Bussin' With The Boys - NFL Week 7 Recap + Will Compton Reacts To Nebraska Loss & Marcus Freeman On Notre Dame’s Win vs USC

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

The Boys are back breaking down another wild weekend of football. Will Compton and Taylor Lewan recap an electric Week 7 of the NFL, where the Chiefs proved they might be the best team in football, th...e Eagles got back on track, the Bengals took down the Steelers, and the Rams dominated the Jaguars. They also hit on Mike Vrabel and the Patriots getting revenge on the Titans, the unbelievable Giants-Broncos finish, the 49ers continuing to roll under Kyle Shanahan, and plenty more from across the league.   Then, Notre Dame Head Coach Marcus Freeman hops on the show to talk about the Irish’s massive win over USC. Freeman discusses Notre Dame’s case as a College Football Playoff contender, his journey to becoming the head coach, and the mentality that’s driving his team this season. The Boys close things out by recapping a bizarre Week 9 in college football — Georgia’s win over Ole Miss, Alabama reminding everyone they’re still elite, Arizona State’s upset over Texas Tech, Vanderbilt handling business against LSU, and more from a weekend packed with chaos.   Big hugs, tiny kisses.   TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS:   0:00 Open 1:45 Falcons VS. 49ers 7:30 Colts VS. Chargers 13:00 Titans VS. Patriots 21:20 Steelers VS. Bengals 27:30 Eagles VS. Vikings 31:30 Cowboys VS. Commanders 34:00 Klump Drama 43:40 Tennessee VS. Alabama 48:33 Cardinals VS. Packers 49:00 Rams VS. Jaguars 50:10 Chiefs VS. Raiders 55:00 Louisville VS. Miami  56:50 Georgia VS. Ole Miss 1:00:00 Tennessee VS. Alabama Stream 1:08:30 Texas Tech VS. Arizona State 1:09:50 Georgia Tech VS. Duke 1:11:30 South Carolina VS. Oklahoma 1:15:00 Vanderbilt VS. Missouri  1:17:20 Michigan VS. Washington 1:22:54 Nebraska VS. Minnesota 1:43:43 Marcus Freeman InterviewSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:34 All right, welcome to Bustin with the Boys Football Weekend Recap, where we talk NFL, we talk college, we have Coach Marcus Freeman joining this episode, this show. As always, we are brought to you by and sponsored by the number one sportsbook in America, proudly the fan dual sports book. There are two games tonight, Texans against the Seahawks, and we've got a nice one on here. The Buccaneers versus the Detroit.
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Starting point is 00:03:29 defense. I didn't get to watch it. I can't wait to watch it. The guy that will have to watch the entire film, but the game itself, defensive line pressure, because when you're going side to size and offensive alignment and there's a four or three, like you have to be super tight with your, uh, your landmarks when you're running off the ball. It didn't look like they ran as much like Wanda and these outside zone 11. Like they were 11 a lot, but it seemed like they're more less like split zone type thing. And then that linebacker that took over for Fred Warner
Starting point is 00:03:58 took a personal. Did his best Fred Warner impression. Took a person. Was literally out there like the Grim Reaper stalking, stalking, stalking, firing in there. Which that fires me up, dude. I even saw him in a post game presser saying
Starting point is 00:04:10 he did hear all the noise. He felt a certain way about it. He showed up. I mean, the backer that for the Falcons that you were hype on last week played pretty well. Kate Ellis. He's a good player.
Starting point is 00:04:21 He had a pick, had a sack. Yeah. Dude, he's a good player. Cainton's a good player. No, they, it just goes like, Kyle Shanahan needs to be coached the year. And I don't think it's really close at this point. Like, there's nobody in the league doing more or the less.
Starting point is 00:04:35 He's got injuries all over the place. He's missing both of his defensive stars and leaders. He's missing essentially everybody on his offensive side of the ball, other than CMC, they just got back George Kittle. But, like, starting quarterbacks out, he just paid $270 million. You're missing multiple wide receivers. Jorwan Jennings played.
Starting point is 00:04:52 But it's like, it doesn't matter who is there, Kyle Shanahan and his office that he is running. They can literally be anybody in the NFL. Currently only third in the coach of the year. Who's above him? Todd Bowles, I mean, if they win the night, like what they've been doing with all the injuries, they've. Look at Coach Vrable. See, I've been doing. Brable is second at plus 350.
Starting point is 00:05:12 Shane Steichen, the Colts plus 125. That's another great one as well. Another great one. I just think, like, when I look at Todd Bulls and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, my brain doesn't go to coaching. It very well should or could. It goes to Baker Mayfield as having an incredible year and he is literally putting this team on his shoulders
Starting point is 00:05:32 to elevate his team. And I look at the 49ers, I guess it's when your quarterback goes out and it's like, who are you going to be? Shanahan has adapted his offense in a way that I don't see really any other coach doing. Vrabel I like as well, but it's like, yeah, Drake Mays got a lot of confidence
Starting point is 00:05:49 and he's playing with like a lesser talented team than the rest of the league, but I still give Kyle Shanahan like the nod at this point. I don't think you're wrong in saying that just because he even said it in his pressure after the game, but you have to win a certain way if you're the Niners. And it's got to be a collective with special teams, defense, offense, the game plan, if you're going to control the ball or whatever the keys are, you need all three phases to be in sync. And so it is, it's like it's a tip of the cap to him because he's been like,
Starting point is 00:06:19 He's been, he's been, he's has been as creative as anybody on winning games a certain way, especially when they are absolutely counted out. Yeah. Versus the teams that they're playing. Absolutely. The Rams. Falcons. Like, yeah, he's been balling.
Starting point is 00:06:33 And it's also, a lot of credit needs to give in the CMC as well. Christian McCaffrey last year, he had both of those calves going on there. People, a lot of people like just logic would sit there and go, okay, this is probably the beginning of the end of the Christian McCaffer we used to see before. But since these injuries have taken place, the one thing that I said, stayed kind of true is Christian McCaffrey in the backfield and he has taken on a heavy load like in the backfield catching the ball screens he was the best player on the field yesterday people talk about bjean robes i want to say it was set on the espm but the uh this is uh this is the sequin barcly of
Starting point is 00:07:04 this year yeah like this is somebody who's MVP caliber everything else it's like CMC was the best player on the field right the best player on the field by far i mean you can't take what bejean still had himself you see what bejohn is to that offense but that offense is a defense is a is at full capacity. They have their starting offensive line. They have their wide receivers and everything. And Bejohn just happens to be so good, it's regardless of all these weapons we have,
Starting point is 00:07:27 whether it's pits or London or whoever, we got this guy that we can put in a motion and keep him off the ball four or five yards and just throw it over to him on the sideline and have two guys block, kind of, and have him make three guys miss and get seven yards. They were talking about that during the broadcast of the game last night that in the offseason,
Starting point is 00:07:44 Bejohn hit up CMC just to pick his brain. They worked out together, but really to focus on that, route running, like as a receiver. And so it was cool to see them compare the two and then CMC still kind of like edge him out a little bit of like, I got this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Miyagi still has some juice in the tank there a little bit when it came to Bijon Robinson. Christian McCaffrey is number six in the NFL in receiving yards and number 11 in rushing yards. That is. He's having he's having a vintage Christian McCaffrey year right now.
Starting point is 00:08:13 No one's really talking about no one's really talking about the four and nine is with a five and one, right. Five and two. Yeah, excuse me. They're five and two. I mean, they lost the first game of the year against Seattle. That's when all the injuries really took place. That game, you lose like five or six guys.
Starting point is 00:08:28 But Shanahan, and I go back to that Thursday night football game against the Rams, where you have like offensive genius versus offensive genius. And that to me is when I was like, this needs to be coach of the year. And that really started like kind of fumigating my brain a little bit because it's what they're doing over there in San Francisco is special. Yeah. Kyle Shanahan's daughter escorting him off the field. We have one from Zobo Fosho,
Starting point is 00:08:49 tear talk. Does being a girl dead makes someone a better coach? Absolutely. No question about it. Proofs in the pudding right now. Yeah. Arguably, the best coaches
Starting point is 00:08:56 are all girl dads. Arguably. Saving a girl dad. Having girls push you into coaching. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Dude, I can't, honestly,
Starting point is 00:09:08 it's, um, Colts are good. Yeah, and I can't believe. I'm beside myself on thinking people that might be calling them overrated. You're seeing in the media a lot last week. Who would do that?
Starting point is 00:09:19 Who would do such a thing? They clearly haven't watched them. They haven't watched them. You know what I hate? You know what I hate. I hate that for you. Yes. We're not going to throw nobody here.
Starting point is 00:09:30 We're not. We're not going to do anything other than that. But just know, and I want the public to know, that I hate it for you. I hate it for you. And it might not be the context of what you're thinking of right now. Because it is true, dude, the Colts, Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor, that offensive line. You even see Quit and Nelson, having himself a little.
Starting point is 00:09:46 juice in LA yesterday he's coming off the field he's doing a little spin getting the crowd hyped up for all the Colts fans that are actually there but buddy they don't miss right now their play action incredible under center amazing Jonathan Taylor can find a hole even when there's not a hole good news is there's always a hole because
Starting point is 00:10:02 that offensive line is playing on an elite level and then that defensive line who have been kind of quiet for the whole year they get themselves in the mix they start putting pressures on Justin Herbert yeah there's been a lot of guys that have been injured both tackles are out I think they're on their like 18th
Starting point is 00:10:16 and 19 tackle at this point, but the Colts took advantage of a situation. They saw where the injuries were, and they took advantage that, and they put pressures on those bookends, and it really paid off for them, really paid off for them. My LA Chargers pick is not looking good right now. I like to go on record saying if there were no injuries a lot, if we turn that off, I think it would be looking pretty good right now. Herbert is number one in passing yards in the NFL right now. Which is insane.
Starting point is 00:10:42 He's number one to pass, yeah. Through a bad pick in the end zone yesterday. Yeah. They're trying to get one in that two-minute drill right before half. Yeah, he threw a bad picking the end zone, but he is under, I think, I'd like to see what his pressure rate is, how many times he's pressure, because I don't think there's, I know there's not another quarterback that's taking more hits than him this year. And he's still fighting off defense alignment like a man and ripping it over there every single time he can. Yeah. It's very impressive.
Starting point is 00:11:08 We have a tier talk here from Eva Unit underscore on X. Hashtag tier talk. You know where this is going to go. You said the cults were overrated at 5 and 1. Are the cults still overrated at 6 and 1? Eva, they are not overrated. I was wrong, and I am sincerely so sorry. I am. I'm glad you said that.
Starting point is 00:11:33 I'm glad you said that. We're not going to sit here and say that they're, you know, I was forced to do a situation. We're not going to say that. Not going to say anything. Not going to say anything. But I was wrong. I am sorry.
Starting point is 00:11:44 I will do my best to make this right on. national television this Thursday I don't get up in the morning I think the question now becomes are the Colts contenders like is a team we can look at and be like this is a team that can actually win a Super Bowl this year that that offense is insane dude their offenses yes we can definitely take that their offense is absolutely incredible their defense like they they don't get a whole lot of pressure but they're very much bend don't break and they put they do a great job of scheming up the other offenses. They're very sticky in the back end of coverages.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Their linebackers are flying around right now. And even though, from a defensive line standpoint, they're not getting a lot of pressure, they are holding the gaps to where when there's really no run lanes between the two tackles. Like, they are playing very, very good football. I don't know very much about the special teams and all that, but they're a team that. You look at it. Special teams, let me tell you, Amir Abdullah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Kick return. Oh, shit. Amir Abdullah in what year? 11 10 11 yeah bro and he's got himself uh i think he's got him the first game i saw that i'm like oh shit ameer's on the colts now yeah he was scoring a touchdown uh like in the third or fourth quarter but also he had a massive kick return yesterday to where i'm just smile on my face again this motherfucker ageless still doing it still chip on the shoulder doesn't matter what roll he's in nothing the dude balls man so yeah there's there's an update for the so the colts are contenders
Starting point is 00:13:10 Special teams are nice. Special teams are nice. I like that. I mean, they seem like they're going to be the team to win the South right now. They are playing really well. Tyler Warren,
Starting point is 00:13:20 I saw a clip of him going around blocking too. Some porn. Something about football porn, man. Tide ends that can do it all for you. Tide ends still one of the more underrated positions in all of the NFL right now. I've got some white boys that can,
Starting point is 00:13:33 like, Alec Pierce, number 14. Yeah. For whatever reason, he's just good for a 30-yard bomb every week. Yeah, Every week. With old Danny Dimes or he's starting to get the nickname
Starting point is 00:13:44 Danny discount. I'm pretty sure it's just Indiana Jones now. Indiana Jones. Yeah, Indiana Jones. I'll tell you what, it's about to be Indiana payday because that dude is going to get broke the fuck off
Starting point is 00:13:56 after this season. I think he signed a hundred for the Giants. He got a big one with the Giants. Yeah, yeah, no, he got one with the Giants. And then... I think the Giants are still paying them. Yeah, he's... You know what else got broke off twice
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Starting point is 00:14:22 The conversation You heard it here first John Gruden will Be the Titans next head coach Hashtag Tier Talk From Hector Hectoring 71 Hectoring 71 boys Titans fans in the back How do we feel about that
Starting point is 00:14:33 John Gruden is that your guy I don't think it'll happen It'd be obviously fun electric for Nashville I feel like someone on this bus said it but they, was you talking about how like he would not integrate well with most players? Like he would lock him. Someone was saying how like you think he's going to be like a great fit for it. But the X's and O's he's like kind of an asshole.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Like if you don't get his scheme and play, like he kind of, you've got to be all in or all out. I don't know how much truth there is in that. I would love to see Gruden in Nashville give us a nice little bump. But the odds of it happening, I don't think are very likely. Yeah. Do you have a list yet, Jack? I've said on Twitter, I mean, Joe Brady would be a fun one. But at the same time, it scares me to bring in an OC that has zero experience as a head coach,
Starting point is 00:15:18 the same way we just did with Callahan. So I don't think that would be the move. There's obviously the McCarthy's and Kingsberries of the world kind of floating around there. So I don't know. I mean, you guys just talked with Marcus Freeman. Y'all were kind of like sprinkling that in there. I don't know. I've just hearing that Marcus Freeman is now getting an NFL job conversations.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Yeah. I mean. And then who said that before we got on the bus that he was mentioned with the Titans? Just somebody did. JP said it. JP just did it. You just doing that out there? No, I saw, I mean, no, he's seeing conversation.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Dude, I literally saw it on Twitter. Okay, oh, my bad, not bad, my bad. The thing that Joe Brady thing kind of makes me nervous if that is the path of the Titans want to go down because I think they want to get an offensive-minded head coach. It's probably the smartest thing to do with the first overall pick. But Joe Brady, a future friend of the show, great guy. Already friend of the show. Already friend of the show. Yeah, rest the gear.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Bought the gear at VWTVTV. He's about it. He is the OC for, for the reigning MVP. And he's got a guy in Josh Allen that's like pretty incredible. Josh Allen can do things. I don't know if it's yet to be seen
Starting point is 00:16:18 whether or not Cam Ward can do those things. That makes me a little more nervous about that. I think that's certainly something that could go against him is that he's been operating with Josh Allen, but he still has one of the best rushing offenses in the NFL with James Cook and the way that they mix it up. But you're right.
