Green Light with Chris Long - Macon’s Back! Stanford Steve on CFB WK1! Best CFB Uniform Updates.

Episode Date: September 2, 2022

(2:23) - Macon’s Back! Life Updates, Chevy Tahoes and Red Light / Green Light. (34:55) - Green Light House Keeping: Dan Campbell Receives his GL Care Package, Stacy Dash and Alive or Dead, Trumpets and Pumpkins and Serena Williams. (59:38) - Final NFL Preseason Observation Deck: DB Injuries, Trey Lance and Russell Wilson’s New Contract. (1:18:20) - Stanford Steve on College Football’s Week One Best Matchups, Heisman Watch, Coughlin and Chang Awards and Best CFB Bets. (2:03:30) - Chris and Macon Review Best Updated CFB Uniforms. Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1 Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. https://www.greenlightpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Download the app, bet big, win bigger. And I got to tell you, I really like the sound of that. And with win bet, it's just that easy. Win bet has what you need to win. So if you're from Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, or right here in Virginia, sign up today to receive this special offer. New users can take advantage of win bets, bet $50 to win $200. Just bet $50 and win $200 in free bets.

download the win bet app now or visit w-y-n-n-n-n-b-et.com. Download the app, bet big, and win bigger. Let's get after it. Terms and conditions apply must be 21 or older and present in a state where win-bet is available. Gambling problem in Arizona, call 1-800 next step. In Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, and Virginia, call 1-800-Gambler. And in Michigan, 1-800-2-7-1-17-8-9.

Tennessee, y'all, too. 1-800-9-9-7-89. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. Macon is back in Studio, Jay. We got Makin all day to day. Chris and Makin catch up for a bit. We talk about some life updates. We give Makin the rundown on the pumpkin

on Dan Kimball's Greenlight Care Package. We run through some housekeeping. Talked Serena Williams. Invite Stacey Dash to play a game of Alive or Dad and run through one more observation deck. Then we've got Stanford Stevie. He's going to run through everything you need to know for college football is week one.

He's going to give you a watch list for the Heisman Trophy. We're going to talk the Cochlin Award, obviously. We're going to introduce a new award. We'll talk a little betting. In the last little bit of the show, Chris and Macon are going to do a little uniform talk. They're going to talk about the best updated college football uniforms. Y'all enjoy it. We got a fun show today.

We have a great show today. We just did it. Yeah. Macon's back. Macon's back. And Steve's back too. It felt like a full studio, even though Steve was on the Zoom. But it felt good.

It falls in the air because... Yeah, Pumpkin, Spice. Concussions. concussions, the whole thing. We're excited. And hey, I wanted to give you guys an update on the next week before you start today's pod. Monday is, of course, Labor Day, which is a really fucking cool thing to enjoy in retirement. We can get Labor Day off in the NFL. We've got James Coe. We're going to put fantasy on Monday. We recorded an interview today with

James Coe. We broke down our fantasy drafts, me and Macon, as a well as gave out some tips for the season. That will be Monday. It's 30 minutes. It's quick. It's to the point. It's something for you to nibble on on Monday. Well, we take the day off.

So enjoy that. And this is going to start our Monday, Wednesday, Friday flow. So the fall is, it's starting again. And you'll have more of us. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Monday, James Co. So if anybody got hurt and we gave them out, we recorded it today

but check us out on Monday I'll give you a layup line go listen to Marshall Tucker this weekend listen to Marshall Tucker band is it ever a bad time to give out Marshall Tucker band did I already give out

24 hours of the time the live version of that how about you ain't fooling me you ain't fooling me there you go that's a good one that's been a jam this month so we'll give that out for layup line

enjoy enjoy the pod you know I'm not an athlete anymore per se I did just join a softball league, but I'm a podcaster. And to podcasters, gut health is very important. My morning routine is very important.

My breakfast is very important. Walking downstairs to the kitchen to the song Narco is very important to me. But nothing is more important than drinking AG1. I started taking AG1 because I wanted a supplement that actually tastes great. And I wanted to find a nutritional drink that could add to my daily routine

to improve my gut health and energy. I just rip it open and it's over with. I don't have to mix a bunch of stuff, it's easy. I've been on it for six months and I love it. Doesn't taste like it's super healthy, which is a good thing, it tastes really good. It kind of has a mild tropical taste that I actually look forward to each morning.

This is the best option for easy optimal nutrition out there. You take one scoop of AG1 and you're absorbing 75 high quality vitamins, minerals, whole food, source, superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. Right now, it's time to reclaim your health and arm your immune system with convenient daily nutrition. It's just one scoop, in a cup of water every day.

That's it. It's that simple. No need for a million different pills and supplements to look out for your health. To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a free one-year supply of immune-supporting vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athletic greens.com slash greenlight. Again, that is athletic greens.com slash greenlight to take ownership over your health and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance.

Greenlight pod, let's ride. Greenlight pod. Let's ride. Greenlight Pod, let's ride. Greenlight pod, let's ride. Greenlight pod. Hello! What's up, dude?

Hey, man. You know, everything. You know, it's just, it's a blessing to be back in studio, Jay. Thanks for having me. I live by a new credo now. It's called Memento Mori. And that means, remember, everything dies. How you been?

Super. I intended to go away for the month of June, and then that sort of extended for the months of July and August. Partially my fault. But that fuse that had gotten a little short, you know, long as I can see now. Recharge, ready to go, excited for football season. That's good, man.

It's good to have you back. Honestly, we've talked a lot. I think some people think we don't talk when we don't podcast, but, you know, flipping houses for me, selling MLS, also got together on the porch a few nights ago. Did the fantasy draft, you know, let people in, like, who are listening to the pod. Yeah, when Maken needed a break in June, he was pretty fried. I said, no problem. And then we got to Montana, me and my family, and I just said, like, this is not how I want to reintroduce making.

I don't want to, you know, like we just took a month off. We've done a million shows together. I don't want to, I don't want to do it over Zoom. And then something else happened. Oh, right. So I birthed a child. Well. More accurately, my lovely wife birthed a child, but it's, it's mine.

Yeah. Well, I have no reason to believe it's not mine. Not yet. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, you know, it's not like a, um, uh, me, myself and Irene situation. Right, right. The story here is that the Greenlight Pod paternity leave program is just

robust. Extremely progressive. Take as much time as you fucking want. You get the entire third trimester off. In fact, the kids should enjoy Halloween. Yeah. You know, like the kid should enjoy his first Halloween. So, uh, yeah.

His first Halloween. Sorry to steal your thunder. We had a boy. Uh, now, now a boy dad, in addition to a girl dad. Yeah. You and I are fathers of four really now when you count the two apiece. So yeah. Welcome to the club.

Yeah. It does change. You know? I said for nine months that at least we haven't forgotten anything because our daughter is just 19 months old. It turns out I had forgotten everything. Like they hand you the baby and I don't know how to hold the newborn. You know, I don't know whether to go cradle. I still don't know how to hold a newborn.

I don't know whether to go. But no more help D for you. Two hands around. your lovely wife like it's all it's man to man now yeah at least you're not playing zone yeah I mean that's what they say at least but I'm psyched about you know I met uh can we say that we don't want to say his name I yeah I don't know let me think on that okay like not right now it's a it's a it's a classic it is a classic it's a it's a it's a it's a name that I figured is not as trendy as it once was when I told everybody the name everybody responded via

attacks with name and then exclamation point as if wow you guys really did that i thought they could say like an old man emoji yeah yeah did you know what uh in the year 2021 christopher is now the 52nd most popular name the least popular it has ever been well not a lot of people bearing christ in the year of our lord kingston number 112 yeah nathaniel 133 matthio number 15 Mateo is a top 25 name. Congratulations on the big boy. Thank you. Fatherhood's going to be swell with a boy.

It's going to change you. Yeah, that's what you said. I didn't follow up. I was just a, you know, again, Memento Mori. Remember everything must die. A boy's going to test you, man. A boy's going to test you. I don't know about how it is with a girl, but they say it's a little bit easier.

A boy's going to test you. I've never known anything but the girl. and a boy have I fallen in love with that little girl. We've been spending a lot of time together. She's a whole lot of fun, 19, 20 months. Very expressive, very happy. We laugh at the same sort of stuff, farts. And no signs of braddiness, which is probably to come.

That'll change. Yeah. That'll change. But, you know, we've got a new member of the Gunter family. So there was a paternity leave situation. there was a family vacation situation on my end i'll take that part of the hiatus and you needed a break and you know we talked about it briefly on the show like a couple months ago which is why i was so fucking confused to have to answer for the constant line of questioning

where is making and i've kind of made this a bit like i am not making secretary and when we talked on the back porch i was like i've kind of grown to resent you dude for the first time in my life well, like the most in my life. Because, you know, it's been a hard couple months and, you know, not just like there's a lot to do around here and we miss you. But on top of that, people were every fucking episode we drop like, where's Macon? Which I know probably makes you feel good. But for me, I'm like, God damn, dude. Like, I didn't send him away.

I don't want people to think that there's some trouble in paradise that, you know, like the show's in peril or that Macon's future with the show. show is in question like that's it's never been in question we actually i think this break is going to make us better and i think also like what it's given us an opportunity to do is you know bring other people into the fold because my man you know like i know it's part of our like our truce to not talk about your second job but like you do have a second job and i respect that and that's hard and you know like we you know it's given us an opportunity to kind of play without one of our best players you know what i mean so um And it's not like a Patrick Ewing thing. Like I think the show is going to be great with us this fall.

Well, I sure hope so. No, there were many flattering DMs, Twitter messages and the like. But yeah, no, no, no. When we met on the porch, you could have said, I had no idea what you were going to say. You could have said, hey, we're good to go in this other direction. And I was glad that you didn't say that.

I didn't take the break just for me. It was also, you know, for you and me and for the health of the show. And coming back now, I feel great about it. And the intention is to be all in for the NFL season. About that. About that. I have to go to the Waffle House soon. On the back porch, you said something to the effect of.

Well, I said perhaps that could be my return. I joined you at the Waffle House for a half hour. I think that's probably, no, half an hour. Fuck me, dude. I think, you know, a three-month vacation equals at least. 12 hours at the Waffle House. Well, you know, my vacation was one month. Yours was one month.

Okay. The paternity leave program here. Got it. Here at the podcast. Got it. But yeah, we can figure something out. Yeah, I think it'd be great if you join me at the Waffle House. Okay.

Soon. Because I almost fucking forgot about that. Maybe you just start winning the Thursday night time machine battles. I think this is the year, dude. Yeah. I think this is the year. We running it back with Waffle House again? I think so.

You know the one on Fifth Street closed? No way. Yeah. Are you kidding me? It's boarded up. No way. Could it be our new studio. if you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not there anymore. So we'd have to go to Route 29.

Which I hear is a lot of fun. Bumping. Hey, you know, my wife asked if, my lovely wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl and I said I didn't know if she knew how. Jesus Christ. So is it good to have me back? Yes, it's good, dude. It's good. All right. That's another thing we talked about. What? I talked about, you know, I felt a little, it, that my energy was zapped at a quicker rate because I feel like I have to be so sticky on here. And, uh, you say, you know, just let's just talk. Well, that's the whole thing is like, you know, peeling the curtain back for people. When we started doing this show again, like on, on the record, I came in here the first day and was like doing it alone and we were trying to do like a TV show. I mean,

I guess everything is TV now because we're, you know, like ideally one day for the people who ask like more of this shit's going to be on YouTube, sorry making and all that stuff. But, um, I was doing it alone. And that's a hard thing to do. And mate came in here and was like, hey, you know, wouldn't it help if somebody could come in and laugh at your jokes? I can sit here and be your. I don't know if I said I can, but yeah, yeah.

Well, that was the most ironic part of that offer was that you never laugh at anything. And so we kind of set out just doing this thing where we made it up as we went along and we had COVID and we had to go to Zoom for a little bit. And then it was like, fuck this. We don't need to do Zoom. Like, we're just not that good on Zoom. And we took a break. And then we came back in and we were in the shit again.

And we got rolling. But, you know, eventually the show changes. And I think the way the show changed for us was like, man, we were making it too fucking hard. Like, we were trying to segment everything and make everything like, okay, well, then we got to go from here to here now. And that's just exhausting. It's exhausting in production for me. It's exhausting for Reed and Matt. it's exhausting for you.

And it sets a tone of like, we have to, you know, not write things out, but kind of like, you know, there's a difference between having notes and being ready to podcast and knowing exactly what you want to say where. And I feel like the expectation got to the point with you where you were like, I got to have these five funny jokes every pod. Yeah. And they are fucking funny. But then sometimes what we would do is we would get bogged down trying to entertain people

rather than just doing it naturally. And so I think like now the pod's gotten to this place where it's a little bit more unstructured and I think that's going to lend itself well to us doing that yeah because i rl we are buddies had a couple cups of rosé down in that you had a couple cups of rosé at the fantasy that well no i'm talking about a day or two before a day before in that in that mosquito hole at the uh vineyard yeah i was i was i was sneaking off to hit my pen i was maybe i had a beer yeah but yeah no we we we we hung out with our families this weekend we had a fantasy draft But part of it is also like, fuck, man, I want to see you more.

