Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Unc, Ocho & Johnny Manziel react to LSU-Clemson, Arch Manning STRUGGLING, Bama BLOWN OUT

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and CFB legend Johnny Manziel reacting to the latest from Week 1 of the College Football season as LSU takes on Clemson, Arch Manning and Texas i struggling against defending Nation Champs Ohio State, Alabama getting destroyed by Florida State, and much more! 05:20 - LSU-Clemson12:30 - FSU-Bama29:10 - Arch Manning struggles against Ohio St42:45 - Aggies-San Antonio47:30 - JM Glory Daze podcast clip going viral56:50 - Tulane football honors Hurricane Katrina (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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As we mentioned before, we have Johnny Mansell who will be joining us during the college football season on Saturdays. Welcome to the team, Johnny. Make sure you go subscribe to his podcast and YouTube channel, Glory Days, with Johnny Manzell, The name of Johnny's podcast is Glory Days with Johnny Manzell. All right now, the game that just went off, LSU, the number tigers, number nine, excuse me, LSU Tigers go on the road into first time and a long time. You've had two Death Valley. That's what Clemson called their home, Death Valley.

That's what LSU calls their home, Death Valley. So one Death Valley went into the other Death Valley. So number nine, LSU go on. on the road. Take down the number four, Clemson Tigers, by the score of 17 to 10. Nussmire. Gary Nussmeier played extremely well, John. I thought he played really well in the second half. He calmed down. He showed a lot of poise, a battleback, and they got to win. A very tough fought victory. Normally early on in the season, these are the type of games. LSU normally loses. And you see opening. They lost the Florida State. They got blown out.

And then they lost the year before that, they got beat. Now, LSU showed me a little. something going on the road in an extremely hostile environment, the number four team in the country and getting a win, that was very, very impressive. Johnny, let me ask you this. What did you like about what you saw from LSU? I mean, I think you look at a lot through the game. You see it was kind of stagnant there for a while where nothing was really happening.

It's kind of just kicking it back and forth, waiting for something to happen. But they stayed patient, Nussmeyer, finally got things going a lot better in the second half. They have the turnover in the first half that really killed a lot of momentum. But one of these kind of slugfest games that when you go on the road, road. You never really know how you're going to win these and get these done. But when you look at the end of the day, you want to have this win. I think they just found a way to get it done in the second half. Nothing too overwhelming, overpowering or anything like that, but just a solid, you know, one touchdown win. Oh, Joe, what did you like about what you saw from LSU considering these are the type of games we talked about that Brian Kelly has seemingly lost early in the season and finding a way to win a game like this. You know, when you go on the road and you beat the number 14 in the country, it doesn't matter if it's 17, 10. If it's 17, 16, if it's 11, if it's if it's 4 to 3, you won.

Long as you get the win. Listen, LSU played extremely away. I think the beginning of the game was very stagnant. It's a very defensive game. obviously most of the time when it comes to college football, even NFL. The defense is always ahead of the offense because all they have to do is read and react. And it takes time for offenses to get rolling. And what I did see from LSU, and I didn't see enough of.

Let me tell you what I didn't see enough of, honk, of LSU is being wide receiver university. LSU to me is now wide receiver university. I don't see that dog. I don't see that one player out there that can make a difference for LSU. And I didn't see that for Clemson either. They're another university that produces some good wide receivers. I haven't seen anybody emerge. Actually, honestly, we talk about not just this game, the entirety of the day.

Throughout, you know, college football, those that I thought are supposed to step up, those that have always been on my radar as really, really good receivers. Nobody really, what's the word I'm looking for? Nobody really. Stepped up to the front, impressive. Yeah, nobody. Nobody, especially in this game tonight, I was really looking forward to seeing somebody for LSU, to make a difference in the game.

Somebody for Clemson to make a difference in the game, but that didn't happen. It was more of a defensive slug fest. And the points that were scored, they were earned on. Every point was earned in night. I think LSU will look back on this game, and if they see, they go and have the type of season that I think guys they want to have,

they'll definitely look back at this game. Anytime you can go on the road in a hostile environment, and this is not Clemson's number four team in the country, they have the number three rated overall prospect. and he happens to be a quarterback, a Clint Kubnik, Klobnik, and to go in there

and to get that win, I think that tells you, I think Brian Kelly learned something about his team tonight, Johnny. I think he really have, I really think he has a team now that he believes

that he can take it anywhere in any environment and get a victory. Look, this is a playoff team Clemson from last year. Same quarterback coming back, a lot of the same pieces. So you got to feel like early in the season,

you know, this game has been scheduled on their, you know, bulletin board for the whole off season. And they knew what they were coming into to play. And like we said earlier, this is a game LSU normally doesn't come out and win. So for them to do that has to make them feel really good about themselves. I don't see anything in Clemson's game that they should feel too down on.