Starting point is 00:16:35 But again, I still think Cam Ward is a bona fide QB in the NFL. I mean, he, dude, we can get into the Patriots, Titans, since we're already on the subject. That first half was extremely competitive. Extremely. First quarter was like, holy shit. First quarter, we was up, baby. We'll always have the script. How was it when Vray came into the stadium?
Starting point is 00:16:57 There wasn't like a whole like welcome back, Mike Vrable. And I was there pretty early. I usually go to like one of my friends' families tailgate and post-tenessee Bama loss. I truly didn't want to be around anyone. So I got in the stadium, I think with like 38 minutes left on the running clock, and I'm just sitting in my seat, just kind of watching the guys warm up, doing that whole dance. But there wasn't like a whole like boo, Vrabel or like big cheers.
Starting point is 00:17:22 The big thing was I've been in many games in Nissan Stadium over the course of my life and seeing many away teams take over. I truly don't think that there was a bigger takeover than there was yesterday with the Patriots fans. Whether it's because like the Patriots had such a massive run, in the Brady and Belichick era because they just have fans in every market or if it's because people want to support Vrabel, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:17:50 You feel like there are fans out there that might have just put on the Patriot gear for the day? I think there were fans that like claim to be a Patriots fan but like last year they weren't speaking up for the Patriots. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like now that they're five and two and they're flying the flag.
Starting point is 00:18:07 I mean and I, I first. forget like those fucking massholes, they're fuck, they're pricks. So many people were so mean to me. I was literally in the bathroom peeing waiting for a, you're going to open up. And a guy looks back and goes, so like how bad is it being a Titans fan? And I, it's some like fucking 22 year old kid in a Patriot jersey. I was like, well, you're here. And I'm like in my head.
Starting point is 00:18:29 I'm like, just don't do this. Like just piss and get out. And he's pissing like two away from me. And I'm done. But I see him go. And I'm like, I'm going to just hold my. dick for a sec and let him scatter out. I kind of do one of those glances over.
Starting point is 00:18:43 He's waiting. He's not washing his hands. He's waiting. And I'm like, oh, he wants to say some other stuff. So the Titans, like, how every NFL one is, there's two inches. There's an entrance and exit. I go out the entrance to try and avoid him. He hawks me down.
Starting point is 00:18:57 And silver lining, he's like, hey, man, you work for Bustin, don't you? He's like, dude, I appreciate what y'all do so much. He's like my Tuesday mornings. my whole routine revolves around your own show and like it was a full 180 and he's like hey sorry for like bringing up like the fan base he's like I've lived in Nashville for three years now and I was like
Starting point is 00:19:16 I was like all good bro like we had like a good combo and it was nice so other than him pretty much he saw the reaction he got he's like oh man I mean really fumbled that because he saw he said oh shit that's Jabby Fierston trying to poke you a little bit like going into half we immediately get a fumble and they score and then they get another
Starting point is 00:19:34 score and so I'm just sitting there I'm like hey man like kick a dude while he's down sure he might be thinking he might get some banter from you like hey how bad is it being a Titans fan you like oh but then he realized like oh they're they're crumbled no I need to not I was about to get pissed off and like
Starting point is 00:19:50 I wasn't drinking and stuff so I was supposed to be like a sober just like stirring like fuck off dude yeah but he ended up being a really nice guy shout out Brendan tell somebody to go fuck themselves shout out Brendan he ended up being a cool guy but yeah it's a tough day Nashville always is it was just a
Starting point is 00:20:06 tough weekend as a Tennessee. It was a tough weekend for Jack McPherson. I was happy that last night I ended up, I kind of, I was watching the Sunday night game and I ended up just like carving pumpkins, which was a nice kind of just reset. I needed to just get away from sports, just like get grounded and then watch. Have some gratitude. Yeah, just try and remember the kids. Smell the flowers for a second.
Starting point is 00:20:29 So I don't know who's going to be the next coach. If it's John Gron, you would hear zero complaints from me. It would be electric. I just don't know if John. Gruden's going to come back into the NFL again. A guy that I love for it, Arthur Smith. Yeah. I think also, you know, you see what he did when he's O.C. goes to be Atlanta's and then he goes
Starting point is 00:20:47 to Pittsburgh and now he's O.C. and it's like, does he make... That's why I like it. You like him coming back to being a coach. I like him becoming going back to a coach. Very rarely do you see, not very rarely, but a lot of times you see a guy being a coordinator. He goes, becomes a head coach. It doesn't work, but they learn a bunch of lessons to that process. They go back to being O.C. establish and show that they are still very good at their job,
Starting point is 00:21:08 become a head coach again, and then they can put the correct pieces around them to help them where they failed before. And I think Arthur, knowing the franchise, understanding, it's a very unique franchise, right? The medium market is pretty bad. You're not having, like, you're not going to have all of the resources in the world,
Starting point is 00:21:24 but he's lived that he's been through it and he's worked through from like essentially a GA position all the way to coordinator than leaving. So I think you need a guy to understand the type of franchise you're walking into, And that's why I think Arthur's a great fit for it because he has the Atlanta experience to be like, okay, this is where I went wrong
Starting point is 00:21:41 and this is where I can get better. And when he was in Atlanta, he really didn't have a quarterback. Yeah. Now he has a place to have a quarterback. If you look at the Steelers game, Steelers was the Bengals, obviously didn't go the Steelers way. We talked about the way the Atlanta Falcons run 11 personnel wide zone.
Starting point is 00:21:57 There's not a team in the league that's running 12, 13 personnel wide zone better than the other Pittsburgh Steelers. They are running, the plays we would run would be 19, which would be your 12 personnel, your quachos, your zaps, your Zoroos, all of those are kind of the same play with a little extra something on it, every single, a little extra motion or something. He does an amazing job of calling those plays and knowing the rotation and when to get out of those plays.
Starting point is 00:22:22 I'm very impressed with his play calling right now. Very impressed with what's going on and utilizing the pieces he has at the Steelers right now. You need this convoy to be like a slow burn. You don't want him to be peeking. right now you want the Steelers can do you want the Steelers to write the ship write the ship take over this division because it's still their division to lose tough loss against the Bengals defense man it's nuts we actually here here's a tier talk right here from a Jag JPEJ 08 tier talk is a steelers defense actually ass it's like I don't want to say that because they have a lot of dudes
Starting point is 00:22:59 have a lot of names for sure a lot of names a lot of dudes like you got Highsmith you got what you got hayward you got cole holcomb patrick queen jaylon rams you got all these guys it's the highest paid defense in the league but as it stands right now it's like bro they need more out that defense right now they are ass like they're gonna have to compliment that offense well because the offense can move the ball erin rogers out there slinging that goddamn rock run game is is is very well that massive ass tight in yeah Washington darnel Washington hey he's tipping the tiled It was at 320 right now, I heard. Really?
Starting point is 00:23:35 320 pounds. Dude, that is a monster of a human being out there. And also, they run extra tackles. So they have six offensive linemen in the game with him. They need more of that defense, man. You can't drop that game against the Bengals. Hats off to Joe Flacco. And it's the same.
Starting point is 00:23:52 When you watch the Seahawks game, they had it a few weeks ago, and we were kind of going over when they were in man coverage and the other two safeties, and one safety is supposed to knock off one and kind of stay with the receiver, and there was a guy in the back of the end zone that ended up catching a touchdown. The same problems are happening again.
Starting point is 00:24:08 It's not guys being bad at football. It's just blatant miscommunications that are taking place in this defense to where it's like, yeah, you have talent. All the names you just said are good football players, but there's something going on, especially in the back end of that defense, where they're just not on the same page
Starting point is 00:24:26 because there are guys wide open. The fact that you have Jamar Chase said, was it a league record? or his personal record targeted and receptions in a game. But you get through the second quarter of that game. You go and make at the very minimum half time and go, hey, let's just take away this guy and he was running free on multiple occasions. Times where you're just like, bro, how the fuck is he still open?
Starting point is 00:24:50 You see in the TV copy, but you also see it when you break down the film. It's like this dude, guys think other dudes are coming in to take over and they're bailing into certain other areas of the defense and either. This guy's bailing too soon or this guy's not coming over. But this guy, he has five, six yards of space in between when he's catching the football. And it's just, like, that is one of the best players in the NFL. And you have a 42-year-old quarterback who is throwing the ball probably as good as he ever has. Like 2016 type of Aaron Rogers.
Starting point is 00:25:23 I just love seeing how much fun that really both of them are having at that age. It's like the WD 40 was out Thursday night football. They're slinging the rock. They had over what? They have over 600 yards together. Just under 600. Just under 600. I would disagree.
Starting point is 00:25:37 I would disagree that they're both having fun. I mean, how many times it could go over to Aaron Rogers just chewing somebody's ass out right after a play? No doubt. No doubt. But when a play is made, oh, hey, and then the old boy, the tackle that jumped on him after the touchdown. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Yeah, he'd injured him. Right. And people are like, he knows that. He's like, I'm one. I'm a gust of wind away from being hurt. People are like Aaron's being too much. It's like, no, bro, you have to get up and be like, dog, I'm fucking old. Like, what are you fucking doing?
Starting point is 00:26:05 Yeah. What about a penalty if it was a defensive player jumping on it? Dude, it's like going up to an old dog and be like, hey, hey, hey, it's like that dog's going to yelp eventually. Like, you need to leave the dog alone. It's in real time, Taylor did this to me now. I would be just like in around. I'd be just so mad. Like, bro, you know my fucking back is fucked up.
Starting point is 00:26:23 I'm pretty sure that's happened in the last three weeks. But no doubt. And this cat 77, which by the way, he played a great football game against the Bengals, even though the Bengals, the Pass Roos sucks. I would 100% be this guy to Aaron Rogers and get chewed out. I get so juiced up after a play. I'm like a dog waggonous day. Hey, how are we doing? He's like, get the fuck off me.
Starting point is 00:26:43 What are you doing? Just knocks him over. Yeah, Aaron Rogers is a cat. Don't fucking pet him. Don't pet him. Like when he wants food, he'll fucking weave between your legs for a second. Other than that, leave him alone. He hits his Mario.
Starting point is 00:26:56 He's excited. Look at this. Oh, my, and he finishes the tackle, too, which is just crazy. Just crazy. But then you got Joe Flacco on the other side. Who knows he's just on borrowed time? Like Aaron Rogers, smarter than everybody else, professor at MIT, somebody said that in the stream last week. He's a guy that's like, he knows he could probably still win a Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:27:19 But Joe Flacco is like, borrowed time, don't care. I'm going to sling it. He's got these weapons on the perimeter now. He's like, fuck it. Let's see what happens out here. I think Joe knows he can still be nasty and elite. Not like I'm here with a massive chip on my shoulder. I love all of his perspective to where he's like all of his families there.
Starting point is 00:27:36 Like they understand the moment he's still in. But Joe Flacco can, if the defense for the Steelers, they do not get halfway better, like decent. That north is going to get interesting because Joe can get the ball out fast. His timing is really good. They have weapons on the outside. Ravens are still sitting there. What are the Ravens? One in five?
Starting point is 00:27:57 One in five. They're still like right now, Lamar Jackson back. It is the Steelers division to lose. But if they, if the Ravens just start to get spicy, Browns are done. Browns ain't making it.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Browns won last week. I know, but they, they're done. Dude, I'm telling you. They beat the Miami Dolphins. It's going to, it's going to be interesting between those three teams
Starting point is 00:28:15 with the Bengals, the Ravens, and the Steelers. Yeah, the Miami Dolphins, dude, I mean, they're all pulling up to the game with handicapped stickers on their rear of your mirror.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Like, that team is done. They did win. Yeah, they won. Their defense got like 20 points in fantasy. It was crazy. Adam. Is Joe the best Joe on the Bengals? Oh, is there a quarterback controversy taking place in Cincinnati right now?
Starting point is 00:28:40 One of them can get the ball out. The other one maybe holds on to it a little bit too long. Maybe a spot for Spencer Radler to get up their base. I say all this to say, forget about Rattler's three interception game. He could fit in great. Dude, how are we feeling about everybody but Klump? How are we feeling about the Philadelphia Eagles right now? I have to watch the game.
Starting point is 00:29:02 I didn't watch the game. I'm sitting there kind of like pissed off following it on the ESPN app because that was another game that I loved, Vikings beating the Eagles. And now I'm coming out of it. Eagles beat the Vikings. Oh, I had, like I'm thinking this is a great. This is a game I love Vikings beating the Eagles. And then they come out of it.
Starting point is 00:29:19 See, AJ Brown's getting touchdowns. Jailen Hurts, like a perfect passerer. The most bizarre like headspin zone that I'm in. I have to watch the tape before I have an opinion but it just seems like they handled business it seems like the Eagles handled business
Starting point is 00:29:34 the conversations that took place a couple weeks ago they didn't come to fruition until this past weekend against the Vikings but maybe the Eagles are back I don't know Jaylon was on fire
Starting point is 00:29:45 Jaylon was on fire Jaylin still and against Saekwon didn't really have three point of one yards fancy football liability for me right now I'm pissed pissed shout out
Starting point is 00:29:56 Saquan, though, because somebody was saying this in the pre-pro meeting, Klump was saying this where they asked Saquan Barkley about him having an off day and he's like, our quarterback just had a perfect pass rating. Like, why are you even talking to me about this? Like, we won. Team. Like, that's a guy right there. But it seems like they won in such a way offensively to where every conversation that was
Starting point is 00:30:13 boiling and starting to crack the surface and everything else. Like, the fall was going to happen. It seems like they played in one in a certain way to where they just shut everybody up. So here's my takeaways. Yeah. Here's my takeaways from that game. I think Jalen Hertz played a very good game. There's still throws that he had,
Starting point is 00:30:29 kind of what Orlovsky was talking about. He has throws right in front of him, but he's waiting so long to pull a trigger because of the risk aversion. But a lot of these plays that he was able to get AJ Brown on his touchdown. It was, has a couple of reads, breaks out of the pocket, extends the play a little bit, and then sees AJ and puts it in the perfect spot.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Devante Smith, multiple plays in the middle of the field, wide open, nobody else around him. So yeah, Jalen Hertz played a great game. My favorite series of that game was the four-minute drill that took place to ice the game. Because Carson Wentz, he 100% was pressing. You could see that he was trying to beat the Eagles. It was a very personal game. And obviously he had his role with the Eagles.