You know, like you got to be a real recluse, you know, the last few. Yeah, by design, you know, I enjoy staying home. Okay. But, you know, part of the deal is we all got to hang out. And so I was excited to see you twice this weekend. Now you're back in studio. I'm jacked, man. It's going to be a great football season.

And for anybody wondering, there was never a real big issue. It was just, you know, like podcasting is fucking hard. Anybody you talk to, um, that's done a show. for a long time with one person, and we've done a ton of them. It's not like we do one show a week or something. We do like four hours of content a week. And, you know, that can really stretch you thin. And, you know, I understand the burnout aspect of it because I'm burnout.

But the differences, and this is where the resentment came is like, I can't turn the lights off. I can't stop. You know, so like, I'm just happy you're back. Thank you. In summation. Thank you. And I hope the resentment subsides. By the end of the open, probably.

Okay. say and yeah yeah yeah you know we don't need to belabor this point but we were podding through vacations and holidays because you're a grinder and you work very hard that's my fault though and uh nah but you know but it is you fucking i look up and we haven't taken a vacation you know like reed hasn't read didn't take a vacation for like two years reed had to one day be like hey chris you know i've worked here for like 700 days and i've never had a day off like something that effect I mean, he's had days off, but, you know, I've never had a vacation. I'm kind of like, well, fucking speak up.

And, you know, because me, I'll put my head down and I'll never look up. And that can wear on people. And that probably wore on you, especially the fact that you got to flip MLS, you know, all over the Commonwealth. So, like, it's fucking, it's tiresome. And, hey, we're going to be better. And the break did us some good. And off to a rip-roaring start with the Stanford Steve show. This will be a good one.

Dude, yeah, this is a big show. I could barely sleep last night. Yeah, I could barely sleep last night. Because my shoulder hurts from softball. Yeah, I got a three-week-old, just, just, wailing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a three-year-old who walked out in the hallway the other night and just took a piss. So the little people problems just.

Hey, yeah, hey, we're in our 30s. Yeah. Do you people keep your newborns in your, in your bedroom for a while? Green light. Okay. I'm green lighting that. Because I've gotten the red light on that for many people. Yeah.

Our young boy, let the boy watch. Our young boy, he's in our bedroom. And so it's not, no, it's not. It's not a great night of sleep. Yeah. I've had so many people say, nah, they were in their rooms. Just go in the other fucking room. No, here's the move.

It's like, it's like a revolving door situation. comes in your room you go into the guest room or onto the couch i want to give you and the baby some space i don't want to wake the baby up i don't want the baby to inhale a vape pen at midnight you know like yeah that's what i need to do i need to start having vape pins on that's what you need to do yeah like sorry babe got to hit this vape pen yeah be better if the baby wasn't here can i go in the other room uh i'm just joking yeah i want to be there to provide some moral support but i'm really what the fuck kind of moral support yeah totally useless dude dude doing great yeah yeah exactly Exactly. So green light that and you had a good idea. You were like, man, we should start the show sometimes with more with some red light green light.

A little red light. I'll give you a red light right now. Okay. So I've been having a couple more pops. I could tell dude. I fucking the other day I was like damn is that five rosé? So I've been having some gins, a little Hendricks soda. I love gin. A little splash of grape. Oh, it's been great. One or two a week. You know, we're not going crazy. But there was one night where I over did it. a little bit was at a bar even got sick onto my shirt okay you puked yeah when was this all right hold up you can call me so I was with a buddy I was like oh Kate's not gonna like this yeah you know lovely wife and um he said not what you do I'm gonna give you $10 bill put it in the in the pocket of your shirt say somebody else puked on you gave you the 10 box for the cleaning bill oh that's good I said all right all right so I go home Kate's like what in the world happened what did you do we

talked about this and I said, nah, not, not's not what you think. Somebody else puked onto my shirt, gave me the tin box, here's a tin box. That's brilliant. She goes, that's a $20 bill. And I say, well, the guy who puked on my shirt, he also shit in my pants.

So you looked up a couple jokes. Credit, credit goes out to Bob Einstein on that one, rest of peace. At least we're crediting the people. I think one day you came in here and just ripped Malaney YouTube like, You want me to run that one back right? You just fucking, you came in here and ripped Malaney, like it was your material. And I had to just stare at you like, where are we going?

I was doing like a monologue about about like, I don't know, like edge, edge rushers in the draft. And you just started doing this thing. We did also talk about my stopping, um, dead ending the show at points, which I sort of just did there. No, no, no, you're good. I'm going to be better about pulling us out of the dead ends. But like sometimes it was like, and here's the thing. Some people listen are like, yeah, right, Chris. And there are things that I edit out that I say all the fucking time.

But there was a period there where we would go down these, you would just be making noises for 20 seconds. Like I'd be like, Timito, well, you know, his ankle flexion is, and if you look at his 10-yard split and then you go wha-hm. And then I'd start to talk again, you go, like stuff like that, dude. I was like, okay, the wheels are falling off here. Well, so the break was one piece of good news. I've just blown my wad on joke.

So I got nothing. Well, that was a fucking good joke. Yeah. Because I really believed you and I was kind of hurt that you went out and puked on yourself. Yeah, I haven't been to a bar. Without me, dude. Don't worry about that. Haven't been into a bar.

I haven't puked on myself. I have been having a gin, though. Mixing a gin. Oh, I love gin. There was a year period where I was drinking gin and tonic nonstop. And I was like going to parties. And I was like, have you tried gin and tonic? Like, it's totally healthy.

Yeah. And then I looked at a bottle of tonic. Yeah, you gotta go with a lot of sugar. Yeah, gin and soda. But gin and soda is nowhere near as good. Different, different ring. Yeah, it's mostly gin. I was like, what are they got?

Stevia in here? This is amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I got a red light for you. Okay. Trey Lance's hairline. We got to do something about that. We just have to get rid of it.

Like, I think Trey Lance is a handsome enough guy. Maybe he has a fucked up shaped head. Like guys know stuff like this and you're like, why aren't they letting it go? Or there might be a good reason. Yeah, I hate to split hairs. Pun intended. Okay, Reggie Miller. Shout out Reggie Miller.

But I think the line is fine. It's just, it's thinning right there. Like, seat one A. Whatever it is. Like, seat one A is unoccupied, dude. Yeah. So we have to do something about that. And then another red light for you make.

This is a great segment, mate. Great idea. Yeah, red light green light. Man, haven't played this game in like years. Greenlight, the name Hendricks, number 275. like the gin. That's the, that's my genit choice. This is Hendricks like Jimmy, who was a musician.

Hendricks is a cool name. Pink Floyd. Yeah, Pink Floyd as well. Hendricks is a cool name, but definitely like a Hollywood person's kid. Yes. All right. So, um, this is from Jeremy White. I'm told the bill's new stadium will feature an exterior rap slash mesh that is aimed

to create quote, wind confusion. wind hits the exterior and instead of redirecting up around into the bowl, it will dissipate significantly. Models suggest wind affects inside bowl will be minimized. So what the bills are doing and what the NFL

is doing like here you're thinking the bills are going to have their home field advantage. They're giving that up and they're playing God. Yeah. Which is when you fuck with nature, bad things happen. That's what happened in Minneapolis with the birds. Like let's build this.

giant glass stadium, a bunch of dead birds. Right. You know, like, I don't know what the wind's going to do, but when you disrupt the wind, bad things happen. I've been anti-wind since I started losing the hair on my head about the age of 17. Kingston was there. Yeah. Hat goes right back on with you. But confusing the wind? Yeah, I don't like this. I don't like that either. I'm going to red light that. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm no geologist, not that they study the wind. I'm not, I don't work for I don't work for the fucking I'm not a

I'm no marine biologist okay I'm no herpetologist but this isn't going to be good dude like six months from now we're going to be reading about something fucked up that's happening in Buffalo because they wanted to give up their

home field advantage. The people of Buffalo do not give a fuck do not gentrify the Buffalo Bills fan base. Please don't do it. You got that Tyler Bass. He's good from six You're going to confuse the win to level that playing field?

Nah. Confuse the total in these games, man. You can always get an advantage up there in Buffalo if you look at the weather, man. Hey, Greenlight, all you folks and your kids on their first day of school with that little thing that you make them hold, you know? Yeah, like what I've been up to. Yeah, so I could hear, instead of doing a graphic, today is my first day. back at Greenlight. I am 36 years old.

When I grow up, I'd like to be a, and when you're saying you're not a marine biologist made me think of this, you know what I would like to be. I would like to be a psychiatrist or maybe an architect, you know? Yeah.

So I guess that's an example of dead ending the show. I like, you're... It's easy when we're like, dude, we're getting along great right now. like dead end away dude you know yeah tune in three weeks for now

I like reading about your little kids and what they want to be when they grow up yeah yeah yeah you know what I don't give a fuck about what your kids have been up to

though I'm more interested in the future don't send me a Christmas card with a whole update on what your family's doing oh yeah the piece of paper humble brag city dude we get it

like you know Jonathan's in an SAT or an advance course like husband Alan got his doctorate this year fucking big whoop still still looks like Allen to me yeah uh new new diploma old same old Alan um yeah

phoebe's taking tennis lessons yeah don't send me that shit please don't send me that shit so anyways yeah red light that too don't play god don't don't don't build new stadiums Chicago's doing it too talking about Arlington fucking Illinois wherever the fuck that is or Chicago's the new Miami that's right green light white Tahos so did so this happened And we'll move on in a second. When I walked down, well, actually I drove my golf cart down, and what did I do? I parked on the road.

How conscientious am I? Yeah, maybe a little too conscientious. Like, we've got the newborn on like a, like a not even. But I could imagine walking around to your back deck and you being like, what the fuck, man? Like you parked the electric golf cart too close to the house. Yeah, no. Redacted trying to sleep. Like, that's something that would come out of your mouth.

This baby sleeps. But I walked around the corner. No, no problem. I only have, I just strained my rotator cuff, patting myself on the back there. But I walk around the corner and I see this beautiful white Tahoe. And I'm like, Meg's at Macon's house. Like, what the fuck is going on here?

Your wife drives a white Tahoe. Right. So I walk around the corner and I'm like, what am I going to see back here? Instead, Macon announces that. guns and cheats, just flying. Yeah. That'd be an easy one to get over.

What was that supposed to me? I think I'd be good. No offense, but you're not exactly the type that would threaten my, you know, like I wouldn't feel bad if I found out that like... But the fact that I'd already sealed the deal wouldn't give you any pause, like, Hayes in the barn at that point. I'd more just be like, man, I got to find a new co-host, I guess. Yeah.

You know? Would you stick with the wife or... Well, no. No. Obviously, but you know, life is not like podcasting. I don't need a co-host. I kind of need a co-host from time to time here. Yeah.

You know, so. So I would be able to delete the pod, gain a couple stepkids. I guess your boys would be my boys. No, I wouldn't. Well. I got, I would get full custody. I'd get full custody, the whole thing. And, uh, yeah, no, I'd be good.

But the point was Meg wasn't there. Correct. It was just that your wife totally fucking copied my wife. And my sister-in-law also has a white Tahoe. Meg was first. The whole gang now has white. I was like joking with Meg. I was like,

you guys should just fucking drive in a flying V to anthropology. It's amazing. Like you and Meg, you get to be in the front. You, because it's important to Meg, Meg knows she got the first white Tahoe because it's important to be first.

Meg gets to drive in the front of the flying V. Wogs, wise of green light, they all have white Tahos. Yeah, two of them are named Kate. I believe my Kate was first on that front Now I will say To be named Kate

Your wife has a Z-71 Beautiful truck Yeah We do not have a Z-71 So there's a little bit The other Kate has a high country It's three different White Tahos

I was informed that the family Needed a new family whip So we went looking I've always wanted a Tahoe Your truck looks so cheeks Next to her new Oh my gosh Bro I turned around the corner

I was like, you know, like on the way out once I knew what was going on. I was like, God damn, make, like. I went to Norfolk, Virginia. Shout out to Rick Hendrick and his team of car salesmen to get this vehicle. And it was the best driving experience I've ever had. Then I get home to my redacted Grand Cherokee. And that thing is a clunker now. Yeah, it's a clunker. I mean, I feel like I can't whip it and out of traffic after driving the Tahoe. But yeah, it's a bad look, bust of tail light. At least you can park it, which I'm going to assume your lovely wife can't park the Tahoe. She's a great driver.

I don't know what you're implying, but it is a, it's a tank. It's a tank. My wife's a big extra point turner. Well, better to be safe than sorry. You're right. I will say we were looking. I was looking for that gray, that satin steel metallic for months and months. Couldn't locate one.

And then my lovely wife ultimately. you know what? Quite. I'll just cuck Chris's wife. That wasn't part of the conversation at all. But I was going to, I was going to send so many text messages sort of bringing down the temperature

on the situation in case your wife was going to catch any feelings about the copycat maneuver. And I just couldn't, we had the kid. I just couldn't get it out. What kind of text messages were you going to said? Like the day you were coming over, I was going to be like, hey, I'm.

