Club Shay Shay - BEST OF CFB WEEK 1 PART 2: Archie and Bill Belichick a BUST respectively?!

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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Including nearby Cleveland Brown, was inconsistent. He completed 17 to 30 passes, 170 yards, one touchdown and interception. A very underwhelming day for a player. Some has pegged as the number one pick in the 2026 NFL draft.

Johnny, is this a sign of things to come, or we just say it's just one star? Hey, let's not make too much of it. I mean, listen, I think as an overall as a player, like they will, this is one of the things you start early in the season. And I was talking to Jake Spavitol,

who is my offensive coordinator, my second year. He plays at Baylor. I'm talking to him about the game the night before and he's just like, fuck, man, we can't run the ball. And there's certain things early on in the season where you need more reps and more game reps and more live speed reps. And this is something that's always been a question with Arch, which is, has he played

enough, has he got enough reps enough to be able to come into a game like this and be prepared and ready to go? And today, it didn't look that way. I think as you saw their nice drive they had in the fourth quarter where they went down and scored, he has that capability, right? But like, to do it from the first snap all the way throughout the game and be consistent

with it, this isn't Louisiana Monroe. This isn't the teams he's popped in last year and played against. Like, this is the defending, raining, really good Ohio state football team. Like, you're not that red dot that

he said that they were swinging everybody else. I motherfucker must be broken or something because that did not look like the number one team in the country today at all. And it was an all-time quote, I'm cool for it. But if you're going to walk out like that with the Gat, you better back it up.

Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is what, look, everybody keeps saying that he's a generation. Bro, we've got to start with this generational stuff. Everybody is not generational. Just because they have one or two good games, that does, do you understand what a generation

is? Do you understand what transcendent mean? Do you understand? You know what transformative mean. We just be using stuff because it sounds good. Stop saying that. He's not. He might be that. But if you look at Archmanning and you say he's transcent or he's a transformative, he's generational.

You're lying. He's not. Because guess what? They shut down the run and then it's like, okay, go win the game. And like you said, Johnny, the thing would happen is that when, Ewards were hurt last year and he's playing substandard teams and he looked really good

when they should go to arts they should go to arts they should go to art bro but when you go step up Ohio State and you face the Texas and you face the Alabama's no bro that's not good enough that's not good enough and he's going to have to be much better because if you looked at him

and it starts and when he's played had to step up in competition if you can look at him and say well he's generational I just we've got a we've got different definitions of what generational is go ahead ocho listen i mean this um this is part of the media's fault honestly this is part the media's fault in crowning him a generation telling crowning him the next big thing obviously because some of the games he played in last year he looked decent when he when he came in when he was went down and was hurt but again

you come in week one you plan against them boys what did johnny say a dog is going to be a dog regardless of circumstance, regardless whether it's week one, week two, or week three. So now, sometimes things look funny in the light. Sometimes things look funny in the light where the media has propelled and been propped up an individual that they're, this generational talent supposed to be the number one picking the draft. And so we're expecting to see just that.

It was, it was a bad day. It was a bad day for us. It was a bad day. I think it's going to be all right. I think he's going to be alright, but based of what we saw today, no, that ain't it.

That ain't it. They couldn't score. They couldn't even score. They couldn't score. They couldn't run the ball. So if you can't run the ball, you can't score, and our officer coordinator

wants to be able to say, you know what, Arch, I need you to win it with your arm. I need you to win it with your arm. And they couldn't do that. Yeah. Go ahead, Johnny. What do you want to say?

I think if, like, for football guys, especially you guys playing, you know, a tight-end receiver position, one of the first things you ever do is just mesh right Texas runs a lot of mesh throughout this game and they're just those little for a quarterback just easy little throws completions to get off and rolling just pitch and catch type of stuff there was just so many times

throughout the game where he's just a little off balance like these are the ones where you step you cut them off you lead them on right in front easy pitch and catch confidence boosters that Texas didn't really have throughout the day and when you get stagnant and you sit in there late in the third quarter, fourth quarter, you have no points on the board. You keep coming back to the sideline, taking your helmet off, and you're like, damn, we can't get anything going. For Arch in those situations, those are the ones you just have to go back to the very basics of what you do, day one, install, whatever it is, take a little three-step drop and just throw

the shallow real quick. Whether it's bang, bang, get tackled or whatever, you've got to build on some momentum and be able to get yourself in a spot because, look, the talent is there. I think he will get to a point where he's good enough. And this is the thing that we've said all season. The media puts a lot of hype on him. It's his turn. You have the chance in every opportunity you want.

Everybody watching. All eyes are on you. Go do it. So one game is not make or break. But it's a true test to where Texas is and they are not the number one team in the country. That's for sure. You want to go ahead, Ocho. I'm going to say one more thing.

It's really small. pretty small, just watching the game where Archmanaged today, obviously, the receivers. The receivers over there in Texas, it's supposed to be some boys over there. It's supposed to be some dogs over there. It's supposed to be one of the plays early in the game where Ars threw an interception, and I'm looking, they got the bun split, right? They got the bun spit in the DB, I mean the DB, the receiver, he got the seven-round. He got the second route, but the goddamn corner staying way up field, he's staying high on its

inside shoulder. So the first thing you do, I'm like, well, what is the receiver? doing. Man, just break it off and run it like... You're running like a square out. Yeah, like a big, big ass, deep ass out. Man, the DB, the deep... I mean, I don't know what the receiver's doing.

There was an interception. But I'm like, no, arch through the ball in the right place, the receiver got to know. Well, hell, if the DB want to keep running to the goddamn pylon, I'm just break it off for, what, 15, 18 yards and just have a beat, chunk catch. Yep. And it's just stuff like that.

If arch is not playing well, that means the receivers have to be on point. They got to be on point. They got to help them out. You've got to build them out in that situation. It didn't help that you're playing the number. You play in the team that won the national championship, the opening game on the road, and they're building.

Yeah. We know what Ohio State represent. We know how that crowd is. And they got an NFL, former NFL defensive coordinator coordinating that defense. Normally NFL defensive coordinators, when they go to college, they have a lot of success because they can get really exotic and can confuse, because you know if they can confuse NFL quarterbacks

that's been quarterbacking for a number of years at that level, they should have some success against a college quarterback and his real first true year of starting. So I'm going to give our little leeway, but there are some throws that I expect him to make. If you're what they say you are, it doesn't matter who you're playing. There are certain throws you should be able to complete. And we didn't see enough of that today.