Starting point is 00:31:09 He ends up getting Nick Foles takes over. He goes somewhere else. But people forget that Carson Wins was on the Chiefs last year when the Chiefs lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles. So this is more personal or personal. He's pressing the ball all down the field. But the four-minute drill, they go, they run the ball a couple times. they have very little success to where you're thinking, oh shit,
Starting point is 00:31:26 the Vikings are going to be able to come back and maybe Carson Wentz has the series he wants. I did see like in highlights they were talking about, I think I caught a moment of that game. They're talking about just missed ops at the Vikings had. Missed off. Well, they had a pick six. They had, uh,
Starting point is 00:31:40 he throw two picks in the game. But he also, the field goal, they couldn't score in the red zone. Right. They couldn't score in the red zone. Defense, the former quarterback standpoint,
Starting point is 00:31:49 they stood up pretty well. But that four minute drill, They run the ball once. It doesn't go their way. I think they get one, maybe two yards. The next play, they run the classic as classic gets, AJ Brown slant. Jalen Hertz throws it behind him to where it's like,
Starting point is 00:32:05 what a horrible misthrow. And now stops the clock. And you're like, I did. I saw that highlight. So you're sitting there like, yeah, this is when you're thinking, oh my God, the Vikings are about to take over
Starting point is 00:32:15 and Carson Wentz is going to will his team into a W right here. Then the next play, AJ Brown, slant go and the corner bites on the slant which all of us would but it was an incredible play call goes a j gets it and that's the end of the game that's when i was young on my tv yeah i saw that last part it was right there man you're like i still have question marks about the eagles though like the office the line is still not they're not blocking very well they what i did notice though is they
Starting point is 00:32:44 played the game for more under center so they're like kind of hearing the noise and adapting to the noise a little bit and hearing Drew Bree's talk about being under center and how that much changes everything like really makes me think okay this needs to be an under center team more often than not so it's it'll be interesting that whole division is kind of wild too because you look at the Cowboys commanders everyone thought that game was going to be really close bro Cowboys I can't wait to watch that one dude their defense DFF way more man way more disguise like it was like I'm thinking myself like you think heber flees is watching Willie Boy? I think he profus is watching Willie Boy on Thursdays,
Starting point is 00:33:20 and he's like, oh, this is this team. Like, because, I mean, they put up 44 points, bro. They put up 44 points as an offense. And the question mark that we had about George Pickens is he going to be okay with CDL. Saw that he had a lot of receptions. Buddy, it was amazing. And it was, Pickens was making catches.
Starting point is 00:33:36 It's like, oh, I see why people say he's the most talented white receiver in the world. Like, little to no separation, catching the ball. Dad Prescott's putting it right in the bucket at times. Yes. Bro. Yeah. Bro, he was running like this. And it was sick.
Starting point is 00:33:50 I saw a post on X too and I'm honestly, I'm kind of about it. Do whatever you can. Fuck the picks. Figure out a way to get Max Crosby or, um. Traendrickson. Not Hendrickson. Miles Garrett. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:04 So I saw a tweet. I, I, I did. I saw that and like, you know, it's obviously, it's on X and somebody like trying to play a game, whatever else. But I am thinking like, yeah, bro, go get somebody on that defensive line. and go all in to win the Super Bowl this year because they have the offense to do it. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:24 What are they 3, 3, 3 and 1? Yeah. 3.3 and 1 right now. And I'm not buying the Eagles. I love the Giants, Moxian energy. Giants got something happening right now, bro. They got something happening right now. I don't think they're going to be contenders this year,
Starting point is 00:34:38 but I do what I think happened is Daible has saved his job. Yeah. Because no matter how the year goes, I think, Daible's got to stay there, bro. Yeah, he's got to stay there because you can't run into. a situation you're like with the Titans where you go and draft quarterback you have an offensive guy it doesn't work out now who you're gonna get now was he the guy was he not the guy
Starting point is 00:34:53 that whole thing that song and dance dable they don't have malique neighbors and bro they're still against that Denver Broncos defense moving the ball not only getting chunk plays but like sustaining drives take like it was very very impressive watching Jackson's got it he's got it he's got it he's gonna continue to get better even Sean Peyton after the game
Starting point is 00:35:15 he's talking about how he was talking to maybe the GM of the Giants and he's like I was hoping you guys were going to hold on to him way past our game and stuff but just getting the tip of the cap from somebody like Sean Payton as well like Jackson Darts just Russell Wilson taking a crazy stray right there
Starting point is 00:35:30 I was just nuts too I did see one tier talk earlier I think Clumps name was in it as you're looking for it is Dak the best quarterback right now I mean yeah I think so
Starting point is 00:35:45 I mean there's got to be The argument's definitely there. Because what is your brain going? It goes to Matt Stafford. It goes to Baker Mayfield. It goes to Patrick Mahomes. I think Drake May's in the country. Not like Best in the League, but Drake is starting to ascend in these conversations.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Passes over 30 yards. Passes over 30 yards. Drake May is throwing at 75% right now. Sammy D. Sammy D. This is a great year for quarterbacks. Yeah. Danny Dimes out there.
Starting point is 00:36:13 Here's the tier talk. This is from underscore Jack McPherson. This is from Jack Nodagh. Thank you for tapping into the tier talk, Jack. Is clump the biggest fraud at the office? Hashtag tier talk. And the only answer is yes. And so to give a little context, you'll have your time, I promise.
Starting point is 00:36:30 Clump before the season was like, dude, the hymn is... Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast?
Starting point is 00:36:44 Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to us. 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.
Starting point is 00:37:00 Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... 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. We could call in and say, hey Jonas, and then I broke down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.
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Starting point is 00:37:59 the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slices Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect.
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Starting point is 00:39:27 He was like, we're going to be Tennessee fans. Like, we're joining. And then all year long, he's been teetering and he's here and he's there. And then two weeks ago, he said on our live stream that he was going to do a verbal commitment to his fandom for the rest of his life. And he's wearing college football. College football. He's wearing a Tennessee.
Starting point is 00:39:46 when he made this statement last week. He comes in to the stream last week. Again, doesn't stand on the word. You see me wearing this Alabama jersey? I honor my commitments and my bets. Colum says he's going to make a commitment there. Doesn't do it at halftime. He sends a written notes app after Tennessee Luzda, Bama,
Starting point is 00:40:07 saying that he will be joining the Florida Gators. Living in Tennessee, he's going to choose one of our biggest rivals. And I just don't know this point if it's just a bit, if it's all for the fun and stuff. But me and Clump are co-fantasy managers. And I told him before this, I go, just know, my heart is no longer with this team for the rest of the year. Oh, I don't care. Everybody's on the block. It's a fire sale.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Throw us some trades, whatever you want. I'll consider it. But also going into that. So you know last week, whenever we were having that little dust up at the shop on what real fandom is. is and Matt Malone being a casual. All these conversations are taking place. There's arguing going on. And I was aware of Clump saying he was going to commit this weekend to his college football team.
Starting point is 00:40:57 And at the time, he's kind of asking my thoughts, hey, how would you, like, I kind of want to be a Vanderbilt Commodores. Like, my kids, like, we're all here. They're going to grow up. We're going to be in Nashville. Like, I think it'd be fun. Would you respect me as like a Vanderbilt? I was like, bro, I think you'd be in the caterpillar stage, but it wouldn't be like, oh, you're a die-heartedly. hard Vandy fan. It's going to take a couple of years, everything else. But if you know the
Starting point is 00:41:19 roster inside and out and that's how you want to do it with your fam now that you're here in Nashville and your kids are going to grow up Vandy fans and all that, I'm thinking, yeah, bro, you can for sure be a Vandible fan. I would have respected him taking Vandy a hundred times more than him taking Florida because it makes sense. The Florida one came out of nowhere. Even when, even when the argument started happening kind of after the stream and he's like, oh, it's going to be a new era and it's the first time the vaults played Florida on the back end of the season so he knows that they
Starting point is 00:41:48 clump claims that he didn't know Tennessee and Florida were rivals but I guarantee he knows that we play them in three weeks that I would buy that because again that the Florida thing came out of normal when he when we were talking last week I was like oh he's wanting to know if it's cool if he becomes
Starting point is 00:42:05 a Vandy fan I'm like dude absolutely like no one's going to say like you're die hard right out of the gate but if you're here and you're a best and go to a couple games in proximity it's the closest school they're doing well like you'd get a little flack from being like oh they're finally good they're whatever a ranking. People are going to say
Starting point is 00:42:21 bandwagon but it's like as long as you're staying a Vanderbilt guy and your kids are here and you're like wanting to take them the games I'm like oh yeah I'd respect that like you're not going to be in those you're not going to be in the diehard yet but it's going to take a couple years but absolutely I think that's a good move. He's never taking his kid to a Florida game. The Florida's post
Starting point is 00:42:39 in our group chat was wild to me because I'm like bro why didn't you commit to Vanderbilt like you said you were going to because they just had a massive win against LSU like it would have been perfect for you and then earlier in the shop he tried to like double back and he's like well dude it was just a verbal commitment and I go you literally wrote a presser on your commitment quite literally the opposite you know he's a high school football recruiting sicko yeah and he I'm we'll do any of it on camera please respect my decision and so you can you can that decision yeah it's so funny after all that I went on my phone and texted
Starting point is 00:43:13 Jack, a bunch of texts about trades, came back to it. You guys were still shitting on him and he just goes, respect my decision. Coop, what do you have to say? You can't give any players to Taylor. All I have to say is,
Starting point is 00:43:24 focused on who the next head coach of our football team's going to be moving forward. Billy Napier, thank you for everything you've done for Florida, but we are focused on, we are focused on the next head coach
Starting point is 00:43:33 at the University of Florida. So you're officially a Florida Gator? Who do you want? Who do I want as the next head coach of the Florida Gators? Time out. Are you officially a full of Florida? to Gator.
Starting point is 00:43:44 I would like to officially commit to the University of Florida. I will be a Florida Gators fan from here on out. I will live and die for the Florida Gators. This reminds me of that kid. I don't know if he committed to Georgia and his wife, his mom was all about Alabama. Yeah, she like gets him walks away. This has got that energy written all over it.
Starting point is 00:44:03 Clump. Yeah. Oh, is she? Obviously, they played Tennessee in a few weeks, but is this like a, it's on fire, buy low, get in while the chaos is happening? what's the thought process behind this? Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Because I am kind of like, I don't understand why not Vandy? My college football fandom, obviously we all know, has been kind of a weird thing. But when I was no longer a Penn State fan, I did actually like, like Florida Gators with Tim Tebow and stuff.
Starting point is 00:44:28 So there's like some, everybody like, even Jack's like Tebow. I'm answering the question. I'm answering the question. You got something right here locally. No, I like to be honest,
Starting point is 00:44:39 if you are clump, why buy Vandy Stock High because after this year you lose Diego Pavia maybe, people are talking about Clark Lee he might be the man for a lot of these big jobs coming up right now. It might be a good op and might be a good op for you to go find
Starting point is 00:44:56 a talented football team that's in the dumpster right now and so then Spins zone in a couple of years you could be like, I've been on the Florida Gators since they fired Billy Napier and this is a long move that I kind of can see and working for him right now.
Starting point is 00:45:10 The fact that me typing out of notes on an iPhone has led to this is a major win already as a Florida Gators fan. I'm already one and O you're a... I was a Florida Gators fan. Oh, you're not. Sickle of chaos. My thought of bandy was just... I'm saying this is the game
Starting point is 00:45:26 I'm with you. I'm with you. Kids are here like you can clearly go to games throughout the year and have like fun time. Caleb doesn't care about his kids. club cares about everybody in the office quietly hating him. That's what club cares about. But having something something
Starting point is 00:45:41 that dangle over them. In about five years when his son is just asking, Dad, why are we Florida Gator fans? And he's just breaking down this entire process. So funny. You know what's fucked up? You know what's fucked up is that Tennessee Florida game is going to be a nail biter. It is. Historically in the swamp, we struggle.
Starting point is 00:45:58 And so I'm not even going to get down that. I just want Clump to know in 15 years when JJ goes to college and Clump has to pay $90,000 from the little Florida. I'm going to be sitting there smoking a cigar, drinking a cup. cup of coffee going, I fucking told you so. That would be funny. That would be ironic. That would be, but at that point, you're 15 years in.
Starting point is 00:46:21 Two, Natty's deep. Three now, yeah, two, three natties deep. Who knows? JJ has a, well, I mean, if you were smart. He has a balls shirt. I mean, JJ wants to be a volunteer. I let Jayjee be a Tennessee fan whenever he wants. I hate that his dad literally, it's nailed his coffin.
Starting point is 00:46:36 You would be less mad if he's like, I'm going to pick Vanderbilt. Yeah, because by proximity, It makes sense. It's like, I can't be upset that, like, the team that plays 10 minutes from where we're recording right now, he wants to be a fan of. They're doing well. We have guys who've worked at the shop who are active players, friends of the show. It all makes sense.
Starting point is 00:46:56 It feels very personal. It feels very clump rage, baby. And I'm falling for it every which way. And that's okay. But that's because I have true fandom with the vault. Yeah. I don't have this tickey, tacky. I was a Penn State fan once.
Starting point is 00:47:10 They sucked. I'm going to be Tennessee. I love Timmy. I love things because Penn State sucked. For the record, I think there was other things that happened. Oh, so why? Go ahead, Jake. You understand it, Jack?
Starting point is 00:47:21 I love Joe Pa. Klong did like Joe Pa. I hated Joe Pa. You loved him. That's when you started to fall off the Penn State bandwagon, right, when all this shit was coming out. In Pennsylvania, there's some weird people that's like a cult at Penn State. I don't know. I don't want to get down this rabbit hole.
Starting point is 00:47:36 Right. But that's what. Just for people that are listening that are coming on to this, you know, what's all this shit going on with Clump and Jack and everything else? Like your fandom with Penn State didn't happen because of what's happening this year. When the Penn State sanctions and stuff started coming on, I became a Penn State hater, the opposite. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:53 So, hey, can we just, let's move on. We get another tier talk here. We're going to, we'll just do a different subject, dude. This one comes from, this one comes from Jeremy Clump at Nutty X Professor. Will Tennessee miss the college football playoff now? Hashtag tier talk. Who said that? Jeremy Clump at Nutty X professor.
Starting point is 00:48:11 I answer my question. Will Tennessee miss the college football playoff now? I bet you are. Open to the ball. All right. I will go on record and say yes. The Tennessee balls will miss the college football playoff because they will lose to the Florida Gators this year.
Starting point is 00:48:26 I have nothing to say. Jack, again, massive opportunity. Anytime JJ's coming to the shop, this is a vulnerable, this is a vulnerable kid right now. You can groom him to be a Tennessee ball. I want it to be known. I'm not going to,
Starting point is 00:48:38 I'm not going to make JJ a Florida Gators fan. If he wants to be a Tennessee. fan, I think that's awesome because we live here, or a Vandy fan. For what it's worth. The whole reason you did this schick is so that your kids can be fans growing up. Listen, if you were a football fan, one of the main reasons to have children is to instill the same brainwash into them. So if you're going to be a Florida Gator fan, you need to take them to Gainesville, go pet
Starting point is 00:49:04 some alligators, and show them what it's like to be a Florida fan. Get on Yelp, get on Reddit, figure out all the things. do there and get JJ's ass to be a Florida Gator fan. I'm telling you, this is... It's an expensive team to be a fan of too. I think it's, I think it would be awesome if JJ was a Tennessee fan. Like, JJ's gonna be prime one day to where he's gonna be in his dad's face, talking about how shitty Florida is when Tennessee wins.
