of the NFC and the NFL. Allegedly. Allegedly? Do you think? Allegedly. It has been. And so I think that that's going to continue, and I'd like to see the reverse effect happen.

Seahawks get there, get back. I like MacDonald. He's a gamer. He likes getting those boys riled up. There's been a few of these pregame speeches I've watched of his to get me ready to go shovel ice and snow in Nashville. So I'd like to see Sammy D get it done there. At the end of the day, if Mike Vrable wins,

it'll be one of those classic fairy tale endings. I mean, obviously not the ending, but I wouldn't be upset if the Patriots won. but I do think the Seahawks are going to get it done. Patriots got to travel. I know it's two weeks, but San Francisco is a lot closer to Seattle than it is New England. Yeah, but you travel a week before.

I know, but dude, there's something about being closer to your home. If you're, let's say the Super Bowl was held in Atlanta, and the Titans were going to it, and they're facing the Chargers, even though that wouldn't happen. But you see what I'm saying? Yeah, something happens in the world. Two AFC teams play in the Super Bowl. That's why, okay, what are we doing?

49ers play Yeah, 49ers I just said that wouldn't happen But here we are Just fucking Taking a good save to Jacks Go Seahawks Fuck the Patriots

Man Which I know it wouldn't happen That first off Sherm's got a picture of Brable up right now That's not That's not the guy we know now All right

That's AI That's not the guy we know now That might have been Mike Vrabble I know it's AI I understand that now that might have been the Rable when he played but that ain't him now

all right that vest gets bigger and bigger every single year buddy but you keep winning Super Bowls look at all the Super Bowl winning coaches little hefty right Andy Reid's one a handful look at him Sean McVeigh won one

yeah Sean McVeigh does look good Hayes made their handsome boy you saw he got away from the finger of those gloves this past game too he thought that was going to be the answer damage was already done Jared I know you picked up the mic I would love to hear your breakdown

on the Seattle Seahawks versus the new England Patriots, who do you got and why? I got nothing to break down. All I have is I'm foreshadowing or I'm foreseeing a gym being pour them out for the Seahawks. The Patriots will win. This is only because we all know I'm not that into football. The reason is because I grew up a Patriots fan. Come on, man.

As a little kid, I would just... Are you from Atlanta? I would... I'm from New Hampshire. Oh, my. Oh, no. Jerry. I've never been a Falcons fan.

Oh. As a child, my dad would say, look, the Super Bowl's on win. Oh, look, the next year the Super Bowl's on win. That's why I'm not into football because all I did as a child was win. And as a 25-year-old, I'm not a Patriots fan anymore,

but the nostalgia will bring me back. We're going to win this year. Who's your team now? Ravens, man, Baltimore Ravens. Shout out of Rashobab Bateman. 229. Stand up. Stand up.

Ravens Nation. We'll get them next year. We'll get them next year. Who's my new head coach? Who's my new head? The details. We got Rashobababababab. That's all it matters.

Yeah, that's all it matters. I got meat dog. Man. I know nothing, but I mean, the Patriots would just be kind of, I don't know. In the back of my head, I kind of like them. I truly was a Patriots fan as a kid. Have you watched any football? Did you watch the games last night?

Yeah. I watched the Patriots game. What did you think? It was fun. I was on my phone a lot of it. No, yeah, it's fun. It was a week's fun game. Yeah, the game was brutal.

All right, it wasn't fun. What do you want me to say? But hey, hey, Jared, if you had fun and you watched it. You watch the ball. That's all we hear about. Not only clump dictate if I had fun or not watching football. Hey, also, Jared, I'll tell you this. No way the Titans will pay the Chargers in the Super Bowl ever.

Ever, maybe. And that was already, that was already specified. So what are we doing here? We're trying to have fun, Jack. What are we doing here? We're just trying to have fun. What are we doing here? Just trying to have fun, Jack.

Yeah, well, that's fine. We're running off a little sleep. Yeah, we're running off. Did boys get sleep last night? None? Very little. Very little. Okay, sure.

