Circling Back - Playoffs, Clankers, & the Two-Minute Offense with Taylor McHargue | Circling Back 12-18-25

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

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All right all ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, All right, we're back. It's a circling back podcast. My name is Dave. Welcome to the show. Thursday morning, producer Randy. It's a chief here.

Hi, Dave. It does it a whole time. Oh, hold on. The boys are doing a show over here. here and they're right we should probably warn guest so like it's a cheap couch and the the arm moves a lot because you just got a little shook there yeah you broke the couch he's been here before i did i didn't break it last time i was here but i did don't broke a toilet the other day so don't feel bad i did i sat on it and the toilet seat just snapped in half uh randy uh i think that will

might have misplaced that and of course you just didn't really ever fix it so it's fine we'll I got to scoot a little closer to Dill, and otherwise I'm just going to pop off the edge of this thing. Come on, man. Got a little premises liability issue here at this couch. Gotta be careful with it. Be all right. Yeah, I don't know why. I keep trying to intro Randy and talk to him.

That's fine. You got anything else fun? No, not really. Just happy to be here. Mommy Madness shirt. Mommy Madness. Shouts to the Will Mommies. I don't know when the next Camp Wimommies is, but whatever it is.

Good for you. Good for you, gals. Now that you're locked down, you probably won't be making appearances at camp. Well, Mommies, huh? I never did, but yeah, probably not. It feels like you flirted with the idea of going. Maybe the first one, because it was, like, what, like an hour or two away from here? We had discussed maybe we'd do a little pop-in, but.

Not weird. Well, you just wanted to drive the Mommy's crazy. Ooh, Randy's here. Just being nice to our fans. We saw the photo. Dylan Schifery. Man, I'm pretty excited to be here. I just want to talk ball today, dude.

Just like all day, just ball. Really? Do you really, though? I mean, you've kind of been exposed. Oh, my God. Can we revisit this for a second? Can you wait? Let's wait.

Okay. I brought it up, but can we wait a minute? Yeah. Yeah. I know you've been steaming on it. I'm chomping, man. He's champing at the bed. Okay, I know the circus.

Let's get to our. our guest, man, really doing it to him with the kicks today. Wow. It's a fresh out the box. Those would look really good with like a nice suit. You think so? Yeah. What about some hocus in a suit? Oh, no one's do with that. Is anyone doing that? No one is out there. Yeah, if you look hard enough. I won't name names. I understand. I understand. They're probably pretty comfortable, but come on. I know. I know. Not for me. It's a big 12 analyst and the former quarterback conference champion

conference champion don't forget that Taylor McCargg thanks for having me back welcome back I'm pleased to be back a little nervous after the first go around how was that going to go dude you were very well received

by the people man they liked it except for our bearcats out there our Cincinnati fans yeah they didn't like so much that I forgot to mention them and then they lost three out of four in November her quarterback left for Texas Tech I know in theory and his girlfriend right that was part of the

recruiting process? I think she has already committed to signing with them. Yeah. But the quarterback has not yet. But I think it's a foregone thing. Sorgesby, yeah. Is he playing in their bowl? I should know this.

If he opted out or not, I don't know that. I feel like at this point he should not. He probably isn't. Like him, he's basically, he's already bought like a place outside the loop in Lubbock, I'm sure. That's probably right. He's probably at Nix right now back to his F-350 in. Real ones now.

I don't know, Nix. You shouldn't. The only place I know is Chimmy's. Okay. Not a bad spot. I have been to that Chimmy's. You have? Yeah.

Okay. About 20 years ago. I'd probably hold off on going there anytime soon. Yeah, I'm not welcome back. Same goes for you, Taylor. No. Not me, though. I'm a welcome son of West Texas.

Taylor, what's new, man? Man, wrapping up the season. It's been a lot of time on the road, ready to, I've got some golf that I owe you guys We go do that soon What? No. No, no. No, it's been a good year. It's been good. We smooth things over for the most part with the Red Rader fans. I think we're good there. Wrapped up the show with the Big 12. Got one more game on Saturday and then

we'll be on to whatever it is in the off season. I want to really dig into this Harding team. I'm sure you do. I've been following them all year. I don't know about you doing. I have been, yeah. They've got a good squad. Ball-knowers. Yeah. Real good squad. We got our eye on it.

Before we get into it, little schedule stuff, we've got the worst of Christmas episode that will drop Monday. That is recording tomorrow. You still have a little bit of time. Should we drop it Monday or should we drop it Tuesday? Just to like spread out to, since it's an empty week after that. I don't know, dude. Whatever. It doesn't matter.

No, it sounds like it matter. What do you think, Randall? I see merit into what Dylan's saying. There's a little bit of merit there. All right, well, here, why don't you turn my mic off? I'll just fuck all the way off. Okay. No, it's dropping next week.

Oh, okay. You sure you don't want your mic off? Early, turn it back on. I've got one more thing. Early Tuesday morning. Can we make that happen? Yeah, first thing, Tuesday morning. Email.

For all the patrons, no matter what tier you're on, you'll be able to get this. You can email me, Dave at Washmede.com, or there's a form. If you go to the website, washmedia.com, go to the cold call thing. email and you're going to be typing either way or you can just leave it as a voicemail 888 618 4242 also on voice we're doing a listener voicemails that will drop tomorrow yes yeah tomorrow's friday so check that out no theme for that that's just straight up voicemails call in give dorn a piece of your mind whatever you want to do give me a piece of your mind i don't care bring it give me a piece of your mind they do i listened already i'm pretty much done with the show

what do they say now you'll have to wait okay you can probably guess there won't be any surprises more about pizza yeah some of that um hey it's never too late to load up that cart for rowback used code washed 20 washed 2-0 oh man i got one of those uh hoodies the heavy one coming in color is ivory and it's a university licensed one it's a longhorn one and i can't freaking wait wow yeah ivory I agree. Okay. Yeah.

Wash 20. Get you 20% off. Wosed the cart up. One-time use. Much more than that, obviously. Quarter zips. Lightweight hoodies. They have a half zip now, which no one's doing.

I've not even seen that. No one's doing it. Damn. We should do a three-quarters zip. Their vests are dope. Yep. Actually, my dad wants one for Christmas. They've got the vest with sleeves, which is confusing, but it's like a...

It's great for a cool morning walk. It looks like you're going to go on a hike. in Boulder. Yeah. It's very comfortable as well. Looks comfy. Look, they have something for everything, for everybody, for every occasion. Even ladies, Randy, as you know.

Yep. Yeah, as Randy said, he wants to get some ladies merch in here so we can. It's like I can wear it. We can wear it and talk about it. No. Washed 20. Get you 20% off at checkout, like Dave said. One time used code, so don't just be an idiot and buy like a hat and a shirt.

No, you better buy like 20 of them. I should have bought more. Yeah. That's what you'll be saying to yourself. Do it. all right let's talk some ball you want you want to kick it off with your uh yeah your steam your minor steam so taylor um a couple episodes ago we were talking about the heisman trophy sure and basically i just i think they should kind of reframe the award um it goes to the college

football's most outstanding player when it really should go to the most outstanding offensive player because defenders are very rarely considered, right? Charles Woodson was the last, like, defender to win it. And even he was also played special teams as a returner. So chew on that for a little bit. What I said was it goes to the most popular quarterback, and sometimes there's a running back with enough, you know, good enough stats, or he wins it, and occasionally, like an exceptional receiver will win it.