You know, you obviously want to win this game. But going through the ACC and the schedule that they have, they'll be fine. I think they need to continue to have Clubnik run the ball as he did a couple times there to extend some drives and do some certain things. But listen, everything's going to go through that guy. two for Clemson and if he doesn't put a touchdown on the board you know they're usually not going to come out with a win in that situation yeah ls you had to play well they showed up with t-shirts with one and oh on it when you on the road johnny and oh joe will you show up on on the road with against the number four team in the country and you're wearing t-shirts and you already got

one and oh boy you better come out there but you better come on out there and play and they play they played that second half they really dominated they really dominated this game nothing like i said, like Johnny, you were 28 to 30, 8, 231 touchdown, not overpowering. He didn't have a 300-yard day. He wasn't 70-plus percent completion percentage, but he was solid. He made big-time throws when he absolutely had to have him to get a drive, tied a ball game up, and then he goes down and get the go-ahead touchdown. He was very, very impressive.

And I think Brian Kelly has to be impressed with his team. Defensively, they started getting out to Clubnik. And once they started to put that pressure on, they brought a blitz, The guy, a linebacker looped around on fourth and four, and they turned them over on downs. But LSU, this was an impressive win. Now, you go look at it. Texas is in the SEC. Georgia is in the SEC.

There are no, look, there are no, they're not going to be any cake walks. I mean, even Vanderbilt saying, hold on, hold on, we're not, we're not your homecoming now. You know, Vanderbilt used to be Air Johnny, first game of the season was homecoming. Vanderbilt on the schedule. Vanderbilt was like 10 home coming to season. Even when they played FCF. Hey, everybody's thinking, hey, I'm going to pay my stats. You know, hey, the party tonight, I need to shine.

But the SEC is going to be very, very tough. Clemson, I agree with you, Johnny, the ACC. That look, they're not. Ain't a whole lot to write home. Now, the team that we're about to talk about in a little bit, Florida State, they showed us something. That constantly all knows. He showed us something today.

A, Florida State, Unk, hey, Johnny, I don't know what Florida State team we saw today, but they look really good. Not only offensively, which has really been stagnant for a very long time, but defensively, they came to play. Earl, hey, a, Unk, little junior, is that Earl Little Son? I think so. It is? I think so.

Hey, boy, he nice. Hey, he is nice. He's nice. He was playing some good goddamn ball at that, boy. So we're going to go ahead and get to that one. I'm going to talk about that. Okay. Florida State pulls the upset, unranked Florida State,

takes down the number eight team in the country. Ty said put pressure on Ty Simpson pretty much all day. He was pressured on 16 or 51 dropbacks, one of 10 for 30 yards with three sacks when pressure. Simpson was not on the same page as Ryan Williams, who left the game late with a concussion. Simpson was just 5 of 11 when. targeting him 0 or 3 on passes

thrown more than five yards down the field. Kalin, I was thinking to myself, Johnny, and Ocho, I was like, man, look here. I understand there's not a college coach that's going to be Coach Saban, but you can't, you can't, he's lost to four unranked teams

in 14 games. Coach Saban was there damn near two decades and he might have lost four unranked teams in his whole tenure. And I was like, man, they might get rid of Kalin DeBore. But I looked at that buyout. He has a $70 million buyout. They ain't got them deep pockets like y'all got Johnny down at Texas A&M

where y'all got a jimbo up out of there for $77 million. They ain't got pockets like that. So, oh, let me ask you this. You watch Alabama. Coach Saban's not walking through that door anytime soon. Okay, Coach Saban's not walking through that door ever. Yeah. When you look at Alabama, they don't even look the same.

They don't have the same swagger. They don't even take the feel to say. Well, Uncle, you got to understand. Of course, it don't look the same. This is what we're seeing now. When the saving was there, this was pre-NIL. Yeah. This was pre-N-I-L.

NIL came along and even the scoreboard all the way across, so all the talent and the players that used to go to Alabama where everybody would go and have to wait in line. They got receiver after receiver after receiver, quarterback after quarterback after quarterback after quarterback, running back after running back, got a running back. Everybody going all over the place because teams have money. And players don't want to sit and wait behind anybody else.

They want to play right now. Money talks. Which is one of the reasons why Nick Saban left? Because the playing field has evened where the level of talent is scattered across everywhere. Well, now, most of the part, coaching comes into play. In coaching, is that much more important? Is that much more important now? Because Florida State today, I'm not going to say they embarrass Alabama, but I'm

I guarantee you a lot of people, a lot of people, especially if you gamble, I guarantee you had Alabama to win. I guarantee you had Alabama to win. Johnny, what you think? What didn't you like about what you saw from Alabama? And what did you love about what you saw from? I'm Jake Hofer, and this is Back 40, a limited series show on Wire to Hunt, part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network.