I just want you to know. I'm not having sex with your wife. Yeah. You don't have to, You don't have to find a new co-host. Yeah. I was going to take a picture of it and talk about how much cooler Meg was because we're not his E-71 family.

She's got the superior vehicle. Don't worry. She knows. I was going to say imitations. They call her the trail boss. Most sincerest, sinceres. What? Form of flattery imitation.

Yeah. And instead I said nothing and you just happened upon it and then sent your wife multiple pictures. She's a trendsetter. She is a trend setter. So she's actually. she's actually about to wrap the Tahoe a different color. She's so irate. So she wants to wrap the Tahoe like some like desert color.

Oh. And so my pickup truck is is green. It's like forest green. And she's going to have a fucking, you know, a desert. People are going to be saluting us in the streets. Like people, people are going to think we do CrossFit.

Like we're going to look like a total CrossFit family. Like, you know, like a ton of stolen valor, you know. So when you said desert, I pictured like terracotta No sand Red clay

Sand Okay No All right You that's interesting You associate the desert With more of a The painted desert

I was thinking like Breaking Bad like New Mexico Okay I go more Egypt Arizona Yeah I go more Egypt I think about sand Yeah

Yeah All right Well Time for housekeeping And one more thing I'm cat Just This is gonna be relevant

To you for sure But like I've enacted a no joint a no J rule in Studio J. Obviously, I have the ability to break that rule from time to time seeing as I pay the bills, but

you guys got to hold me to that. Only bowls. That's what we've been doing about the last month. Okay. It's been great. And why? Well, the bowls. I see you're holding a bowl right now. It reminds me of what the cool kids did in high school. Now you're smoking out of the bowl.

Okay, so the thing about a bowl is, it's not going to fuck the shot up for 10 minutes. The studio smells better. And I don't have to smoke the whole goddamn thing. You know, I can just hit my bowl, put it down, hit my bowl, put it down. That's awesome. Yeah. It does smell like weed in here at the moment, but there is less smoke. Well, the air purifier has come in really handy.

I know the good folks at the foundation came up one day and we're like, listen, we are, our offices are downstairs and Reed went out and guys. a great air purifier. So I want to talk housekeeping real quick. Housekeeping, man. There's some good housekeeping day. Okay. Oh my God, you don't know about this. Okay. Matt and Reed know about this. I sent read the text message, but we got a text from Dan the man Campbell this morning to, to confirm, and you don't listen to the show, but that he received a care package that we sent out to him last week. Nice. So we sent Dan Campbell a care package last week. It was full of Copenhagen. I told Reed, go to the store, get me as much Copenhagen as you can because I have people on the inside that gave me that Dave Campbell dips cope straight. I said, read, go to the store, snag me some logs of

Copenhagen. He comes back with like five tens of Copenhagen. I said, no, those aren't logs. You got to go get a bunch of logs. Matt gets a bunch of logs. Goes to FedEx. They tell him it's a federal crime to ship tobacco. He pussies out. Then he goes home. He goes home. gets some courage and then he goes to UPS and stuffs the the Copenhagen all the way in these these these bear paw slippers that we got him as well there's candles in there the whole thing a pack that you can put on your back what size slippers was it a guess we just guessed at like 14 yeah it's 14 good guess you know he's not south of 14 dude that guy's got some big cowboy boots he some ass kickers so uh he had to shove the the cans of cope all the way in the slippers

and Dan's text, he was like, man, it was like Christmas. I just reached in there and the rolls kept coming. That's amazing. So, uh, good for you guys. So we love Dan Campbell and I was so happy that Dan not only received the package, but was excited about the package. Did you get a good address or was it just Dan Campbell, Ford Field? No.

Just sent it to their offices. That's awesome. Did you write a note or anything read? Like, Matt wrote a note. I wrote a nice, I wrote a note telling him how much we appreciated them. That's awesome. Awesome. Was it on like a, do we have like some parchment, like green light parchment? We need green light parchment. Yeah, letterhead.

It was on a post-it note. Damn, you couldn't like, you know, some like passive signage to let him know we have a podcast. But Dan Campbell's a post-it-nose sort of guy. Yeah, he's got on. Drop their communications department and email as well. Well, Brad Holmes, friend of the program knows. He knows where, you know, he knows where to find us, dude. Do you think Dan has a guy that goes through the packages before he, before they get to him?

For sure. They probably scan them to make sure it's not like a bomb. Yeah. Remember anthrax? Yeah, dude. That was, do I remember anthrax? You can't even go with a mailbox anymore.

There was a time during college recruiting where I was like, man, is this really a letter from Cal Berkeley? Yeah. You know? Yeah. Or am I about to, you know,

like just start foaming at the mouth because they always foam at the mouth when they get poisoned in the movies. That shit was scary. That shit was scary, dude. Yeah, there was a whole time period where I was, paranoid about packages. Somebody definitely checks those packages before they get to Dan Campbell. We need to protect Dan Campbell the way we would a president. And so what's the statute of limitations?

Which means no bike rides for Dan Campbell. What's the statute of limitations on on shipping tobacco across state lines? I hope they come at me. Oh bro, this is a total federal crime. We'll see if the feds are listening. We might need an attorney. I'll take the fall. Will you? Fuck yeah, I'll take the fall for hiring Matt, a criminal. He used to be a teacher. Imagine the terrible shit that was going on at that school. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyways, that's good stuff. Stacey Dash, who some people know, some people are not familiar with Stacey. Clueless. Yeah, okay. People are clueless. Yeah. Pun now intended. Yes.

Reggie Miller. Stacey Dash, I haven't heard from her in a while outside of, like, the Trump talking points. But Stacey Dash, who used. to be fine as hell. Probably still is. Yeah, I care more about what's inside than outside. Yep. So do I, which is why I haven't paid much attention to her lately.

But Stacey Dash did not know that DMX, the rapper, was dead. She found out and she TikToked herself having a breakdown about it because she was a huge fan of DMX, as was I. Stacey, I get it. I had his posters on my cork board in high school. DMX covered in blood. I'm 14. I'm white. I live in the suburbs. Like, I loved DMX. But I knew he was dead, Stacey, and I am not very good at alive or dead. That's the lead here is like, I didn't know that Robert Redford was alive the other day. Yeah. I didn't know that Goldie Hahn was alive. Mother of Kate Hudson, I think. Yeah, and that's where it got me. It was like, damn, you know, I know that. I know that. You know, I panicked. But we need to have Stacey Dash on the show. Like, I don't know.

know who her marketing people are, but we should reach out ASAP and tell her, we want to talk to her about like some Herschel Walker talking points or something, like talk to her about how many, there's too many trees and she'll get right back to us to come on the show. And then what we can do is just the whole time play alive or dead. Yeah. She'll, and she's just, you know what I mean? Yep. That's what we should do. So read, Matt, can we get in contact with Stacey Dash's people? You know, tell her it's about the trees. not knowing that DMX had died okay but then to film yourself losing your shit over that's the thing there's nobody that you if you don't have a Google alert for somebody like that like you can't

possibly be that sad there are people like I haven't cried like that and since since I was a kid right you know right and crying is okay but you know if if the Google alert doesn't exist probably means you don't pay much attention to DMX. Who could be dead that would really, that would bum me out, like that maybe you haven't heard from in a while? You want to check on anybody in the name of Stacey Dash? That's a great question. Like Mark Eaton, how's Mark Eaton doing?

Former Utah Jazz Center. Quite dead. Got a bad feeling that he might have died because that's what came to mind. Number 50? So maybe I knew. Yeah, well, he's big. Mullet on Mark Eaton?

Manu, Bolle died in Charlottesville. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Eaton was 7-4, died last year. Damn. Okay.

I kind of. Check in on Mr. Marcus. He hasn't worked in a while. Who's Mr. Marcus? You guys. I wish people got jokes on this set.

I mean, that's a good one. You still left. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. What about,

uh, what about George Gershwin the composer of music died in 1937 Jesus Christ like you could have told me 2007 I'm really I'm not up on my Gershwin like I know like clearly I know what the guy is

but anybody you need to check on just you know throughout the show if it comes to you can you can interject because in the name of Stacy Dash we should probably check on a few people and Stacy Dash you're welcome on the show I mean we can Iron Sharpenes eyes iron. Is that a joke too? No, it's not. It just means that I'm terrible at the thing that she's also terrible at.

We have some differences in opinions, but there's one thing we have in common. And what's the more popular name, Kyle or Reed? It should be Reed. It's Reed. Honestly, dude, if I have a third kid, reads in the running, Reed. How about that? No greater compliment. That's a big compliment.

It's a fucking dope name. I got a read on my softball team as well. who's a great guy Boy or girl read I know a girl read I'm gonna stick with the boy thing Spelled R-E-A-D Is this girl read

That's interesting Yeah I don't know well You can say whatever you want It's a stupid name One more piece of housekeeping Pumpkin Man Like dude

You don't I'd send you the background on this I know you don't consume our content but the other day a guy in Missouri floated 38 miles down the Missouri River in a pumpkin, a hollowed out 600-pounder. This cat just single paddle just roughing it down the river in this pumpkin. And I thought to myself, like, that's a record, dude? Like, I could easily break that record.

And you know I've been wanting to break a record. Right, right, right. As long as you had the pumpkin. I just need the pumpkin. And guess what? we got a fucking lead on a pumpkin. Yeah, there's this guy, Luke Hewitt, at a local farm. He's growing a pumpkin right now.

It's still on the vine. It's like 1,200 pounds. It's called Sugar Mama. It's on a secondary vine, though. Yeah, if it was on the primary vine, it could be over 2000. That's right. But he's trying to break the state record. And he says when the state fair is over on October 3rd, we can acquire it from him.

That's cool. Bro, that's a, that pumpkin would get stuck in the Suez Canal. Like that, like, I don't know if that pumpkin, I don't know what we, we might be acquiring a pumpkin that we can't float. Pumpkin's name is Sugar Mama. I don't think Sugar Mama is going to play. I'm worried about Sugar Mama. Worst case scenario, you've got the best pumpkin in the neighborhood.

Well, one thing we could do is just put that motherfucker in studio. We, yes, that's what, that thing in studio. Crane, dude. I swear to God, if we're not going to use it to float down the river, I want the pumpkin in studio for the entire fall and just let it rot in here.

Is that a kid? We would be so fucking famous. The guys with the pump. And good move by Luke too. He'd get a lot more run out of it if it were decaying up up in the studio. Is that a children's book? Something about a big pumpkin? Oh, oh, a giant peach, James, James and the Giant Peach. What's eating Gilbert's pumpkin? What's eating Gilbert? Great. Yeah. We need a lot of people to eat Sugar Mama. Sugar Mama might be too big to float, but I've been looking at a stretch on the James River. That's 43 miles. Howard'sville to Carter'sville.

Now there's some rapids. I know the area as well. I don't know where these pumpkins bottom out at. I think the river's got to be high. I think this fall after a big rain, I'm going to get in a pumpkin like a fireman. I'm going to have a ladder or a fucking, you know, one of those things they slide down a pole.

The whole thing. I'm going to have to just hurry out there. The timing's got to be right. You know, it's not something I can put on the calendar. The rain has to come. The pumpkin has to be hit. and right we got to get it carved so we got to be ready to roll guys yeah there's any structural engineers out there that can help us with designing this pumpkin to make it see worthy let us know

football player dies and rafting pumpkin incident everybody would be like c t fucking idiots people are such fucking idiot yeah yeah yeah yeah it's called ambition okay okay uh so I want to talk some sports, then we'll get to some more sports. Sound good? Yep. That sounds really good. You see Edwin Diaz last night? Actually, no, but I saw his man.

Timmy Trumpets? Timmy Trumpets. Okay. What did you think? Awesome. Okay. Not only is a song dope, it was a live rendition. I thought it was great.

Ten out of ten. I'm going to zag. Okay. Okay. Nothing against Timmy trumpets. Nothing against Edwin Diaz. They're both awesome. I think this thing peaked all.

August 7th. I think Apple ruined the party in the Big Apple last night. I've never seen so many fucking middle-aged men holding cell phones to film the same thing at once. Like this should have happened in the 90s, man. This should have happened in the 90s. This is going to be one of those things these guys, their kids are going to be like, what was it like seeing Timmy Trumpets? And Edwin Diaz are like, well, it looks just like it looked in Bleacher Report, son, because I was watching it through my fucking iPhone 10. And that's the problem. today and I might have been doing the same thing so I'm not trying to live in a glass house here but it is a fuck this is a moment look at the video of August 7th or whatever it was when when he really

went viral with this deal and this the crowd was electric and last night it was just like a bunch of people doing this the whole time and it just made me a little sad I was like man we can't even enjoy some like a fucking transcendent moment like this without just being present man and that's what sports was. It was like everybody was just there. It was like, I'm going to watch this Woodstock 99 documentary this week. There were no cell phones. Like the, the, the vibes were so high. And I just, uh, fuck, watch it in traffic sitting in Queens traffic, dude. Like, it's going to be the same video you're going to get at the. So you're just saying no cell phones are no good. That's what I'm saying. It bummed me out. You know, like, I'm, you know, I'm not trying to zag here,

but my first thought watching the video was like, damn, dude, this was so cool. But it was like, Watch the video. They're panning around and every dude's like, I'm going to get a good video. I'm going to get a better video than the guy next to me. We'll get to tennis in a moment, but I saw a woman on the, she got on the Jumbotron at Arthur Ash last night.