And I mentioned Devante Smith, right? Someone listening took exception to that, is it, oh, I guess we've forgot about Travis Hunter, which was what, I don't know, two years ago or last year, when did he win it last year? Last year. Last year won it. I was like, wait a minute. Travis Hunter? You talking about Travis Hunter? The wide receiver? I was like, you mean the guy who won the fucking Bolitnikov? Because the guy said, a defender won it last year. Travis Hunter. Technically right. I was like, okay. Yeah, he did play defense, but guess what else he did? He played offense at such a high level that he was awarded as the nation's best wide receiver.

facts. And people were like agreeing with this guy. And like, what the hell? What are we doing? Dude. Zero thought went into this post. Yeah, people are agreeing with you and talking about we don't know ball. I wish I, I felt like I missed bringing him up at all. Like, even though like that guy's point isn't, I don't think it's correct. It is technically correct, but in the spirit of things, no. Yeah. But I wish I had brought that up on the show. And I was like, ooh, yeah, I should, I should have known that. That was a big miss for me as well. Why is that? I didn't bring it up.

Thank you. Notable, no or me. Okay, maybe we didn't bring it up, but it wouldn't have changed the conversation whatsoever. No, he's still, he's an outlier. To what you're saying about who wins the award, it still fits into what you're saying, but yeah. Maybe, can we agree a little bit of oversight? Had he not played defense, he wouldn't have won the Heisman as just the nation's top

receiver because his numbers weren't gaudy enough to win it just off just off either side no that's exactly right and last year it was it was him or ashton gentie who was the running back at boise state right there were a lot of people wanted him to get it i was in that camp i thought genti deserved it um i mean you know people want to be mad on the internet you guys know know that better than i do i don't mind people being mad on the internet just have make a good point well that's not going to happen make a point i think you're big mad still don't don't don't you moron. Oh, okay, be nice.

Sorry. Dorn got rage baited. You did get rage. I did get. I'm a sucker for a good rage bait post. Dude, but okay. Jacob Rodriguez plays both sides of the ball. Does he? He did throw an interception.

Had a couple touchdowns, right? Through a couple touchdowns, right? And a pick. That's okay. I was actually writing for Jacob Rodriguez. I think he should have been, he should have absolutely been considered for the He should have been in New York. He was like the ball player.

Was he the. odd man out like the last man out he was the last man out and he got more first place votes than julian saying that's right quarterback for ohio state 12 or something i think was third and the Rodriguez should have been in yeah i think he should have gotten an invite yeah okay I just wanted to clear the air and do you feel better again I was right like I think defensive players if you are that fucking good you should you should be considered agree agree um we just got to fix this couch though straight up yeah what are the odds this collapses while we're doing this no it's just the arm i mean with dylan's fat ass yeah yeah he's got that

dump truck that's breaking toilets you never know dude uh this has been an ongoing thing i i made the mistake of telling these guys that i broke a toilet seat and that well here you call me a fat ass ever since well i mean it like in the way we say it about randy Like he's got that wagon He's toting that wagon All right Dylan's Heisman take Let's get into

Let's get into some positive things Tech fans So Dylan obviously caught the smoke Still catching smoke Still let me just check in You just set the stage real quick Because the real we posted It's made its way into

College football Twitter West Texas Twitter Love it But they're still commenting and some some kid yesterday said uh this guy this guy looks like he turns his car off when he pumps gas which is like an insult that i had not really heard and i hate to admit that i do yeah i don't think that's like that big of a deal yeah i do is it because you're supposed to leave your your your your truck running so it's just kind of sitting there humming Dave i don't i don't really know

i don't know please don't i know that it's not going to blow up if you fill it up while the Engine still running. Why was that ever a thing? I don't know. Was that back in the day that was a possibility? Also, like using a cell phone next to a gas pump too can like... Static electricity. Yeah.

How many people have died from that? Probably two. Probably zero. Maybe zero. Look it up, Randy. Taylor, you like to offer commentary on the Big 12. Yeah. That's part of your job.

Yeah. And you recently did, it was actually probably a month ago now, tech West Virginia. A game that on paper didn't look like it was going to be anything. But things happened in Morgantown. Things happened there. A lot of seasons have died in Morgantown. Yeah.

You were tasked with like, what's the best, how does an upset happen? What's West Virginia's best course of action? Yep. And then I'll let you take it from here. We get through, it's for our show and inside the 12, and we get through the normal segment, which, by the way, fast forward, then I'll tell the rest of the story. the first part of the segment I'm singing text praises

about how great they are defense is unbelievable the hype video that Texas Tech puts out that week is all of my audio it's like them driving the bus and it's raining at practice and whatever else

and it's all my audio it's like how great they are and how physical they are they liked that part did you know this was this was coming out like no I didn't know they were going to use it yeah they clipped it and used it

but after that I get asked West Virginia is like a four-touchdown dog in this game. Do they have any shot in this game? And I said, Baron Morton has been unbelievable for them. He has been injured a lot of his career, and he's hurt this season.

He's got a banged-up leg. And I said the only shot that Tech where West Virginia would have any chance is if Baron Morton's not in the game. I feel like that's a normal, like that was not controversial. But the way I delivered it was not great. I apologize. Tech fans. Anybody's watching this? I apologized to Joey. I apologized to Barron. I saw them at the Big 12 championship and we talked about it and had a laugh about it because I got tech fans. So this gets clipped and comes out. And the way it comes across, or at least the way the tech fans perceived it was this analyst that's on this show wants our quarterback to be hurt. Right. I'm like, okay, well, that's bounty gate. Yeah, exactly. And boy, for a guy that's a guy that's,

That does not have a big following. I've never, I've never had, like, I'll do a game and, like, say one or two things that piss people off. And, like, I get, you know, a handful of people that are upset, whatever. This was the Red Rader Mafia that I had seen a little bit of, you know, what you got with the Jacob Rodriguez hat thing. I was like, boy, this is, anytime you see, you know, 500 DMs and it all has a cactus in their bio, bad day.

Yeah, I got a lot of cactuses in my, but we're good. Tech fans, we smoothed it over. We're all good. Learning lesson, learning opportunity. Every fan base has fans that'll take it there, you know, and just want to do whatever they can to defend their team and call you out for it. But tech fans, they're a different level. They, so I mean, my whole family went to tech, like parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole thing.

And tech has been, you know, outside of that 08 season, the Crabtree game, I don't have any memories of watching tech where they were. were very good. There was peaks in valleys, and they had some seasons where they'd pop up and win 10 games, but this is by far the best team they've had ever, right? And so I think it's a fan base that's very protective of their people, of the success they're having, and anybody that slights them, you're seeing them lash out and go get them. And look, it's a, I think Joey in a press conference right after he signed his extension was like, we got the best fans in the world. These are the most passionate fans. Now, he's on the positive end of it, but anybody that's on the other end of

it, like we were a little bit, you get the brunt of it. Joe McGuire. But they love their guys. People forget he was the, an assistant under Dave Miranda at Baylor. And then he went to tech and had much success and things didn't go. Things haven't gone well down in Waco, around Waco way. But he's having much success this season. We're on Lagway watch right now. in Waco I think you're going to fight LSU for Lagway Really?

Yeah That's a I think I think I don't think Kiffin's Really? Yeah Man Doesn't he want to get out of the

New Sings A little bit? I think he sees a quarterback With a ton of talent And he's like I can mold this guy If he's healthy And you know what I

If I'm if I'm the player I'm going lane all day A hundred percent All day Obviously Even though Lane did Do a tweet today from a yoga studio with his hand on a yoga mat and then another yoga mat really close to

his and it was a female hand saw that and it was just it was just there was no context it was just like yeah i'm doing yoga next to a lady cool i could see sam that's my coach in baton rouge you could see that happening yeah who else would they go for who's available who's returning no who's did they have anybody returning that's promising probably not hard to say I mean, they've got the running back, Caden Durham. With Nuss moving on. Thank you, Randy. I just wanted to put that out there.

They do, to my knowledge, he's not entered the portal. All right, so let's talk. We've got a big weekend. Big football weekend. Big weekend. And not just in the state of Texas amongst the 6A high school ranks, but college, it turns out. That's right.