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He's Ty. Hello. And we're the solid verbal college football podcast. College football season is here. And you know what that means. Your team is going to. Break your heart three times probably before Halloween. Uh-huh.

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You know, you look at what they did. He only threw the ball nine times. that's super effective to be able to go put 31 points up and you only throw the ball you're only 9 to 14 for 152 that's efficient. The one thing that I will say that I think in the past

you walk in facing an Alabama team you probably got a little fear. This is Bama the team that's been a dynasty, the team you got a little fear. That fear aspect of what Alabama is is completely gone and nobody's scared of them boys. Not Vandy, not Kentucky, not nobody.

Nobody's walking in and seeing Alabama on the schedule and having any kind of shake, any kind of fear, nothing. They've been getting wiped the last couple of years. You say that buyouts deep, but like they're not going to sit here and let this stand for sure. They'll go find it in wood somewhere. They absolutely will because I was thinking the same thing where they said about Jimbo, because prior to Jimbo, the biggest college buyout was Gus Mulzaun when he got $21 million to leave Auburn. and basically you tripled out, damn near quadrupled that with this buyout for Jimbo. But you're absolutely right. When you're Alabama and you've had to expect, and you've done what you've done,

six national championships, you've lost another two times in the championship game. You're damn near, they called the Alabama Invitational because Alabama was in it every year. And people had them with a chance to win it every year. You can't count Alabama out. You can't count Alabama out. But like you said, Johnny, nobody fears Alabama anymore. And when you don't, when half, that's half the battle. It's fear.

That's one of your biggest strength is another man's fear. Well, they don't have that anymore. And I'm looking at Alabama, Ocho. They ain't got the same level of talent. You're absolutely right. When you look at the, you look at the running backs, it was Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson and this one and that one. And you look at, and Derek Henry and Jemir Gibbs and this one and that one.

You go, you go look at the wire receivers. You went to Julio and Ridley and Cooper and this one and that one. back to back and you look at the quarterbacks you look at those big d linemen they used to have you look at the dbs they don't have that no more they just have guys now ain't nobody just when have you watched the game johnny and you played against them when when can you honestly say you watched an alabama team and ain't nobody jump off the page at you ain't nobody's like damn not since the georgia game last year where ryan williams did his thing and absolutely went crazy. If you've seen one player stand out where you're like, okay, this guy is a level of

talent of Alabama that we're accustomed to seeing. Everything else, you may see a splash or a dash here or there, but you're not seeing it consistently week in and week out like you're accustomed to. And the funny thing, too, Uncle, is I said something about for me, obviously being a receiver and thinking about college football and thinking about all the players have been promoted and advertised as opposed to be, you know, them boys. And me saying, like, nobody popped out to me on film today and people and people in the chat saying it's only week one. Yeah, week one.

Yes, it's week one. That's the whole point. You allow to pop out. Just because it's week one, that don't mean you can't flag. That doesn't mean you can't show. What do we talk about? It's only week one. Yes, that's when you actually pop out and you show off when you're playing against the top talent. You're playing

against the good teams. These are the games you're supposed to pop out because you're trying. When you get to the next level, Every week is the same thing. Every week you play in the NFL, it's them boys. You plan against them boys. So I'm expecting. I was expecting, I was expecting maybe coaches wanted to call conservative games.

Maybe they didn't want to feature the players that we've all been noticing on commercials and seeing over and over and over. So maybe next week, maybe the week after. I don't know at some point. The games were the day were okay. the Alabama, Alabama and Florida State game to me was probably the best and the most exciting with the Clemson

the Clemson game following after that but there's one more game we haven't talked about yet that was the absolute snooze fest. I'll wait until we get there. When I think about Alabama, the one thing Alabama could do was stop the run. You know Coach Sabin, Johnny, you had to throw. The thing that gave Coach Sabin

problem has always given Coach Sabin problems to do a threat quarterback and the guy that can pass the football. You go back and look when they lost to Oklahoma, Trevor Knight, I think that was his name. You look at what he did to them in the Sugar Bowl. He stood back there and he threw the ball. Now, the thing that gave him the most problem is a dual-threat

quarterback. A guy that could throw the ball and run. You look at Johnny Mansell. You look at Deshawn Watson. You look at guys that Cam Newton. You look... Damn. It's just so happy. You're talking about two guys won the Hizman trophy. One guy was one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL before

the injuries and things off the field took place. You see. But they got ran on 49 times for 2.30. Coach, you don't run on Bama? Bama don't let you run. They step your run and then they go hunt your quarterback.