Like you said, this was the worst case scenario for Art starting on the road, your first, you know, game as the true leader on the road in the horseshoe. That's, you're asking for a lot. But we got to stop throwing around generational. We just got to just, let's just calm down. Let him play. We want him to be Peyton and Eli.

Oh, he's going to be number one overall pick. Just let him play. I would agree to say, when you, when the way they throw him around, the way they advertise them, the way the media talks about him. So regardless of whether you're playing in a horseshoe, regardless of what you play in Ohio State, regardless to where this week one,

we are expecting to see exactly what the media says you are. But anyway, that's, he didn't play well. He didn't play well. I'm sure he'll rebound next week. I'm not sure who I'm not sure who. Who did he play next week? At San Jose State. Oh, there we go.

There we go. Hey, listen, he might throw for 700. Well, you, hey, ideally, Johnny, you want San Jose first, then go to Ohio State. You, hey, you all want to get my feet. Hey, I just don't want to, if you notice guys when they're swimming, they put the water on their body. They want to feel the little water a little bit. They just don't jump in cold. Hey, let me.

Sometimes, you know, they jumped down in there and get a little bird bath on. But like I said, I just want the people to just stop using that word. It seems like every time we get a decent player, oh, he's, oh, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, uh, generational. Bro, y'all need to understand what generational means. And I don't think you do

because it sounds good. Oh, he's a generational talent. Bro. I mean, his uncle was a generational talent, the one at Tennessee. Cam Newton was generational.

We never, we didn't, oh, oh, man, Cam, oh, he played Alabama or he played LSU. We didn't make no excuses for Cam.

We didn't make no excuses for Peyton. But now we want to make excuses. Remember when Peyton couldn't beat Florida? We made no excuses. So we're not going to make no excuses now. He's going to have to play better in order for Texas to get to where they want to go. He will have to play better.

Johnny, let me ask you this. Do you think with Patricia orchestrating that offense, Jeremiah Smith, Ocho, didn't, they did a great job of covering him you can see the frustration as it started the bill. They're going to put three guys on him. Do you think they should be title favorites again to repeat, Johnny, Ohio State? Yeah, I think so. I think you're going to see that the way they're going to defend Jeremiah Smith all year.

You're going to get a lot of that. He's going to be extremely frustrated, but at the same time, that should let wide receiver two, wide receiver three, and even a running back out of that team be foaming at the mouth for the opportunities they're going to have at the backside of some of these plays in some of these schemes. Because as they go on,

I think Ohio State is extremely well coached. And Patricia are leading that defense. I think it's exactly what you said. Having a guy who's been in the NFL for so long being able to come back and do this at the college level should be able to put in some different looks. Like he's sitting there watching film and it's such a different look from everything

that he's accustomed to in the past and just has to be sitting there with a plethora of ideas of what he can bring to it. And as long as you have a, good experience group of people in that room and guys who are all together communicating it. It really is you can put all this stuff in in college. You just have to have the right guys to be able to do it. So it looks so far after what you've seen today.

And granted, it's only week one. And we're in a college football era now where you can lose twice, maybe even three times and still go on, you know, to get into the playoff and be a national champion. So it's hard to not. You don't want to overreact too much after week one. but Ohio State has a really good team. We'll see if the QB play can continue to expand throughout the season because that's what it really comes down to. That is true.

Another thing too, Unk, when it comes to Jeremiah Smith, they got to be more creative. They understand the stat line he had last year when they played against Texas. It wasn't that good. So what do you do? You come up with a game plan. You come with a game plan to move Jeremiah Smith around. You don't just have them on the outside to the left.

You don't just have them on the outside to the right. You put them in motion. You condense the splits, forcing the DBs to get off. There's so many, have him coming out in the backfield. There's so many ways to give him the ball. Whatever you want to do. Yeah, I know he has some drops today, but he's the best player on the field, by far, on either team. It doesn't matter.

So there's so many things you can do with him to make sure you can get him in rhythm and get him going. There are no excuses. No excuses. All I'm saying is this. I don't give a damn Jeremiah Smith, got a trench coat, a disguise, a mustache, and a hat. That guy in the disguise and the mustache and a hat, he's not being. beating us. So I don't give a damn what you do with it. You can put it in the back field. You can bunch it. You can stack it. I don't care where you put him.

Somebody else beat me. He not beat me because you know why? I know he can beat me. I'm not sure these other guys can. So I don't care what you do with it, Bochow. You can have about there looking like expect the gadget with a trench coat and everything. He ain't beat me. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying the guy with the trench coat, coach he ain't nobody. Don't worry about it. You cover that nobody. Back. That's right. The new NFL season is here, and you should be listening to NFL Daily as we march along to Super Bowl 60. This is a show for sickos like me. NFL Daily is your kind of show. It's in the name. NFL Daily. You'll have fresh content in your feed all season long. Myself, Greg Rosenthal, and an all-star cast of co-host will preview and recap every game all season long. Josh Allen, coming off an MVP season. Are you kidding me? It's a touchdown.

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But yo, Miami Hurricane, take down the number six fighting hours of Notre Dame, 2724. This is Miami's first win against his top 10 team since beating Notre Dame in 2017. Carson Beck, the guy they paid $4 million for, through two touchdown passes. He was 20 or 30, 20, 105 yards, two touchdowns, clean game, no interceptions. Irish may have found their quarterback, C.J. Carr, but tonight's performance will leave Marcus Freeman with plenty of other questions to answer. Oh, yeah. Carr had was 19 of 30, 221, two touchdowns, one interception.

the U was in control of this game, Ocho. I thought they were like going to put it away 24 to 14 and the next day you know you turn around and the score is 24 24. Give the U credit. They put the drive together late in the ball game, got a field goal and then turn it over to the defense and the defense did what they're supposed to do.

Ojo, what did you like about what you saw from the U? Listen, you look very good. Obviously, I was really worried about the quarterback position. How was Carson Beck going to look? How is his resurgence away from Georgia? How is you going to look in a University of Miami uniform and keeping us, no, excuse me, let me not say us, keeping University of Miami program where it needs to be where Cam Moore left him.