And then whipped out her phone to take a picture of herself. Like, what did? Jumbo Tram. Just, and was clearly too late. She wasn't opening. It's,

you're never on time, dude. You're never on time. But more than anything with this, with this deal. Like, I mean, you didn't even see it. You were staring at your wrist, man. Like, I mean, you get a one minute window to enjoy Timmy trumpets in his cool fucking black hat to hear the real horns.

I mean, this is what we've been waiting for, dude. And everybody's just fucking sucks, man. And maybe I'd be the same. But like, there's a lot of sporting events. And don't let me forget to do this at some point. We should draft sporting events that we wish happened in like the 80s or 90s, right? because the electricity is just higher when people are locked in.

And so, yeah, I do that. It was a little, yeah. But elsewhere in Queens, Serena, this is your deal, dude. Take it away. Serena. Serena is the best to ever do it.

And it's really, really cool to see her making a little run at this. I can't imagine having to deal with the pomp in circumstance. It seems like She's obviously able to lock in once these matches are starting.

But hey, Red Light, Gail King. Gail King gave an interview. I use that term loosely to Serena after a first round match. Interrupted Serena. Couldn't let Serena finish a sentence. And I think all of her sentences, Gail, started with the word I. It was a rough scene. But not.

Serena's locking in a little bit. She got by the number two ranked player in the world. Sunday Wednesday night and I just trusted you I put like 10 I put like a lot of units on who born a courage should we check in on that check in please not going well I put some units you got to be kidding me are you serious down in the first set what's on serve or what I just saw the live odds shifted to what is this mean what are you 55 what do you go oh fuck what are you guys even talking about right now one set one serve how many serves are there's a total of five sets he's got to three. We're fine, dude. He's just down a set. Oh, wow. No, it's not great because

Brooksby, an American. Can I take this out of your new contract? Is serving for the first set right now. Okay, because in your words, you were like, I'm sure. I was sure. Oh, break point for Borner right now to get back on sir. So let's just keep an eye on that. Now, Serena, this is awesome. I have always love Serena. There's just a lot of, a lot of outside noise. having to deal with while also trying to win matches. But maybe that's making her play looser. Like yeah, this might be the last one or I... She's big time, dude. Like, she's one of the,

she's the, some people say she's the best of all time, like, best athlete all time. Do you think, I mean, like with, it's an individual sport, so... I'm not good at an athlete, but I'd say she's the best tennis player of all time. Right. But best tennis player of all time. And this was crazy to me. When Serena won her for this is not for me. This is from Tim Reynolds. I think online. You see this this this tweet serena won her first u.s. open match is this on your big board no i said that word because born a coritch has lost the first set fuck me dude it's all good it's all good it's long match okay i don't even know how many sets there are three best of five best of five when serena won her first u.s open match um gregg popovich 106 all the time in the in the all time wing column

Brady hadn't thrown a touchdown pass of Michigan and LeBron hadn't played in high school Duncan was the reigning rookie of the year so like it's just incredible to me for somebody to be around that long to be around that many young athletes still be dominant into her 30s

like I know it's been a while since she's 40s yeah but she's 40 now but I'm saying like dominant like where she was winning all those US opens or whatever like the last major she won was when a couple years 17 or 18 yeah know so like when she was really dominant she still wasn't that young but more than anything it's like

to have the endurance to do this really pressure pack thing and as somebody who played professional team sports I can't relate to being alone you know like I'm a team guy like I'm I like having teammates like to have to be alone and deal with every loss alone to deal with every you know big victory alone you know you're around people but you're responsible for for for everything. And like to do that for this long has got to be crazy lonely, even if things are going well. Um, and she talked about it in her, what was it, her Vogue interview? Like not being able to. And this was something I remember talking to Zach Earts about like with Julie. Like, they just had a baby, right? Madden. Um, that's not your baby's name. Nope. Uh, but female athletes

have to consider a whole lot more than men when it comes to like their, their athletic careers. And so, you know, to me, that weighs into what you were just talking about. I was like, how does she do it? I just think like, this is who she is. And it might be hard to evolve or whatever she says, like evolving away from tennis. But this, she loves the big stage. I'm not saying she's, that's why she plays, but I think she's just, this is her fucking thing, man. And so I don't know anything about how capable she is of beating this woman Friday night.

Oh, very capable. But that she'll be the favor. Wouldn't fucking shock me. Right now she's like, you know, an underdog. And I was going to bet the hell out of her with my winning. I think, is she a dog Friday night? No, she's a favorite. She's a favorite.

Minus 160. Okay, so then I feel better about it. I'm going to bet that with all my winnings from this tennis match going on today. Yeah. But she was an underdog last night. But I just think like it's nuts to me that she's been so great, so long at an individual sport. It's got to be a lonely ride. And so her mental fortitude has got to be.

to be just off the fucking charts. And she's, I know she has this reputation of being like this, like sometimes she can be a little bit unreasonable or sometimes she can be kind of, I don't know, how would you describe? She's emotional. She's had,

she's had an incident or two. In tennis, though. And she's been doing for 25 years. It's tennis. Like, you know, it's like it's a country club, man.

Like anybody who doesn't fit in this cookie cutter mold is going to have incidents. And like, to me, when I read her interviews or when I see her speak, she seems like one of the most graceful all-time grades in sports history. Thoughtful. Yep. Soft-spoken.

Yep. So you yell out of lines person. You whip a ball at a lines person. That's going to happen over a couple decades. Fuck yeah, dude. Also, I don't care about that stuff. Are you a good person? Like, are you humble?

Like, she's way more humble than I would be to be Serena Williams. She played last night for two and a half hours, dude. She's 40 years old. It's insane. So like, yeah, nothing but. I think it was the Aussie open while pregnant with Olympia. Married to Oahu, Alexis O'Hannia. Yeah, shout out.

Her hitting partner, Jarmier Jenkins, Wahoo, shout out. So she's surrounding herself. Oh, that's so what? That person like kind of keeps her sharp. Yeah. Essentially part of the coaching staff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I remember Jarmier Jenkins. Yeah. That's cool as hell. Yeah, he's in, he's in the players box. She might be in Charlottesville at some point. I think, I think she has been. Yeah, she didn't, she didn't holler. Well, she didn't say, I'd love to come on Greenlight.

Yeah, I don't think it's been the last. I don't think that's going to happen. But I don't know, Tiger Woods, Masters 2019, right? Reed, is that in 2019, nobody thought that was going to happen. Maybe it fucking happens this weekend. Next weekend. Is it next weekend? Whatever it is.

These tournaments are pretty long, yeah. Yeah, I mean, whenever it happens, like, I think there's a, an outside chance it could happen. Like, I don't know shit. Yeah, it's open. Okay. That's fun. Go Serena. And it's all happening in Queens. So Queens had a big, big night last night. Gail King. Jesus, man. Who got Gladys Knight wrong? Apparently one of the commentators, which would have been Chris Fowler, Chrissy Everett, or John McEnroe. God, I hope it wasn't Fowler. I didn't hear it. But I think they were going after Dionne Warwick. Yeah. And they were like, like there's gladys night yeah and i thought of you and your joke yeah i made it i made a joke i

guess it could be a knock knock if you want to try it sure okay knock knock who's there gladys gladys who gladys life is so blessed yeah uh okay so another thing i want to point out is pooholse is chasing 700 and fucking like this is the this is the the month of the old goats dude Like maybe Serena gets a dub next weekend. And maybe Pujols, I don't know, he's not on pace anymore, is he? Yeah. I think Manfred shot him up with whatever was needed at the All-Star break. I mean, the dude was hit.

Dude, that was amazing. We didn't talk about that whole thing. The dude was hitting like 115 before the All-Star break. I know, but he just got out there and mashed dongs. That's what he knows how to do. Yeah. On the big stage. Like, yeah.

I mean, so what's he? Is he short of the pace? How short is he of the pace? He still needs six more. So that's short of the pace right now. How many more games are there? What are y'all talking about to do it this year? Yeah.

He doesn't have any more time. There is no tomorrow rock. He's done? Yeah, Apollo Crete. I mean, the Cardinals wouldn't be like, yeah, you can come back until you get to seven. No, he just is like, I'm out, dude. Like, much like Serena's saying, this is it, which is really fucking cool. You know how some people kind of leave it open, leave it open ended?

Like, she's like, no, I'm done. There's about 30 games left. So he could do it. Did you know your game was your last game? Oh, no, I didn't. I didn't. No, not at the time. I thought maybe 60, 40 retirement or 50 50. But yeah, no, like great, all-time greats that have a chance to, like, exit on their terms

and kind of craft their, you know, the narrative on how they go out. Like, you just don't see a lot of people saying, like, this is it. And I'm going to let the chips fall where they may. And I think that's cool. what were you saying about poo holes? Oh, he's got about 30 games left this season and... Oh, fuck dude. Good luck to him.

Hey, did y'all see our guy Wayno the other night? Nah. He did this pregame. He was miced up pregame. Yeah. And he went on for like seven minutes, gave the TV crew seven minutes. That stuff's great. What he said, seriously watch it. It was awesome. Great guy. It was awesome. Yeah, that's great.

Let's talk about football. Before we get into more football. ball with Stanford and then James Coe. This is gonna be a long show. I don't fucking, you know, it is what it is, guys. We got a lot of catching up to do. We got a lot catching up to do with Steve. This show's called The Catchup Show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wrote down in my notes, ketchup, like the condiment. You got it. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Oh, oh, I haven't told you this.

Hindsfield no longer. I highlighted it in red as well. You're such a fucking. So I'm back. I don't even know what condition causes that type of. detail. I think it's obsessive compulsive disorder. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it.

Sometimes I'm like that. Sometimes I'm not. That's called ADHD. All right. Multiple personality disorder. Okay. That's what you think I have? Bipolar. You think I have that? Oh, no, no. But I know where to find some benzos if you need them. Just take things down the notch.

Where are the benzos? In your medicine cabinet? Oh. Oh my God. Then you ratchet it back. up a little espresso it's a nice little cocktail yeah morning noon and night yeah Russell Wilson he he just broke the bank he's gonna be in Denver into his 40s I think he just saw that he saw the quality of life in Denver 300 days a year of sunshine copious amounts of marijuana psychedelics you got Jake Plummer growing mushrooms out there by the way I'm powered by Jake Plummer's Mushrooms right now

Not the psychedelic kind The adaptogens, dude Have you noticed anything? No Well, that's Jake Plummers mushrooms Okay But Russell Wilson He likes it there

Sierra likes it there I don't know I look at this Him being there a long time Look around the division It's balzy to be like Yeah I'm going to plant my flag here You got Justin Herbert in L.A.

You've got Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City And who knows what's going to be happened in the next five, seven years with the Raiders, but like those situations aren't going to change in L.A. or in Kansas City, and he's fearless. You know, like, let's ride. And the money's good. The lead here is that it's not guaranteed. So people are freaking out about it. There's some people today calling him all kinds of names because he didn't get his money guaranteed because, of course, everybody's talking about Lamar Jackson's deal. What happened

the other day, him talking about the Ravens never offered me $250 million. peeling back the curtain for people in the timeline there. And that seems like a situation where this is accelerant. You know, like this didn't do Lamar any favors. And some people think it was Russell's job to do Lamar that favor and push for more guaranteed money. I have mixed feelings on that. How do you feel about it?

Look out for your own self. And maybe he's not done that and not negotiating the best deal possible. I do think Russell's a sort of guy who does want to stick in one place. He's a culture guy. Yeah. Let me get in there, went over the locker room, be in one place a while. Let's not do this every couple of years. But as far as the money's concerned, you can't be worrying about somebody else's contract negotiating your own.

Well, it's funny. And I did this whole bit about guaranteed contracts in the summer. And I forget what I said about quarterbacks, but I feel like it's going to be hard to command guaranteed money as a rule. I just feel like this is this is always going to be for a few. I mean, and Deshawn Watson got a lot of his guaranteed money for nefarious reasons. So like people are kind of like, that's the blueprint. Well, it happened because the guy's got a, you know, a problem. And I don't think you can bank on that perfect storm happening all the time.