They can't really hunt the quarterback. They really can't consistently stop the run. And Custoliano's was doing whatever he wanted to do. Like you said, John, extremely efficient in the passing game. Only threw the ball 14 times. But when you can, and you know Gus Moulz-Zahn, you know what he wants to do. He wants to run the football.

he wants to give you a lot of misdirection he's going to run Jet Suite he's going to run your quarterback he's going to run his quarterback that's what he does Florida State almost lost not almost lost that game but almost letting them boys back in the game too after the after the second half that second half and third quarter everything started

being conservative everything started being conservative the three and outs giving Alabama the ball back allowing them to have a chance to get back into the game now if it was the old Alabama or a team that was a little bit more competent in the fishing with the ball hell Alabama could have came back and won that game

with as conservative as Florida State played in that second half well old Alabama wouldn't have been behind like that go ahead Johnny I think I think you look at what Alabama wants to do in the past they would always say listen we're going to go man on man we're going to take our best versus your best and we're going to lock you down times like we said in the past where they've you know had success against an Alabama has been when you know they're running mankind

running down the field and the quarterback's able to escape to contain and be able to get out. But this is a team that just doesn't even resemble that like we're going to put our best corner against your best receiver and body them and throw them out of bounds and bully them up or, you know, we're going to take our best edge rusher and just absolutely mop you all day long. You don't, you're not used to seeing an Alabama team get pushed around, especially in the trenches. That's good. You got to be concerned. Yeah. And plus, they can't run the ball like they used to. You know,

Alabama, get them hogs up. And I'm looking at the offensive line. They go 6-7-3-40, 6-7, 3-20, 6-6. I'm like, bro, y'all big for no reason. Why the hell you're that big if you can't block? If you ain't moving, oh, Joe, you got to move forward to you that big. I said, y'all that big and can't block the sun at your child. I was like, well, damn.

Ain't no sense of being that big if you ain't going to move, son. Yeah. I'm like, what, damn. I mean, 29 rushes for 87 yards. Oh, Cho, 27 rushes, 89 yards, three yards. They look good on.

I'm talking about all three levels. Up front, second level, and the secondary. I really want to know, Chad. I don't know if you guys know, if you remember Earl Little that played for Cleveland Browns, is that his son, Little Jr. Hey, he was all over the player.

He was a, he was talking about the D.D. Earlville, right? Yeah, he was in North Miami down here in Miami. That, man. I think that is the son. Man, he was bolder, boy. Nick Saban coached 230 games at Alabama. He had four losses to unranked teams during his stretch. Kalen DeBore has coached 14 games,

and he just lost his fourth game to an unranked team. Since 2007, in games in which Alabama was favored by at least 14 points, Coach Saban is 131 and 2. Kalan DeBore is 4 and 4. They get you up out of there. You don't want to be the man You don't want to be the man To follow the man

You want to be the man That follow the man So I want to be the guy That came after the guy That followed Coach Saban I don't want that pressure You don't want to follow Coach Brian

You don't want to follow Nick Saban You don't want to follow One of those Barrett Switzers Or those Arab procedures One of those mythical coaches You want to be the guy

That followed him Because now That's what I'm going up again Because I've got Some separation between me and coach saban i've got separation between me and one of these historic great coaches uh the question that i have for you johnny is that do you believe the nil would be the death death of the cc no i don't think so i think the south will only the cc and that conference

will only find a way to um work around it and do what they need to do there's too much money there There's too much in these collectives to be able to make it successful. I think we'll see some more, I think we'll see different programs, different teams. Yes. Same Georgia, Alabama, the same couple little pockets of teams that have been winning for the SEC. So I think it'll give some disparity in that regard. But for the most part, I think the SEC is aligned for whatever moves forward in the college football, NIL landscape, whether it's getting to bigger conferences where we only have three big

conferences throughout the country or four or whatever it may be, I think the SEC can keep accumulating teams, more teams, and end up being, you know, the biggest conference, 16, 20 teams, you know, when it's all said and done and this stuff kind of plays itself out. Oh, Joe, what you're thinking? Because you look at Underwood, I think we might, I think we might touch on him. You get Larry Ellison, one of the top three richest men in the world. He underwrites it. You get Dave Port North from Barstool. You get a Tom Brady.

He says, hey, I'll personally help you out and mentor you and coach you. And you give a kid, an 18-year-old, $12.5 million. Say, come on down here. This is what we got for you. It's hard when you got these deep pocket donors. You get a team like an Oregon, and you got Nike, and you got those that bill night dollars. And you get all those uniforms. So now it ain't no dollars charges.