They were in good hands. So now, based on what I saw today, they're still in good hands. Small semi-sized, weather a little bit. I thought the first game were going to run away with the game. Uncle, it was 21-7. But Mr. Freeman and Carr and that offense. in a way to get themselves back in the game and make it a little bit more interesting.

It didn't have to be that close. But for some reason, coaches always have a way of calling a conservative game to allow the other team to get back in. Well, I think the thing is a joke. It's a nerve-regnant towards the end. You don't want to do anything reckless. I understand because here's the thing.

Think about 28-3. Kyle Shanahan called a game like he'd always been calling it. Now people say, Why you ain't run the ball? Why you didn't get conservative? You get conservative and lose. People are like, well, why do you get conservative? You stay aggressive and you lose.

People call you a bonehead. It's a very fine line that you have to walk. And if you do something and you turn the ball over, I called a game, but I didn't call no turnovers. So you can't put that on me. You know, somebody misses a block. Somebody misses an assignment or something like that. Don't you a drop pass on third down.

Now you're getting off the field. I've always felt it's easy. to play from behind than it is with a lead. Right. Because you throw caution to the win when you're behind. What do I got to lose, Ocho? I'm already down. I'm down 14 points.

I'm down 17, 21 points. I don't have a damn thing to lose. Everybody's already written me off. So I can throw caution to the win. I can run a triple reverse. I can own side kick you. I can do whatever because there is no expectation at that point in time. Because I'm down by double digit scores.

And so I understand to a certain extent. But I thought Miami tonight, I thought they made plays. I thought the one-hand touchdown grab Ocho with the guy thought he had an interception. And that's what you have to have. If you're going to get to where you want to go, you're going to have to have guys to make plays on both sides of the ball. I love what Bain Jr. did at the defensive end. He thought he had it one time.

He got the ball away on second down. Bang said, come in, I'm going to get you again and got him again. But as a quarterback, you know you can't take a sack in that situation. You got no time out. And all your receivers are way downfield. So by the time you get them back, Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And also as a quarterback, he's a young, he's a young quarterback, very good, too, cars, very good. He surprised me tonight.

You also have to know in that situation, the defense ends, they got their ears peering back. Yeah, they're coming. Their ears peeing back. They come in right away. So you got to do your two tackles, some justice, and being able to maneuver in that pocket right away, understanding that them boys coming straight up here right away. Other than that, Margaret Freeman and that Notre Dame team, they're going to be all right. they are going to be all right University of Miami

them boys look good I know I know right now outside tonight Unk even with the rain going on but good old time they don't look like the hurricanes of the early 2000s but they look good

they got that level of talent yeah exactly but they look good they look good they look good yeah ain't no Andre Johnson's running around there ain't no you know

no Clinton Portals no Frank Gordon or Willis Begayhee He's no shockies. Yeah. You know, who else was on that team? When you look at that Antrelle Roe, Ed Reed, what's the, Sean Taylor. Yeah, they, you know, William Bryant.

And you do those two linebackers, Vilma. And so, so, but I like what I saw. Miami head coach Mario Cristobo said on Kane's win, come on, look around. I played in this rivalry. Look at the way Hard Rock is rocked. Miami Hurricane football. Yeah.

And he played, hey, you're right. I mean, they, they were rocking. You know, they had a lot of their former stars, their former great players there. That's always great to see. That's what I like that tradition that a lot of these teams have where they're great players, their former players come back, especially if they're able to, you see homecoming week when guys have buy weeks. You see them standing on the sideline at Ohio State.

You see them standing on the sideline at Michigan and Alabama and all that stuff. It was always great to see that. I remember when I was in Savannah State and the guys would come back. It made me feel good. I really never got an opportunity to get back, Ocho, because, you know, during our by week, I think I went to one homecoming. But for the most part, I didn't, you know, it wasn't homecoming or they're playing in a way game. But it's always great to see it.

And as you said, Ocho, Miami Hurricane football looked good. Carson Blake played really well, 20 or 30, 20-0-5, two touchdowns, clean game. He didn't turn it over. But there's still a lot of football to go. I don't know if it's Clemson on their schedule. Florida State, that's the ACC. Hey, let me tell you something. It's been a very long time.

Chat, everybody in the chat. It's been a very long time since we got two really good teams with a UM and Florida State meeting up. Now that's going to be a goddamn game. Well, what Florida State put on film yesterday and what you want to put on film tonight, man, stop playing, man. And obviously, listen, you're only going to get better as the season goes on, especially from an offense standpoint.

Right. The office starts a little slower. They're a little behind the eight ball as opposed to defense, who, again, all they have to do is just read and react. Once they get themselves into a rhythm, man, please. C.J. Daniels didn't catch a touchdown pass last season at LSU, but he scored his first touchdown since 2023 with a one-handed grab in the rain. And, you know, I thought the ball security was fairly well.

I mean, considering the inclement weather, it seemed like the turf gave a little bit. You know, you're below sea level. So once things get saturated, the turf is going to give. If I'm not mistaken, Ocho, I think they had a black college football. I think Howard played somebody in that same stadium yesterday. You mean, play somebody. Howard played the illustrious, the one and the only. Then y'all get beat.

You of all time. They played FAMU. Didn't y'all get beat? Huh? Didn't y'all get beat? It was 10 to 9 It was 10 to 9. It was 10 to 9.

So which team had 10? All I didn't know, who had 10? Who? Who had 10? Oh, Howard. Oh, so who had the 9? The greatest HBC of all time, family. So they lost.

Can I tell you something? Yes. Yes, you can tell me something. Florida A and in March of 100. They won the halftime show. So technically... Well, I want to see them go the human jukebox. Southern?

Yeah, I'm bad. See, I can't even say nothing bad because I love Southern. I can't even say nothing bad. And they turned it up. Hey, they showed out for us at the Super Bowl. They did. They did. I love Southern, especially what they did for us.

Down in New Orleans, I love you to death. But you know, my allegiance, my life. If I cut myself right now, why I bleed orange and green? You bleed orange and brown. Oregon State beavers. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I bleed, I bleed, orange, and green. Oregon State.