And so I feel like other quarterbacks are kind of being held to this unfair standard. I totally, the timing of it sucks, right? If I was Russ, you know, like, and people are criticizing me, I don't know how I feel about it. Do I feel like I could have waited another month? No, because you're telling that guy to go out there without all this new money coming in and there's a risk he gets hurt. So basically what you're telling Russ, if you don't like what he did, is that he should have gone out and got 100% guaranteed money, you know, and that just is not realistic going forward.

especially he's a little bit older than Lamar. He's not had the highs that Lamar has had in the past three to five years. Lamar's a young MVP. These are two different situations. So I know that everybody wants everybody to move in lockstep and look out for each other, but it's hard. And this was one agent, actually this was his suite. He called Russ a company guy. He's doing favors for the establishment to keep the rest of the men down.

he'll get something behind the scenes for this. Third most lucrative contract in NFL history in terms of guaranteed money, by the way. For a 33-year-old, to your points. Not a bad deal. Not a bad deal. I want to see Lamar get as much as he wants to get. I love Lamar.

Big trust. But, you know, like, let's not take the whole thing out on Russell Wilson. If you're mad at Russell Wilson, what would you have him do? Bet on himself. answer the question though like you know at home answer the question if you're mad say it out loud like what would you have him do you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna tell him to wait or negotiate uh you know harder for guaranteed money and and the latter like i don't know how that that that ends for him cowboy you uh you excited about your club i am i i am stoked to ride this season and a few seasons

in the future yeah hustle and bustle i love that javanta williams which i'm mispronounce on purpose. Yeah. Those receivers are good. I like what you got going there. About Quinn Miners. I'm not familiar with his... I think you'd like Quinn Miners.

Okay. How about Alex Singleton? Not familiar with his work. How about Jerry Judy? Yeah, that guy. Cortland Sutton. Yeah, there we go. How about Seattle Seahawk Noah Fant?

Hey, I drafted him in the 14th. We'll talk about that with James Coe. I was sitting there just staring at it. Like, they haven't been using this cat. Look at this guy. stomach it's glorious Quinn miners likes to show the midriff on Google images oh nice does he have dreads yes he does and he's the guy he's a guy a guy with dreads playing for the Denver Broncos and he's the guy who in the draft in the leading up to the 2021 draft he would tackle

he was he was practicing I love this guy pass block sets against trees in the uh in the woods in the north love this guy I love them too uh Stockwatch up, Quinn Minors, Stockwatch down Alex Leatherwood. Yeah, like, I'm not going to fucking, I'm not going to spend time shitting on Russell Wilson. But it is bold. It's bold to say, like, plant my flag in this division. This is how, you know, he's a, he's a next level thinking guy. Like, he's a, he's a brand.

He's a business. So I wonder what the next shoe that's going to drop that has to do with the geography here. Well, I know what part of it is, and it's not so good for us. he went to a high school that plays in the same league as ours. And they're going to be having freaking indoor facilities here after this $24. You're right. Our high school is in trouble. I hadn't thought about that.

Yeah. Coney up, boys. Fuck, we don't have that. The nets are ripped on on tennis courts. Yeah. Greenlight pod. Let's save. Let's share the well.

Okay. The entire Virginia Prep League. So Jimmy G, the more I look at this thing, And, you know, like, the more I like it, I don't know how you felt for the Niners. Do you like it for Trey Lance? Hey, listen, if Trey Lance can't handle Jimmy G in the room,

then Trey Lance isn't the guy. Would you agree or disagree? Disagree. Really? Yeah. Jimmy G. They've already said out loud. It's not like they're saying open competition.

They've already said out loud, like, we don't want anything to do with this guy. Trey Lance is the quarterback of the future. If Trey Lance isn't good enough to stave off Jimmy G, then what are we talking about? Here's the best thing for Trey Lance. It's at Chicago and home scene. Exactly. So that's 2 and 0.

Exactly. I don't know about 2 and 0. If you don't, who's getting them? I'm just, I'm caping for Justin Fields. That's one of the things this year is like I'm a big Justin Fields fan. Wow.

Just got to roll with the punches. What about everybody else on that roster? That's the problem. Okay. But they did just sign Alex Leatherwood. They did. They did. So cutting about 15,

percent of their roster to sign other people's castaways. Yes. But, but yeah, I hear that. I hear like, you know, maybe it's not good for Tray's development.

It's not like he's Jordan Love. He's had to wait a year. He also got like 200 snaps last year. I really do believe that Jimmy G's the type of guy that will make this easy. Jimmy G hasn't made a peep. Jimmy G's loved by his teammates. Evidently,

you know, Nate Sudfeld, shout out my guy. When I asked him what kind of guy, Trey Lances is like he's the he's the best you know he was in San Francisco now he's in Detroit um with Dan Campbell but you know David Blow David Blow did you see him fumble that snap on hard knocks they really did him dirty they didn't have to put his speech in there before he fumbled yeah should be ashamed to yourselves producers of hard knocks

even though we had one on the show one year Shannon shut out our girl but like that wasn't her she didn't do that but Trey Lance supposedly great kid just wants to learn. Doesn't seem like the guy who's going to feel a certain type of way about this and Jimmy G's not the type of guy who's going to make him feel a certain type of way about this. I would just hate for it to be 17 to 6 Chicago

late third quarter and Chanahan's going to Jimmy G. That's my only way. I don't think he's going to do that week one, dude. I think if things get bad, he'll go to Jimmy G. But I don't think that, like, I think he's seen enough from Trey Lance that he was going down this road of trying.

to openly trade Jimmy Garoppolo. I trust Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch enough to think that they wouldn't just throw the book out over nothing. Like they know that this kid is going to be something. The question is, is he going to be something this November or is it going to be next year? And if it's next year, no fucking big deal. At least in my opinion, the window of this team is more important

than Trey Lance's feelings. You know? And I say that because we've seen this before. Like the Niners, Jimmy G, got hurt in 2018. That's how they got Nick Bosa, right? 2 and 14 or whatever they were. He tore his ACL on the sideline. 2020, we saw a bunch of Nick Mullins.

Nick Mullins. You know, like, Shanahan doesn't want to go through this again. So I don't blame him. And I think Trey Lance will be fine. What's one win in the NFL worth to you? Because Jimmy Garoppel is worth at least a win. Trey Lance has had injuries. He's going to run the football some.

If he's knocked out, you'd hate to see your window close. on a high ankle sprain in November. What's a win worth in the NFL? Jimmy G is, he costs six and a half million this year, whatever it is, six and a half or six mill. Garner-Minchu won one game for the Eagles last year against the Jets. Okay, you could argue that big whoop it's the Jets, but these are NFL games, right? The Jets beat the fucking the Bengals late in the season.

If the Eagles don't win that game, they don't get a shot to go to the playoffs. And like, to me, that's worth a backup quarterback. Not only that, like, you know, this is obvious, but I was on a team that the backup quarterback won the Super Bowl, man. Like, this backup quarterback is also worth something on the market, and there's no, there's no market firm right now. So demand's going to go up and supply's going to go down. I'm no fucking geologist.

But, you know, like, if you think about it, he's probably going to be worse something in the middle of the year, make? Like, it's a really good argument. It costs, it costs a two to get him from New England. And he's been in the NFC championship. He's been in the Super Bowl since then. I know he was more of an unknown commodity, but like this will be good.

It makes a lot of sense. And the Niners are probably a fringe playoff game. They're a contender to me, dude. I think, you know, you'd pencil them in right now, but if they're trotting out Brock Purdy for two weeks because of a high ankle, that might be the difference. That's a problem. And you know what?

You're in the NFC. You could fucking, you could slide in this thing. No pun intended to Brock Purdy. No pun intended. And you don't have to watch him, you don't have to watch him in Seattle. And for Jimmy G, I know some people have said like, oh, man, that's stupid for Jimmy G. Like, he should have gone to New York or Seattle and broke the bank and got paid again.

Like, yeah, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me just, let me just see how fucked up a situation I can go make my money in. Like this is a safe, secure place for him. He might need a year physically. And he'll probably, if he sees time this year, be in a really good spot. You know, so I think it's good for everybody. That's just me. I might be like glass half full guy. I know there's a bunch of people.

I mean, they're like, what are they doing? Shanahan told you what he was going to do. He said this explicitly all summer. So I like Jimmy G in San Francisco. And I think Trey's going to be fine. And if he's not, you'll fucking be glad to have Jimmy G. It's just one of those things. Another thing to keep an eye on here.

I talked about this yesterday, work with 33rd team a little bit, talked about this yesterday. Three corners on teams who have aspirations this year are going to miss like the first month of the season. It all kind of came out around the same time. You have Tredavius White, who's coming off, I guess, an ACL, right?

Byron Jones in Miami. And then Jimmy Ward and San Francisco, who we were just talking about. these are all teams that have big aspirations, none bigger than the Buffalo Bills, and the bills start the season in L.A. Like that's a pretty high-powered passing attack. While Stafford's arm still feels good, that's probably not the right team to be playing down a great corner like that.

And so they've got two rookies, Dane Jackson, they've got to step up. I really worry about that. And, you know, for San Francisco, again, like soft landing spot at the beginning of the the schedule, but they're going to play some tough teams in that first month in the back half. I forget who it was, but they're going to see some teams. And then the dolphins, too, who don't have a lot of depth in general. I think they're a good team. I think, by the way, they finish in front of the pads.

You? Yeah. Okay. So this is a pro dolphins pod? Yeah, to and on. To and on. Dude, did you see that deep ball the other day? Yeah.

I mean, he's best deep ball thrower in the league under 30. yards. There was a guy that said that, uh, that, and again, we're not taking gratuitous shots, but it's y'all that are funny as fuck. There was this guy that tweeted the other day. I was just going through mentions under like videos of deep. I'll just see how demented these people can be down there. And this guy was like, Tyreek obviously dove to avoid contact in a preseason game. You know, like that's, this is a good throw. You know, and it was a good throw. It just wasn't a great throw. That's the point. It's like it was a solid throw. It's a completion thing. God, Cheetah's so fucking athletic.

Mahomes has underthrown him too before, but it didn't look like that. And that's the point. Another guy said that this is a good sign. He obviously didn't put everything into it. You know, he did, you know, it's like his preseason. He's saving his arm. He didn't get to set his feet. This is a good sign.

So like they're talking themselves into drinking that Kool-Aid and they should drink it. They're going to they're going to finish ahead of the Patriots. this year. Croatian Borna Korich is up a break in the second set. You'll be pleased to learn. That's the guy we want, right? That's right. Let's go!

Let's go. Temper a little bit. Okay, okay. Yeah, it's a long game, long match. Yep. I bet him down a set, by the way. Good for you. You doubled down.

Good for you. Smart. Never waver. That's what we always say. Batting down the hatches. That's what we always say. Yeah. Our friend Stanford, Steve's about to join us.

it's been a while. It's been a while. I wonder if there's a team on Virginia's schedule this year that he's going to come down to see. I wonder who his favorite college football team is. This year. Yeah, he's like a total guy with the header that's got like the Cowboys and the Lakers and the fucking Yankees and Braves in 95. He's got a Lakers fucking flag, you know, when you roll the window up in your car. What do you guys want for me? I'm a Notre Dame football fan and a Duke basketball fan. What's the big deal? came down to watch Duke invited himself down to Charlottesville to hang

out with us quote unquote cheered for Virginia in front of us and then after the game on the car ride home was like man I'm so glad Ben Carrot hit that shot oh I'm so glad Duke got the win your freaking name is Stanford I mean like it's so fucking confusing

dude is a Yukon guy and here's the thing we'll talk to him about his fucking column in his column Felica said that Duke's going to finish under one and a half ACC wins. How does he feel about that? Felica, by the way, is writing about 80%

of that column. We can get into that. Shots fired. Shots fired. If you're here in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, or right here in Virginia,

and you haven't tried the WinBet app yet. I have great news for you. WinBet is now offering $200 in free bets for new users. That's right, $200, $200 big ones on a $50 bet. Winbet is basically giving you free money. Don't turn that down. Don't pass that up. Download the Winbet app today. Terms and conditions apply. Must be 21 or older and present in a state where win bet is available. Gambling problem in Arizona, call 1-800 Next Step. In Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, and Virginia call 1-800-Gambler. And in Michigan, 1-800-2707-1-17 Tennessee y'all two

1-8009-9-7-89 Steve Yo Your column Why is Felica 80% of that column Can he chill out with some of these Win totals, et cetera? I want more Steve

And managing your load? What the fuck is going on? No, no, not at all I am saving my best stuff for you guys, obviously Yes, obviously. But you, I've read every Power 5 preview there is on a team. I've got something. I've just texting Chris. I think

I was Mason. You were making you were on that text. I forgot your name. It's been so long. So, I got it all. I got it all. I just was wondering, looking at this week one slate, in the tears of Virginia hatred,

take Maryland out of it. You know, the Hokies are one. Where does Richmond fall? Low. Not like, low. I don't hate Richmond. I like the fact that they got a spider for a mascot. Cool. Leland Melvin

was there for a second. He was an astronaut. McShay, Joe Douglas. We like Richmond. We like Richmond. We're going to beat Richmond. We're trying to beat Richmond. But yeah, no, no, no.

That's a good jumping off point. We talk about our personal feelings, Steve. Felica says, bet UNC to win the ACC at plus 1,600. Take a flyer on them. Don't hate it, but I might hate that happening.