College football. Kicks off tomorrow night. In Norman, right? That's right. In the first game. Alabama. is a plus one and a half on the road. What's the status of the quarterback?

I didn't realize he was a little bit banged up. Ty Simpson. That's been the internet chatter is that he's back. He's got a back. And he's a little banged up. But I don't know. I mean, if you watch that game the first time they played, Alabama moved the ball almost at will,

but had, what was it, three turnovers, four turnover? That's right. Outgained him. It played well. So look, but that was in Tuscaloosa, playing in Norman at night. It's tough. I've been surprised at John Mateer. I thought he would have a better season than he ended up having. I know he's got some chaos in him where, you know, you get the swings.

You've got a lot of volatility. Makes these crazy highlight plays. Also miss some throws and some turnovers. What are we doing? But I like OU. I think they win that game. I know you probably hate that, but... No, I mean, no, I don't hate it.

Oh, he was good. Their defense is so... They're unbelievable good. Their defense or text defense and the front seven are the two best in the country. I agree. I agree. Are we going to see the Bama backup?

Are we going to see some Keel and Russell? I don't think so, unless there's an injury there, which he might hope for, I don't know. I would never. That's the only chance I have. Now, Keelon and Russell, of course, where did he play his high school ball? He went to Duncanville,

he's a Duncanville Tiger. I already ringed the Battle Panther. Sorry, Duncanville Panther. You don't have to ring it again. That's okay. I'm just noting that that is a thing, a real thing that could happen, which would be, you know,

that's a tough spot to jump into for your first. I mean, he's not going to start the game. Dave, you guys need a Duncanville helmet in here. We do. I should find my old one from eighth grade. that would actually be pretty sweet in here we got to work on that bird raider Duncanville listeners we can procure a Duncanville helmet why we'll get Colin Simmons was bird nerds Simmons to sign it whole thing God that would be so embarrassing he would just

come in here and just just absolutely pat me on the head oh man I've always thought like what if I saw him around town and also like where I'd be like what's up man fellow panther here class of O2 dude I bet I bet you he would dad he would dapp you up. He seems like a very nice guy. Well, as you're playing on the other side of the ball. Loves to talk shit.

Does talk a lot of shit. But I probably won't talk shit to him. That would just be a weird move. Okay. Saturday. I didn't, because I was telling you, I hadn't looked at,

I knew what games were going down. I just didn't know, like, what the time slots were. Saturday night is your, is your Oregon James Madison. That's right. So that's weird.

Okay. That's, A little bit unfortunate, marquee games at weird times. So you got A&M, Miami at 11. Yep. And then Ole Miss Tulane. Yep. 2.30.

Dennis time. Dennis time. Interesting. And then that's it, Oregon and James Madison. Those are your four. Those are your four. Okay. I think your morning game, A&M and Miami has a potential to be probably your best one of the weekend.

That's going to be a really good game. That makes sense. What are your thoughts on A&M? A&M obviously had a great season, kind of cruised through the SEC, lost the last game against Texas, but the competition they faced in the SEC was the bottom half up until the Texas game.

I don't want to get all your Aggie listeners coming for me with this. They are like one of the perfect examples of the downside of expanding these conferences where you have the potential to play the bottom half of your league and not be really challenged. And I get the SEC is still, there's a ton of depth. But they played one team in the top half of the SEC, Texas, and they lost. They should have lost to South Carolina.

I mean, unbelievable that they came back and won that game from 31 to 3. They should have lost that game. I don't know. I'm curious to see Miami only had four road games all season, and they lost one of them to SMU. And they didn't play anywhere that was like Kyle Field. on the road. So I think A&M probably wins, but I don't know what the line is. It's close. Three and a half. Yeah. I mean, it'll be a good game.

And I'm fascinated to see how Marcel Reed plays. Because down the stretch, he did not look good. No. Most of November, he was not very good. Carson Beck in a big game. He's got a lot of big game experience. I mean, yeah, I was like trying to think, so like, Have these guys ever seen anything like Kyle Field in a playoff game? Like, I mean, obviously, that's never happened.

But I'm like, what's the closest environment he's played in? Like one of those Bama games when he was still at Georgia? Yeah, all the time. For sure. Yeah, either at Georgia or in the dome. Okay. Yeah. I don't know.

He's been like, he's a guy I kind of rooted for because I felt like, I don't know, It ended weird for him at Georgia, right, with the weird injury, I thought. And then, like, I don't know. He just got dunked on because he's got, like, an interesting look as Twitter notes. But as Twitter has noted many times. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how you can really pick against A&M at home, even though it is at 11, but they're going to be going so hard.

I've never been, man. That would have been a game where, like, single Dave, single Dave might have just been like, you know what, fuck it. I'm going to drop $800 on a ticket. I'm going to go. Kyle Field's pretty epic. Have you been? I haven't, actually.

We played there the year that Johnny Manzil was suspended for that first half of the autograph stuff. Oh, yeah. That was my senior year, and we were winning for most of the first half. We're like, we could freaking beat these guys. And then Johnny came in, and we lost by three touchdowns. But it's unbelievable. And that was before they finished all the construction on the end zone. like it's it is very loud it's very loud they are whatever you think longhorn fans think about them

it is a great atmosphere for college football um speaking of so you're going to make it up for the armed forces bowl 100% biggest bowl game that's outside of the playoff rice owls versus the texas state box six and six Texas state versus five and seven rice that back doored into a bowl because of the opt outs let's go t states made a change a coordinator D coordinator I got the Things are happening I put it on my story

and got the side eyes emoji from GJ because the last time they played they stomped the hole in rice I was like coach just let's have a little more competitive game at a minimum please they drank all the beer

in the stadium the last time and they kicked this shit out of rice that was in Dallas in Dallas at SMU Stadium yeah when I we talked about that it was like on Twitter like, oh, yeah, Texas State fans drank all the beer.

Literally. You kind of think, like, oh, that's a joke because Texas State party school. No, that actually happened. No, no. That was not a joke. That's, look at all. And that was in like the second quarter. What are they doing?

What? Did you all go to that game? Fucking Boozhound. No, I didn't go. Texas State, GJ has brought us to our first two, this will be the third, our first bowl games, and I haven't gone. I'm going to, I think I might go this year. I really might.

It's a great bowl. Are you going up solo? No, I'm taking my wife. We got my parents are watching the kids We got two days in Fort Worth To run around and hang out and go to the game It would be fun It's like a vacation for us

Fort Worth, great town Let's go Billy Bob's I'll let you know I wonder if there's anybody There's got to be a show On New Year's Day, surely On the day before the game

I'll produce and look it up Let's go Thank you Randy Can we talk two minute offense Sure All right football is a unique game In that Unless you played it at a high level, I think it's too complex to, like, fully understand.

Okay. Right? You have to have played, and you did obviously, to like, there are so many complexities of football that even like, I've been watching football my entire life. I don't understand all of it. So in a two-minute offense, I have a question for you as a former conference-winning quarterback. I hope I get this right. No, no, you will. It's, I'm not like, this isn't like a quiz.

Like, I want to know, like, give me some insight. A two-minute drill, there's no huddle. There's no huddle. There shouldn't be huddle. Right. So how do you guys know the plays? Like, you call the first play, you get a first down. All right, line it, line up.

You got to keep running. You got to snap the ball quickly. How do you know what the next play is and then the next play? Is this all part of a pre-rehears script that you've done? So two parts. Every team in the country does a ton of two-minute offense during practice. It's usually something that you hit every practice, or at least the majority of your practices. And there are certain plays that you will not run in a two-minute situation because it's either it takes too long or it's got some sort of like play action component that you're not going to fake the defense out of handing the ball off.