You have to understand. Remember how bad I was in high school, coming out of high school? No, I'm going to see, I'm going to see, I'm going to Google. Hold on, listen to me, I was supposed to be at FAMU. I was supposed to be at FAMU. I'm telling you, listen, hey, young, let me tell you something real quick. Hey, chat, let me give you a small example, right? When I was in high school, I wanted to be like a receiver that played for Miami Edison

High School. Y'all could Google this. Google this. I looked up to these boys. His name was Jaquay Nunley. Somebody, I don't know. If I have anybody in the chat, that's from Miami. You might remember Jack Quay Nunley. Went to Miami Edison, played receiver from not a mistake. I think he might have wore it number three. He went to FAMU. Me as a high, me coming out of high school, oh shoot, I want to be like Jacquay Nunley. But I want to go to FAMU. So that was part of my love for family right there outside of my grandma and my mom are always having me at the classic every year as a little kid. I went to the Florida classic Unks in 1984.

My mom and my grandma went to Cookman. They went to Cookman. But I just, that orange and green where they came out, they, hey, they were margin unc. I was like, oh, I got to go there. Yeah. Hey, my great. You went to the Beavers.

Well, Unk, I had to go to the only place I can get in. I had to go to the only place that would accept me. I had a place that was willing to give me a one-for-one with no eligibility left. A thank you to Dennis Erickson who remembered me from the little camps when he was with the hurricanes. That's why he gave me a shot.

Well, you could have, after you went to Samo, you could have went to Famu. Huh? After you went to Sammo, you could have went back to Famu. I was already on the West Coast. I didn't want to navigate and come all the way back here because I had to get out of Florida, you know,

to really get to my destination. Exactly. That's why it worked out. You weren't supposed to go to FAMU. Right, right. You'd still be in Miami and you go on to FAMU. But listen, the funny thing about it is when I get some time,

right now I have like, I got like 273 jobs. Yes. When the football season ends, I'm enrolling myself back in school at FAMU to finish everything and get my degree. I got, I ain't even got my degree yet.

I just got a whole bunch of jobs. with no degree. So I'm looking to get my master. Well, how close are you too to getting your degree? Hey, boy, listen, don't let me tell you, don't let me lie to you. Lord, have mercy.

So in other words, you spent two, a couple of years in college and you fall away from getting a degree than you win when you win. But, hey, listen, God is good. But you're going to take online classes? No, I'm going to school. Man, your big rust ass

ain't going to be sitting up in no classroom. Who not? Fam U, Tallahassee right down the street. I know what FAMU is. But I'm saying, but listen, I would have the time to go to class and get that HBCU experience because once football season ends, all the jobs I'm doing, it comes down to a halt a little bit. And I got a little bit room to maneuver.

So I want that experience. And then also, not only am I going to enroll and go back to school, I'm also enjoying the band because you know how much I love the band. You know, I play saxophone. I can play drum, I play tuba. And then Shelby Chipman, Shelby Chipman, who's the, the band director at FAMU, boom, ready. And I can, I can probably, probably see if I can,

I can try and beat a drum major or something. Okay. Yeah, I'm, listen, I'm taking my second half, this is my second half of life, huh? I got to do something with it. I got a small window opportunity. Ain't no telling when I'm gone. Ain't no telling.

I'm on the other side of the mountain. Once you hit your fit, once you over your 50s, you're on the other side of the mountain. So I'm going downhill and that. So I'm trying to get everything out of the way and check everything on my bucket list. It all depends on how much you did coming up on the other side of the mountain.

It would determine how long it's going to take you to get down on the other side of the mountain. That's a good question. I don't mean to be, what's the word I'm looking for? I don't mean to sound ignorant. Yeah. But I've been out of school so long. Yes.

Hell do I find out how many more credits I need for one to get a diploma, to graduate? Well, you'll have to get your thing from Oregon State. Transcripts? Yes. Get your transcripts. Yeah.

Think they still got all that? Yeah, hell, yeah. They still got it. Okay. Okay. You know, when they update. Let's hope you got some credits. I know I got something.

I don't know, Ocho, because I think you made you the eligibility. You were going to, I think you, I don't think you, I don't think you was trying to, I don't think you was trying to get no degree. I think you was just trying to stay eligible. Hey, that's it. That's it. I probably was. I probably was. Yeah.

Listen, the funny thing about it. is I'm one of the smartest, sharpest pupils in the classroom. I just had a problem not wanting to go to class. Yeah, I think the thing is, do you have a problem now, Ocho, is that you be in your age and your mind, turning your mind off about those jobs that you got. Right. You know what I'm saying?

So now because you got to focus, I mean, I don't know, like you said you want to go to class, sitting in that classroom, and you sitting there, because I remember when I went back at Ocho, I was 20. That was 22. And I'm sitting in the classroom, and I'm like, I got more money and everybody in here

more money to the teacher I say man I got to get up out of here I say ain't no way there's no way Ocho I could have waited and I'm always impressed by guys that do it

that wait three four five years and then go back to school right now if you're going to do it online away okay that's fine but to go sit in those classrooms I could do it

you see why you can't do it you understand why you can't do it you had that experience you've been to ASPCU I have See, I've always wanted. My dream was to go to Florida A&M. That was my dream.

I never got to relive that. You know, so I have the cars I was dealt, I did the best I could with them. But now I have the opportunity, you know it. I can finish off that childhood dream, no matter how old I am. You got to understand. But going to class, I think on, I mean, going to class, actually going to school, if I'm not mistaken. A class ain't a lot out of long. I sit here.

It all depends. I mean, it all depends. We were on the quarter system, Mocho. So you're right. We only went to a class for like 50 minutes. but it was five days a week. If you're on the semester system, you might only have to go to class

once to twice a week. So it all depends. And then, you know, you might have class, you might have labs. I mean, it's been 30 plus years. I mean,

I graduated in 91, so it's so long. I couldn't even tell you. I just know how my attention span is. Is that to be able to turn, yeah. Look at you laughing. Me and meetings.

Me and meetings don't get along. Me and meetings don't get along, man. That's the difference. The difference with me, you have to understand. I can sit there and you'll be like, man, what you're doing? I can sit there and play Madden for nine hours straight and one chair and not move. Not move. I can't play FIFA for eight, nine hours straight.

I can stream meeting for seven, six hours straight without movement. So imagine me going to school and being excited because it's an experience I'd never got to do before. What about the class? What about the curriculum? Are you going to be excited about every class that you take? Oh, absolutely, absolutely, because I understand what the end goal is. And knowing to get to the end goal, I got to put the work in. Okay.