So, two-part question. one for Steve, one for Macon. Steve, is there anybody that can actually win the ACC and make a playoff outside of Clemson? And then for you, Macon, who do we actually want that to be? I'll give you three choices, because I think three teams could do it. And go to the playoffs. I think Pick could do it. I think NC State could do it, and I think Miami could do it.

I really do. Now, their work's cut out for them, but I think they all have the talent to do it. I really do. And, you know, obviously everybody's talking about the ACC with quarterbacks. I'll take your guy's armstrong over anybody. But I don't like the situation that surrounds him as much as the other guys in the league. I love what Devin Larry brings to the table, especially going back and watching him last year when they need it. Obviously, NC State's got to avoid the NC State loss.

Reese Davis has started the term wolfpacking. And, you know, that's the old Clemsoning. Yeah, Clemsoning is over, I guess. Yeah. So restarted that, but Devin Larry is darn good in the two-minute, man. Like when his team needed it, and what else I love is how good he is in the red zone. He didn't have one turnover in the red zone. And when a defense coming back, because they're getting two guys back, that were all league players in 2020 and missed all last year in the linebackers.

So I love what they bring back. The least amount of guys entered a portal in the league. I think they had a bad taste in their mouth all off season. They got their bowl game canceled the day of the game. And if they won that game, they had a chance to be the second 10-win team in school history. So I think Doran's a quirky dude, but you look at the numbers, man.

They won a lot of football games in that league. So I like Etsy State, I think I know everybody's going to talk about losing picket and losing Addison. But when you bring Slovison. Slowness, man. Yeah. And I think Addison was a guy who really benefited off the other talented receivers. and tight ends that pit had.

So I like the mix there. You know, new offensive coordinator comes in. I don't mind that at all. And their D-line, if Clemson's defensive line, their front floor is the best group unit in all of college football. Wow. Like I honestly think they're better than Waukes and those guys in years past that one national championships.

So they're the bat. They're elite. Like those four guys, I think they're all first round picks. but pits not far behind them when it comes to defensive line. Their D-Lod is always fucking good, dude. And Narduzi's phenomenal with defense. He's an absolute crazy person and emotions getting away sometimes in the middle of the game. But I'll take that.

And the other team is Miami. And I still think they're a year away. I think Miami and Texas are on the same way, like where they started getting some stability. They got some deaths, but they got to play a lot of young guys. on both lines of scrimmage. But I think Miami, the way the schedule fits out, they got an enormous opportunity going to A&M in two weeks. So those are three teams.

I think Pick gets Tennessee coming in next week. NC State obviously plays Clemson a little bit. I think those are three teams that honestly, if they do what they're supposed to do, and I've said this, you know, coming into the season, Chris, you know this, making you know this. When you get those opportunities, you have to play well.

You have to play well. I think about Notre Dame going to the playoffs. Like, yeah, they got, they got, they didn't play well, though. Like, you got to play well when you get those circumstances. So those are three teams. I honestly feel like I have a chance to go to the playoff for sure. I'll take the two-parter. Okay.

Yeah. It'd be state for me of those three. For me as well. I mean, their hoops fans can be insufferable. Can be? But to me, they're the only ACC school of those three. But in Miami still big East teams. Yeah.

land in NFL stadiums that just doesn't feel like what we grew up with. So if I had to choose one of those three. Doesn't feel like Doc Walker, dude. No. Sail with the pilot. No, the pilot. Raycom. So I just wanted to ask that, get the ACC out of the way.

The award list, man, like I just want to set the table for the year. Like you got Will Anderson to win the Hizman plus $2,200. And then Dylan Gabriel, the OU kid, plus $3,000. Who else is going to be in that high? advertisement and then over under two Ohio State guys in New York. Oh, under. Under. I think they're going to take away.

Here's the first thing when it comes to Heism. I think it's the worst voted on award in all of sports. But with that, I still understand people want to talk about it a lot because that talks about the best players in the sport. I understand that. Have you seen the top hundred? Yeah. What happened is, you know,

winning gets tied to these awards. and I think RG3 and Tebow were the last quarterbacks to win it with three losses. And I think about Dylan Gabriel at Oklahoma, and that was my preseason, you know, long shot off the board. It was, I believe it was 35 to 1 at the time. He gets back with his offensive coordinator when he was a true freshman at UCF and Jeff Levy, who left Lane Kippen at Ole Miss. Levy's an Oklahoma guy.

And I just really like the mix. I think Levy doesn't get enough credit for Ole Miss and what that turned into. because Lane's the face, and I get it. Lane hired him and Lane's the guy. So I think Levy's going to be tremendous with Gabriel back in there. And when you talk about tempo, I don't know how they do it, but when I watch them in person, they seem like they're going faster than anybody.

And I think that's going to help them. I love the accuracy of Gabriel. He's going to be putting circumstances. They're defense. They have 50 new guys on that team that are putting on the Oklahoma uniform for the first time on Saturday. So I think Gabriel is going to be in a circumstance where he's got a lot on his shoulders and he's ready for it. And he's going to put up absolutely monster numbers.

Now, if they can win enough games to be in the conversation along with those other likes, then that's a whole other conversation. But that's a guy that came to mind when I thought about the eyes. All right. Cockland Award. Do we know what the fuck that award is? Yeah. Is it just a big white tight end?

Or Brock Bowers every week. We're going to another level here. The mission this year is to get Michael Mayer to New York for the Heisman ceremony. Oh, my God. Michael Mayer is going to catch 100 balls this year for Notre Dame. I'm just telling you right now, he's going to do it. He's an absolute man-child. Every facet of the game, it's tough.

Everybody's been calling me out because I said he's the best player in the country, and I believe so, and everybody throws Brock Bowers in my face. I love Brock Bowler. Yeah. But he doesn't do all the things that Michael Mayer does. And you can watch the tape, put it on. I expect more from Bach Bowers this year. I expect more from Michael Mayer.

But I'm a mayor guy, and I think the world of them, and I can't wait to see who gets him at the next level because they are in for a total treat. Well, the other time you came to Charlottesville, other than for the Duke basketball game, you came for your favorite football team, Notre Dame. And we still... Not my favorite football team at all.

Okay. At all. Okay. We stood on the field. No, I was going to say LSU, but that's Ryan Rosillo's favorite football team. We stood on the field and I looked down at the tight ends and thought they were standing on a fucking hill. I was like, I didn't know that this, you know, like they're huge.

And this guy is, I mean, he's a total stud. So if he catches 100 balls, sure, yeah. Why not? Yeah. Let's start it. Okay. He's a big cat. Michael Mayor.

Which I was 6.5. Independence, Kentucky. 6.5 is where you really start being a towering guy. When you're 6'3, it's like a. The Notre Dame. site has all these honors and awards for 2021 and no Cochland Award winner on that's really weird

I gotta get on that yeah Timmy Chang Award this is a new award give us a quarterback from a smaller school that's gonna just gonna go ham does Washington State count yeah yeah is this the incarnate word guy yes yes hammered Ward you gotta you gotta

you gotta pull up the tape out of Chris when we're done he's phenomenal man his build is incredible he could do everything I think he's only going to get better as a passer. I think he's going to light up that. That league, for the first time, I feel like there's four good teams in that above average teams

in Oregon, UCLA, Utah, and USC. But when you look at the other rest of the league, I think a guy with a quarterback coming in, he brings, you know, Washington State did what Western Kentucky did last year with Bailey Zappy and the offensive coordinator bringing there. And then

that Kittley guy went to Texas Tech this year. But this Morris guy came from incarnate word. Now he's to OC at Washington State. They got some things to work on the offensive line, but in that system you could work around subpar talent on the offensive line the way they get the ball out and make you run

side to side. But Cameron Ward is the guy that I can't wait to watch up in Pullman. Evidently incarnate Words of party school. Really? It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, but they supposedly party down there. Yeah, we saw that in your column too. So yeah, this is all checking out.

So look out for the Cochlin Award every week and the Timmy Chang Award every week. I got a Timmy Chang a person to consider. Nominee? Player to watch. A nominee. Grayson McCall. I don't even know where that guy is. Coastal Carolina. Coastal Carolina. The Shons. Okay. Who are coming to Seaville in November. I better get to know this guy. Grayson McCall. Are they?

Quarterback. Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's not good. Oh, fuck you, Steve. Well, he's not, I mean... Also, what's around Brennan Armstrong? He's got some of the best wide receivers in the country. Coach by Marcus Hagan's, one of the best probably one of the hottest names he's going to be one of the hottest names here soon Grayson McCall's also coming to Harrisonburg

in late November JMU that's a good point Steve JMU would register a little bit on the hate list Richmond does not at all Richmond is like respected academically I like Richmond I didn't I'm not taking that shot William and Mary fine

bring him on Grayson McCall Grayson McCall I think turned a quote into an NIL opportunity when they were asking him if he was going to transfer if he was going to leave school he had a shirt and he opened it like Superman and it said I pissed teal

oh that's good that's good you might want to get that checked out not championship level hydration Grayson bad teammate bad teammate that's off the fucking meth it's just meth it just says meth down there if you piss blue it's just

Tom Herman would have you in jail. Jail. So what about the draft, man? I know it's a long way out, but a couple questions. One, who is going to be the next highest edge guy taken behind Will Anderson? And then two, will Bryce Young's size be an issue for NFL teams? Wow. I like the kid Foskey at Notre Dame.

I think he's good. I think he's legit. And I really want to see what he does in Al Gore. golden system. Obviously, Marcus is still going to have his hands on that defense, but I think he's a game breaker. I would, I think off the top of my head, him. And yeah, I think Bryce Young, being on the field for that national championship, and on one end, it's Stetson Bennett, who's not tall. And Bryce Young, I was just like, wow, he is not really tall. Not not tall. But not tall at all. So, you know, how much do you think these under, you know, what are you, what are you thrown as a cop?

Like, Kyler? No. And I just said that right before we came on. I was like, he's not Kyler. Like, he's not as explosive as Kyler. Athletically. I mean. Tarad?

To Rod. No. That might not be so bad. It's not so bad, but I'm still looking for a guy as slight. Yeah, no, he's, I mean, he's tiny. How about Drew Breeze? Drew Breeze. Okay.

Drew Breeze. I'm buying that. He is elusive. I think he's a great anticipator of the throws. And that's what I think you need to do at the next level. I think that's what kind of worries me. Still about Jalen Hertz with the Eagles is I don't think he's as good as a throw. You know, being able to throw his receivers open.

And Bryce does that like I haven't seen a guy that's stature. and his ability to wait to the last second with the rush and still get the ball there where it needs to be. I don't really think, I don't know if that's coachable stuff. Yeah. But, I mean, he has, he's got it. And listen to him, talk this preseason about, you know,

how motivated they were and Saban coming out with the quote about it. It was a rebuilding year and ended up with a loss with a lead in the fourth quarter of a national championship. I was at the press conference and watched. Will Anderson and Brightshund walk out of the press conference and hug each other in tears last year. And Saban was right there. And I felt like the weirdest person in the world because I was the only other person in the hallway. And to see, you just walk in and just like, no, no, no, come on, bring it in, guys. I bleed crimson.

I bleed crimson sometimes. Sometimes I bleed blue. Sometimes I bleed gold. You just start crying. Those are calcullers. Yeah. Okay. So we've got the Heisman.

We've got the draft. Give me one last prediction to kind of set the table here. Which coach has the best first year? Which first year coach has the best year? Guy in Charlottesville's probably going nine and three with this cupcake schedule. Just nine and three. Wow. Eight and four.

The guy just shouted out a guy from Incarnate Word. And we can't go nine and three? Incarnate Word played mixed. McNeese State four times last year, all right, giving us incarnate word. They played amazing grace all the fucking time. I'm going to say Brian Kelly.

Brian Kelly? Okay. Well, I mean, that, yeah, that works. I'll give you a best plane ride here. Can I give you a best plane ride and a worst plane ride? Best plane ride, Vandy last week, 6310.

They beat Hawaii. Somebody lost to Vandy, 60310. How bad is Hawaii? Pretty bad. Yeah, dude. It was so bad. Like I did while I went back the next day and watched the tape. Chris, they have a new angle that would drive you nuts.

So you get the, you get to all 22, right? So it's the sideline press box view. Then it's the tight, you know, end zone. Yeah. And now they have a wide end zone. It is. Wide end zone. Yeah. Like, there are, where would I be?

If I had the camera, where am I on wide end zone? Opposite end zone. So it's just like super far. It's so bad. It's so bad. You can't even tell how fast guys are running. That's the first thing I noticed when I turned on that tape. People look like ants.

Yeah. It's a school for hands. You can't gauge any speed or anything. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Well, fuck that view. And Chicago,

Soldier Field also had like one of the worst press box. views too. Nobody that ever nobody ever watches like coaches tape. I guess you do. Soldier Field used to have the worst angles, man. It's all about angles when you're watching film. So was it still two doyks? It was two doyings.