And you can't go over the middle sometimes because you've got to get out of bounds. Exactly. So there are certain plays that you can just scrap all together. And so you know here's your whatever menu of plays that you know you're going to have these certain plays and you practice them and you rep them. and then there's two parts when you get into two-minute. There's the protection for the offensive line, assuming you're throwing the ball. There's the protection for the offensive line that the quarterback is communicating. So whatever the name is for that, call it green and just make it up. Quarterback is telling the line that.

Protection is green. So that's quick. And all the receivers are looking at the sidelines for the signal for the play. And that could be whatever the play is. And so they're looking at the line, quarterback's communicating to the line. Excuse me, they're looking at the sideline. Quarterbacks communicating to the line. and it should happen all of that really quickly.

And the hardest part and where it gets screwed up is if the play caller, the offensive coordinator usually, is panicking. That's usually where a two-minute drill will slow down, is if they're not decisive on what the next play is, or the head coach and the coordinators can't decide on if they're using a timeout. That's where you'll see an offense is standing there. They're standing there. You got clocks burning.

Play-ins. Why aren't they going? Play-ins, clocks go on. You have, what, like five? have 10 seconds to pick the next one. Yeah, and usually on, so if you look at a coordinator, they've got these big scripts, right, or not scripts, they've got these big charts of all their stuff. They'll have little sections that's two minutes.

So they're going off of a list of plays that's no more than I would say like 15, 20 plays would be a lot. And so they're just pulling from that group. And these are plays that you've run all season. So if a good two minute offense, they're up back at the line, they're going. The ball carry, if they catch it in bounds, they're getting it back close to a spot so they can spot it and go. So as a quarterback, are you also looking to the sideline for the play?

You're looking to the play and the protection. So the quarterback gets both. The receivers just need to know the play for the routes. And then you're communicating, the quarterback's communicating to the line about the protection. And then the cadence is going to be first sound because you're trying to go so fast. You're not going through a set hot, hut, or trying to get them to jump offside. Okay. Is there ever a time, and I'm going to bring this back like, like intramural football, all right?

and this is, you know, hear me out here for a second. Sure. We had like five plays that we drew up, right? And I played, I was quarterback. And I was like, like, guys, just go get fucking, just go get open. Just go find a soft spot in the zone somewhere and plant your ass there. And I'm going to try to find you. Is there ever, if it's moving too quickly for the plate again, is there ever just like a, guys, just go get open, get out of bounds kind of play.

The only thing that's like that every team in the country runs is it's more, and it's not a full play. it's just a specific route and it's a choice route. So there's a play that everybody runs where all of your receivers except for one or it could be the running back will just take off. They'll run vertical and they're trying to get everybody to run with them. And then you're getting your best athlete. The guy that we did this with was Vance McDonald, who played the NFL for a long time.

Klein, sometimes we would throw it to Klein. Sometimes we throw it to Klein. Sorry, Clark. And it's a choice route. They go, you're covering the guy. they go run the route off of what he's doing. And so you've got to wait to see what they do. I got it.

They've got full. They could go. It could break in. They could break out. They could take it vertical. They could sit it down. And that's kind of the only thing that's like you're get open, but you're really only doing it for one guy.

You can't have it be for everybody. Got it. Okay. Interesting. Because that would be too much chaos. And that's insight you're only going to find here, folks. Man, if it's me and I'm sitting at home, I'm actually going to go and screen record that video and then post it to my aura friend.

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I do have the billy-bob schedule up here if you want me to look at it. Thank you. That would be wonderful. What date were you guys looking at? Either January 1st or January 2nd? Okay, January 1st. Okay, nothing apparently on January 1st, but January 2nd is the Dam Quails,

which I actually famously did see at Billy Bob's went last time I was there. Great band. Really? Yeah. I'm going to fire that into the group chat. Damn Quails, that's a fun group. Fool's Gold.

I've seen some great shows at Billy Bobbs. My going out days in the 20s single, just going out there and just absolutely striking. out uh i love that place i'm telling our don klein specifically about this yeah damn coils a randy rogers show in like 2009 at billy bobs i was like that's a scene i've ever seen a show there it's good it's fun because you can like the chaos like you can sit off outside and watch from the bar area or you can stay like fur their back back it's massive play pool whatnot it's a great spot this Saturday they got midland who famously recorded burnout their most favorite song i think

at billy bobs for the music video why do you know all this because i don't know because i've been to billy bobs twice i think drinking problems probably they're big golfers midland my brother's band open for them and they wouldn't play golf that day before because your brother's band gas them up the ransom brothers the band that i thought you just were just a huge that i was just randomly posted all their stuff to my Story and feed. Dude, I was like, Taylor loves these guys, dude. He's at every show. Are they like, is he like an honorary member?

Brett's like, no, I think he's brothers in the band. Oh, well, that makes a lot more sense. The honky lead singer from Midland, you still work out at Lifetime. Yeah. I remember that. I don't know if he lives in Austin anymore. Wasn't you dating someone to like some awesome? Married to Outdoor Voices, Ty Haney.

I've got a bowl question for you. Now, you famously, you played in, which bowl did you? play Mississippi State in. Liberty Bowl. Do you have any takes that you'd like to issue publicly about Notre Dame and their choice? I hated it. I hated it. I hate it for all the teams that would there are, I hate how the schedule works now. And I hate that with opt-outs, there are some kids that you just have to do it. Like if you're, if you think you've got the opportunity to go transfer and make a ton of money, I understand why if you're opting out of, especially a non-playoff bowl. I don't like it, but I get it. But for teams, you're there to play football,

play in your bowl game, especially for Notre Dame. And I get, they have every right to be furious about how it played out. It was total, the way that the committee handled them versus Miami and letting it get to that spread at the end of the season where they're just two apart from one another and then they flip it. I thought that was a joke. But Vanderbilt has every right to be upset. Even Texas has a right to be upset that they're not in when you've got two G. five teams in, and they're still playing in their bowls, and they're excited about it. And so for Notre Dame, I hated it. I said on Sirius XM earlier this week, I thought any team that opts out of a bowl,

the next season they should have a same thing, postseason ban for a year. If you're not going to play in a bowl and you've got the opportunity to, meaning you qualified, and I'm not saying this for the five and seven teams, but if you're six and six or better and you qualify for a bowl and you decline it, I think the next season you should be ineligible for the postseason. And they said that they pulled, like, they polled, like, the players or whatever. I'm sure. I don't know how accurate that is, but I promise you, there are a lot of disappointed kids

in that locker room. It's your last fucking play. Especially, like, in a bowl game, some of these kids who don't get much playing times during the season, that's your time to, like, go get some tape out there, go experience, like, a big time. And if you poll them in the team meeting right after they just found out they're not getting in the playoff, of course their emotional reaction is going to be. Well, F it.

I don't want to go. We don't want to go play anymore anyway. don't need the bowl system. We're good. But I promise you a lot of those kids will regret not playing in a bowl. Yeah, I'm doing vicarious. I'm vicariously grieving or whatever. But like if I'm, if I'm a kid who played a little bit or, and I know I'm not going to play at the next level, I'm not even going to try. I've already got a job lined up. But this is going to be my last game ever, right? And then we're just not going to play it. So it just kind of goes down like that. And it's not like, that kind of makes me a little sad for them. I know it sounds silly. Like people

that don't follow this stuff, this is going to sound ridiculous. But, But the ball game they would have played in, the Pop-Tarts Bowl, has become the biggest bowl game that's outside of the playoffs. It gets a huge audience. It would have been against BYU, who also had a case that they should be into the playoffs. It would have been a fantastic game. And so for Notre Dame to take their ball and go home, I mean, you're one of the top, what, three brands in the sport. They would say they're the top brand in the sport. Man, BYU really did get boned.