I got to put them, they ain't finished just hand me no damn diploma. I'm trying to walk across the, I'm trying to walk across the stage throwing them fangs. What are you talking about? Yeah. That's the best part about it, to walk across the stage and have your family scream your name and everything like that. Family, may it ain't, well, y'all is my family. My mama gone, my grandma gone? Oh, but I'm saying you got chance, you got the kids.

I mean, the kids are going to be there. Yeah. Okay, listen, going to be the nightcap family. It's going to be you and Ash and George and everybody else. Okay, okay. I show up. All my kids, you know. Let me know how many of your graduating class.

I'm going to come when they get to Johnson so I can be a little later. Hey, listen, I'm going to come. You know how they do the new graduation. I'm coming out. The damn middle. Hey, what? Shoot. Hey, my daughter's done graduated, man.

My daughter then graduated from prayer if you're an in, man. And I ain't graduated yet. How did they don't beat me? My oldest daughter and graduated. My son then graduated from Arizona State. I'm the one with no diploma. My kids doing better than me. Yeah.

But that's what you want. You want your kids to do better than you. That's the whole purpose of why you did what you did. Yeah. So they wouldn't have to go through. So they wouldn't have the struggle. Now, look, I didn't want to absorb all my kids from struggle because sometimes people like, no, no, no, no.

You want your kids to struggle somewhat because you want them to understand. Life is not a bed of roses. So you want some struggle. But you don't want them to have to go through what you went through when basically your entire life was a struggle. But some struggle for a kid, build callous and help them navigate this thing called life because at some point in time, there will be a struggle. Yes.

There will be some hardship. There will be some adversity. And you don't want them to have such a smooth. ride that they can't have, they don't know how to handle or navigate that, that, that, that, that, that obstacle. Yeah. Or that roadblock that's been placed in front of them. But yeah, you want your kids that you did, you did, you did what you had to do to make sure you put your kids in a better situation than what you came up here. This is a funny thing about it. And one thing I won't do up here and get up here, like the reason for my kid's success and the reason they're doing so well in life at their age now, at their big age right now, It's because of me. Because they'll, oh, wait, oh, it's not. Oh, Uncle, it's not. Those I have kids from,

they do a hell of a job. And they still doing a hell of a job. That's why I can't wait. And this goes for everyone. And they'll probably see this. They probably not reading this chat. But when I win this power ball, right? You laugh.

I'm not even playing. I'm fin to win the power ball, right? You win that 1.1 billion? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to spit it in three halves. Have gone to those I have kids from for a job well motherfucking done.

Okay. One half going to nightcap because we can do some wild stuff ain't never been done. Lord have mercy.

And listen. Oh, Joe. Look, out of skydived, I'm good. I'm going to let you do that. I'm going to be on the ground, feel me.

And the other half going to the nightcap followers. See the subscribers. Yeah. So 1.8, whatever it is, we're going to break down a huge portion

of all of them for always supporting. Right. That's how I know God going to bless me because you know, I'm going to do what I'm supposed to do it to money.

I'm going to do good, you got to give a percent to the church. We got to find some churches that's doing the right thing that's helping people in the community. Okay. You got to tide. Okay. Oh, well, we're going to start with Newbirth.

We're going to start with New Birth. Baptist Church. We ain't now been to New Birth. What do you? I grew up in New Birth. Remember, I told you I grew up in New Birth. Hold on. You talked about New Birth in La Tho.

You're about New Birth in Obolaca. Oh, okay. He said, I thought you told you. 135. Hey, Reverend Victor Curry. Okay. Yeah, come on now. Talk to me.

I thought you're talking about new birth. It's about bad. Is it another one? Yes. Yes. In Atlanta. I think it's in Lafogia, yeah. They got a congregation.

I think they got a congregation about 20,000. What? A what? Yeah, about 20,000. I think it's about that big. A church? Yeah, anybody who, who go to new birth in this chat? Hold on.

A church with 20,000 people? Oh, yeah. That's like a college stadium. I mean, a small college stadium. I think, I think Pastor Jamal Bryant is the pastor now. Oh, okay. I know who that is. He took him for Bishop Eddie Long, who passed away.

I think he had cancer some years ago. I think Jamal Bryant is the head pastor now, if I'm not mistaken. I think, chat, don't quote me, but I think he is the pastor at Newbirth. God, hey, a 20,000 congregate? Gee. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's it called him? Creflo Dahl.

I think his first Christian something Joel Olstein I mean yeah they got a lot of the I mean they have two services Ocho yeah they be what they call mega churches Joe Osteen in Atlanta too

in Houston okay yeah yeah yeah but these these mega churches yeah yeah it's not the churches that you and I grew up that we were hoping to have a hundred people in there

or something like that you know what I'm saying and you know fourth Sunday or pastor's anniversary church anniversary or something like that you might get an overflow crowd. But yeah, man, these churches now, Ocho, they, you know, look, I, you know, I read my Bible. I read these literature. I get these little pamphlets, man, I just, I just don't

believe in the prosperity aspect of it. I don't. I don't believe in church members suffering while the pastor's living great. I don't believe in that prosperity. I don't. I understand you tied. You give what you can. But when you start telling me, I've must. I'm us do this, just, just count me, I'm just going to go in, I do what, I might not necessarily tied to the church every month, but I give, I do this charity, that charity, I make sure I do, I do what I can, what I feel out of the goodness of my heart, I just don't tell people about it because I don't think that's something you should advertise, but, but I'm proud of you. I hope you do go back in, uh, um, um, the life church in Oklahoma has 85,000 members.

Man, come on, come on, man. Weekly attendance. Weekly attendance. So, so how many, how many, how many, how many, how many, uh, 8,500 or 85,000 weekly, weekly attendees? Because some churches, some churches, you have two churches, two services on Sunday, and then you might have another service or a couple of services during the week. So that's where, uh, go ahead. How do you get that many people?

85,000 people, that's more people that, that, that, that pay court stadium, the Bengals is fitting in the stadium. What do we talk about? Fairby, hey, you talk about the Bible belt, Ocho? Oh. You know, in the South, people believe in that Bible. That's why they look down on certain aspects of sexuality.

Right, right, right, right. They frown upon that. Right. But, you know, look, we're not, we don't need to get in that, but hey. Right. Joe Lohsteen has 45,000 people. weekly, weekly attendees. Creflow Dollar, he has a big, what's his church name?