Starting point is 00:49:28 It's just all about time. Yeah, as a dad who's recently brainwash his youngest child, like, it's a great feeling when your kids start to come to your side. My oldest now, she was almost rooting for Washington because of the, the huskies. She's all, she's infatuated with those damn mascots. Yeah, we have one. Yeah, we do. Yeah, put it down. Uh, let's, let's see. We've got Kentucky this week. We're set on Kentucky. That's what matters. Then we have Oklahoma. Then we have Florida. Then we have New Mexico State. And then we end with Vandy. Obviously, Vandy, Vandy's got some. Lucky's not New Mexico. That's a good
Starting point is 00:50:04 ball club. Yeah, Vandy's got some games coming up as well. Oklahoma at home is big for us. I think we can handle that. Florida obviously is scary, but also Florida is not great this year. And now they have this horrible juju surrounding their team that is Jeremy Klum. So honestly, I've never felt better in my life. So yeah,
Starting point is 00:50:25 10 and 2, we go to the playoffs. We watch Florida cry at home. And JJ can come hang with me. This is the greatest thing about long form media is we got to sit here and watch you think through that entire thought and get. and get to your conclusion. If this was like Sports Center,
Starting point is 00:50:43 you'd have to say, I feel very good about Florida. Yeah, we gotta go to break. That was nice. Speaking of the Valls, I think we have one more tier talk up on the screen. Oh, Matt Malone.
Starting point is 00:50:53 This is not a tier talk. This is hashtag full send. Wrong show, Matt. Vol's lost, but I'm still hitting the bar. That's called dedication. We're not going to waste any time on Matt Malone. Hey, I'm gonna stick up for my boy.
Starting point is 00:51:06 This is some AI generated shirn bullshit. I know what Matt Malone did and I'm gonna stick up because Matt actually brought some juice to the stream and he's creeping No, it's not real So I gotta stick up for my boy Matt Malone He did not go out after the game
Starting point is 00:51:23 I wouldn't blame him if he did You know but Hey Sherm you're a fucking problem With this AI thing Like you're going to be You're part of the issue in the world When it comes to AI You just told Mitch to his face it was real
Starting point is 00:51:35 I literally I literally looked at Sherm and like is that really And he's like, yeah. And I'm like, oh my. And I would literally sit him down like privately and be like, hey, dude, we're a couple mistakes away from having a real conversation. Dude, every week, Matt Malone catches something, man. Matt held his own.
Starting point is 00:51:57 He did. He did. He made a baby step towards being a psycho. He's still not. He's very far away, but he is making the, uh, the proper steps to go to full cycle. I don't think Matt took a. step towards being like a legitimate psycho fan i think he just big brother he wanted to and that's a all you got to do is convince big he's a hunting he's a hunting dog right now who's a puppy he's in
Starting point is 00:52:20 the cage watching the adults go and chase the birds he's learning how this is going to work right it's one day at a time one day at a daughter's reading a book about that right now uh jack hany at jack underscore hanning if i jump off gay street is the actual okay if i jump off the gay street Bridge in Knoxville, will I die? Hashtack tear talk, hashtag football. That is real. We got to talk about other teams, other games going on.
Starting point is 00:52:46 There's a lot happening to the college football. These are all the Tennessee balls fans. Before we jump into the college football world, which kind of feels very fitting right now, do we want to talk about any more NFL? That's what I was going to say. We kind of stopped in the middle of our NFL. We did. Coup comstock, he hit me on the side right before we walked out here, said we've lost six games, Arizona Cardinals fan, six
Starting point is 00:53:02 games by a total of 13 points. Cardinals are sneaky. they got that best three and nine team five that Will Compton had a couple years ago. Don't sleep on the Cardinals. And Call of Dutty's about to come out. Call of Duty. Yeah. Jacoby Percent seemed like the offense functioned a little bit better with him in the game, which is good if Jacoby Percept plays more, gives Kyle Murray more time to play on Call of Duty.
Starting point is 00:53:22 So that plays. London. Will and I are both on the, you were on the Jags, correct? Yeah. Will, okay. It wasn't a favorite of mine. That's a game in London. Rams are still spicy.
Starting point is 00:53:33 They had puka out. Yeah, they had puka out. thinking Jags might have a bounce back game like they're learning how to win yeah yeah but that one got sideways quick i mean yeah insane day for Stafford it actually turns out being a good thing in my opinion that the Rams have Pooka and koo out because now Devante Adams and Matthew Stafford can kind of figure each other out what each other likes and it's back shoulder throws it's hitting them right out of breaks it's timing timing timing when it comes to vonte adams three touchdowns good thing for the Jags though very sloppy football anytime they got in the red zone it didn't go the way
Starting point is 00:54:04 they wanted, turnover on downs multiple times. But they outgained the Rams and they owned the time of possession. So those things you can look at and be like, hey, boys, 20 to 20, we're looking pretty damn good right now. It's just a matter of getting that 20 to the end zone. But 35-7's an absolute asswomen.
Starting point is 00:54:20 That's a shlacking right there. Another asswop. Seven sacks again. 14 sacks given up in two football games. That's got to be a record. I think the Titans did worse. I think we gave up 11 against the Ravens. 2018
Starting point is 00:54:35 yeah you didn't even remember that game we lost 23 3 um okay NFL another ass open two chiefs absolutely dummy uh the Raiders
Starting point is 00:54:44 rush your eyes chiefs are back bro cheese chiefs are the best team in the NFL the best team in the NFL the best team
Starting point is 00:54:52 in the NFL now that now that we got Rashie Rice back and like we I go ahead I can say we
Starting point is 00:54:59 if I'm not to die hard you're right um it should have been a lot that Rishi Rice scored this week. I don't know why we overthought that.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Yeah. And Andy Reid's like essentially like, yeah, he's coming back. He's going to get a big workload this week. And we're like, JSN. Because I'm sitting here on Monday when we're shooting this. And if anybody who follows the locker room was listening to the show, like we have four anytime touchdown picks by me, Will, Delaney, and Clay.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Three have hit. The one we're waiting on is tonight with J.S.N. The Seahawks. And I'm the one that took J.S.N's a great pick. It's a great pick. pick. But you sit there and it's like it's a great pick. However, it would have been nice to have Rashid Rice and be kind of like done. Hey, that thing. Hey, we didn't even need Monday night. Yeah. Are you talking about Seattle? They play the Texans. Yeah. Which I think would be a good game. That's a tutty for sure. I mean, there's a good pass.
Starting point is 00:55:56 Texas defense is nice. But dude, Seattle's offense. It's a line. It's pretty good too. Bears beat the Saints. I mean, Bears not so great in the second half. Ran the ball. really well defense played really well uh two it gets bench against the dolphins that's it that's a a fire dude if mcdanos hasn't been fired while we're doing this right now it's a ticking time bomb am i think so yeah they're keeping them yeah they're not firing him okay great good for everybody in the a either way it's bad there yeah either way it's bad there jet's remained winless jets are gonna go o in 16 per hawk uh panthers fall 13 to 6 at home yeah i don't know what to make of the panthers Same thing as the Falcons.
Starting point is 00:56:37 The Panthers won. Oh. Yeah, Panthers won. I mean, the most insane thing the Panthers did. Jets lose to the Panthers. Sorry, I read that incorrectly. Most insane thing the Panthers did was try and split carries with Chuba Hubbard and Rico Dowdell.
Starting point is 00:56:49 So pissed. It was unreal. And then finally the second half, they went to him and he, Rico went off. But it's like, Rico's the third leading rusher in the NFL. And when Chuba comes back, they try to give them, they split the carries. And it's like, you're just putting water on your hot hands. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:04 Yeah, exactly. Even with splitting carries, RICO still ended up with like 79, 80 yards. He still had 30 yards. He still ended up with like 120 all-purpose yards. You got to, yeah, you got to continue to go with the hot hand. I mean, Panthers are sneaky stacking a few wins now. Yeah. With three in a row, I believe.
Starting point is 00:57:19 Four and three they are. We said Bryce Young's out eight weeks, too. Oh, really? Back week eight. Well, was it? I think I read it wrong. So then what, you'd be coming back like next week? They have, he's not playing this week, and then maybe they have a buy.
Starting point is 00:57:33 So, yeah, maybe that's right. Yo, it is insane too that division, Jets and Dolphins, like two of the worst teams we've ever seen. Ever. Bills are chilling. Bills are chilling. Patriots are chilling. Don't sleep on the Titans. Don't sleep on the Titans.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I guess you were right with that one. Yeah, the Jets are. I'm just thinking both of these teams in that, like they're both in that division. There's some bad fucking teams this year, man. There's some bad. Horrible teams and great quarterbacks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:01 Yeah. It's like the theme of the year. I know there's the last I'll say Drake May impresses me so much man he really is I think he threw for 90% in this game against the Titans he broke a Tom Brady record
Starting point is 00:58:13 set the Patriots franchise record with a completion completion completion percentage in a game with like 91% 90% 90% Brady's best was 88.5
Starting point is 00:58:26 I think they said is Drake made better than Tom Brady in the stadium when he took that hit to the head. If you saw that where he fell back. Yeah. They took him out. Josh Jobs comes in for two plays. And then when Drake May came out, dude, the place erupted. You would have thought that the Titans scored if you were outside the stadium. It was so loud they're cheering for him. He's a gamer. And you, as someone who just
Starting point is 00:58:49 received an ass beating from him, a lot of respect to him. It's fun to watch him. A friend of the show. And I love just like him and his fan with all of his brothers. Like there's meatheads and like big. Just like, yeah, got to love it. Yeah, when he hit the back of his head, you know he went in that blue tent. It was like, sorry, my shoulder, my shoulder. He was, that boy got conkeyed for a second. All right, let's pull the Band-Aid off. Let's get into college football.
Starting point is 00:59:14 Very fun week in college football. Very fun week. Louisville upsets Miami, Carson back through four interceptions in that game. Well, what do you make in Miami? Are they going to win the ACC? Yeah, I think they still win the ACC. Georgia Tech's looking tough. Virginia?
Starting point is 00:59:30 Yeah, Virginia, but I see it being between Georgia taking Miami still. Look, they lost too. Louisville is not a bad football team. Like, I was watching some of that game too. They got some guys, man. And they came to, they showed up Friday night, came to whoop Miami's ass. They obviously took care of business, but Louisville is sneaky tough. But I still, I think Miami will bounce back.
Starting point is 00:59:53 Tough loss for him, though. Yeah. And all the conversations that everybody was having about essentially Indiana, Ohio State and it was Miami in that tier. Did to go and drop a game. Carson Beck's post game though? Idiot. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:07 I didn't see it. Fill me in. He's just talking about, because he had what? He had four interceptions and he's kind of talking about each one and, you know, talking about it, like throwing some other guys under the bus. Not like specifically throwing them under the bus,
Starting point is 01:00:21 but talking about the plays and ways where it's miscommunication. We didn't run the right route, yada, yada, yada, yada. It wasn't just him, you know, as a quarterback. You got to just stand up there and take it. Say it's on me, no matter what. And then get it internally and be like, you can't be run the wrong route. Yeah. Like, but you want, you want to walk in the locker room and show your guys that you had
Starting point is 01:00:36 their back in front of the public. But inside, like, I have to hold you accountable. Yeah. And that's exactly what he said. He said, if he runs the right route, it's not a pick. And it's like, dude. Yeah, why would you say that? People are already, like, you're a type of player that everybody is looking for just
Starting point is 01:00:51 one reason to hate. Yeah. And you just gave them that reason. Because everybody else that night, it was like Carson Beck. Here's a Carson Beck game. Right. He's going to show you he's going to have these types of games. in the sea, say Carson Beck is still Carson Beck.
Starting point is 01:01:02 And then to go out and have a presser like that, that does not look good, does not help. I still think Miami's really good. They just, sometimes you can have an off night. You can have it off night. You can have a bad night. Let's skip that next one.
Starting point is 01:01:15 Let's talk about Georgia versus Ole Miss, probably the most exciting game to watch all year. I mean, we talked about it in the locker room with Josh Pates. Like, how does that first quarter look that's going to tell you how the dogs are going to do in this game? I think it was 10 to 7. After the first quarter, am I correct in saying that? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:29 10 to 7 dogs. Open it up. Yeah, because I didn't get to watch the whole game. I was flying back, but I got to see the end of that game. And they put up the drive chart for Ole Miss, and it's touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, three and out. And I remember it's like Super Troopers when they're shooting the cup, the bulletproof cup.
Starting point is 01:01:48 He's like, well, what about that? I say, oh, don't worry about that one. That's what I'm thinking to myself is like, oh, Ole Miss, they had that little blip on the radar, but that's nothing. George's defense is all of a sudden decided to take over the game. and Gunner Stockton legit ball player I don't know if he's an NFL guy
Starting point is 01:02:03 I'm not I'm not savvy enough to know about quarterbacks and all that I'll leave them to the professionals but buddy from a college football standpoint dogs don't care about your feelings it seems like everyone's always like yeah you know like who does who are they Kirby
Starting point is 01:02:17 are they really going to be a team this year and it's like they're a team they're going to be in the playoff again they're going to be terrifying for anybody who plays it from here on out it's just is what it is yeah big game to Gunner Stockton just the offense
Starting point is 01:02:28 like again, 43 to 35 showing up in a shootout against Lane Kiffin and that Ole Miss team. It was fun to watch. They're just going back and forth. There's so many points in that game. I know in the locker, I took Georgia to cover. But when I went into that game and going on Fandall that day, I just went and took the over. Because I'm like, I just don't know how this game's going to go. Like I think Ole Miss is a good football team.
Starting point is 01:02:51 You know, it's like they're showing against Wazoo last week. It's like, yeah, they're probably all on deck for this Georgia game coming up. So I just ended up taking the over, and the over hit in like the first half or beginning of the third quarter. It was just points after points after points. It was crazy. Yeah. Kirby's second half adjustment is just unmatched. It's unmatched.
Starting point is 01:03:13 It really is impressive. Ole Miss was up like two scores. Should have been a comfortable ride through the rest of the game. And here come the dogs. Here come the dogs. And it's weird because you, I mean, you brought up the Gunner Stockton thing and you watch it and you're like, How are his numbers like that? It doesn't make any sense, but then he's a gamer.
Starting point is 01:03:32 Bro, right? Like, I still am sitting here like, is he good? He's good. But he... Yeah, I mean, he's good. Could be, like, has that ability. Yeah. He's a guy that can live in Athens for the rest of his life if everything goes his way this year.
Starting point is 01:03:48 And it's like, oh, what do you've been up to? He's like this, man. You're 45. Yeah, man, fuck it. I'm player personnel. Yeah, got a cushy job, nice apartment. Things are good. I do want the show to flow well, but I just do have a question.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Why did you want to skip the Nebraska game? Because I knew we were going to take a lot of time on that. And I was like, well, let's make sure and hit. Okay. Let's hit these games quickly. I just want the people to know, like I know I need to face the noise. You know what I mean? No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:04:14 So we're not trying to do. I'm not going to be like, all our time today and not talk about Nebraska. Okay. I just want to give Nebraska's time because I know guys have questions. I have questions. And so wanted to kind of ride that one in there. We talked about Alabama, Tennessee. a little bit.