Their two losses were to the same team who was a very good team and one of those was a conference championship game. Yeah, that sucks. I mean, the problem was the way that they lost both times. If it had been close at all, I think there was actually an outside shot that in the Big 12 championship,

if they had lost by like a last second field goal or something that they could have gotten in. But I actually think they got it right to not have them in. But it's the first team ever since we've had the playoffs since 2014, first team from a power conference to finish 11 and 1

and not be in the top ten yeah uh do you remember what your swag was you got bowl swag yeah armed forces bowl was 2012 and we got it was like a gift suite you could kind of go pick out like one thing don't remember what i got but we got a nice watch with it which was cool uh and then you get all the normal like travel gear the next year we got another watch and we got some sort of I forget if it was like a stereo or something. We got some sort of speaker system. Bluetooth, maybe. That was back in 2013 when Bluetooth was set in you up for success.

It was not, these were not, we didn't play in like the Rose Bowl where they're giving out like the crazy stuff. But the ring that we got when we won Conference USA is, it's stupid. It looks like a Super Bowl ring. And it's for winning Conference USA. Like it sits in my safe at home. I can't, you can't do anything with it. Dylan's a type of dude. If he played in that game, he'd be wearing that ring out.

Turn it into a medallion and wear it on his chest. I kind of get frustrated with Klein. Klein has a Super Bowl ring and he just keeps it in a safe somewhere and I respect that. But like, dude, I would be so tempted to just step out with that. Yeah, yes. All the people who come up to be like, dude, who the fuck are you? Where did you get this thing? Like, I don't worry about it.

Super Bowl ring is different. How do you not wear that? He's got, have you seen like the, you know, they give everybody like a commemorative version of the Super Bowl trophy, that thing is pretty sweet. Yeah, I've seen that thing. It's cool. I don't have that for the CUSA championship. I remember I was wearing my Super Bowl ring back in like the, I was at the Dolphins facility, and I was, I just got out of the shower. This was at the urinal, and I was, I was peeing.

And then this interesting fellow comes and he pees right next to me. I'm like, okay, well, he just started glancing over trying to like, I don't know what he's looking at. I thought he was looking at my, you know, I was like, I feel inappropriate. And he was looking at my ring. And I really just socked him right in the face with my ring. Oh, what was he wearing? Uh, you probably a Hawaiian shirt. Oh, really? A wide open with a, damn, a wife pleaser. Just normal ass hairdo though, right? No, no, no. That was the thing. It was just kind of like this weird. I can't even describe it, like long, pointy, unique guy. It turns out he was a pet detective. Really? Yeah, I felt really bad about it. His name was Ace. Oh, cool. They played nose tackle on that team. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

It was a long time ago. You lost some weight since then. Yeah, I did. O-ZMPIC. That's so stupid. I got off creatine. Yeah. Got on the Zimpy?

Yeah, I lost my bloat, lost all my muscle, but I'm here now. Is that the next read? Yeah. How have we not done? That's coming. O-ZMPIC? It's funny because, like, people in the locker, I know that the Pop-Tarts bowl is a thing, obviously, but I was telling Dylan yesterday, there's like something in pre-holidays, people are like in an argumentative mood and like the lifetime gym. People are just always arguing about either Cowboys or just college football playoff.

And I overheard these guys arguing about Notre Dame. And the way this guy said, he's like, oh, yeah, you take your ball. He actually said what you just said, take your ball, go home. you're not going to pull okay yeah you got to go play like the pop tarts bowl or whatever and the way he said it it was like you know people like to make up a brand like oh you're going to go play in like the fruit by the football and like the way he said it i was like okay i'm sure whatever bowl it was and then i was like wait no it actually is no it's the pop tarts bowl yeah so with edible wife-sized pop-tarts part of the trophy ceremony they popped it into a toaster

one time where the pop tart mascot goes down the toaster and then the edible version comes out yeah and you get to break it up and eat it the bowl it's about the mascot bits now Dude, that's hilarious. Yeah. No, I hated it. I think they should have played in their bowl. I think it's stupid. I agree.

I really did not. Did not agree with it. Dude, what if they did like a replacements thing? We're like, okay, those, you guys don't, the scholarship athletes don't want to play? All right. So they go down to like the frat intermural leagues and they get the Dillons of the world to go play ball. Do you want to go play BYU? You're going to play BYU.

Here's the deal. We've got to once in a lifetime opportunity for you. They're going to have a Pop-Tarts bowl. Go play. quarterback, he's a freshman. He's not going to throw the ball down the field too much. I mean, like, I think you can go in there and make it competitive. What do you think?

That would be, that'd be, see, that's something to trick it up a little bit. Yeah. This is like that take that people say, and I agree with this, that they should have one normal dude in every field for a PGA tournament as like just a set, reset everybody's expectation. Or in the Olympics to show you how a normal person with a problem in this environment. guy that plays intermaral flag football and be like, we're going to put you a linebacker for a series and just circle that guy.

Watch this guy right here. I want you to watch this for a series. Did anybody follow the golf channel games last night? It did not. I saw Twitter. I didn't know anything about it. Wait, are you guys going to do anything for the PGA event that's coming here? Do you'll see that?

Yeah. Yeah, out of Barton Creek, we haven't really talked about it. I mean, the PGA tour has always brought us out to the Dell match play. they might offer us access again that'd be pretty cool i'd go they should yeah yeah we're gonna get the washed media 10 the good good event out at barton creek dude i miss the matchplay so much that was a lot of fun that was such a good tournament i know you do you you're you're always out there oh we saw you guys yeah we'd always like it was just that that thursday like friday friday until like about two but like thursday afternoon Friday morning afternoon it was just

such a dope thing yeah great people watching who's doing it good good good good is the that's the good title sponsor yeah they didn't approach us for a tournament sponsorship i don't think we could have afforded it yeah you know borrow a little money maybe uh hey you know i'm watching landman season two yeah uh so you know i talked like i was like okay it's crazy like his son just like went bought up some billy bob's son he's producing he's producing but here's the thing there's a catch i learned this in episode too he just because you're kind of wondering like how did he finance these well it's like a 40 million dollar operation he went and bought up all these rights and then he's just getting bought up like got a

crew and they're going to they're putting that they put down six wells right it's not a cheap thing no you're not doing that overnight and uh well they all start producing all six of them what which is generational wealth you're a serious man you don't understand that right yeah uh you find out an episode too like because because he gets billy bob he gets his dad he's dad didn't know did any of this. He's like, what the hell? You just did this and didn't tell me? This is kind of my field. He's like, no, he's like, how'd you get the money? This is like a $40 million operation. He's like, well, I got the financing from this random company. And like they're like splitting it with me, blah, blah, blah. And then you find out like, I think it's like

cartel, really, like the cartel has like a stake in it. So that's setting you up. So things aren't looking as good now. Oh, so now the cartel owns some of his wells and stuff. And now that's going to create some friction and some clashing. It may not, yeah, I don't know. We're to find out what are you talking about some friction oh and also like his love his love interest who was also like the widow of a guy in his crew who he who blew up like six weeks prior to them like hooking up um she's like kind of like she doesn't really understand like the by the way like i i've just overnight like acquired um generation like generational wealth in like every sense of the word like you're like probably won't have to work again type stuff for like you know

generations of our family and she's just like hey you need to be home more you need to calm down working all the time and he's like no i don't think you understand like all six of my wells are producing like they're they're like this is a big deal this doesn't happen i went six for six nobody does that six glory holes man one yes six glory holes we've been there remember that road trip yeah we're going up uh down by the snake farm snake farm yeah yeah but anyway so landman just continue it's the gift that keeps on giving god damn need a cigarette got two cigarettes ain't gonna be enough for me on this kind of a god damn it that's my billy bob i've been working on it and i got that little league game that i need to go coach i said what yeah any any it's the

holiday so yes that probably did santa as well okay he's doing uh bad news bears y'all need to clip the friction and the clashing the next time there's an argument man i just going I don't know if I want that to live on beyond this episode. You know, during the holidays, there can be a lot of friction and clashing with me and my bank account. And that's why it's great to have rocket money on board. You understand, Taylor? Do you understand?