Faith, Chris, Chris, something. Put Creflot dollar. Type that in there. Hey, one thing about it, I love the word. I love, I love, C-R-E-F-L-L-O. You heard me? Fifteen. You heard me?

Uh-huh. I say I love some of these churches, some of the things I'm hearing about them. Yeah. Congregations. but I go to church for two things. I go to church for two things. I go to hear that word.

Yes. They got to hear the choir. And I don't want, I want that old traditional good gospel. That old, hey, man, listen, what a friend we have in Jesus. That old school. You hear me?

His eye is on the sparrow. I need that old school traditional gospel. Like I'm just Reverend James Cleveland. Like that kind of. Yeah, the Mississippi Mass Choir, the body clouds of joy. Now we, now are we talking? Shirley Caesar. Come on, hey, oh, I'm going to take you back real quick.

The Ken spirituals. Yeah. Man, stop playing. That's the kind of gospel I'm looking for. Now, I don't know if I can find that in the kind of churches we have today. Yeah. I mean, that was, that all I want to do is when they sing. Before the prayer and after the prayer, when they start singing.

We had a lady that would come to our church. She wasn't a member. Her name, I never forget her name was Ms. Margie Bird. Uh-huh. Man, that lady could sing. Yeah. Hey, Chad, if you're from Glenville, or from the surrounding kind of class,

you know who Ms. Margie Bird was. Lord, that woman had a voice. Yeah. Boy, hey, nothing like you see that woman walk in. Mm-hmm. It didn't fail. Ms. Margie, Ms. Marge, you want to do a solo? Lord, that woman get up there, Lord.

Hey, listen. I had the, ooh, boy, you got, listen. Ms. Ma'll get on that plianna? Uh-huh. Hey, I had the opportunity, young, obviously growing up with being able to see, I'm Miss Mosey Berks. I don't know who you know, Ms. Mosey Berks. I don't know who that is. Listen, Mississippi Mads Pryor. She's led many, many of, of, um, ooh, but you got me about to tear up. God damn it. Hold on. Let me get some tissue. Shit.

Whoa. Boy, those are days, man. Look. Those were the days, chat. I remember those days being a little boy, my feet couldn't even touch the floor. Just sitting there and, you know,

the old man prayer they have on them of them rib socks with those Stacey Adams shine to the gill. Mm-mm. We miss those days. I miss them.

Hey. Yeah. Hey, boy, we could talk about them old day. Boy, you got me tearing up. Godlieb, boy. Those days, don't you? though with a name.

Boy, I had the opportunity. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Chad. Excuse me for that. I had the opportunity of seeing Mosy Berks, who led the Mississippi Mass Choir many of times. And in chat, you might know the song. Are you definitely going to know this song?

One of our favorites, this morning when I rose. This morning when I rose and I had no doubt, man, chat, if you don't know it, we got to find, we got to find, you know what a show, we got to find a gospel concert. We'll have to, we'll have to step up in there.

Come on now. Come on now. Because, you know, I have me a couple of suits that I had made, you know what I'm saying, Ocho. I ain't going to be able to use them in 2025. But, you know, you know what I'm saying, but you know, I got them. It's okay, you know, just in case, you know, they wide leg,

you know what I'm saying? They wide leg, Ocho. Yeah. That's sharp, now. That's going to be sharp, man. Peak lapels? Yeah. Bad look here.

So clean fly light on me, I cut his throat. Oh man I like it I like it Matter of fact I just Every time I talk about gospel I hear something about gospel

We get to talk about the church You tell me anything When you come to dogs Or animals I get to getting emotional For no reason at all Man I tweeted something earlier today I thought

That goddamn Kiki Wyatt Unk Mm-hmm I've retweeted I didn't tweet that much of the day So if it's still on my timeline right now and she was singing and I just put the goat at the top

of it and I listened to it, man, that lady that man, something special. She got a voice, huh? Man, she got a voice, boy. She's so randy. She was in there. She was playing. She was in that plan. Like, this is what I do. Let's transition back to Miami Hurricane's

2025 schedule, Ocho. They beat Notre Dame in 2724. Next week, they're at home against Bethune Cookman. Then, Then they're at home against South Florida. Then they're at home against Florida. Then October 4th, they're on the road against Florida State. Home against Louisville.

Home against Stanford. At SMU. Home against Syracuse. Home against NC State. On the road against Virginia Tech. On the road against Pittsburgh. Hold on. Hold on.

Just a second. Something is at a neutral site. What game played is a neutral? FSU last, right? No, no, no, no, no. FSU is October 4th. Hey, they got a good chance to run the table. But usually they got the answer.

I don't really see it either. Oh, yeah, they got a chance. You know, they got South Florida, Florida, Florida State. Mm-hmm. Most of the tough, the Florida State game ain't going to be easy now. Oh, no. Not based on what I saw yesterday, especially when that Florida State defense.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Alma mater, his dad coached there for almost 30 years. Frank Beamer, right? Isn't that his dad name? right um Carolina look good Carolina look really good that big receiver they got

Nick what's his name hold on man they got a receiver Ocho like 6 4 about 230 he could fly Carolina South Carolina

yeah man he ran he run 10 100 meters 20 20 20 in the 200 meters yeah Oh, man, he looked good. He caught a bomb. Called a bomb. Oh, here it is right here.

But I like Carolina. I like the way they got out the field. I like them uniforms. The quarterback. Sellers. Sellers. Yeah. Yeah.

He played well today. And he has that ability. He's a true dual threat. He has a nice lively arm. Obviously, can run out, can get out of the pocket and make plays. I thought they did a great job of a, And Mike Shuler's calling the plays. Mike Shuler called plays in the NFL.

Yeah. And so Sellers was 12 of 19, 209, one touchdown, clean game. No interceptions. Yeah. They had 37 carries for a buck 19, one touchdown. But the defense, the defense played well for Carolina defense game. Very very well. Safety and three field goals, you can live with that.

You can live with that. Mm-hmm. But I like the, I like those. those uniforms. Carolina got some nice uniform. You like the all black? I like the all black. I like that all black.

All right. It's all right. You ain't like Virginia Tech all orange? No. Yeah. Maybe they had Mike Vic out there running around and I'm out of like them. Okay, okay, okay.