Not bad. With a young baby at home too. Got a little baby at home. The dogs helped. The dogs always helped. It was kind of nice having him on the chest. I like snuggling with the dogs. I had the opposite.

Me and Sherm both slept at the office last night. Oh, sure. Shout out Sherm. He slept in the inside the bus studio with the dogs. I slept in the streaming room with the dogs. The dogs didn't help me. They kept me up all night. I ended up falling asleep on the floor with my dogs.

I woke up just on the stream room floor, which we have carpet in there, but that carpet is like an eighth of an inch above concrete. Yep. It fucking sucked. How's your back this morning? Fucking terrible. Everything sucks.

I hate everything. We're having fun. Well, listen, we're having a good time. We're making the best out of a shitty situation in Nashville, Tennessee. We'll bring more of that down during the intro that you guys can see on Tuesday at 6 a.m. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

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And I'll start. And as long as Clump doesn't get in the way, I think your preseason number one is the Oregon Ducks. Dante Moore, delayed gratification. They have an absolute roster. I mean, that's the team to beat. Yeah. Am I wrong in that? They got great backup quarterback as well.

Great backup quarterback. Great backup quarterback with plus 4,000 odds to win the Heisman. Which is just insane. Just insane. What? Yeah. The Vanduel put out the odds. And Bryce Underwood's at plus 3,000.

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We really didn't get to talk about a whole lot of this, but I did, the transfer portal was done. There's a couple of guys that are still stringing along that we'll sign what places. Jack, I'd love to have your thoughts on the Vols. Mitch, your thought on Ohio State. I'll say for the Michigan Wolverines, boys, I am way too optimistic about this potential of the season.

With Wittingham taking place, Jason Beck is the O.C. J. Hill. We retained all of the roster that we wanted to retain. We brought in key guys like Snowden and the defensive end from Utah as well, brought in French with two Fs, which, shout out to Clump. We're sitting there at the Red River rivalry, and we're watching the warmups, and Jeremy Clump points at French and goes, that kid's not playing a whole lot here.

He's probably going to go on the transfer portal. It'd be an awesome get for Michigan. Sure enough, Bing, Bing, Boom, it happens. Retain the entire offensive line. And now, Coy Dentmer Jr., who is a quarterback coach for Michigan, We actually have a quarterback coach now. So this is really, is Bryce Underwood who we think he is? I think he is.

And I believe, even with the gauntlet of a schedule that we have, playoffs, boys. I love us in the playoffs. Well, before we go on to our teams, we need to talk about, you say the preseason rank for you would be the Oregon Ducks. Does the clump curse follow into 2026? The answer is yes.

Yeah, the answer is. Hunter. Can I just interrupt you real quick? the reason why that sucks so bad is clumps so high on michigan this year he's so high in michigan and that is my biggest like oh no you don't want them attached to your program in any sense of the word yeah but i i do hope i love dan landing love those boys they always host us well so i hope that something breaks that before the season starts and i think it's possible but we'll see for the tennessee valls uh still some pieces that need to land we got to figure out a quarterback

situation that's a big one big one obviously uh we got to Chas Coleman though, the edge rusher from Penn State, I believe, which is a huge pickup. We also just hired the Strength and Conditioning Coach from Indiana, which is massive. Huge. Huge. Huge. He had our boys tuned up from a national championship program. I think that's huge.

We got a lot of young guys coming in, Phazon Brandon, who is everyone, if you follow the portal, and then these young rival cats, he was a five-star. We have Tristan Keys, who hopefully is going to be the dynamic duo here in a couple of years. I don't see Faison Brandon starting a quarterback this year. I think he's way too young. And I think this is a big prove it year for Heipel because if they go 8 and 4, the mob comes out for sure. And I'll be part of that.