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shit that I'm paying for that dude not to you know gas up your your read here but no please do what do you mean am I good at technology well do you like where do you stand on it in general like where do you um when you see like a video hit the timeline and it's like hey check out this chinese robot that can do backflip do you know what i don't think this is what you're asking but do you know what the funniest dm i got with that texas texting was i'd love to know

i you know i had post my normal stuff after games and i'll make a reel here and there whatever but i suck at it and this kid clearly in college dm after all this tech stuff, you're a fucking moron and your content sucks ass. I was like, dang, dude. He took the time to like, to like learn about you. Yeah, he did like two scrolls and was like this guy, this guy's not good at this. I'm going to go hit him where it hurts. I thought that was great. Do you know the term clanker? It's a slur for a robot. Are you, is you calling me that? No, no, no, no. You're not a robot. It's like people who are anti-technology. You call them clinkish.

You know what? I wish I used AI more. There's so many things that I think of that I'm like doing something manually. And I'm like, why did I not use chat GPT for this? Yeah. We're all going to adapt and use it more and more. For example, the Billy Bob's quite like I would have looked that up, gone to the lineup, figured that out myself instead of just chat GPT. Who's playing at Billy Bob's these days? I still just don't trust chat GPT.

Do you? I don't. I don't know if it's a trust issue for. For me, I just don't, I'm an idiot. I was just thinking about all like the, God, we just, this whole episode is just tech fans in our dome. But like, they're like looking at it. They pull up in Dillon's like, they go to his profile and they're like scrolling.

And this goes for you too. Like they scroll, Taylor's like Instagram. Oh, this guy's got a happy, beautiful family. And like they go through Dillens and like, oh, this guy's getting fits off. And they're like trying to find something. They're like, oh, man, beautiful, beautiful kid, beautiful girlfriend. Oh, damn it. And they pull, like, my shoes from a post that's, like, 18 months ago.

Doing pretty well for myself, like, you know? We got him. We got it. He slipped up right here. All right, this guy, yes, this guy is, he's tan and he's kind of yoked and he pulls, but his shoes suck. We got to hate these shoes. He said, why are you wearing your wife's shoes? Come on, man.

I mean, that's funny. Yeah. I brought up the technology because, so like the Mavs, the Dallas Mavericks, they, they, they, like did like Kyrie, Kyrie Irving. There's a clinker right there, I see it. That's him. Well,

he bought the whole squad, the whole team golf carts, like badass, probably like $20,000 golf carts, right? Oh, that's sick. That's like, you have that in your little neighborhood up in like Northwest Hills or whatever.

Like, you're like, you're that guy. The little Bluetooth speaker on there, flaunt your wealth. That's dope. Have some music busing. Yeah.

I need one of these. For some reason, they bring out this robot. I don't really know context, but they posted this on the socials and Randy. Just hit play. Now hit play for you David. Mads are just watching it.

Oh shit. He's kind of asking for smoke there. Oh, he's in like a dead position on his back. He's out. Bro, what? Dude, he's out. He killed him. He killed the robot.

This is probably like a $200,000 piece of equipment. He's saying sorry like is a real person. Oh my. He asked like, can I push him? And they're like, yeah, yeah, I don't know what they thought was going to happen. Like the robot was just going to like... The robot was asking for it, though. He did those kicks, man?

He was, do those roundhouse kicks. Like, what are you doing? He's a professional... Could you imagine if that thing, like, switched on and was like, now I'm fighting, like, went after him? I'd like to see it. That's the fear. that's the fear yeah dude they're they're treating it like it was a human being after he got knocked out like oh shit i'm sorry man people were saying like this is the uh he was just this will be the

moment that like shit like they we look back on like oh karee you fucking absolutely caught a body in broad daylight that's a hilarious visual man they come back for us just it's a guy like you just smacked his brain off the pavement it got concocted computer brain right did you ever hear Dylan talking about the guy who had the robot dog? Oh, you're on the trail. Have you seen the guy with the robot dog? No. All right.

So I'm crossing over, I'm walking my dog. Okay. The Flueger Bridge. Yep. And I walk up and there's this huge group of people surrounding this robot dog. Okay. And it was, it was whatever. Everyone was video and taking pictures because he was a robot dog walking around.

But as people were walking. by with their dogs he was using his robot the guy controlling it to like go harass the other dogs and they were scared out of their minds and i was i was not okay with it these dogs were terrified yeah and i was walking past i i i did find the guy in the crowd there were like 40 people around and i looked at him i was like uh-uh you're not doing that to my dog and he left my dog alone but i thought it was total bullshit and i hate that guy and his clinkered dog i got a dog question what do you all think this may get controversial What do I think about people that travel with their dogs on a plane?

Let's get Will in here for this. We kind of got into this yesterday when we were talking about dogs and bars, but we didn't go fully into it. Service dog, of course. Of course. Yeah. It depends on how big it is. I don't think I've ever seen like a full grown dog on a plane. If it's a lap dog, it's, I don't think it's a big deal to me.

Like I've seen a cat and a carrier underneath a seat. Every flight. Really? I fly every weekend in the fall. every flight somebody's got the little carry-on deal with their little dog and I'm just not for me

I like this is this is a I understand this is a dumb take but when it's a little dog I'm kind of like but when it's like a big dog it's like it's tight big ass dog on the plate

it's like a person it's taking up a full row and you see those photos every now and then like it's like oh my seat made on the plane today and it pans over and it's just like a fucking Great Dane. Yeah.

And I always wonder, I'm like, what if that Great Dane just takes a bond? You'd buy a seat if it sits in one? I'm sure you obviously do, yeah. I would think so. Yeah. You got to, what's the rule for kids? Over two.

Yeah. So I imagine for a dog, yeah. If it's well behaved, then I don't mind it. If it's just keeping to itself and just kind of lay in there. You never hear. What was the discourse on the bars or restaurants? It started with a baby being in a bar.

and then it's just pretty much like... I think... Where was that? I just think Austin has gotten a little out of hand with dogs. With dogs. With dogs in public places. I don't mind it.

I mean, I love dogs. As long as they're not barking, I'm fine with being at the bar. As a parent of two little kids, and I know we're talking dogs, but that video, that woman, first of everybody in that video sucked. But if your kids going nuts,

you don't want to be there either. If there's all sorts of places, it's honestly one of the things I love about Austin. There are all sorts of places you can go that there's kids running around everywhere. And if you don't have kids, you're probably not going there anyway. The dogs thing, I don't get when you're inside. If you are

inside a restaurant and you look down and there's a dog next to you, like, boy, I don't know what we're doing here. And a lot of times they try to do it. It's like, oh, it's nice outside. It's the summer. Well, it's also like 98. Or like in whole foods. Your dog's not going to be happy being outside. Yeah, there are people who bring their dogs everywhere. Like, you don't need to bring your dog to the post office.

Just leave it at home. The dog people are. That's the last place. Red Raiders that owns, that own dogs are going to light on us up. So many chocolate labs. Yeah, chocolate labs. GSPs. No, it, so we were at Meanwhile, a couple of Saturdays ago. You ever been to Meanwhile, Burnham?