Florida State quarterback Tommy Costellanos mocks Alabama with merch after opening up said proud of FSU game Costellano stated they don't have Nick Sabin to save them. I just don't see them stopping me. Costa Lano not only backed up, beating Baltimore 31-17, but now it's profiting office. He's selling on Shirt's website, Tonning Alabama merch, Nick, can't save them. What's the pettiest thing you've ever done after backing up your trash talk on the field, Locho? Hey, that's a funny thing.

Wait, excuse my ignorance. As a collegiate kid, are you allowed to sell merch like that and profit from it outside of NIL? You can do that? Yeah, I guess so. Oh, that's dope. I like that. Yeah. For one, the fact that Castellanos said that before week one,

because he came like Alabama, and then went out there and backed it up. And did it. Man, please. Alumni and all of them students probably brought all that stuff up, right? Of course. Of course. It's only up from here. Yeah, absolutely.

It's only up from here. All right, just keep winning. Hey, keep winning. And your pocket's going to get fat and fatter, young man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. He was 9 to 14, a buck, $50.

16 rushes and 78 yards but he was the quarterback of note his team won he played really really well he didn't have stats to blow you away the most impressive stat that a quarterback can have is the win because at the end of the day that's what that's how we measure that's how we're supposed to measure quarterback yeah and he he's won more and he beat Alabama and we know what Florida State has been over the last couple years there are a lot of people that was calling for their head coach's job but but the alumni and and And the, they stayed, the booster, they stay, and the president, they stayed true. So they, we believe in this guy, because they had just went, what?

Didn't they go to the, I think? No, they had lost, they lost their quarterback. They didn't make the college football player. They got hurt. Yeah. But came back and, here they are, opened the season with a big time win. They weren't ranked, but they will be when the rank has come out on Tuesday. Yeah, absolutely.

But that's what you have to do, Ocho. You have to go out there. He said what he said, and he went out there and backed it out. He backed it up, and he's right. Coach Saving couldn't save him. Caleb DeBoer, you got to get on, you got to get in on the action, bro. It's time to go. In April, Nico, I'm a Liva, decided to walk away from Tennessee balls

after the feeling that he wasn't being paid what he deserved. At Tennessee, I'm a Liva. NIO deal with around $2 million, but he wanted a bump to approximately $4 million and increased Tennessee was unwilling to grant. However, at UCLA, I'm a Lever. took a pay cut earning only $1.2 million. And then when you factor in the state laws at California, 50%, he makes $600,000.

So you know, UCLA opened the season on Saturday against Utah, and they lost 43 to 10. He finished with 11 completions on 22 pass attempts, 50%, 136 pass a yards, one touchdown, one interception. Hey, sometimes you got to be careful. on. Yes. Sometimes you've got to be careful.

Now, this is just not a message for him. This is message in life in general. Sometimes you're in situations. Sometimes you're in situations where you want more and you think the grass is green on the other side when you got stability right there on your backyard. Mm-hmm. You got comfortability right there in your backyard.

I mean, Tennessee is a no state, not to cut you off with your, but if I'm not mistaken, I think Tennessee is a no state income tax. Yeah, come on, man. You got to understand that. then you're trying to be greedy. Your play on the field is going to take care of itself. If you want more money in NIL, you take care of that in between the lines with your play. They will have no problem bumping you up.

They let you go for a reason. They let you go seek out what you're looking for, which is more elsewhere. And then you go somewhere where you make. You make less and they tax you more. Yes. And they tax more. And you lost your first game against Utah. Come on, man.

That's a life lesson in the self, too, Unk. So. That's a life lesson in itself. So a million dollars, so you at 36, what is it, 36% tax rate. So every million dollars, you get $630,000. So he could have made $1.260. Now he's making $600,000. So he left $600,000 on the table.

That's money in his pocket. Come on, you got to do better. understand the situation you win. Because California is, I think, a 13% state income tax. So you figure 36% plus 13, that's 49%. Then you got FICA and then you got all these other because, hey, California hit you over your head.

Oh, they're coming to get theirs. Boy, California hit you over your head. They get theirs. But they get all that. All that. They need to use that goddamn money. They expand the goddamn four or five. They make a 200.

The big of traffic. Well, if that's the case, they need to make it to 18. They don't need to expand nothing. They need to, look, I mean, California, they'd be taxing and they got what probably the fourth or fifth largest GDP of anywhere in the world. And we talk about a state. We're talking about the United States.

We talk about the state within the United States. That's how much money that they make. It's just that. you can't take care of every single person. Yeah. You know, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I think, we thought we going to have a good game, because it started out good for you, and CBC. They got, uh, okay.

I said, coach, Coach Belich might have got a minker, mm-hmm, but come to find out, all he did, they just pooped on the field. That's the only stink out there, cause, boy, boy, they stunk it up the night. Uh, 48th, the 14. horn frogs travel on the road go down to chapel hill who chapel bill they need to pray for it because they're going to go get real ugly go get ugly for it get better ocho and a lott but 48 to 14 um tCU really had their way with them over 500 yards of total offense they did a great job they threw the ball well they ran the ball exceptionally well and north carolina look i don't understand it's coach bellichick's first year there but you see the talent the discrepancy

Now, I'm not saying TCU is Ohio State. No. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying they're LSU or one of those programs, but they have more talent than the Tar Heels. LT, watch this game. I know you had a vested interest in this game. You're a great alum of TCU.

What did you like about what you saw from your ball club? Well, to your point, your point, uncle, we have a veteran team, man. You know, we have guys that have played a lot of football. And, you know, when you have a veteran team guys, that have, you know, been in some, some tough games, have weathered the storm. You're supposed to win a game like this versus a team, you know, in UNC who has brought in a lot of transfers. It's a lot of turnover.