It ain't no challenges. These guys got Ferraris, Johnny. These guys got Lambos. These guys driving Cullinans and McLaren's. It's 18, 19-year-olds. Yeah, listen. Hey, the landscape has changed. The landscape has changed.

Like I said, I said, even the playing field. And I think it's good. I think it's good for the players. I think it's good for the players because not only are you able to obviously get money for playing a sport you love, you're able to help your family out. You're able to help your family early. as long as you can stay focused and understanding that you got this money

as just a jumpstart for your bigger dream for your bigger goal of making it to that next level where the real money is as long as you can lock in, stay focused and do what you need to do. I think I like it because like Johnny said, it adds some disparity, obviously to college football in general

and even the playing field where everybody gets the talent instead of one or two or three or just three teams getting everybody. You right? because it sure it sure seems that way now it doesn't look like i mean i'm not look Alabama still get five-star recruits but they don't look like the five stars they normally get it seemingly ohio state are getting those guys now and they're like you said i mean if

there's 25 35 star Alabama's getting one or two where they normally have two running backs two wide receivers 3D linemen two old linemen a corner uh the number one the number two or three dual threat they don't those guys don't look like the same caliber player that they normally once had had and i think you got the right question too uh johnny y'all can help me out when it comes to these stars and whoever is rating them yes from the people that's supposed to be these four and five stars when the lights were bright tonight when the lights were bright today in general the stars didn't come out the stars didn't come out at all well and that's the thing what you alluded to you say when people you tweeted what you tweeted and people say what shenna

they said oh cho well it's just the first game it doesn't matter if you if you are who you say you are first game second game third game first quarter second quarter third quarter it does not matter and you're chopping I don't know you're like a pit bull on a leash when this first game comes up you're sitting there like I want to get let off the league

you're in training camp you know you got bang bang flays going across the middle and you can't touch each other and you're running by and you're barking this is what you're doing all training camp

you're fake blowing stuff up you have the sacks the whistle of blowing that you'd be like boy if that was in a game we'd I tore your ass up like that's what you're doing all spring and all training camp

so now you're off the leash. This is your time to run first time on a field, maybe in front of the lights. Yeah, it can hit you a little weird in a couple spots, but when it comes down to it, a dog is a dog and it's time to be off the leash. At a way. Oh.

Arch Manning struggled in his debut against Ohio State with scouts and more than a dozen NFL teams watching, including nearby Cleveland Browns. Manning was inconsistent. He completed 17 to 30 passes, 170 yards, one touchdown, an interception,

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, uh, 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 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 and 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

to everybody else, uh, that 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, 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 know what transformative mean? We just be, we just be using stuff because it sounds good. stop saying that he's not he might be that but if you look at archmaney and you say he's transcend 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 what happened is that when uh uh you 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 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 know well I've got we've got different definitions

of what generational leaves. Go ahead, Joe. I mean, this is part of the media's fault, honestly. This is part of the media's fault in crowning him a generation of telling, crowning him the next big thing. Obviously, because some of the games he played in last year, he looked decent when he came in, when he was hurt. But again, you come in, week one, you plan against him 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 it's going to be right. But based on what we saw today, no, that ain't it. That ain't it because 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?

For football guys, especially you guys playing, you know, a tight-in 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 pitching catch type of stuff there's 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 get 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. Yeah. You wanted to go ahead.

One more thing. It's really small. It's really small. Just watching the game where Archman is 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 we're ars through interception and i'm looking um they but they got the bun split right

they got the bun split and the db i mean the db the receiver he got the seven route he got the damn corner staying way up field he's staying high on his inside shoulder so the first thing you the first thing you do i'm like well what is the receiver doing man just break it off and running like deep ass. You're like a square out. Big, as deep ass out.

Man, the DB, the deep, I mean, I don't know what, 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. Yeah. And it's just stuff like that. If arch is not playing well, that mean the receivers have to be on point on the outside. You got to hear from out. 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 play in the number. You play in the team that won the national championship, the opening game on the road in their building. 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 confused 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 but 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 uh 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 oh 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 what you're playing in the 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, um, I'm not sure who Texas played next week. San Jose State.

Oh, there we go. There we go. Hey, listen, he might throw up for 700. Well, you, hey, ideally, Johnny, you want San Jose first, then go to Ohio State. You, hey, you, I 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 people in a little water a little bit. They just don't jump in cold.

Hey, let me. Sometimes, you know, they jump 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, He's a 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.

Because 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, So then they did a great job of covering him.

You can see the frustration that 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 back side of some of these plays and 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, there 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. And 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.