I saw that up close though. I didn't do you. But Vanney's back and Hawaii's not great. I'll give you a worst plane ride and this is an important point here because I want to talk to you about Scott Frost, but those fucking Midwesterners that went all the way to Ireland and just got, you know they got drunker than they'd been like since last Tuesday. And then they had to drive back.

They had to fly back from Europe. I mean, all hung over from Ireland. That had to be awful, by the way. Because you know they partied there. Yeah. But like,

I don't know what time. It's, they're ahead. So, oh God, that had to be terrible. Yeah. Just a total.

total mind fuck for those people. And then God bless the guys that might have got hurt. And that's the, oh, man, that's, that's the worst. It's the worst, man. So worst plane ride I'll give to Nebraska and Scott Frost. How long does Scott Frost last? Like, I've heard great things about Scott Frost as a guy. And I think, you know, like having a guy that played there seemed like it was a match

made in heaven, but it just hasn't worked out. Reed hit me with a stat earlier. If Scott Frost wins his next 50 games, he will still have a worse record than Bo Bo Polini when he got fired. Yes. Okay. a couple things here. All right. Understood. He took the blame, defended the decision for the

outside kick. I can't, I can't defend it. I think it's a terrible decision. I'm a guy. When it comes to outside kicks, it's when my defense is reeling and I need an extra possession. That's when I think you use that. Not up 11 when you were down three at half and your defense is starting to get your thing, you know, things rolling. And so that's the decision there. But what I can't say, this is why I really don't go on social media on Saturdays and Sundays

is I wake up Monday morning and something's up there like top three candidates to replace Scott Frost. Time out. Okay. Well, there's a season here, okay? And they still, in two weeks, they have Oklahoma coming to Lincoln. Yeah. They can

write everything if they win that game. They can write everything. And yeah, it sucks. You talk about the plane ride. Those guys are on that plane and say, we were to better team. We were a better team when we got beat by Northwestern. Now, give Northwestern credit. They made the most of their opportunities in that game. And I thought they were physical and their offensive line look great to me. So credit to them. But when it comes down in Nebraska, man,

these guys are working all offseason for these 12 games. And that's one of them. And yeah, it was awful. You couldn't have started the season worse. But that's, you know, that's why coaches are going to, people get tired of hearing one game at a time. You know, we got to take care of ourselves. That's what this stuff is about here. That's about the self-scout here. What happened? Where do we go wrong after the decision was made. There was still, you know, a quarter and a half to be played. So I still think Nebraska has the goods to have a successful season. And I know it's impossible for people to start when it's the only game in town and it's the only game on TV and that's all people see. And that's what really bothers you because these guys are going to do what they take.

They're going to put the work in. They're going to get better and they still have a whole season to play for. So I think the overreaction, people are talking about the buyout that starts on October 1st. I get it, but there is plenty of football to be played, and you have to think about the bigger picture, even though I know it's impossible for people to do on social media. Man, that buyout, October 1st, that thing's cut in half. After that little rant, I got Stanford Steve Coughlin as one of the top three to replace Scott Frost.

Oh, yeah. Honestly, I just Googled Tom Osborne to see if he was alive. And? Oh, he was a house of representatives guy after football. I missed that. I think he's alive, man. alive. Tom Osborne.

Luke Fitt. Well, you know, you got to get back into it slowly. Corn in your throat. Luke Bickle, Matt Campbell. Those will be on everybody's list. Matt, yeah. Stanford Steve. Yeah, Stanford Steve is third.

Yeah, long season and everything, but, you know, that buyout and, you know, it could be, they could beat Oklahoma, but it also could be ugly. They could lose to North Dakota or Georgia Southern. Yeah, I mean, fuck, dude. I'm sorry. Will Compton.

You just can't will this to happen. Nebraska is not, I mean, you've got to learn that it's going to be a long year in Ireland. Dude, you couldn't figure that out at home. Like, you know, it sucks to pull out of that stadium and drive back to your house, but to get on a plane

and have to just ruminate on it. Who else is on the hot seat for you that's worth paying attention to? Dino Babers. Mike Norvelle. Yeah. Norvell's in a tough. situation, but yeah, I thought they got better

at the end of the season. They still had a game to play for a bowl game. Brian Harsen, obviously. Yeah, his, yeah, he's in a tough situation, for sure. And they have actually a schedule where they could get off to a bunch of wins in a row that would

help him, I think, a ton. Herm, Herm Edwards. Oh, fuck, dude. Are we going to hear, are we going to hear like a self-deprecating you play to win the game at the last press conference this year? Is Herm going to be like, well, guys, you know, you play to win the game. People are going to uneasy laughter.

Then he gets ax. Didn't win enough games. You can see it now. Herm's on the hot seat. They're not doing a whole lot of winning in Atlanta. Oh, yeah. I forgot. No offense to that guy.

Like when they hired him, I was like, bro, you ain't going to last. Why is Georgia Tech not better? Are they making people be engineers? Like, Army's making people be troops? You're like, maybe just less engineers? Like it's Atlanta. Why can't you... I think you got to wean people off the triple option.

It takes like another staff. I'm with that because having to do that and then in the middle of COVID, that's the way rosters are going. I mean, Jemir Gibbs, their best player. Like, all right, peace out. I'm going to Alabama.

Yeah. That's brutal. You don't have any stability. I feel like he started, what's this is? year he's had to start the season against Clemson twice so that's not going to you know start things off well you know everybody talks about what happens to you after you play Alabama I can't be imagined things go well for ACCC teams after they play Clemson.

Clemson hangover so that's a yeah that's a tough deal Steve keep this to yourself but Virginia's wearing orange over orange on Saturday your thoughts what color helmet it's a white hat yeah dude we and we just went back to the what we wanted up top on the look. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's a rough luck. Let's talk. Yeah. All right, Steve, what game are you most excited about week one or 0.5 or whatever the fuck it is? I hate when they do the week zero thing. I'm like, just think of a new kickoff weekend, dude. Confusing. Week one. I think it's Utah, Florida. Yeah. That's sick. Because of the opportunity that is at hand for Utah. and a lot of times, and I think it's just Kyle Winningham's persona,

Utah likes being out of the spotlight, you know, and then get better as the season goes and get that defense. It's been his mantra year in and year out at Utah. But I think about Utah, Florida, I think about Texas playing Alabama, I think about Notre Dame playing Ohio State, and I think about Oregon playing Georgia. Like those kind of games, guys,

this early in the year, we talk about how narratives get created, and this is how they get created. It's because these teams that are playing these big dog teams, it's going to get held over their head the whole season. Notre Dame is going to get looked at no matter what happens the next three weeks, how they did against Ohio State. Texas, if they could hang around with Alabama, that's going to be a benefit for them as the season goes on. And with the PAC 12, and I said, I believe there's four above average teams for the first time in a while. Utah, every time the Pac 12 has an opportunity like this, it just pees down their leg. And you think about Utah, now they got all the accolades, top 10 team, going to a middle tier team in Gainesville and the SEC where don't say that to their fans, but it's a fact. They haven't won the SEC in 13 years.

And the season win total was seven wins. I love Billy Napier. I think he's a great hire. I just don't think they have the patience for Billy to get the stability he needs in that structure of a program. So when you look at Utah coming into that, people don't care about that stuff.

They want to know what happens on the field. I think it's a generous time of game to play it at night for Utah. Oh, that's a big save for them, dude. I don't know what the temp's going to be, but I hear Whittingham's like pouring water on the grass and turning the heat up in the indoor. Love the guy, but that's probably not going to do it.

No. But so I think that game from a perception standpoint, because that's what we do. Everybody just wants to talk about who's going to be in the playoff. And Utah is obviously going to have that, you know, label on them. I think that's the most interesting game on Saturday for me. When you look at everything in its totality. Because if Utah loses this game, I mean, it's going to take a lot for them to make the playoff. And so like this, there's a lot of teams watching Utah this weekend, rooting for Billy Napier.

Like a lot of teams who have aspirations, even though they wouldn't say it out loud, they're like, fuck, like NC State, you know, or something like that. The whole ACC and the whole Big 12th. Yeah. They're all rooting for. So I hate where,

I hate betting against Utah, but it does feel kind of like now Utah's the, you know, like the people are taking it lightly that they're going down to Gainesville a little bit. I don't know. Where's the public on this thing? And who do you like?

I mean, right now the lines, Three. Yeah. I hate to say, I would lean towards Florida because of what happens when this happens. Now, when you look at the tape and you look at the depth chart and you look at, you know, paper, Utah should win the game. Right. They're better on both lines of scrimmage.

They're defensive line. I don't care who he has. He gets, he creates pressure with his scheme. And Florida's offensive line has not been good for years now. And when it comes down to Florida, it's Anthony Richardson, who has every skill you want in a quarterback, but it's a small sample size. You know, his only start last year was against Georgia catastrophe. Comes in against USF, has an 80-yard touchdown run, I think second play of the game.

You know, there's flashes. So what needs to happen is he needs to play well. Can Florida stay in third and shorts and keep Utah's offense off the field? You know, can that crowd stay engaged? you know, for the defense to help them on third downs against scam rising in that offense. That's what it comes down to. It's a stay away for me because it's so much unknown and especially because of Florida's roster, you know, transfer that whole thing.

And I'm not in on Richardson yet. If I had a little bit more, I probably would be. Florida is always going to have skill guys. They're defensive guys. I mean, they have a bunch of four or five star guys that just haven't performed well. And, you know, Mullen's out of there because the roster was not deep. So I think Utah is a four-quarter game. Utah squeaks it out.

I could even see it being a two-point game where Utah wins and Florida covers. Okay. Does Oregon have a shot to make this a game? I'm excited to see Bo Nix in the Pack 12. I don't know why. I know he's got his OC. People are talking this guy up. Didn't he have a history with him?

And the head coach has a history with this OC. He was in Memphis? Yeah, Memphis. So I'm excited about Oregon a little bit. I don't know. Maybe I'm jumping out of the gym. Greenlight bingo there. Yeah, it's Oregon's a wild card to me in a PAC 12 because Mario did a great job

recruiting there. And I think they just might have tapped out at the end of the year when Utah handled them and then they had to play them again like two or three weeks later. And Utah's a bastard to play. We know that. So when I look at Oregon, they have veterans on offensive. Offensive lines travel. And they have guys on defense.

Now, the problem is people like their guys on defense better than I do. You know, Sewell, it gets all this, you know, accolades. I still want to see more from him. So when you talk to people at Georgia, they are dying to get this team on the field. You know, you think about the draft and what they lost, and I keep saying it, but old Geron Carter, number 88, he's going to jog out in that field. for the first possession for Georgia. And people are going to be looking at you're like, wait, he didn't,

he didn't get drafted? Yeah. I think he's the best defensive player on that team last year. And they had, what, 15 guys drafted in total. So you talk to people at Georgia, the kid, Arian, the wide receiver, they think he's the fastest guy in college football. They love their running backs. And then they got another guy who I think he's a 10-3, 100 guy.

They love the running backs. They have the best tight-end room in the country. It's not up for debate. And Setsa Bennett has shown he could do it, looking what he did in overcoming a deficit in the fourth quarter of a national championship game. So I think Georgia wears on him, you know, for 60 minutes. And I, the bonex factor, you read,

he was not impressive in their team scrimmage, you know, that one preseason get together where ones goes versus ones. So I would lean towards Georgia because I think they're, they're chopping out to show that they can reload. 17. 17. 17.

Does Dan Lannning does he had the book on Stetson Bennett? Have we had this? Is there precedent for this for somebody for a coordinator going back to the That's interesting. The old spot as a two ranked foes? Dan Lannning didn't bring one person

from the Georgia staff. Oh, I like that. Not one. I like that. Not one. I like that. Too much brother-in-law. Too much, yeah, you're coming with me

going on in football. okay all right I wanted to see what you thought about that I like that fuck yeah dude yeah or maybe Kirby said hey I got here's some cash y'all you all stick around yeah probably that probably has something to do and it's also

you like Athens you like fucking coaching at Georgia yeah that's a big line you've got you've got the Ohio state lines big two 17 what are you gonna what are you going to tell me there Tibet Notre Dame

here's my problem is Scott and I are doing a podcast this week. We're doing shows all week. And I'm like, the Ohio State, Notre Dame game, and the Georgia Oregon game are the least most interesting games. Yeah. Like I just, you know,

like I get like Ohio State is getting all this, you know, attention. And I get it. They scored 50-something or whatever or 48 in the, in the Rose Bowl against Utah. And they got the receivers back. And Smith and Jigba is a stud. CJ Strouds, phenomenal.

But I need to see more from the defense. So then they bring Jim Nolz in. And Ryan Day obviously has a bad taste of his mouth because of losing to Michigan and not being in the playoffs, which is just crazy for people not involved in that program to think about that winning a Rose Bowl is not a success. So it's to me, I just, I want to see the difference of defense. They say they got the two D-N guys that were freshmen last year and Sawyer.

and I want to see it first. You know, I don't want to lay 17. If it was a day game, I would probably take the points. But a night game in the horseshoe, that kind of scares me. And Notre Dame's got good talent on the offensive line. Can they run the ball consistently? You know, I think back to Ohio State, you know, they got manhandled on the line of scriments against Utah.