They still don't know what they have yet. So I'm just keeping it honest. We were supposed to win this game. But what I like from my team, like typically, we can throw the ball all over the yard. But lately we have had a trouble, we've had a little trouble running the football to close out games. And you guys know, as an RB, we got to be able to run the football. So that's what I love the most tonight is when we had to run the ball in the second half, man, we dominated. We controlled a lot of scrimmish. We had like three or four running backs in there running the

football. And I think that bodes well for us in the Big 12. You took the ball the first player to drive, the first play or the drive in the second half and you go 75 yards. The guy goes 75 yards untouched. So it was a harbinger of things to come. Oh, Cho, you watch this ball game. Yeah. There's a lot of fanfare. Everybody's talking about Coach Belichick. We know what he's accomplished at the NFL level. They started going through all his accolades, the six Super Bowl wins, the nine Super Bowl appearances, the 17, 18 division titles and yada, yada, yada, but now he's at, he's coaching players. And I think for, to a certain point, all coaches have patience. But I think you have to show even more patience now, even though some of these guys are

getting paid. It's not like an NFL roster where every single guy is getting paid. Right. But watching this game, Ocho, what did you, is there anything, is there anything you can take positive from what you saw from North Carolina? I mean, the only thing I can take positive from North Carolina is the head coach of Bill Belichick. That's the only positive thing I can take. You're playing a TCU team. Obviously, you can see the discrepancy in the level of talent at each position. And one thing that Bill Belichick always harped on, he always harped on is turnovers. You can't turn the ball over. You can't make mistakes. You can't make mistakes. mistakes. It's one thing, do your job and everything else will take care of itself.

Now, I'm not sure North Carolina schedule. I'm not sure the team they have coming forward, but when it comes to a team that's evenly matched, you know, from skill set to skill set, whether it be defensively or offensively, we would get to see a better outcome from Bill and that coaching staff. Coaching can only do so much, huh? Yeah. LT. Coaches can only do so so much at one you have to go out there and execute and it's a team game but it's 11 individuals on the field and you got to win your job you got to win your individual battle and then the outcome of team comes in the play they were they weren't out coached but they were out class because the level of talent that tc u had tonight obviously i think they looked at look go ahead go ahead i think

they looked yeah i was going to say i think they looked a little better when the backup quarterback came in and Max Johnson. They looked a little bit better. He threw the ball a little bit better. They had a little bit better rhythm to their offense. And if you guys know, that's Brad Johnson's son. So you know he has the pedigree in order to play the position. So maybe they make that turn to this young man who is obviously has played a lot of football.

He's been an LSU, Texas, A&M. So he's played a lot of football. I agree. I agree. They have a question on. LT and I have a question for a quick. Would they really make a move already from the starting quarterback? after just one game, or do they give him another chance?

Will they make a move that fast? The way he looked? Yeah, he didn't really look good. And the question is, how close was the quarterback battle? Because it said, I mean, they said he won the battle. So how close was it? Was it a runaway or whether the last second decision? But I agree with you, LT, because this young man is played at the top,

he was a starting quarterback in the SEC. He was starting quarterback at LSU. He was a starting quarterback. quarterback at Texas A&M. And for him, I'm surprised that he didn't win the job outright. I think we need to give Mr. Lopez a little credit, but he didn't look good tonight. Now, let's, okay, it's one game. One game is not going to determine, but it's not going to, you can't have a long.

Oh, Joe, you only got 10, 11 games. Yeah, I can't wait for five games in to say, okay, I'm going to pull the plug. Now, it's a lot, you get a lot quicker hooked in college than you do in the NFL because you have 17 weeks, uh, as opposed to like, like 11 weeks. And, but look, they don't, they're not good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

If we talk about, oh, we'll have a short leash, a long leash. They're not good. LT, you mentioned it. When you get 70 train, you got 70 new guys and you got 30 freshmen. Yeah. Come on, man. What do we expect? What do we expect?

And you're playing the ACC. Yeah. You're playing the AC. You see how Miami looks? Oh, yeah. Miami looked at last night, man. Yes. You got Clemson and you got Clemson in that division in that, excuse me, in that conference.

So North Carolina, the Tar Heels are going to have to be on their best behavior. Now, I'm not saying, look, Wake Forest, we'll see what Wake Forest has and NC State. And there are a couple of other teams, the Dukes. But right now, Carolina needs a lot. I mean, what I was most disappointed in was their defense because that's where Coach Belichick, that's where his son, Steve Belichick, they cut their teeth. They're normally, hey, when you come home. I already knew what my grandfather hat was supposed to go. So when he took it off and handed it to me, Ocho,

I wouldn't put it right on the hat right because I know where it was supposed to be. The Tahrhield was supposed to be able to hang the hat on what, Ocho? Defense. Yeah. You got the greatest defense of mine and his son. Hold on. Hold on. LT. Listen, you got the greatest defense of mind, right?

Yes. He was the greatest defense of mind, but he also had the tools out there on the field to be able to execute everything he brought to his mind. Yes. But now you're at the collegiate level. You might have... You need horse at the run.

Hey, listen. They didn't stop nothing. You got to have the talent there. You have to have a talent. You got to. You just can't have a beautiful mind with a tense and finish. Right. They didn't stop nothing tonight.

LT, you remember you guys remember we used to be in the game and some of the defense, watch the run. Watch the pass. Yeah, but you can't stop either one of them, so it don't matter what we do. Right, right. We're going to do one of the other, but you can't stop either one.

That was the tar heels tonight. They couldn't stop anything. Guy had one carry, 28 yards. 11 carries, a buck 13 with a 75 yard a touchdown. Seven carries for 28 yards. I mean, 35 for 258. I'm like, bro, are you going to talk about the receiver. The receiver had, what, 10 catchings for 113?

117 yards. yes sir yes sir they didn't stop nothing nothing so to your point like they got a hang they had on something like that's that's bill bellichick's MO you know to be able to take something away and tonight they didn't have the horses to be able to take anything yeah and and in horse racing look a good friend of mine Bob Bafford he trained two

triple crown winners American fair row and justify but at the end of the day yeah that has plays a role but he had the feral breads to run. So whether you're Western Soul, D. Wayne Lucas, your McGahey, Bob Baffer, it does not matter. If you do not have horses to run, you cannot win significant races. In football, and I don't take anything away from Andy Reed

and all these great coaches, but you got to have players. At the end of the day, it is the gyms and the Joes. It ain't no X of those because you can have all the minds you want to. It's the gyms and the Joes that's going to determine. determine how good those exes and those actually are. Every time. Every time.

But not a great start to coach Belichick's college career, college coaching career. They lose at home 48 to 14. And outside of that opening drive, that game really wasn't close. And they took a knee, they took a knee in a goal to go situation. Or they could have had a family, a party style nugget, a 50 piece on them. Yeah. They're going to be all right. though. They'll be

all right. They're going to be all right. I don't know if they're going to be all right this year. Yeah, no. They're going to have some ups and downs. But they're going to compete. They're going to compete. Bill is the type of coach that even if you're losing, even with losses like tonight, even with loss like tonight, that's the type of coach

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