Another thing too long, 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're coming 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 him in motion, you condense the splits, forcing the DVs 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 the hat,

he's not beating us. So I don't give a damn what you do with him. You can put him 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's 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, you can have by there looking like expect the gadget with a trench coat and everything. He ain't beat me. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, The guy with the trench coach, he ain't nobody.

Don't worry about it. You cover that nobody, and you help him over the top of that nobody. Johnny, Marcel Reed, threw a career high four touchdowns as the 19th ranked Aggies roll over in the season opener, 4224 over UT San Antonio. C.C. Conception had a touchdown reception, return to plump for another score in Texas A&M debut. Johnny, is this the year for your Aggies?

Y'all are going to do something? Man, I try to sit here and not jinx us, not try and put too much. It is a conlet of the SEC run, right? We still got to go see everybody. But look, I think last year, whenever Marcel comes in against LSU, that second half of that game last year and does what he does, unbelievable ability to be able to run the football as a quarterback and be able to move like that, has great speed.

The one thing that we've been waiting for with him is really to see him expand the passing game. Move the ball downfield. I think in the end of the last season, we were one very one dimensional. We know we're going to be able to run the ball and that's what we want to be able to do. But for him to be able to come out in the season opener, have four touchdowns, B-22 of 34. I spoke to him probably three or four weeks ago and I was watching a lot of stuff in routes on air and just seeing certain things. And I was kind of like just looking at it. I didn't exactly love what I was seeing, to be honest. So, like, I was in the U.K. somewhere, and I pick up the phone, I called them.

And I'm like, man, I got to drop this little tip on you that me and Mike Evans started working on after our first off season where you just like in routes on air and you're running down the field. Just get your receivers to stick their hand up and stare at that middle finger. Like, just stare at the middle of their finger the whole time with your eyes and start to train your eyes that when you don't even need to see the ball release out of your hand or anything, but just start staring at finger. tips and just start starting to give him a little bit of some things that I think will be able to help him because if he develops his passing game the sky is the limit for us we have a good defense solid run game I like what elko's doing but it's too early to say against the UTSA team that this is our year but we'll see in we got a we got a Notre Dame game coming up pretty soon that it'll be a good test for us that we didn't play very good against last year

did have a, give a guy 177 yards on 16 carries with two touchdown, Johnny. So you can't be pleased with that. One of those was 75 yards. So you can't be too pleased with that. Yeah, sure. But I agree with you. Reed, like, we know he got legs. But in order to take your game, so if you're trying to take your game to the next level

and they know you got, it's your arm, is that Lamar went to another level once his arm started catching up with his legs. Josh Allen, when his arms started catching up with his legs, Patrick Mahomes had the arm, and now my home boy put that thing up on his arm and tuck it. He'll tuck it and take off on you. And they're like, hold on, wait a minute. You ain't never showed that.

Don't worry about it. You see it now, though. And so that's what Reed, if he wants to get to that next level, he wants to be in Texas A&M what Johnny football was, he's going to have to be able to throw it Johnny consistently. It's hard. I don't believe now at any level,

maybe high school, that you can just win with a running quarterback. He's going to have, they're going to force you to throw it. They're going to force you to throw it. At the end of the day, and when the rubber needs to meet the rows,

you can always stack the box, put a bunch of people out there, man up and say, you know, that fade route doesn't always get beat off the line of scrimmage and you just see him over the top and you let it go.

Sometimes you're going to have the back shoulder. You're going to have to put it in different areas. You're talking about the corner earlier, being high over the top and you've got to throw them flat. These are a lot of things you have to learn and you learn in the college game as a passer. The one thing about Marcel Reed is when people were asking me about in this off season, I go, what do you need to do in the off season is go work nothing but half line routes on air and just see different half line coverages, half side of the field coverages, see what it looks like

and just get more use to game rep speed of zone and coverage looks. And I think, look, it's a great start. He needs to continue to be able to throw the ball because we're going to see teams, you know, this year on A&M schedule. We'll see it in two weeks versus Notre Dame where they're going to load it up, make sure we can't run it. You're going to have to go make some plays with your arm or you're going to be stagnant.

Because at the end of the day, you got to throw the football to win. In today's game, the way it is, you got to throw the football to win. But you got to be happy with that. Johnny, we're going to get you out of here on this one, This clip from your Glory Days podcast has gone viral. Let's show the chat. Oh, boy. I'm Jake Hofer, and this is Back 40,

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wherever you get your podcasts. In my draft class, the Browns had two picks. With the sixth pick, we took Justin Gilbert from Oklahoma State. Oh, you. And I get the most wave of shit for being a bust in this and that. I wasn't even the biggest fucking, and respect to Justin Gilbert, I love as a human. beam, but we both flamed out. We both fucking struggled.