Starting point is 01:04:28 No. I'm not trying to avoid the noise. That pick six at the end of the half, buddy. Like, that was ball game right there. That was big. That was ball game. That was the stupidest offensive play call you could have ever done. And then the safety, yeah, that's, I mean, that's nine points right there that you guys just can't afford to give the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Starting point is 01:04:44 It's just, who's the, what do they call them the disease, the infection? Come again? You're that wide receiver. Oh, germ? Germ. No, but what do they, I think they call them the infection, right? Yeah. That's a germ.
Starting point is 01:04:57 Yeah. Sure. That's first I've heard it. Really? I would look that up because I feel like I think I've heard that multiple times. That guy is so impressive. He's a ball player. Got that AJ Brown build in him too. Like he's that it's, but he runs like Debo. Yeah, he's nice, but even nicer is Ty Simpson. He's playing some good ball.
Starting point is 01:05:17 He's on fire. He's on fire. He uses his legs when he needs it. Alabama Cribsie Tye, September 27th, 25 p.m. The infection. The infection. From the Alabama football account. All right. We did. Tennessee lost. That's why Jackie Boys back there paying his dad's.
Starting point is 01:05:35 He's in all Alabama gear. We did stream that game. I wish there was more anger and more passion during that stream, too. Yeah. I will just say. I needed Garrett when they were making plays. I needed the Garrett that I've seen when he watches Alabama football games. And I get it.
Starting point is 01:05:54 He's being respectful. It's probably very hard. You're sitting there with your best friend. We knew we wanted, hey, of this stream, we get all eyes on teams that we have more than one fan on. And we get to kind of watch from afar these guys be in the same room. And I want to see the passion that we know that they have cheering, yelling, whatever it is. I'm not saying that we need to fake it, but I know that there's stuff in there that they left
Starting point is 01:06:18 on the field that they didn't put out there. The argument you're making right now is essentially this stream kind of was faked because it wasn't authentic to how everybody was truly feeling in that moment. There was a lot of respect. There was like too much just respect. There's personal buying and personal equity with these guys. But when I'm sitting there and I'm trying to ask questions and I'm like, I know Jack's beating down.
Starting point is 01:06:38 I think I answered every question you asked. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, yeah. But what I'm saying is like just the, I was sitting there when it was Oregon, Penn State going on and you're kind of watching the Bama Georgia game. And I'm seeing some stuff that like I want that going on in front of them. I know it like opens a wound and everything else.
Starting point is 01:06:58 when I was sitting there and I ended up asking Chef the question of how you feeling right now with the game coming on because we're kind of sitting there in silence a little bit and he just didn't have an answer I didn't want to do it to Jackie Boy I kind of picked shots every now and then he'll look back and I know when it gets going to more like Nebraska and everything else I'm like okay I know Jack's worked up I don't want him to think I'm doing that just to continue to like hey Jackie boy how you feeling about this one because I know where that that line gets I wanted to ask chef chef chef didn't have anything to say and I didn't even speak I'm thinking guys where's, where's, I need some anger.
Starting point is 01:07:29 I need some, I need to know how you're really feeling in this moment. There needs to be a sign on like the stream room doors, kind of like football, hey, leave it on the field. Like if you get a fight with your boy at practice, when you go in the locker room, it's hey, dab up, my bad, my bad, and you move on. We didn't have a sign that's like, content doesn't care about your feelings. Be authentic. That needs to be the sign.
Starting point is 01:07:48 We'll get on that. Matt's doing his best. He's put on the pads. He's bringing to Jews. Matt did a great job. Matt was the most emotional one. Yeah, Matt was more for vibes than he was. was like truly caring about the game that was playing.
Starting point is 01:07:59 But the way Bama was winning, I know G had so much more. I think he wanted to get Jackson West. The way Tennessee was losing, I'm like, Chef, there is a video of you on Twitter being an absolute psycho. Right. Where is that at? I'm like, you know, I just didn't want to let it out. Well, I mean, I think he would for a walk. Yeah, halftime.
Starting point is 01:08:18 I'm like saying, chef, this is a stream. Like, you need to be doing this. And he's like, oh, you know, anything I said would have wanted to say, I can't say on camera. It's like, no, you can't. Like we're doing this. This is a low risk environment, I feel like of all the content we do, I feel like streaming is our lowest risk. Speaking for a show, I texted him that night. I also, I wanted to text a group, be like, yo, sorry, didn't bring the best content perspective, energy there.
Starting point is 01:08:43 But there were so many mistakes. It's like that was our most authentic ball self. Like it's very hard for us to just like sit there while we're getting our ass be. We're making horrible play calls. And then also just like be monkeys. a cage. Like, I know that we could have been more, but, like, that's what you guys are asking us to be, like, to shell out, like, our, our fandom to, like, be, like, fucking screaming to Garrett. Garrett and I have a very mutual respect for our fandom. It's hard for me and him to get at it,
Starting point is 01:09:13 because we know how much, like, it could seriously endanger our friendship if we took at that level and we just don't. Garrett has been in Neeland before when Alabama has lost and is the most gracious loser. And unfortunately, I've had 16 years in a row where we watched Alabama just fucking destroy our lives. I hated, I hated that's how it went down. It felt like this stream sucked because of Chef and I, and I'll take full, like, accountability for that. It's just like I hated the environment.
Starting point is 01:09:44 I know that work comes first, and I told you this before it, I was like, I never in a million years wanted to stream that game because I get so just like in my head, like I'd be doing that at my house. or like with my friend just like silent raging in my head it's i don't know it's so hard emotionally to like try and understand that like hey you know tennessee's one thing but like this is your job you get health insurance and you're paid for this but i tennessee fandom jack i i understand what you're saying here's where here's what i've kind of realized is we get to look at the leadership
Starting point is 01:10:20 in the room and i think it comes to you and me in those situations of poking the bear and stoking the fire I mean, I ain't taking accountability. Yeah, yeah. I think we need to stream the Florida Tennessee game after what's transpired on this bus. Oh, see, that one would be a lot better. I think that is. I'm out of town, actually. I'm available.
Starting point is 01:10:50 That maybe the move. And it's really on whoever doesn't have stand in the game to people got to know, we're going to poke the bear a little bit. We're going to get in it. If it flipped the other way, we'd have to come out of you, G. That's just kind of how it has to be from now on. Because we know it's in there. I think it's in there.
Starting point is 01:11:06 I think from my point of view during the stream was... He don't got to play this. It's obviously you want to be locked in. And it is that, there is always that fear, especially with this game of like, it's not over until it's over. And so even with the pick six happens and I did punch the Kevin's fridge. So I think I showed my emotion there. maybe I should have
Starting point is 01:11:28 tackled it all the way to the ground for you guys but there is that sense of and I said it in the locker room stay focus and fucking finish the job and that was my pure vibe the entire time I stood up and cheered it's not like yeah you're on the team you got to until this that clock is zero
Starting point is 01:11:45 I'm strapped up I feel you I'm locked in yeah I got it it's no talking in between plays line up for the next nap tentatively we'll be streaming the Florida Tennessee game Okay, Arizona State, they upset Texas Tech. My thoughts on that game.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Didn't see a whole lot of it. I know Sam Levitt had a hell of a game. He threw for 360 yards. I think it's a blip for Texas Tech. I think they're going to turn around. They're going to mow down the rest of the competition. There's a chance they see Arizona State in the Bay 12 championship. I agree.
Starting point is 01:12:14 Kind of have to. BYU is undefeated right now. BYU is undefeated, but they play, I believe they still play Texas Tech and a couple other ones as well. They have a very backloaded schedule to where it's like, BYU, beat Utah, which is one of the parts of their backloaded schedule, but...
Starting point is 01:12:28 Shout out the Holy War. Those unies were sick. Yeah. Red and blue across the board, man. It was oldest time. Yeah. Pull up that BYU schedule because it is,
Starting point is 01:12:36 they got a nasty little thing coming up. Let's see. They got Iowa State. Never count out Rocco Becked and Matt Campbell. Then you got Texas Tech. Two road games. TCU. You got Cincinnati.
Starting point is 01:12:48 TCU's a good ball club, too. TCU's a blue ball club and then UCF right there. So I don't know what's going to happen on BYU. I know that ASU have kind of put themselves Can you throw up ASU schedule just real quick? We'll move on to the next game. I love what the Big 12 is at. The kind of the conversation, I think Josh Payte talked about it on his show last night.
Starting point is 01:13:07 He was breaking down like there's a chance we see both these teams again in the Big 12 championship. Because ASU, let's see. They got Houston, Iowa State, Iowa State, West Virginia, Colorado, Arizona. They have much easier. Yeah, they have a much easier back-half schedule. You can see them sneaking back into that Big 12 championship yet again. Still at Iowa State. Iowa State.
Starting point is 01:13:29 That's a scary one. That's a scary one. Texas Tech, they're playing Oklahoma State. Poor Coop. Kansas State, poor Will. BYU, UCF, and West Virginia. So all winnable games, I see Texas Tech mopping from here on out. What's Cincinnati schedule?
Starting point is 01:13:47 I think they have a pretty cakewalk, too. I mean, they got to play BYU, right? Was that the one we just saw? Do they have to play Tech, too? Let's see Since today he's got Baylor, Utah, Arizona BYU at home though
Starting point is 01:14:01 And at CACU Yeah That's not super easy Big 12 man Wide open Interesting Wide open World we're kind of sitting in right now
Starting point is 01:14:10 At the big 12 You go back Hmm Could have picked a big 12 team Let's see Georgia Tech Yeah listen Georgia Tech beat Duke I have no idea
Starting point is 01:14:20 Why Duke is favored In some of these games They're a favorite early in the year to Illinois, that was easy pickings. And then their favorite against tech, it's just crazy. It's just crazy. Like, what do we, what is the sport books seeing? Sportbooks?
Starting point is 01:14:35 What does Fandu's seeing that we're not seeing when it comes to Duke? Because clearly we're seeing the field a little bit better. Yeah. Yeah, Mani Diaz, he needs to cut his hair. He needs to switch up the juju for that team. Yeah. I'm seeing it going on. This is just probably where it starts.
Starting point is 01:14:50 This is where it starts right here. We got to buzz the head. We talked to Marcus Freeman about the win against USC. I do think it's crazy. I saw the AP poll come out. I think it's wild that USC is not ranked anymore. They fell all the way out. They fell out.
Starting point is 01:15:04 And LSU is still ranked? Yeah, LSU is still ranked. Yeah, they dropped a bunch. USC. Yeah, Michigan's now ranked 25, which is I like it because it's my school, but I'm also like, if you're to pull USC. If you're going to keep Michigan at 25, like USC, like we saw the game like whether it's 24. 23, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:15:24 Like, I think it's crazy that they fell out because there are two losses of what. Illinois, who's now ranked, which is good. But their two losses being at Illinois and at Notre Dame, Notre Dame, one of the best teams, you know, climbing up to be one of the best teams in the country again.
Starting point is 01:15:36 Yeah. I did think it was crazy that USC kind of fell out of the top 25 because I still think USC's a good football team. Great football team. Yeah. Really good football team. Tough to win at South Bend,
Starting point is 01:15:46 especially the elements too. Yeah, the rain, all that. Jeremy, my love, was destined to go off. Yeah. Let's talk about Cocktoe. Someone in the pre-production meeting said, is it Cocktoberber or is South Carolina just asked if somebody did do that on the bus? Sitting on the bus right now, now is it time to come clean? Oh, wow.
Starting point is 01:16:05 That was me, the Florida Gators fan. I did write that. You were a Florida Gators fan for 24 hours. You already give him Gator fans a bad name. I have to defend this, though. JP and I, we have talked before the season started, and he was talking about South Carolina, all the stuff. And I think I said many times, I think South Carolina is really going to let you down this year. And now the real question is, will they even make a bowl game?
Starting point is 01:16:28 I think that is a fair question to ask. It's a fair question. How many wins will South Carolina end the season with? I think we should go around and find out what everyone thinks. What's their schedule? Can you pull it up? About Alabama this week, we got Ole Miss the next week, and then we have A&M, and then we play Coast Carolina and Clemson.
Starting point is 01:16:45 What's your record? Right now we're three and four. So eight and four. And who are the next three? opponents? Bama, Ole Miss, A&M, Coastal, and then Clemson. I think you get the last
Starting point is 01:16:58 too, no problem. At Ole Miss and at A&M. On the road. I don't think you need a bowl game, you beat Clemson. There you go. We're throwing it back to the old days. Trust me. Season saves with the Clemson win. I am hoping for an upset in one of these next three. We'd love
Starting point is 01:17:14 to see it. I'd like y'all can sneak in Ole Miss win. Just started trying to ruin seasons. Yeah. Laine can't gets named in the next Florida head coach. They all quit on them. You get one of those three and I think y'all get coastal and I feel like y'all just dog Clemson
Starting point is 01:17:27 like y'all were born to do. This is the sneak Alabama this week at home. The issue is we have 5 O linemen out hoping me maybe some of them come back but we're missing 5 O' linemen. Dylan Stewart got hurt last week. A linebacker got hurt.
Starting point is 01:17:46 Well, you're missing your whole starting O line because the left tackle he got hurt past week. And Dylan Stewart. And Dylan Stewart, you're pretty depleted. And the number one frustration from Gamecock fans is offensive play calling because it's like you see all of these teams with similar talent just moving the ball all the time. You see Diego Pavia run nuts on everyone. It's like you cannot tell me that Lenora Sellers cannot do what Diego Pavia is doing. So that's a frustrating part. But I was telling Taylor before, I was like, this truly is, maybe this is the year to make.
Starting point is 01:18:20 making a bowl game great again because growing up this reminds me of all my seasons in elementary school we would go into the clemson game pretty much at five wins it's like we beat clemson we're in the bowl game and we win that bowl game it's up next season and the bowl game had so much weight to it at the lunchroom table you're fighting for it like in elementary school i don't think we ever beat clemson but there was always a chance but it's just like that uh we're throwing it back this is an o5 fandom year where we're fighting for that bowl game fuck yeah dude god I'm here for the fight
Starting point is 01:18:53 every week every week here for the fight I'll be at the Alabama game G may or may not be there but I'm gonna do whatever I can to will this team to victory yeah they want to know with you yeah I mean I'm yeah they're wanna know with me there this year
Starting point is 01:19:09 but if they gave me the opportunity I would speak to every single player individually if I needed to yeah start getting them deep just line them up outside of an office You're just in there? Right.
Starting point is 01:19:20 Sit down, Mark Clark. I'm willing to do whatever I can. Stick into the SEC. We got a college game day in the fall Don't Lie tour at Missouri at Vanderbilt this weekend. Big game. Massive game. We got to go for those that are in town. Yeah, for the guys that are in town.
Starting point is 01:19:37 That'd be a fun game to go to. Dude, the OT between Mazoo and Auburn and seeing the ball player, seeing Mazu's guy just talking shit to Auburn and then go and get a sack and a tackle for loss. I loved it, bro. He was on fire. On fire. On fire. I have no idea who's going to win that one. I don't either. I don't either. Because Mizzou's tough.