Great, great kid-friendly spot Saturday morning, like, ideal. And there's a guy, it's, there's a guy watching him at the table over, and he's got, like, this mid-sized dog, and it's, he's letting it run around off-leash. it's at the leash is on it but like it's just occasionally getting away and just kind of running around and one of one of my son's buddies like goes up to pet it pets a little bit and the dog snaps at it and me and this other dad were like oh we grabbed him and we're looking and I'm like dude like what are you doing yeah like the guys over there just like in a conversation he's like oh come back here you know and I'm just like dude he just snapped at this kid what you're doing it's one thing I love about golden retrievers you can just trust him around

anything yeah you gotta it's a little primarily it's the it's the little dogs my neighbor's dog he was watching a little something or other and it it's it bit me on the hand a couple months ago it fucking hurt dude i hadn't been bit by a dog in a while i was like damn this went inside did the whole clean thing i cried about it called my wife punted it'll be by a dog i was going to say you kicked the dog yeah i punted the dog yeah there you go um yeah that's one's Dave, you should have gone and fight that. You should have fought that guy. Which guy?

The guy with the dog that was just letting the dog. And meanwhile? Yeah. In front of my family and I get all these parents. I'm just like, you know what, dude? You could have got the whole families in there involved and being like, hey, like, no one watch your dog snap into our kids. Get out of you.

I'm trying to avoid altercations, man. I got people mad at me and walking in the parking lot. It's just, people are just on edge, man. Go right ahead. Oh, go right ahead. Dude, he was so demonstrative with it. I did laugh and just point it myself. It was very embarrassing for him.

All right. Anything else on the runny? I'm going to talk about? I know we're going to do our weekend of fun, but is there anything else popped up? I don't think so. We got the, this guy won the conference.

I know, man. You won the conference? You think, you think I don't, you got him here? You're going to ask him anything? I had the two-minute offense thing,

and he fucking crushed it. It's a good question. It was. You were asking the other day about scripted, which I know you kind of brought up in that, But like, you're like, all right, some coaches, script the first drive. Here it is. Why aren't they just scripting all the drives?

Like, Sarkesian is known for his opening scripts. Yep. Very successful, run down the field, whatever. And then he gets criticism for not being able to adjust like mid-game or like halftime adjustments and kind of, the second half, kind of a different offense. Why not script four different scripts for a game? The first one concludes, start the second one. Is it because the defense is adjusting or what's called? going on there? So the scripting of the game, you have more control over what's going on generally

in the first drive of the game. You know within a pretty good area of what the down and what part of the field you're going to be on. And this is your opening drive. And this also changes, by the way, if like opening kickoff, they fumble in the red zone. You're off script. You're into your red zone section of that call sheet I was talking about. But if you're, they kick it off, touch back, okay, you're starting on the 25. That's where the scripted drive comes from. Part of the reason you can't go back and do that over again or have another version of it is in-game situations, what's going on in the game. It wouldn't do you any good to have a script that you've gone through and now you're up three touchdowns or you're down three touchdowns. And you also, the stuff that you're

using early in the game, there are some plays you can go back to multiple times in a game, two or three times in a game, if it's like your bread and butter stuff. But most stuff, if it's like an exotic play, which like Sarkeesian is one of the best in the sport at, when you see a guy running wide open, they've worked all week to prep for one play against one specific look. And if they get this look, they can run this and they think they can get this guy open. And Sark is unbelievable at that. You can't script those beyond. You only got two or three of those you'll carry into a game. And so it's all the reason you have the scripted drive is you know generally where you're going to be on the field, what sort of defense you're preparing

to see because you've watched them all week. And then after that, the defense is going to adjust in game. They're not going to let you, it's not going to be as effective running the same stuff over and over again. And then the later you get in the game that you've got situations that if you had something pre-canned before the game, it's probably useless by the time you get to the third and fourth quarter okay good answer i'll allow it that's what i didn't this fucking guy man i was thinking that when you asked that the other day but i just didn't know how to explain it yeah that was me too that's why we got taylor in here yeah got away with words you know have y'all ever had klein do like a like summary on how they do descriptions for these guys they scout a little bit that

that could be a whole his job is fascinating yeah he wouldn't talk about it on here though That's probably true. In a private conversation. Yeah, because he actually has a real job. I have a fake job. Yeah. Did you see the video of Vinnie Testa Verdi doing his cadence, his calls? Who was he?

I think he was with Gruden? Yeah, he was with Gruden. Vinny Testa Verdi? Yeah. No. This is like a week ago. No, I saw the one with Andrew Luck like a year ago where he was going through it. And that was pretty fascinating.

Yeah, Vinny Testi Testerverty, he just like a flip, you know, he flipped a switch. He was back in the game. in like he was looking for the fucking mic and it was just it was awesome to watch that's like you were fratting yeah that's that's how we could step back in on campus and just be like back in go mode it was cool though we're not going to make you we're not going to make you do your kids i would suck at that yeah immediately calls a line up at the house pledges are up there he's just back in it i wasn't hazer uh let's talk about our weekend and fun bro let's go out this weekend there's a crazy event happening i like to turn up bro there's a crazy

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So it'll be good. That's about it. Michael, another bike ride because it's going to be really nice out, but pretty much just going to be packing for the ride for the flight home, for the two weeks going to be there, chilling. Don't really want to go out too much because...

Two weeks is going to be there? Yeah. Wow. I don't want to miss that. I don't want to go out and get this Austin plague that that guy was talking about, Dave. Would you get over it? Yeah. But I don't know.

I'll probably just chill. Not too much. My keep on watching The Mighty Nine. People are watching that. Let me know. It's a, it's a Dungeon and Dragon show. You wouldn't like it.

You wouldn't fucking like it. Taylor probably watches it. Yeah, he probably does. The Mighty Nine. That and Land Man. I just, I have to, I watch that show and I'm like, I've got to talk about this for like 30 seconds.

Nobody I know. I have no friends who watch it. It's just me. And I'm like, why am I even doing this myself? I could be reading a book. I could be moonlighting as something else, you know, second career. No, I'm just watching Landman, a show I hate and just making fun of it in my head. What do you got going, Taylor?

Last game of the season, we have the Division II National Championship on Saturday. It's the same time as Ole Miss and Tulane, so selfishly kind of hoping for a blowout in that game. We're on ESPN 2 at 3 o'clock Central. So if that game gets a little squirly, anyone flip it over to E2, we'll be over there. um fly up friday morning fly back saturday night gotta get ready for we're hosting christmas this year so i got a bunch of stuff i got to do what's on the menu uh christmas eve steaks christmas day uh we pulled got kind of a lot of people that are going to be there we pulled everyone and instead of doing like traditional stuff everybody wanted to do italian so we're doing

like chicken parm this mother stuff going we flip it we do italian christmas eve and then we'll probably do a prime rib or some kind of beef. That was the stuff that we talked about doing that with like a turkey or whatever else and all the sides. And everybody was like, you know what? We do it every year. Let's do Italian on Christmas. I was like, great.

I love that. Hungui. That's good. What do you got, Dorn? Going to San Antonio on Saturday. We did this last year just one night. My dad loves the Riverwalk. We're going to stay on the Riverwalk.

We had a lot of fun last year. Your dad watches Landman, doesn't he? I don't think you watch his land man He would have talked to me about He loves talking TV with me If he does, tell him to contact me Okay, I will Yeah, we're doing a night

On the Riverwalk Saturday And then, yeah, just gonna get ready for Christmas We've got a little bit of shopping to do Christmas we're doing here Yeah, the first Christmas At the new house we're in So that's fun What's the meal in San Antonio?

Are you all gonna do like a, what's the restaurant? I forgot the name of it Because I, one thing that's on my list to do, and I've been to San Antonio many times, but like, just the food is really good. We found a really, really good Mexican food place. I don't remember the name of it. It was about a 10-minute walk from our hotel on the Riverwalk. The restaurants on the Riverwalk, you don't go to because they're all, it's like Bubba Gump shrimp. I've heard good things about that.