And he went 14, 15, 16 picks before me. So, like, I'm not even the biggest bust in my class from the Browns. Damn, Johnny. I was feeling some type of way that day, on? Clearly, clearly. You're like, hold on, y'all killing me. But what about the guy that went top 10? I mean, I wanted to be in that pick.

Like, that's where we were talking about going to. Cleveland, I wanted to go to Cleveland at six. I wanted to go to Cleveland for whatever the pick was. Like, if you're going to send me to Ohio, at least send me with $20 million instead of $8. Like, what the fuck? Damn. I'll love to Justin Gover. Look, I think, you know, from a Brown's draft perspective from that year, you know,

Joel Betonio is still playing and doing well for Cleveland right now. But all around miss, you know, I think. I think I will always be looked at and viewed at because of how much hype and, you know, media and everything that was around me and the city of Cleveland expecting me to be great and that ultimately not panning out. Listen, you know, I sit here today and I go back and forth with, man, am I going to let Cleveland off the hook and just like let it go or am I going to sit here with hate and animosity in my heart for the rest of my life? And I finally sit here today. I'm like, fuck it. I think I'm going to be pissed at. I'm going to

hate them forever. So it is what it is, man. No love for the Browns. I'm rooting for 0.16 seasons every season. Damn. Jim, let me ask you this. As you sit here today and after all the things you've gone through, we sat down a little over a year ago and we had a conversation, had a great conversation. And I think a lot of people got an opportunity to see you in a different light. Knowing what you know now, you're back in that situation, but you know what you're what you know now? What would you have done differently? Would you have done anything different leading up to the draft? Would you have done anything different in college? What are some of the things that Johnny would have done differently to make sure this outcome that we're talking about

never happened? Look, there was a moment in time and we spoke about it on the podcast was, you know, after that Oklahoma Cotton Bowl game, you know, things changed for me and I went from Johnny Mansell to Johnny football. And like looking back on it now, and people ask me if you could go back in time and do it differently, there is that split moment in time. And time, like in the locker room after that game where my focus would have shifted to, let's get to a national championship the next year. Let's get to San Diego and start training again and like get ready and geared up for this season because we got Mike Evans returning.

We got a bunch of guys on this team who can come back and make a real run. And that's one thing that just never sits right with me to this day, just like the untapped potential of the whole thing and the real opportunity. If I want to see Texas A&M win a national. championship well that was a real real opportunity for us and it just didn't come to fruition and you know i sit here today and and a lot of people was hear me speak and as i tell stories and you know i'm doing the podcasting stuff you know people will always be like you know i'm blaming stuff on other people or i'm not accountable or anything like that but listen at the end of the

day everything that i've got in my life and that's happened to me throughout my football career is only because of one person, myself, and the decisions that I've made as a man in this life. So was Cleveland the best situation for me to go to? Did they help me knowing all the things that they knew about me? With all the research and everything, did they put me in the best situation? Absolutely not. It was not the right situation for me. But when it comes down to it, you take all of that aside, you throw it away, and you look

in the mirror and you say, I've led an amazing. opportunity slip it's on me i'm the one that has to sit with myself every single night as i watch college football or watch NFL football and be like damn i would be in my 12th year i would be x y and z i'm the one that has to lay my pillow down lay my head on the pillow every night and be like that coulda woulda should have but it wasn't and at the end of the day a lot of my life as i've been out of football has been like what am i going to be able to do to find a spark to be able to be happy, to be able to give me something like football did give me. And you know what? Maybe it wasn't meant to be for me. I didn't put in the time and the effort and determination

that you need to be great that both of you guys did for the sport. And that was just maybe my stupidity, my youth, or what it was meant to be. But nevertheless, you know, I take accountability for everything and what it is. You know, I really didn't harm anybody other than myself when it's all said and done. So, you know, we're still sitting here today. rocking, rolling, happy. And we're on the nightcap show now, baby. Every Saturday, let's go. That's what I'm talking about.

Johnny, did it come too easy? Did football come too easy to you? You look at what you did. You went down to Tuscaloosa and you became a household name. Everybody knew who you were after you went in there and did what you did to Coach Sabin. Did football come too easy for you after that? I don't know. I think I started to, you start to get a little bit of ego on the football field, right?

start to see what you're doing in practice and how you're playing and like making certain throws and the scrambling where you like you're just doing certain things that are just like jumping off the page and you're noticing them too so it gives you a it gives you a bravado and a confidence and when people on a college football field you know I think this is why I wanted to go to the NFL so bad because as I'm going and playing on Saturdays I'm like these dudes can't fuck with me like they they really can't They want to, and even guys who are good from opposing teams, you'll come up to each other after the game and they'll be like, damn, you're everything we thought you were going to be. You're cold.