Starting point is 01:19:59 Vanderbilt's tough. I think they're going to do game day on Broadway. You know, McAville have that place just an electric factory. It's going to be nuts. Yeah, it'll be interesting. If Vanderbilt beats Missouri, it's going to have to become Caden McConnell, Vanderbill, a hate week for me that last week in November. All that ball stuff on.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Being terrified about what my wallet's going to look like if them boys pull that shit off. Whoever wins, it's their one loss is too Bama. Yeah. Yeah. Their one loss is too Bama. God bless. Right now Bama looks like the best, I won't say
Starting point is 01:20:36 the best team in the SEC. Gotta still give credit to Texas A&M. They're still undefeated right now and taking care of business. But Bama looks really good. It's like them and A&M are the front runners. Yeah. A&M is nice. M.A.
Starting point is 01:20:48 him is nice. Something about Georgia, man. I feel them making a... George is there, but they're just on... They lost to Bama. They have one loss and they lost to Bama. Yeah. You say four ranked wins in a row.
Starting point is 01:20:59 Against Ole Miss. Four ranked wins in a row for Bama. Four ranked wins in a row. Two on the road. Florida State... Wait till they play an unranked team. Wait till they play... Can they keep that...
Starting point is 01:21:08 Can they keep that going against an unranked South Carolina? Damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, C'll love where the SEC's at. With the Big 12 SEC, like it's going to get fun.
Starting point is 01:21:18 We have, you know, beginning of the season, you looked at our schedule. We had Tennessee, South Carolina, I think it goes Oklahoma, LSU, and then Auburn. And now, unfortunately, like, LSU isn't very good. Oklahoma's wishy-washy. LSU, you've been on, they are frauds, man. We'll see how we can finish it out. I think you're going to like what you see at the end of the year, buddy. dive into what?
Starting point is 01:21:46 It's a Big Ten ball. Yeah, we taught Big Ten Ball all quickly go. I took my daughter to the Michigan Washington game. I was very nervous about this game because Washington's one loss came to Ohio State, who seems like the most complete team in all of college football right now. And, I mean, Washington comes back against Maryland. I think it was like 24 unanswered points in the fourth quarter when they're in Maryland. The quarterback's elite.
Starting point is 01:22:10 The running back is awesome. that they had that wide receiver Boston. So I'm like, they have a lot of offensive firepower. And after watching them versus USC, watching Michigan versus USC the week before, I'm wondering what we're going to see. Just to say, as I see him on Friday, he's put a little something on his like shoulder pads.
Starting point is 01:22:27 I'm like, hey, we going this week? Because we're going to find out today. It's Friday afternoon. He ends up not playing that game. So I was very nervous. Our defense, that was it. That, dude. We, the quarterback, Williams, the quarterback for Washington,
Starting point is 01:22:43 he's doing one interception all year. He threw three against Michigan. Seven, seven, we leave a lot of points off the board. We have a fourth and one. Once you know it, drop took place. And then we missed it. We missed a field goal. So there's a lot of points, and we're almost in the red zone
Starting point is 01:22:56 or in field goal position on that fourth and one. Second half, I mean, Bryce Underwood, five for five on one drive, 64 yards. I was showing JP a bunch of highlights when I got back during that, that's true. Like shit was juicing me up That was his best game That was his best game Like he he made some throws I was just like
Starting point is 01:23:15 I still am like Like recovering from last year We couldn't throw the ball at all Anytime there's a completion I'm like Just getting a little chubby You're sitting there like This guy's fucking unbelievable
Starting point is 01:23:26 And it's like a checkdown I'm like we got him We got one But he had a couple Both tight ends are out Our starting tight end And our second string tie end was out Our third string tight end
Starting point is 01:23:36 Who's a junior Has like six catches for 86 yards It's, Bryce is throwing the needle, that Marsh kid, the one-handed catch. Like, and then Marshall, the backup running back goes 136 yards. Like, it was one of those games you're like watching. Like, this is an offensive, this is an offense that you play like this, you can beat anybody. That defense, like we're getting home with four. We're not blitzing every single play.
Starting point is 01:23:58 It's sparingly. It's tasteful. They're disguising. And it was like, you walk within that game. It's like, as low. Yeah, do that every week. As low as vibes were, we're after the USC year where I'm thinking of myself, you know, maybe I don't know about Washington shit.
Starting point is 01:24:11 I don't know about Maryland. I don't know about some of these schools. I feel good about Ohio State as always, but. Conversations were starting to come up about Michigan. Yeah, and Sharon Moore. And now it's like, keep me on the roller coaster. Keep me on the roller coaster because now I'm feeling as high as I possibly could be. And there was a, I don't know his name,
Starting point is 01:24:28 but it's like, I want to say he was a backup quarterback last year for Michigan. And he was on some show or podcast talking about the culture. And it's a lot of fingerpoint. And you're kind of seeing it come to fruition. I saw a tweet about that. You know you were talking to me about that hell. It seems like Chorans lost the locker room. Lost a lot.
Starting point is 01:24:45 When did I say? Somebody, I was Saturday night when I got back from the game and there was a conversation. I don't know. It might not been new, but somebody was like, yeah, I'm glad you guys had that game because I saw reports that like Sharan's lost the locker room. I think it was coming from that backup queue. That was on the team last year. Oh, was it a club? Was it a clump?
Starting point is 01:25:04 No, no, it was an orgy. It wasn't orgy. It wasn't orgy. Yeah, fuck them. you know what I'm saying like you there's a reason why you left buddy that's not it's not for everybody when it comes to the maze in blue so it was for me a game just to watch and like like wow that was a really yes it was from that it was from that account too what what was that account that posted that they're posting stuff on reddit or something like that Clayton safety yeah
Starting point is 01:25:29 yeah yeah yeah that's like an Illuminati same account I'll see it's the account I'll see to Marcus Freeman. That dude right there. Who's this cat? Go up. Go up. Jack Tuttle. Damn, Jack.
Starting point is 01:25:47 Damn. Tuttle? Yeah, I know, bro. One year out. King Tut? Little Tutte? Talking crazy. Where's he playing now?
Starting point is 01:25:55 He said, former Michigan quarterback Jack Tuttle and Mitch. Enterprise. Players are pointing fingers at coaches and arguing with one another. He even admits that it happened last year under Sharon Moore. Hashtag noticing. It's the craziest hashtag ever. Yeah, really easy to sit in a Zoom with a collared shirt on and say mean nasty things about a program you can't affect.
Starting point is 01:26:14 That's a tough look when you're out. That is a tough look. Yeah. That's a, that's bitterness. That's a tough look. But just like you got boys on the squad. Like, what are you doing? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:26 What are you hoping to get from that? Right. Yeah. You know all the guys that are on that football team besides the freshmen. And anyway, regardless of the kids. Yeah. It's like. Those are still all your teammates.
Starting point is 01:26:37 Yeah, regardless of how things have gone from Michigan this year, these guys are, they're living, eating, and breathing it every single day. We're like, they're so zoomed into it. They believe in they're going to win every single game by 50 points. But you know what? We need guys like Tuttle. We need them because right now it's Little Brother Week. We've opened up at 13.5 point favorites versus Michigan State.
Starting point is 01:26:58 Big statement game. Texas Charana said, this is a game you're up by 21, you go for two. This is one of those games. It's time to cover. Time to cover. Yeah, time to cover. to be great. Hey, covered this week.
Starting point is 01:27:10 So that was nice. But overall, man, I was like a very uplifting Saturday. Awesome to have Willow there. It was a great time. You ready? Yeah, look, all eyes on Northwestern. That was a bad game. That was a bad game against Minnesota.
Starting point is 01:27:26 Hats off to Minnesota. They had an incredible, I'll obviously do the coach speak game plan, but they shoved it. They rode the boats up our asses in that second half. It was tough. I'm still healing from it. I started Friday morning. I weighed myself.
Starting point is 01:27:40 I was 2.17. I got on the scale last night after the weekend was over. I'm 225. I've added eight pounds. I've ate ice cream four days in a row. I'm currently still healing, but now we go to work. Now it's Monday.
Starting point is 01:27:52 Now it's time to work. Yeah. Because the world doesn't give a fuck, dude. All the noise that was happening last week, it sucks. Because people will be like, oh, this was definitely a distraction, everything.
Starting point is 01:28:01 People are going to, you know, the world's going to be as loud as ever around Nebraska. And we played a bad game. JP was talking like, why can't we look like some of these offenses going around? I just see some of these quarterbacks who have, you know, who have enough time to throw the ball around. I'm thinking, why can't our offensive line do that? But I'm not going to get in that just negativity mentality,
Starting point is 01:28:21 because no matter what, you have to go back to work this week. You just, you have to. You know, we're playing Northwestern. We need to beat their ass because, again, I know that that game was tough. You see Dylan after the game, just taking all the accountability. Look, it starts with me. That was a tough game. and just all the players feeling pissed off about it.
Starting point is 01:28:38 You know that sucked because they went in before that week started, say, hey, we want to wear the old whites. We know we kind of have the curse or we have a bad record. I want to say, Riola and the boys, they went in, hey, we want to wear the old whites. Got all the noise going on with Coach Ruhle throughout that entire week. And they wanted to right or wrong and felt like this culture. Everybody talks about how the feeling around this team,
Starting point is 01:28:57 it's just a different vibe. It's a different mentality. We're three and one in one score games going into that game against Minnesota. And we had a very bad showing. And part of me, it's that that little bit creeps in of being five and two and you're at that midway point. Is it, you know, hopefully like this is like all hands on deck. You've got to get this bad taste out of your mouth and put an ass whipping on Northwestern. Because if not, it's like, fuck, man, is this about to, you know, are we just going to be iffy throughout the rest of the season?
Starting point is 01:29:24 I don't think we will. I think we have a good football team. We have to figure it out at the line of scrimmage. We can't let teams run the football as well as Minnesota is doing in that second half against us. And so it's just one of those ones Like I'm there with JP I'm gonna find every which way I can Turn over every stone
Starting point is 01:29:40 And will this team to victory this weekend It gets Northwestern Because it's got to be an asshole And this is a massive How are you going to respond After a game like that For Nebraska? Is this game home or away?
Starting point is 01:29:51 I believe it's home Is there a chance that Wilco? Oh, you have to go to Sleepy Hollow this weekend Yeah, I got to go support One of my best friends for his way For Wilcofton take a solo mission Maybe just take Rue and go to Lincoln and just be boots on the ground
Starting point is 01:30:06 The Root can't go to a game like that That's where she would see a different version of her old man You know what I mean? But this is Monday This is what I call mirror Monday And this is what I hope is going on in South Carolina locker room And I hope it's going on in Nebraska's locker room When you show up and you go to put your paths on
Starting point is 01:30:23 You open up your locker I want the coaches to put a mirror in there So every single player can look themselves in the eye And say am I who I say I am and am I becoming who I'm supposed to be? I fucking love that, if you can't answer that question, get out of the locker room.
Starting point is 01:30:39 I fucking love that. I just came up with that off top. Did you realize? Get my piss hot, young man. Hell yes. Mere Monday. Mere Monday, bro. I'm with you because it was tough.
Starting point is 01:30:51 I went in the halftime and again, it's like you see all the, you know, the people love to talk about and post about the negativity going on. But I'm like, all right, at the end of the day, we had to we put ourselves in touch situations whether
Starting point is 01:31:03 were sacks or penalties when we got into scoring position took three points instead of seven they did pop one long run on us so I'm thinking of myself they popped one play on us at seven to six do I wish we were up that it was 14 to seven absolutely but it's like let's come out of the second half and let's go to work and dude Minnesota just one play at a time bro we got one where Archie Archie Wilson puts it on the one yard line Eckler's fired up we pin him back on the one yard line and they go like 15, 17,
Starting point is 01:31:31 place 99 yards, bro. And even when we could get out the field and it was fourth and short and they go for it and we get a defensive pass interference and you're just like, fuck man. And then slowly but surely, I just started to have that feeling.
Starting point is 01:31:43 I'm like, fuck, boys, we're running at a time here. Like, we got to start making some hay and it just didn't happen. Hey, and by the way, that linebacker for Minnesota who had that A-gab blitz. I'm a boy, my boy, Emma Johnson. Emmett didn't shy away from it.
Starting point is 01:31:57 It just didn't go his way in that A gap. And that's when you pull up and be like, as a coach, you show Emmett Johnson that and be like, I know you don't want to see this clip, but you got to take a lot of pride and you're putting your face in that. You're out, you guys come with a head full of steam.
Starting point is 01:32:12 But he's got a neck roll on. He outweighs you, he's got a neck roll on. No fair dodging. This dude's coming right down the middle. And listen. We got to find a way to have it. Is that a linebacker play that I'm sure you dreamed about? And I'm sure a lot of linebackers dreamed about.
Starting point is 01:32:24 Yeah, but like everyone gets got. That's one play I watch and I'm like, uh, a nice rush by old boy. right. Even while you're in mental health. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I was with Friday night, I'm with Dave while the game's taking place. I'm putting Willow to sleep. I come back out. Dave's like two and a half, three rum and diet Coke's deep. And I caught him on the film. I was like secretly filming him. And he's like, we got to text Will. I'm like, Dave, I'm telling you right now, this is not the time. And I started to film because I was going
Starting point is 01:32:54 to tweet a little video of Dave. Minnesota, he's a Minnesota alumni. talking about, you know, if nobody's ever watched football before, they'd be like, what's the big deal with this all of this white and red team? Like saying all these things. I have the video and I'm like, I'm like, I literally thought about you. And I was like, I can't do this to Will right now. But it's your dad doing it. I know.
Starting point is 01:33:14 It's kind of, it's funny. And I'm like, I'm wanting to fucking get Dave Luan after that. But. Because Dave was, Dave was talking crazy. You know, like, he was talking about Minnesota. I'm thinking my, you guys haven't been good ever. What are you talking about? They were good that night.
Starting point is 01:33:32 That number zero, that defensive end, he's good now. That's a good defensive end for Minnesota. I highly doubt any team in America beats Minnesota on Friday night. That Friday night, they looked good. They looked good. Even when they're getting coverage sacks, like they did a great job taking away basically everything we wanted to do. Hats off to him. Hats off to PJ Fleck.
Starting point is 01:33:53 Hats off to the Minnesota gophers. I was talking a little shit before that game started. you push it down my throat and you guys know where my house is like I thought about going and laying on the railroad tracks after the game. I now understand
Starting point is 01:34:06 the purchase more. Yeah. I mean, he said if we lose like text me and make sure I'm good if I don't respond like come to my house, I'm in Ann Arbor,
Starting point is 01:34:15 I send you a text. Thoughts and prayers are with the Compton family. I love you. No response. I'll wake up Saturday morning. I'm thinking, is he gone?
Starting point is 01:34:24 Is he with us still? I took that as you patting me on at some point. Well, hold on. At some point, dude, you've got to realize if it's not Michigan, Nebraska, I am rooting for you in Nebraska. At some point that's got to change in your head a little bit. Because I'm not patting you in the head.
Starting point is 01:34:43 It can't. Why? I don't know the same reason that when I did my video. The same reason I did my video and I'm like, I should be happy with the life that I have but I'm not. Like there's something that's just in my body. brain that it just, I don't think I'll go that way. Can I, is there anything I can do for you to realize?