Mob started to come out. I know, but I'm not in that mob yet. I still believe in Heipal. I think he's got something going there. So I think he's got a lot of decisions to make for the quarterback. I think ideally you find a guy who's experienced and you can get him in there one year, let him teach these younger guys. how the system operates.

Move on from there, but yeah, quarterback is the number one issue. But I do love us getting Indiana Strength and Conditioning Coach because I know you know, as a former college football athlete, it starts in the weight room. It starts with...

Gotta have it. Got to have it. So, you know, I always have optimism. So I hope that Tennessee balls prove me right. There is not another man besides maybe Will Compton that has more optimism

for their teams than Jack McPherson. same of the year. It's tough to watch sometimes. It is. Tough schedule as well. Very tough. Yeah. Georgia Tech and Texas in the first four weeks. And I feel like Arch Manning is going to, he's like found himself.

In Knoxville though. Got to come to Knoxville. We wouldn't consider this a curse. Shut up, glump. Nothing's a curse until a curse is mentioned. How would this be a curse? Yeah, foundationally, that's the start of a curse. If the tears go eight and four, this conversation

can get real. They won less games without Nico this year. It's a curse. It's Chef the curse. It's Chef the curse. What are we doing here? Me and Chef have died with our programs. Clump on the other hand, bandwagon,

hooked his trailer to the easiest possible thing. Jack, don't let him rage bait you. Oh, I'm not, but I mean, I'm just saying. Mitch, hey, that was a good find, Mitch. That was a good find right there. Jack, hey, I know I'm not the curse. I'm on your side. I'm on your side. I know I'm not the curse.

And I know chef's not the curse. He's the worst. He's the worst. No one's the curse. He's Matt Malone the curse is a good question though. The only person that's the curse is clump when he decided to hitch his wagon in Tennessee before going to Florida before going to Oregon. So you're telling me, clumps the ultimate cursor? Yes.

If he touches your program, good luck. You might as well look for 2027. Here's a problem though. As the ultimate curse guy, does he not have the power to give another curse out? No, dude. He just reached of them. A witch. A witch?

Can you reverse a witch? Is club a witch is what we have to ask ourselves. I love that. If club is a witch, we got to get to Salem ASAP. Can you reverse curse it? Like you did in New Orleans. You reversed it. I didn't reverse it.

He has not reversed it. You know what I did? Hey, sure. That is just manifestation, brother. I've just manifested a lot of good shit. Yeah. All right? So Jack can start to manifest.

But to play devil's advocate to myself, he's kind of manifested every year. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ultimate optimism. He's good. Is Jack being around Clump a curse? Yes, that I agree with.

Yes. And if you know, if you've been in our shop, you know that my desk is the farthest desk from Clump. Yeah. For a reason. But it's also a straight shot. Right. It's just a... Yeah, he's got you right down center lane.

A lot to consider going into this year. Oh, my. You might have to move into here and this part of the shop. Ooh. A Jack Sweet. maybe. A Jack sweet. Did I curse Tennessee by moving to Tennessee?

Yeah. That could be that. Yeah, but you live in Vanderbilt. You live nearest Vanderbilt, not in Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt lost. They didn't even make the playoff. Which is crazy. They should have made the playoffs.

No, they should not. I mean. They would have gotten yachted in the first round. Are we, was anybody ever on the Notre Dame would have won? Like, falling well and being like. I was for like the first round. But like, yeah.

Yeah. The whole biz. of like in the national championship Notre Dame would beat these two teams No shot. But yeah, I think Notre Dame should have been in it especially over Vanderbilt If I'm being honest, I'm surprised Miami held on as long as they could with Indiana. Yeah.

That was fun game though. If we're gonna like go down the list of teams that didn't deserve to be there, I feel like A&M really proved that they didn't need to be there with just no offense. They scored three points? Yeah.

Yeah. It's impossible to keep it. Yeah, no doubt. They had one loss. Very true. But let me, okay, this is another part of the conversation. Are we at the point where we're inflating the SEC too much? Every year the SEC is the most teams in the top 25.