So, like, as you're getting respect from your peers on this level, too, it does heighten your sense. It does give you a sense of ego and bravado and, you know, you add the social media wave and, you know, at that point in time, sports center every single night and you're taking over the world, you know, it does make you feel invincible. I know there was a lot of hard work that went into everything that happened and the reason that I played as well as I did on the field is because I did work my ass off from the time I was in high school to college and it all played itself out. I think you start to see the down, you know, the downslide and everything else when the hard work takes itself out. So, you know, that's what I always tell kids nowadays who ask me and look at my story and look at everything. It's like, listen, I had all the talent in the world. You can go run a go route, put your hand up and have a guy draped over you. I'll drop it in the bucket.

You can go meet me in the A gap and really think you have me covered to tackle and I'll mix you out of your shoes. But when it comes down to it, you've got to work hard and you've got to consistently do it day in and day out, even when you don't want to. And if you don't want to do it, guess what? There's somebody right next door or somewhere else that wants to take your spot and want to trade places with you. And look what happened to me. You know, the NFL is a game where you get replaced like this. Johnny, thanks for joining us tonight. Welcome to the team.

Make sure you go subscribe to Johnny's podcast on YouTube, Glory Days with Johnny Manzell. Johnny, thank you for joining us, man. We'll see you next week, bro. Have a good time. Enjoy it. All right, bro. Yep.

That's Johnny Manzell, ladies and gentlemen. He will be joining us. He will be our special guest on Saturdays during the college football season and in the college football playoffs. So thank you, Johnny, for joining us. us enjoy the rest of your time. He's away. I mean, it's five o'clock in the morning where he's at. It's 6.30 now. Where we at? So, he's in Milan. That's what I got on, too. Oh, okay. Hey, see Milan. Tell me, you know who this is?

No, I don't. Ross Mill. Man, I don't know who. who that is. What? Ronald Dio. Yeah, what you mean? You don't know who that is. You for real or are you just playing?

Man, I ain't, I ain't, the official, the soccer official. And even if you're not a soccer official, you got to know who

Ronald Dino is. The great. I know who, I know who he is. I know he's a Brazilian. You never seen him play? I have seen him play. Okay, okay.

Okay. Okay. I don't want to, I don't want to give you a, okay, just, but don't upset me. Like that? You almost used to know. I saw him play. I saw Caca play.

I saw Caca. Okay. I'm just saying. There you go. Okay. Tulane football wore all green uniforms with black held with a blank green helmets today to recognize the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Green wave head coach John Summerall said the program was set to honor the victims even further. But Tulane's request to Northwestern to wear white jerseys, which is what program wore the first game after

Katrina was declined. After the game, coach said, I'm not trying to take a shot, but we requested to wear white jerseys because that's what the team wore. It got denied. That's their prerogative. But when you disrespect the city of New Orleans, that's what's going to happen to you. You're going to get the run to a team that had a chip on their shoulder. We might have used that for a little motivation to represent the city. Don't disrespect the city of New Orleans. Ever. Ocho. Ocho? What's your face? Respect New Orleans, man. What you talk about? Yeah, I've been watching that documentary, man. God almighty. I didn't see the documentary. It's, it's tough for me to sit through that. It would be tough for me to sit through that and have to watch that and realizing this is, this affected people's lives.

People had to uproot. People lost their lives. And the fact that the response, and knowing it was coming and the response in people in positions of power coming to help, not being what it should have been. No. You know, I can't,

I can't, I can't stomach that. I can't. Yeah, I haven't gotten all the way through it, but they have people that was, you know, little girl. I think she was probably 14 at the time and she's telling the story now about her, and guys were telling the story

how his granddaughter, she went under, never saw again. mother went under never saw again i can't do that i was like oh my goodness i mean you know you you saw it i mean you know you saw it from a distance but to hear people share their stories and to see all these people man it almost seems surreal it doesn't seem real like something like this can happen there ain't no way something like this can happen in a minute and then we have the response that we have i was just getting ready to say that we talk about america we talk about a catastrophe of that magnitude do you understand depending on depending on what it is on how important something is

you mean we can resolve another country's issues in a week's time and you mean you tell me you can't go down now to the boot and make sure man don't get me started man no man don't get me started it was it was the perfect storm ocho because you think about you got lake pontiff train on the front, you got the Mississippi River on the back, and you got a city that's below sea level. That water got to go somewhere. And you got a category five with wins pushing 150, 160, 170 miles an hour, punch a train to the front, Mississippi to the back, and you're below sea level. That water got to go somewhere.

Guess where it's going? Where they don't have levies. now it ain't going to the oak it ain't going over there yeah it's going over here it's funny it's funny I'm Jake Hofer

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