But if you go off the beaten path, there's an excellent. You know who we'd love bubblegump shrimp. Oh, you're damn right. There you would. Are you kidding me? That's the most randy-coated place. And then, Charles Parks and I are going to Utah on New Year's Eve. We're there until the 5th.

And, yeah, I'm going to go visit Chelsea's family. And we're flying into Vegas because that's the nearest, like, large airport. So Parks is going to, we're going to do one night in Vegas. And I'm excited for Parks to see what that city is all about. Yeah, what do you do with a kid? I mean, there's stuff for kids. Believe it or not, there's plenty of stuff for kids to do. You should freak his mind.

We're going to go eat at, uh, Dimtai Fung. I think that's how you say it. Which is a dumpling place in the Aria. That's not where we went. No. That wasn't our... No, no, no.

This is a different place. Okay. And, yeah, Parks just loves, like, the hotel life. So he's going to get a kick out of it. He's a sushi kid. He's a big-time sushi kid. Wow. Yeah.

He's expensive taste of food. That's hilarious because I don't think I had sushi until I was like 25. He's a dude, he's obsessed with it. Ooh, you should put his college fund on black. Probably not going to do that. Come on. No. Could be good.

And that's it, man. You know, in the future, we don't really even need to save college funds or any money, really, because everyone's going to be so wealthy because of the A-I. Yeah, universal high-income, right? Yeah, you guys heard about that?

Elon Musk, who is the world's richest man, said, don't save your money. We're all going to be rich one day. Say no more. All right, dude. Say less. Pretty reckless. Jokes on him.

Haven't been saving. No, we're having fun here. You guys want to know what I'm doing. Watch him ball. football. I'm watching, I'm watching playoffs. I'm going to tap over to ESPN 2. Let's go. I'm going to see what's up. Let's go.

Be like, yep. I want to see what the fit's going to look like. We will have some Jordans with the suit telling you ahead of time. Okay, good. So you don't, but you, clip it, screenshot it and make fun of me. Can't be any worse than the Red Rader that told me my content sucks. Content. Give me below the belt. It's going to live in your head for so long now.

It was so good, too. Every time you hit post, like, oh, is this good? Because I always, I'm like, I do suck at content. I'm not good at it. And he was like, he, he, he, like you're saying, a couple scrolls. Oh, I know how to, I know how to get it. Yeah, it's a side gig. Watch this.

Watch this. We got some, we got some high school football to monitor. If you're in Texas, it'll be on TV. You got South Oak Cliff at 11. It's all going down at Jerry World in Arlington So if you're for some reason in DFW And you've got you for whatever reason Don't want to watch any of that college football playoff

And you just want to go post up You can do a lot worse To go and posting up at Jerry World And watching South Oak Cliff Duncanville, Galena Park North Shore Round This is round six The sixth time they've played

In the state championship Wow Which is crazy, fifth or sixth And then a night you got DeSoto DeSoto Claude Mathis year old guy Shout out, Claude. The darling, the darlings of Texas high school football right now. He's an absolute dog.

It's a, Duncanville, or excuse me, Dallas versus Houston 6A championship weekend. So, that's fun. And then, you know, Sunday, I'll just be, I'll be hanging around. We're not leaving town until, I think, Tuesday. So we'll be in the office Monday morning, doing a normal show with noted Major League Baseball All-Star Brent Rooker. Piss missiles. I've heard of him. You might know him.

He's probably been in your home ballpark, just hitting him hard. Yeah. That's what he does. That's a much better guess than me. I don't know, man. He didn't win the conference. He can't break down a two-minute offense. He didn't quarterback Rice.

Zero conference championships. You're right. Mississippi State Bulldog. Maybe they ever win the SEC with that? I don't know. Do you know who the quarterback was for them? Dak Prescott. That's right.

Yeah. Blake Schapen this year. SEC player of the year. Rooker was. That's right. Wow. You never did that in offense. Sure did not.

If you were the SEC player there, you probably wouldn't be sitting here right now. My SEC experience was when I was committed to Iowa State and Gene Chiswick left to take the Auburn job. And he said, Taylor, I think you're going to have a really good college career, but it's just not going to be in the SEC. That's it. That's what he said. Went to Auburn and I was like, you know what? Is this over text? Phone call.

Phone call. Okay. Delivered that message and wish me best of luck. I'm not coming to Auburn. He could have phrased that differently. At least he was honest. You're going to go to Iowa State? Yeah, with, I was committed to play for him.

Yeah, he said, I'm out. What was that, what, is there any recruiting story from, from like your recruitment era? Like, like, you like think about it and you're like, man, that was a dick move. You don't have to name names. Or like, once you're like, man, I really appreciate like that person being honest with me. Because that, that's like a nice, blunt, honest assessment. You all know who Dana Holgerson is? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. So I had to, after I decommitted from Iowa State, most of my other offers had been taken. I only had one real good school left, and it was Houston. So I committed to Houston to play for Sumlin, but I wanted to play for Kingsbury because he was on that staff. Holgerson was the O.C. Kingsbury leaves to go to A&M. I asked him, like I'd gotten recruited late by Rice, and I was like, man, I'm worried about going to Houston because I don't know if I'm going to play. He was like, you know, you're probably right.

And I end up flipping the third time I commit to Rice, and I have to call Dana Holgerson to tell him I'm decommitting. and he mother effed me really so bad he was like I've never had we've never lost a recruit to Rice this you should be embarrassed we're gonna beat you every year they almost did and we talked about

I had a Houston game a couple years ago and we laughed about this he was like I still can't believe you did that he was like I probably was a little harsh on the phone he's like I just couldn't believe we lost it to Rice talking to a high school kid he was so mad that's hilarious that's got to be a tough phone call to make

yeah but I had to do it I didn't let my dad do it I didn't let it was like I was 17 and was like I you know you gotta do it can you imagine yourself at 17 having to like call an adult like a authority figure like I was such a dumbass at 17 like I wasn't even scheduled

like doctor's appointments hey dude I'm like not going there oh goodbye so yeah damn see you later but no It was cool.

We talked, like, again, a couple years ago, and we laughed about it, and he's, I forget where he is now, Nebraska. I mean, he's a legend. He's still coaching? Yeah, he's, I think he's the O.C. in Nebraska. Okay. Formerly at West Virginia. Just house Rayola.

Full circle. We don't talk about that. He looks like Gallagher, the watermelon guy. Yeah, he smashed watermelon with a sledgehammer. And then we'd see Cliff out in Houston for four years, right, until he took the tech job. And then, yeah, he's had a good run. Mahomes era. The Mahomes.

But yeah. Okay. That's interesting. Well, thank you. Where can we follow you to see your terrible content? My terrible content. If you want to see the bad content, T. McCarck 16 on Instagram and Twitter. And then ESPN 2, 3 o'clock on Saturday.

Always a blast. Thanks for coming through. Let me do run it back real quick. Oh, yeah, run it back. Of course, that's a segment during what you talk about, what we already talked about, all week long. uh ranny's mom watches ball we learned on monday at least a game claude mathis of de soto fame broke up dylan's high school fight the cowboys caused dave to get to bed late which really pisses him off rainy is meeting the girlfriend's parents couple days dave can't let go that dylan broke a toilet seat carson beck has an interesting look and finally follow taylor to see his terrible content and that concludes run it back what did he say his ass or what did he say he said you're a fucking moron and your content sucks

ass. That's tough, man. I'm sorry. Sush. I think it's pretty decent. I mean, again, it was, he's right. Okay. He's good, man. It's a college kids, man. We learned a little something today.

Had some fun. Had some laughs. Thanks for having me on. Dude, you're always a great guess. Always, man. Come through. Randy. Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas to you, sir. All right, we'll see y'all on Patreon tomorrow for voicemails. Bye-bye. You know,