They get the most love. And the Big Ten is one of the last three national championships. And SEC team or Georgia hasn't been in the last three championships. Also one of Jared Beeman's team. I'm just saying with the NIL, this new equalizer that's kind of taken place. We can assume, not assume whatever we want to do about before NIL and the SEC paying players. We've only gotten like 15 words of confirmation on this bus about that. But do we feel like the SEC is a little more inflated?

No, because really the Big Ten's only won two of two Naties in a row. Because one was an Astrid Championship. Yeah, it's okay, though. That's an 8 and 4 mindset No, that's me looking at what's gone on it And a major cheating scandal in college football rises

And that's okay I mean, that's just That's the M logo Clearly you didn't see The top 10 Past National Championship rankings That was put out By a sports media personality

That had Michigan number one It's hard to argue that That same sports media personality Had Was the only person to have Oregon in the semifinal. Drew. So the most credible sports personality

had Michigan number one. So it's very difficult for me to even see your argument, Jack. When you say it like that, it makes a little more sense, but I still see the asterisk. It's so clear. But, you know, you're not wrong.

That's a good pull. Thank you. I do appreciate that. I'll give you that. Also, like, it'll take me out of the Michigan biasedness. It's gone. I'm like, I just got holy water on me. that team was so well coached

and they didn't make mistakes they were very much like the Indiana Hoosiers of this year they were like the whole also almost got accused of cheating allegedly almost got accused of cheating there are rumors strolling around the Indian Hoosiers and Catapole and Mark Cuban allegedly that's alleged

alleged fun rabbit hole to go down fun rabbit hole I think y'all would lose to the 2019 LSU team though maybe the Michigan team that year I don't know if they would according to that sports personality that had the rank number one,

they thought unless you wouldn't cross the 50. But hey. And that guy, that guy actually was the, like, the best at college football in 2025.

The most locked in as far as seeing downrange. It's like the similar to the way clumps and he's downrange in the office and just curses the guy straight across from him. I mean, this said guy looks like he's wearing camo

and he sees downrange when he's I see downrange. He sees downrange in camo. Is there, dude, I put this camo on the other day. I just felt cool. Dude, I got a pocket knife. I got a pocket knife.

Tagos, what are you doing with that? Work, honey. What do we have on the feet? These are just boots. I don't even know what kind of boots. Those are not. North Face. North Face.

They are frayed, though, at the bottom of my strings and that kind of pisses me off. There's nothing better than some camo. And also everybody who watched Bustin with the boys last week. Hope you're enjoying our snow days. Arizona, it's 63 degrees today and it's sunny. Save it for the pod. Save it for the pod.

Guys, listen, we feel good. Is there anything we want to break down in football? Jared. Dan Lennan followed me a couple weeks ago. Oh. That is crazy. That is awesome. It was just at night while I was playing Xbox and I wasn't even following him.

I had to hit him with a follow back. It felt weird. Bang, bang He does watch He does consume the locker room Which of all people that should not consume the locker room Dan Lanning's that guy You don't follow me

Damn, Mitch I made an edit for him Oh, oh, oh I do have one more thing to talk about Fuck Arthur Smith Fuck him All right Texted him What are we doing here

Hey, just put hey this is like an NFL roster Shut up Art You I hate this higher I hate it because it's so good. I hate it for the Michigan Wolverines. I hate it for the Big Ten. Arthur Smith becoming the O.C. of Ohio State.

I'm not even giving that a round of applause. I'm not fucking talking about it. I'll tell you what, though, they're going to run the ball a whole lot better next year. I was going to say you asked for an Ohio State preview. We have two former head coaches, two former NFL head coaches as our coordinators. We're getting Julian Sane back, Jeremiah Smith back. We're losing downs and Carnell Tate.

But like, we're going to be a very, very well coach ball club. come on Matt Patricia? Yep. Let's end the show on this. Keep your eye on Matt Patricia. Oh. That's the end of the show. 21 plus and present in select states.

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