Starting point is 01:35:04 And for the Nebraska players who watch this, who like basically called me a piece of shit before the Michigan Nebraska game, not realizing I played football there. Like, what can I do for you as your friend to where you know that I'm on your side? Is it not to talk to you at all about Nebraska other than on the show? Is it, you know, I don't know that answer. If I had that answer, I would try to communicate. Is it possibly the competition? taking place right now. I'm like truly trying to look at you in the eyes and say, hey, buddy,
Starting point is 01:35:29 I'm rooting for you guys. Like, there's some fun things we have to do in the show like Matt Rule to Penn State. Like, I got to bring that up because that is the show we have. He's your friend. I'm your friend. I know he is. I know he's like, I'm not patting you on the head. I'm not Dave Portnoy. You pat him me on the head. I know there's times. Earlier today, I'm like, that play, we're talking about Cade McConnell. I'm like, that play that took place with 49. It's like, that's a good football player. You're like, what are you doing? Like, I do this. You did have to bring that out of nowhere for zero reason. Because it's football porn.
Starting point is 01:35:59 The subject to was football porn. I was like, it's similar to it. And I'm not even trying to, but that's a similar play. You just said, that's a great football play. Yeah, but at that moment, you took out a pocket knife and slipped it in me. You know what I'm saying? There's wounds that happen over the course of, like, being a Nebraska fan and South Carolina fan that it's like wounds heal, but scars don't. Like, the scar is there.
Starting point is 01:36:21 And I tell you what, you are on a roll right now. club always. I get it. That's what it is. I get it. And I felt that when the whole Nebraska Michigan thing took place this year. And when you picked Nebraska
Starting point is 01:36:34 and your meeting was, hey, I'm going to go roll with the home team. I know a piece of you were still thinking about South Carolina, Tennessee from a couple years ago when I sat there and took Tennessee.
Starting point is 01:36:43 I know that. It has nothing to do with your decisions. It's the loss that we experience on our teams. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. I can't feel for you guys.
Starting point is 01:36:52 I can't feel for you guys. Because my school, No, I'm saying you're not doing anything wrong. It has nothing to do with you. It's all here. It's all internal. It's all of the battles that we've been through. Right, the battles you've been through.
Starting point is 01:37:05 I'm over here with my sword and my shield saying, guys, I'm with you. Hey, cock to-tob. But we're like, it's too late. I already have too many cuts. And I'm saying, that's what therapy's for. I'm what therapy's for. I can help both y'all. But to go to therapy, the other person also has to want to go to therapy.
Starting point is 01:37:21 I don't want to go to therapy. Right. I want to win. So you want to sit there in every single fall. From here on now, you want, when I talk about the breast, I'm like, man, I wish you guys got done. You're like, you fucking piece of shit. Pat me on the head again.
Starting point is 01:37:31 It's like, no, bro, I'm literally thinking about you. Friday and after I put my childhood sleep. I'm thinking to myself, I hope my best friend's okay. I know, but there's things that you've said and done that just you can't take back. Similar to, I can't wait for Michigan to fall. Like, you know, I'm praying on your guys's downfall. I heard all the, you said all those things too. I think I said that one time.
Starting point is 01:37:48 You said it one time. And it was when again, I was bleeding and I was holding a knife. I was bleeding and I was still holding a knife. you no matter what, you go to it, say we go seven and five, you're going to be, hey, beginning of the year, I would say you guys should be happy about this. That is that right there. That right there. To me, I'm still saying, listen, that, we're showing growth.
Starting point is 01:38:05 But if you're asking. Because you're saying there is you're the most unrealistic fan. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're digging. No, I'm not digging. I'm telling the truth. And again, you're not wanting to listen to me. You're not wanting to listen to me. Okay.
Starting point is 01:38:17 If you're talking about digging, it's because you're in the same position. I'm telling you guys, hey, if you go better, have. a better record from last year. That's called getting better as a program. So here's what's happening in those moments. You're asking how you can support me and then you're also making your own decisions on how you think you're support me. I'm not responding the way you want to. I'm trying to tell you, hey, here's how you support me, but you continue to do that bullshit where you pat me on the head. I'm not patting you on the head, Will.
Starting point is 01:38:44 But you are because I'm trying to tell you. No, I'm not. That's your mental. I'm literally saying, hey, if you have a better record than the year before, then your team's gotten better. Yes or no? Is that fact? No. Yes. No. Yes. But also, as you say that, that is fine that you sit in that chair and you say that, but don't come asking me, how can I support you when I'm trying to help you and you don't want to take it?
Starting point is 01:39:03 I know how am I support you right now? It's done. We're done. We ain't going to therapy. We ain't mended this bridge. You're going to give up on our football family. I'm going to know any time. It's like, hey, I love you.
Starting point is 01:39:14 I'm thinking about the comments that I'm just going to look and I'm going to look and I'm going to look and I'm motherfuck. Dog. We're done, dude. I can't sit there. It's like, you're sitting there and you're like 10 and 2, 11 and 1, Big 10 championship playoffs. Taylor, Taylor, listen to me. Can we not?
Starting point is 01:39:38 Now, I get it. We just had a bad outing, right? But what, like, the rest of our resume right now, we're sitting in 5 and 2, you can't sit here and tell me that I shouldn't expect us to win out. Let me stop you. USC is going to be a tough game. Let me stop you though. I agree with everything you're saying.
Starting point is 01:39:57 I agree with that. Every game you have on your schedule is winnable. USC is the one you kind of put aside and you're like, I don't know about that one. I am with you. I think you guys can literally win out. 10 and 2 is still right in front of you. I agree.
Starting point is 01:40:11 When we sat in the beginning of the year, your team has gotten better. And I said, seven and five, you guys have gotten better. That's okay to say. I'm sitting here now in the middle of October, late October even.
Starting point is 01:40:22 Saying, Will, you guys can win out, and I believe you can. Now, listen to the words. Don't think about what I could possibly be. Okay, I'm saying the Nebraska Cornhuskers absolutely can go 10 and 2. Without a doubt. Okay. Full stop, end of sentence. There's no padding on the head.
Starting point is 01:40:43 USC's going to be tough. Penn State? Yeah, I always had your number. But Iowa ain't a fucking ball club that should be able to hang out with Dylan Raola. They don't got past rushers that's gonna get nine sacks in a game. You guys can win that fucking game. I'm with you.
Starting point is 01:40:59 100%. 100%. What time is it? Heart rates at 102. Because I know. So if, I don't believe it's gonna happen. But if we were happening to be seven and five and I'm pissed off about Nebraska,
Starting point is 01:41:18 you ain't gonna sit there and say that's a positive year. You're gonna under. understand that we should be pissed off about being seven and five. Okay. Let me finish everything I'm about to say before you speak. The beginning of the year, I 100% believed seven and five is you guys have gotten better. And that is just the reality.
Starting point is 01:41:39 The product I've seen from the Nebraska Cornhuskers at this point, what is the date today? October, October 20th. 1020. Okay. if you guys end up seven and five, it's a failure of a season at this point because you guys have put a great product in the field, your running back is leading the Big Ten and rushing,
Starting point is 01:42:01 even though the guy that was in first place didn't play last week, your defense is a lot better. Raola is a great quarterback, and if you can scheme up some things from a protection standpoint, if you go seven and five, that is a failure of a season. Absolutely. Ten and two needs to be the look. At worst,
Starting point is 01:42:18 Nine and three. There's no room for error at this point. There's no room for error. Now you can speak. No, you're on the right track. Now we go. Listen. I was waiting for any...
Starting point is 01:42:34 No, there's nothing else. I was waiting for any butt in there, and I was going to be a dead to be. Yeah, exactly. And the intensity in your eyes, buddy, USC, I can't sit here looking in the eyes and be like, you're for sure going to win that game. Look, there's things I need to see as well
Starting point is 01:42:47 because I do think U.S. is a tough football team. Right. But you guys... He's got UCLA down the stretch. You got Northwestern this week who just won 19 to zero versus Purdue. You guys need to bodybag Northwestern. You guys can bodybag Northwestern. Iowa, yeah, they've had your number for what, the last 10 years?
Starting point is 01:43:05 Yeah. There are eight and two in the last 10 years. Nine and one. This is the year we're flipping the script. This is the year we're flipping the script. I am truly with you. So if the unthinkable happens in one of these games and I send you a text, that's says I'm thinking about you know that it's coming from a place of empathy and love has nothing
Starting point is 01:43:25 to do with patting you on the head that pat's on the head happen when michigan's on the schedule michigan's no longer on the schedule that game's gone it's done it's over with it's in the past i'm with you in the huskers no i hear you i know i i can't promise nothing on how i received and i'm saying like this you're much more in this world i am sitting a couple rooms away right now And I can hear the noise, but I'm not involved in the noise. Because it's not my team at the end of day. If anything happens, I'll be there to support. And it's kind of like one of those things.
Starting point is 01:43:59 I'll go to you. I'll see your emotional state. And I'll be like, this is where he wants to be. We can sit in silence with each other for a little bit. There's no more of that. We can get like, Matt ruled Penn State. That's a real thing we got to worry about as Nebraska fans. Hey, Larry.
Starting point is 01:44:15 On that. Appreciate y'all too. I was ready. We said that to say progress. Buddy, no, no, that's also just real. Like, we have to have real conversations as well. No. It's still there.
Starting point is 01:44:30 No. It is crazy. You stab me again right after the line. Truly, guys, it's just that, that's a fear. We have to sit there and look at it. But you want the pressure to get loud? You want the noise to get loud? Great.
Starting point is 01:44:42 I'm not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's part of the show where we have to talk about Nebraska. Well, that's one of the things happening in Nebraska. Right? Billy Napier to Nebraska's what the
Starting point is 01:44:51 one thing was that was insane what's insane is you're going to a different gambling site and quote tweeting it I just
Starting point is 01:44:56 you gotta you gotta call that bullshit out another funny thing was Publix was on it I saw that maybe you want
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Starting point is 01:45:33 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.
Starting point is 01:45:58 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. Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect. We were God's chosen kingdom on earth. He felt destined for greatness.
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Starting point is 01:51:19 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. 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?
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Starting point is 01:53:00 Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the head.
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Starting point is 01:53:51 Well, there was a situation. We streamed Alabama, Tennessee. Your game was also on during that. And after I got dropped off my wife and kids because I just got back from the Michigan game with my youngest daughter and I hit Will with the, you know, hey, you give me a ride home. Essentially, it was no. And then as pet peeve was friends that don't just get Ubers for themselves when they can afford to get Ubers from themselves.
Starting point is 01:54:11 And my pet peeve was friends that don't go the extra mile for friends. I just want to know. what your stance on that whole thing would probably be. Coach Freeman here, he's got to have some more context. Taylor is notorious for not having a vehicle, asking for rides home. He knew that he wasn't going to have a ride home. And it was honestly the finish up of your guys' game against USC. And he waited until it was basically like 1040 to start asking for rides home.
Starting point is 01:54:37 When he knew that everybody was going to be up in arms because he's out of the way to take home. And I'm thinking, bro, you're a grown man, you have the Uber app. Like you should just be, you should just be asked for an Uber because then when you say no, he like guilt's you or tries to make you feel bad for saying no. Guilt is a little crazy. And so I'm saying no, bro, like that you got to take an Uber home in that situation. You knew this was going to happen. If you would have asked me, like if you were coming in and it's like, hey, the tailon's going
Starting point is 01:55:02 to drop me off. I'm flying in from the Michigan game. Like, would you mind giving me a ride home after the stream? I'm positive that if you're asking me that, I would have been like, yeah, I can get you. But if you wait until he's running. The last thing. And then he's like walking to me. He's like, hey, Will.
Starting point is 01:55:14 And I'm like, what's up, bro? He's like, can I get this ride home? And I'm like, no, bro. I'm not giving you a ride home. That's fair. Actually, the way he just spelt it out, you don't even need to answer that question, Marcus. Let's get into it, huh? Shall we?
Starting point is 01:55:28 Yeah. Yeah. Dude, first off, we're going to give you another ride of applause because that was an incredible win. A lot of people, the nation, after the way USC played against my beloved Michigan Wolverines, people were like, hey, we know USC's nine and a half point dogs against Notre Dame, but we could see them beaten. them. You guys rushed for over 300 yards in that game after going 0 and 2 to start the season. Like, talk about this game plan, rain, everything. Like, you guys took it, the adversity,
Starting point is 01:55:55 and you just kept motoring through. Talk me about that. Yeah, I think going into it, you knew how talented of a team they were. Like, it was a talented football team. Obviously, you saw what they did with Michigan the week before, but we knew we were going to have to run the ball. Like, that was non-negotiable. We were going to have to run the ball. We knew there was going to be some weather. And our guys up front blocked, protected, did a really good job, and we were able to have some explosive gains.
Starting point is 01:56:24 And then defensively, we were going to have to do two things. We're going to have to stop the run and make them one-dimensional because they've been able to throw and pass the ball for over 200 yards a game. And then we knew we were going to have to stop number six. Like, he is one of the best wide receivers in the country. And so we had a plan to do those things. They got yards, but we didn't let him. them consistently run the ball on us and we stopped number six from beating us. And, you know,
Starting point is 01:56:49 our guys battled, man. We said we had to make this one a bloody one. That's what we said going to the game. We're going to have to make this one a fight and they're going to fight, but we're going to have to continue to throw punches and our guys did a good job. Coach Freeman, you are a defensive mind. Talk about how your defense has gotten better throughout the season. Obviously, you play a couple tough games at the top with Texas A&M and Miami. And the playoff, like all the speak of, you know, these are clearly Miami and Texas A&M are good football teams. Clearly they're toward the top.
Starting point is 01:57:20 They're both in the top 10. So you can sit there and talk about, you know, hey, we give up this many points, but it's against quality teams. But as a defensive mind yourself, when you're actually in the defensive rooms and you're challenging your defense to get better, how have you seen that progress throughout the season? Because you guys have been very opportunistic, especially in the second half, these last few games getting as many interceptions as you guys have. Talk about how you guys have kind of challenged the defense, not seeing the game. Hey, yes, they are a good football team. They put up,
Starting point is 01:57:46 you know, whatever Miami and Texas A&M both scored, but you guys know in-house, like, we are a better football team than what we're showing. Yeah, I think that's the most important thing, as you just stated, is you have to own the performance, right? And that if we make excuses and we say, here's what, there's two, two trains of thoughts. You can say, okay, we lost the first game by three, lost a second game by one, or you can say, no, we were owing two. And we had to improve defensively. And our guys owned it, which I knew they would. They owned it. Our coaches owned it. And when you own it, now you can really have the capacity to understand there's answers. There's things we have to do to get better. But if we never own it and we start passing blame, then there's no capacity to understand we've got to
Starting point is 01:58:30 get better. And so that's what they did. We had to coach better. We had a couple young guys and new spots that had to improve and part of that improvement takes experience. But we had to continue to create clarity amongst what we're asking our guys to do. And then they've been able to go out there
Starting point is 01:58:50 and play with some velocity that it takes to improve on defense. Talk to me about the growth of C.J. Carrey. He makes his first start against the University of Miami. You see flashes of like, oh, this kid can be very special. If he is, he starts
Starting point is 01:59:06 as a starting quarterback going 0 and 2. And he seemed to be a guy that now is someone you can actually lean on when it comes to an offensive game plan standpoint. Talk about C.J. Carr and how ridiculous it was at the University of Michigan didn't offer him because his dad, his grandfather was Lori Carr. Yeah. I mean, you go back to even when we recruited him for a kid that grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and, you know, has his last name and the legacy for him to choose to go to Notre Dame,
Starting point is 01:59:34 it tells you a lot about who he is. He is an unbelievable talented quarterback, but he has this trait, competitiveness, leadership that very few people have. And we probably put restraints around him the first half of game one and then at halftime, we said, okay, we got to let him run this offense and be the quarterback and let him, let it fly with the ball.
Starting point is 02:00:00 And now you've seen the growth, right? his ability to really see what defenses are doing, put our offense in the right position, run checks, pass checks, protections. He has got a high ceiling and he is truly elevating with urgency is what I like to tell him. Like, you're getting better fast and the challenge is continuously doing that, right? How do I continuously find ways to improve? But there's a lot of confidence in this program when you have C.J. Carr as your quarterback. it. Yeah, it honestly has been impressive. Hopefully he's not listening to this so he doesn't believe all the rat poison out there. But to that point of the first game, it's like, I remember I was favoring Notre Dame in the game thinking it's going to be trenches, it's going to be run game, defense is going to show up. But when you watch that game, it's like a couple takeaways that I had. It's like, yo, this CJ Car kid is honestly nice. Like Miami did a good job shutting down the run and just seeing how the offensive line, defensive line, how that game played out. I remember walking away being like, yo, I think the CJ Car kid's going to be a dude.
Starting point is 02:01:01 Because correct me, if I'm wrong, he was in basically a QB competition all the way up until the opener. I mean, do you know that you were going to have that out of him? Because you talked about game playing at first. Hey, first half, we kind of restricted him a little bit. It's like, hey, we're going to need to open him up. Were you, what are the things like the it factor that you were seeing that you knew you were probably going to get with him when you did take the training wheels off? Yeah, I think as I look at the fall camp, and it was a great battle, right? Kenny Minchie is our backup quarterback that's ultra talented.
Starting point is 02:01:29 And what you never saw one of the two quarterbacks do is just leave the other one, right? And just say, this is my position and I'm going to just be the guy. And each of them had a really good day, bad day, good day. And, you know, I think at times he's such a competitor. When I talk about CJ, he was competing with Kenny instead of competing with himself. And finally, when we made that decision to say, okay, hey, CJ's going to be the guy. you kind of saw this weight lifted off of his shoulders, and now he could truly focus on being a quarterback,
Starting point is 02:02:04 not worrying about a competition, and now you could let him utilize his skillsets that he has. And so I think with any first-time starter, you want to be cautious on how much you put on his plate versus a good defense like Miami. But I remember at halftime, we just had that conversation to say, hey, let him make the calls, let him make the checks, and let him throw it if he feels like it's there
Starting point is 02:02:27 and hand it off if we need to get the ball to Jay Love or Jadarian, like give him the ball. But I knew we had to put more on his plate and let him lead and let him go. I want to talk about the man, Marcus Freeman for a second. You go to the University, the Ohio State University. You are hired internally after Brian Kelly leaves. Two years ago, we were actually at the game, Notre Dame and Ohio State where I believe you guys had 10 men on the field. Ryan Day, he's yelling at a fake Lou Holtz.
Starting point is 02:02:53 He's not yelling at a fake Luholtz. All bunch of things are going on. And then fast forward to a year later, you're playing in the national championship against your alma mater. For you emotionally, what is it like when you see the Ohio State University and they're on the opposing sideline as a guy who used to play there? Yeah, I think the first time I actually played Ohio State. I was a defense coordinator at Cincinnati. And that was unique going into Ohio Stadium. First time I've been back and probably since I played or actually the year I gaed there.
Starting point is 02:03:26 And then my first true game as the head coach here in 2022, we played at Ohio State. And that probably was personally emotional. You're looking. I mean, it's different. This is your first real game. I was the head coach of the bowl game. But this is the first game of the 22 season. And, you know, you still don't know what you know.
Starting point is 02:03:46 But then we play them again the following year at Notre Dame. And then we play them last year in the national championship. And then all of a sudden becomes an opponent, right? it becomes there's not a Ohio State former player. It's like, okay, how do I lead this team that I'm in charge of leading to win a game versus a really talented team? And so I think the experience of the first two times I played Ohio State as a coordinator and as a head coach help me understand like, this isn't personal. This is nothing to do with where I went to school. This is personal for me to make sure I lead this team to be as well prepared for this opponent.
Starting point is 02:04:23 as I can. You know, too. Like, he was a player. So you can only imagine going up against your own monitor, like the first two times. It's probably insanely personal. Like, you want to, hey, I'm going to get these boys. Right. We all have that moment in our careers where it's like the main character syndrome kind of takes over a little bit. And you're like, yeah, I'm going to get these guys. And everyone knows I'm going to get these guys. Like if I'm walking into Husker Stadium, like I'm one okay, I'm not their guy. Let me show them why. Yeah. Why they should have probably made me their guy at one point. No, that's true. Coach, man, I've been a bit. I'm a big fan of years for a long time and it goes back to that video when you got introduced
Starting point is 02:04:58 as the head coach, as somebody who absolutely loved my strength and conditioning coach, James Dobson at Nebraska, and being a defensive guy myself and love seeing a defensive minds as head coaches. Like seeing that reaction from the players, that moment to where you were the guy, it's just, it's an energy that it's just like you don't know unless you're just in there and you know. So from that moment I've always rooted for you, take me to win. now that you have three years of experience, what do you feel like you've learned as the head coach of a program like Notre Dame,
Starting point is 02:05:27 especially from that moment to where even though BK left, it seemed like every player and everybody in that building was so damn fired up that you were going to be the face and you were going to be the guy leading the Irish? Yeah, I mean, that's a moment that, you know, obviously means a lot to me. I'll cherish forever. But I think now looking at this thing three years later, as you said, probably the thing I didn't know at that point that experience has taught me is be grateful for the pain, man. Nobody wants to lose.
Starting point is 02:06:03 Nobody envisions losing. But I've learned the most personally, and I think our team and our program has, through the losses, through the pain. And I always tell our players, man, be grateful for the pain. We hate losing. Losing is terrible. But at the end of the day, be grateful for that pain because that's where you do your most growth. And it's a reminder that the struggle, the struggle has to occur to have success. And pain of losing helps with that.
Starting point is 02:06:36 The pain of what you have to do to prepare each week. Like our Tuesdays and Wednesdays have to be hard. And you have to be uncomfortable. because that's the only way to get better. It's the only way to grow. And so I think that's the one thing I wish I would, that guy right there in 2021 would have known, like, you're going to have losses in your first two games,
Starting point is 02:06:58 actually your first three games as a head coach are going to lose, but it's going to help you grow more than anything else. And so that's, that's the thing I continue to remind myself is now we can't keep losing, right? You can't continuously lose to grow. Right? Now we have to understand with success, how do we continue to intentionally do things that are uncomfortable that help us grow?
Starting point is 02:07:21 Because we can't continue to lose to say that's the only way that we're going to grow, right? You have to be uncomfortable. And those are the things you learn through experience. With the new age of college football, it's so unique with the NIL stuff going on. The playoff is now 12. It was four. If you're looking at Notre Dame, you're an independent school from a basketball standpoint you're playing in the ACC, and then you lose these first.
Starting point is 02:07:44 two games and it kind of seems like, okay, if they go 10 and 2, the logo's going to get them in, they'll probably be able to bounce it over a couple of people. Do you see a place where Notre Dame can find themselves in a Big Ten or in an ACC eventually to where if those, you know, stumble happens early in the season, you'll have the resume. Well, I have no doubt you guys will make the playoff if you went out, but you, there's no question mark of a resume if you go in, you know, go 10 and 2. Yeah. I mean, the future of college athletes, are always uncertain, right? And with private equity, with what's going to happen with these conferences,
Starting point is 02:08:22 you know, if there's a time that Notre Dame has to join a conference to ensure they can have the same opportunities to make the playoffs as everybody else, then I'm sure our administration will do it. Currently, the administration and myself and all of us feel confident that if we win the games are supposed to win, we take care of the business we're supposed to take care of, then we have just as good of a chance to make the playoffs as anybody else. And so we're in as well positioned right now as anybody we feel, but we can never put our program at a disadvantage for postseason play because we're not in a conference. And if that's ever the case,
Starting point is 02:09:03 I'm sure we'll join a conference. How do you personally compartmentalize, like I feel like your name starting to come up in conversations. You were the successor, Brian Kelly at Notre Dame. Brian Kelly, there's talks about him at LSU. Your name is starting to come into the full with some of these big jobs. Obviously, you're currently at a big job. How do you personally compartmentalize
Starting point is 02:09:25 and how do you also, if that noise does get loud? Like, how are the conversations taking place like with your team or if you're feeling like a feeling of vibe? It's like, how are you handling that with your football team? Yeah, I think probably, as I look, look at it this year compared to last year maybe the impossible thing that would be to say, oh, no, I'm not interested. I got a great job. And yeah, is that the case? Yes. But, you know, when I do hear a little bit of the noise and I try to control the things I hear, but people know
Starting point is 02:10:02 how to text here or say certain things, it's a reminder of the gratitude that I have to have for the position this programs in, for the position I have. Like, that's what I reflect on is that, man, first of all, your name wouldn't be mentioned if your program wasn't doing really good things. And the reason why we're doing really good things is because everybody in the program, right? It's not one person, right? I always tell our guys, like, outside of this building, they're always going to point the finger at one person when you have success.
Starting point is 02:10:40 and one person when you have failure. And it's usually the head coach or the quarterbacks, right? And so I know the reality is it takes us all. It takes every person in his program to have success. And so when you have that mentality, you understand, like, there's a gratitude to the program that I'm involved in and I'm a part of, but also the opportunity I have to be the head coach here, right? And in this position that I hold. And so that's every time I hear something like, I just remind.
Starting point is 02:11:10 myself with the gratitude that I have to be in this position for sure. I love that. That is absolutely beautiful. Let's talk about that Texas A&M game. Last play of the game, it's very clear that the left guard held, right? We can all agree on that at this point? Very clear that you guys probably should have walked away with that win. Obviously, just talking to you for a short time we've had, you seem like a guy that's
Starting point is 02:11:32 getting compartmentalized. You're probably going to go into a closet scream real quick. Come back out. You know, you've been a player. You can't let the refs decide the football game. decide the football game. What does, are we sending that in the next week to the commissioner and be like, hey, buddy, we got to make this right somewhere or one way or another what we got to do here? Like, what is, how does that take place for you as a head coach after the game?
Starting point is 02:11:53 Yeah, you, there's plays every week you send in that you send to the ACC, the head of ACC officials and you say, hey, do you agree or disagree with this call? Now, that game, I think we had SEC officials, if I'm not mistaken. So the ACC probably would agree with a lot of things we say, oh, yeah, those are SEC officials. We agreed they shouldn't have called it or should have called it. But that's just really just to get clarification on why a referee called something, what they called or is that the right call or not. But I never, ever would allow our program to use that as a reason why we lost the game. You know that.
Starting point is 02:12:35 Fair enough. So many plays. within a game that we have to execute, that that play wasn't the only reason we lost a game. It was an accumulation of many plays. But I just don't ever want our guys to make excuses. You know, we got to own the results, man. And that result was because we didn't play well enough consistently.
Starting point is 02:12:56 Yeah. Right? We played well parts of that game, but not enough. This isn't for you to comment on, but I just personally, whenever the line was six and a half, and whenever you guys missed the extra point, I just knew. I'm like, all right, something bad's about to happen here. I had Notre Dame.
Starting point is 02:13:10 Like, he missed the extra point thing happen. I'm like, oh, fuck. I think we all had Notre Dame in that game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something that you can comment on because we're not going to put you in a spin zone of having to go around a sports gambling question. Dude, when I was at Michigan, every second or third game of the year, it would be Notre Dame. And it was such a beautiful rivalry.
Starting point is 02:13:28 And after I left, you know, I don't know how many years since we have played, can we talk to some, the AD at Notre Dame? Do I have to go talk to Michigan? We got to get that rivalry back in check. It's such a beautiful helmet game. Same architect made both stadiums. It's almost a religious experience. Would you be for Michigan Notre Dame again?
Starting point is 02:13:50 Oh, huge proponent. Yeah, absolutely. Like, I remember growing up watching Michigan play Notre Dame, right? And that is such a great rivalry. And you talk about two iconic programs. I would love to see that happen in the future. And I don't know if there's discussions. I don't know if it's on our future schedule.
Starting point is 02:14:12 It might be, I think actually now what you said at Taylor, like, I think it is on our schedule in like 2030 or something like that. I always have to get that back going. Yeah. We have to get that back going. That'd be awesome. Because if you guys are going to play the Miami's, the A&M's, like if you're going to schedule big games,
Starting point is 02:14:31 it's like why not schedule a big game with some history behind it? It would be awesome. Absolutely. Coach, I want to have some fun. So what are some fun things that you do with the guys and the hard, monotonous parts of the season? Because, again, if I think back to the video where I'm fired up for you, it's like guys don't get juice like that.
Starting point is 02:14:50 You know as a player, too. Like, when you have a coach that you just ride for, they do something that makes the game fun or the hard times fun. Maybe it's dances or something before a team meeting. Like, what are things that Coach Freeman does with this team to have fun or keep them on their toes. They're like, they think this is going to be a barn burner today, but I'm going to pull this out on them.
Starting point is 02:15:10 One of the things is just popped to my head because we're going to have a team meeting here in about five minutes. And so I usually show Wiseman plays, right? I always say, you know, we'll take plays from other teams, other games that we have to be wise men. We have to learn from the mistakes of others. But every so often there's plays or examples of us, our own guys, Probably not being wise men.
Starting point is 02:15:36 You know the boys are on them, too. Yeah, something pulled from an Instagram story or something like that. Yeah, well, we got one. I didn't know this. So I get a call from my wife last night. And she said, yeah, the boys, we have three kids 12 and under. And she said, they were doing something where they were thrusting the floor. And I'm like, what are you talking about?
Starting point is 02:15:59 She said, I went up to the boys and said, what are you guys doing? They said, this is the Jay Love celebration. she said she said whoa that's totally inappropriate and so i had the clip sent to me because i didn't even know this happened and uh there he was celebrating there he was in the end zone so i'm going to make sure that gets into our wise men plays today oh i love that tv yeah that is awesome you need to play that clip and then just have a still photo for your kids and be like this is who you're effective like we need to handle this business out here all right it takes a village to He's kids.
Starting point is 02:16:34 You know, he's just going to sit there with the clicker, too, just rewinding it over and over while all the boys are laughing. Don't say nothing. Just let them laugh and then let them get real quiet. Yeah, coach, we know you got to go to your team meeting. We really appreciate you coming on the show. We got to get you on this seat one day. Or maybe we come out of Notre Dame.
Starting point is 02:16:48 I don't know. We'll figure something out of this relationship rolling in a big way. Appreciate you. Give a round of applause for Marcus Freeman. Thank you, Coach. Thank you, guys, man. We love to host you here in South Bend. We'll be there.
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