They outscored them. They got manhandled against Michigan. They couldn't outscore them. And they got manhandled in the game against Utah. Oregon, their other loss last year. So I want to see the improvements before I'm going to maybe throw a couple bucks on the Buckeyes. That's the way I treat that game. Okay. And a game that I think is interesting, but be if people won't watch it as much as the two that we just talked about, but since the Arkansas, the line six and a half, Arkansas's favored, what I really want to see is like

how your guy, Luke Fickle, can replace all those guys they lost on defense and Desmond Ritter. I mean, like there's a lot of question marks. And I feel like this is one of those programs where every time you have a big turnover of like personnel, it'll be interesting to see who they are as a program because like big time programs, they lose quarterbacks, they lose defenders. We talked about Georgia.

They lost a bunch of fucking guys on defense. I had these guys look at all the teams that had a ton of guys drafted defensively. They retool. Like since he's obviously not Georgia, but what's it going to look like? Well, a couple things going back and looking at that Cincinnati,

Alabama game is I didn't like, I didn't like the way the game was called. for Cincinnati. I didn't think they took enough shots. And you know, you know, you're an underdog. You got to get ahead. They drop or a miss throw on a touchdown early. That would have tied the game 7-7. So when I think about that, how Luke Fickle

did in that circumstance with that opportunity. Yeah. And now he goes on the road with an underman team against the team who I think is going to be a really good team, but I don't think their schedule is going to be able to show how good they are. I think Arkansas is going to be really good. They've got a transfer

wide receiver from Oklahoma Hazelwood. He was the number one receiver in the 2019 class. He comes to Arkansas. He takes Traylon Burke's spot for KJ. Jefferson. Kendall Browns is phenomenal on offense. I'm not worried about their offense. And then the defense brings back a bunch

of guys and they get the safety who was a freshman All-American and Catalan who missed all last year. I think he's an NFL player. I think he's a stud. And they got your boy, Bumper Pool. Love Bumper Pool. Gotta love Bumper Pool. So I think Arkansas gets them this week.

Arkansas needs to start 2 and O, or they're in for a rough season to get South Carolina coming in next week. So I think Arkansas, that place will be jazzed up. I'm fired up to see what the Razorbacks look like, knowing what they have to do early in this season in order to have a successful season. What I like about your column is this informative?

Somebody, an editor writes a big like, this is gambling thing at the front of it, like wherever it's like, this is a spread, like all that stuff. But what I did notice is that you all did not mention teasers. And I think this is a prime situation for Arkansas teaser. I just got to figure out who their dance partner is. I got to figure it out. LSU Florida State,

what, I mean, like, where's your lean there? That's Florida State, is Florida State favored? No. No. So they're,

they're catching three at home. No, it's in New Orleans. Okay. It's in New Orleans. Okay, yeah. So, so LSU by a field goal,

who do you like there? It scares me, because I feel like everybody's going to bet LSU. That's what I'm saying. I might just fuck around and get 10 and, you know, dance partner. There you go. It's going to be these two teams, obviously, I think LSU at the end ended up taking in the most transfers of any power 5 team.

I think it was 16. So we know how stern Brian Kelly is when it comes to his personnel. But when you go back to Cincinnati when he was there, are handling Tony Pike and Zach Kalleros and, you know, Notre Dame early on with Tommy Reese and Golsson. He's, I think he's done pretty well figuring out who the guy is that quarterback. So I think it might take some time because they are not great on the offensive line. They're going to start a five-star, Brian, a kid at left tackle. And Florida State, I mean, you saw, you know, the guy that just drafted off the edge was Jeremiah Johnson.

Well, that's, that's Robert Redford's guy. Jermaine Johnson, sorry. No, you're good. He was pretty elite. So I don't think Florida State's going to have that. And when it comes down to Florida State, I can't get past it. They haven't had a good offensive line in forever. And LSU's got some boys on the D-Line this year in Oligari and Gay.

So I think LSU is a better football team. I just feel like it's one of those that are too easy. It's going to be the only game on Sunday night. If I have to, I probably take a little nibble on Florida State because nobody's going to have them. That's what I'm saying. Maybe we tease the razor hogs with the semi-holes, you know? Here's a free tip, Steve. I'd go with Jensen Brooksby today in the U.S. Open over Borna Corwich.

Do not. Free tip. No. Did he win? Corrish is down two sets to love, but that's why they play best to five. What does love mean? Zero? Yeah.

You motherfucker. He had a set point. He's coming out of your contract for real, dude. Because we're still working on a new deal here. Like, he told me to just put big units on. this tennis player I never heard of. I was looking in the women part of my book and on windbed. Now, to be fair, Borna had a set point in the second set. So we were right there. Yeah. So we're dead.

Mostly dead. Fuck me, dude. I've got to go into the weekend chasing. This is going to ruin. I blame you for my whole season. I'm going to be chasing going into a college football weekend because of tennis. I'm going to be putting like, yeah, I'm teasing everything now. Okay, Michigan start, last last last two questions for you, Steve. Michigan starting quarterback, okay? Magdemeira is not, you like this. I do. McCarthy, this young guy.

I do. I do. Listen, the way practices are now, you can't get a real feel for what you have. Yeah. I mean, you know, you can't touch the quarterback. So when you're talking about extended plays and things like that, like it you don't know until you get in a game so they have a cake out of conference um you know what is it Colorado State then it's Hawaii and then it's Yukon shout out huskies coach more nice cover you only got the free gear on there okay good cover last week um so I like like give the keys to

this guy week one give the keys they're not going to lose these games and they have plenty of other things to work on so go for it yeah now I would be kind of upset if I didn't get to start against Hawaii and I had to start against Colorado State because I think Colorado State is better. That's fucked out. Yeah. But I don't, I don't think it messes. I don't, I really don't. Like, I, I mean, Urban won a national title with Tebow and Chris Leak. Like, it can be done. Yeah. I don't think the defensive guys care about it. No, not, no, no, not if I'm playing defense for Michigan. Mm-mm. Now, the O-Lignment might care because the O-line, obviously, offensive linemen have to set differently.

Well, they try to set the same for everybody, but the quarterbacks drift differently in the pocket. Some hold the ball longer. So it could affect a lot of things. Yeah, it does. I mean, it definitely, that's why every coach holds this decision over everybody's head week one. They're like, you know, it's not going to make a huge difference,

but if you have two guys who brings different skill sets to the ball game every week, it adds some practice time. It adds some prep, and coaches are paranoid. And they look at this package and look at when this guy. And it just fucking, it raises the cortisol in opposing team locker rooms and meeting rooms. So yeah, a little bit, a little bit to answer your question. Okay, and how good is BYU? Because they seem like maybe who's going to be complaining about are they really good?

And then who's the non-power five team who's going to be complaining about getting left out this year before we expand to 24 teams? Okay. I think BYU has the goods to do it. I really do. I love the quarterback. I love the head coach. I love the mentality the team plays with. The issue is the schedule.

Now, that could be the benefit also if they go and win these games. I think it's road game at Eugene. They get Arkansas coming to them. They get Baylor coming to them. They play Notre Dame in Vegas, and they play at Stanford late in the air, which should be a cakewalk. So the opportunity is there,

and obviously they're going to have a veteran guy. guys on that team, but I wonder if it catches up with them playing that many big games. Because if they do run, they might be able to lose one of those and still get in, depending on how everything else falls. But they're the team for me, non-power five, that has the road to the playoff for sure. When you look at that schedule, the opportunity is there. And that's, I mean, last year we talked at this point about who has an opportunity to do it. I brought up teams like Cincinnati. I didn't think it was going to be Michigan. But I thought, last year was the year to do it because Ohio

State and Alabama had true freshman quarterbacks playing for the first time. So I think those teams are shoe-ins. I take Georgia again and I have a wild card for my fourth team. A wild card? Yep.

Who? UCLA. Wow. So you think they could win the whole damn thing out West? I do. I do. Ships turning that thing around. He's writing the chip.

21 guys graduated. 21 are graduated and they're in grad school at UCLA. They got plenty of leadership on that team. I think Charbonnet is an ultimate dark horse for the Heismaner's a trophy. I think he's up at like 70, 80, maybe even 100 to 1, depending on your book. They get Utah at home. They play USC obviously later in the year. I think they go to Oregon.

but I think the road is there. I love how everybody's talking about Utah and USC, and I'm a believer in Chip, and I think with the veteran guys and the things that he could do in the run game that are pain in the ass to game plan for, I like UCLA laying in the weeds there. Okay.

Hey, there's a lot to download, but I feel smarter. I feel like if it weren't for the crippling debt that I've incurred betting tennis, welcome back making, that I would win some money this weekend. So Stanford Steve, it's been fun. We're going to go. Would you rather start off the week minus gambling

or come back to work on your first day and be in the hole? Come back to work and be in the hole. Okay. Because I'm all about the future. You know, I want to know what the road ahead looks like. And right now it doesn't look real good. That's a fault. That's, hey, double a double fault there, make.

All right? Me, make it, when you go to your back to your first day of school, you're supposed to come out smiling. Not with a frown. Well, hey, born a coric at the moment has break point on this fellow. Does that mean he might win this? No, it's the first game of the third set. Okay. I've been doing really well in tennis.

Okay, good. Like all summer long. Yeah. This, this isn't, this isn't good. I might be flushing your picks down the toilet. That's where the tennis game is. Flushing queens. All right.

Steve, have a good one. All right. Let's talk about uniforms. You sent me a link to, what is it? Something or other. Something or other. And it had a bunch of uniform changes this year. And you guys like it when we talk about you guys and gals like it when we talk about

uniforms. Yeah, look good, play good. Look good, feel good, play good. Uniswag. Uniswag. Of course. Uniswag. A lot of dudes who didn't position their penises correctly.

I mean, a lot of buttons, a lot of knuckles. So what's the deal there? Are they wearing compression shorts or do you just put the football pants on? I think the football pants are so tight that when people have to model these pants, it's really hard to get into your pants. It, like, rolls your dick up and turtle heads it. A lot of people don't. You just got to push it down.

Are you wearing compression shorts for these photos shoes? Whether you are, you aren't, you know, something's going to show up. Suggestion. Compression shorts. Suggestion. No, compression shorts are going to fix things for these guys. A little white towel over the, act like you're a quarterback. Suggestion. Just reach down there and point that thing south. Suggestion, photographer. Hey, can you see anything?

Yeah, right. Like, is my dick showing in this picture that's going to be on uni swag? Man, last year, I'm not going to say who it was, but there was this kicker that went out there to kick a big kick in college football. guys out there for free. There's 70,000 people screaming at him. And he forgot to turn his, he got iced. He forgot to put that, turn that thing south. The thing looked like he had, um, had like a thimble, like a monopoly thimble in his pants, dude. I was like, goddamn white uniforms. It's nighttime. Like, this is unfortunate. We can't, you know. So anyways, besides the, the unfortunate, I don't know if you call those bulges. Yeah. suggestion grab something of a bulge to throw down there yeah put a fucking cucumber in there yeah

by the way we haven't talked about we did talk about the pumpkin tried floating down the river on a cucumber hey i really like what the university of texas is done yeah okay they've stripped away some bells and whistles including what's commonly referred to as tv numbers where the your jersey number is either on your sleeve or on your shoulder i think at virginia you were a shoulder guy because we had v sabers the sleeve. That's interesting. Yeah. So like Alabama for instance, no numbers on the sleeve or shoulder. Yep. Texas has gone that route too. I like that. They had them, uh, I think they were sleeve. They were, they were sleeves. Green light. Uh, green light. And they took the longhorn off the neck, which, you know, it's a pretty good logo to put on your neck, but less is more.

Good with that. Looking real sharp there, the longhorns. Uh, Georgia, number change. Don't like it. They had a proprietary font going on, which looked really dope. And they went back to every single number you see in high school, college, Pee, every level. They still look great. I just don't like the slight change. I'm going back through my text to find the link to uniswag. And I find a picture that you sent me of a guy holding your fantasy football team's name on a piece of paper, circa 2011 in the Rams locker.

I guess I told a guy you told me. I did not tell you. You drafted one of my teammates. So I had him hold up a picture that said, Kenny Chesney's. and he looks just totally confused as to what's happening. And you sent me the picture the other day. I go, who the fuck is this guy?

I'm like, I just could not for the life for me. Remember this guy? I played for, played with so many people in St. Louis. And it was Mike Sims Walker. Mike Sims Walker. He was a legend. We love Mike Sims Walker.

He was a Kenney Chesney for three weeks. And, uh, then we moved on. I don't know. In this uni swag, this Georgia guy, this number 50 guy, he, uh, his numbers looked too small.

The linemen, yeah, the numbers are too small. They had, they had sweet numbers. They had sweet numbers. West Virginia and Nike, they're doing something right. Like it's always a little unconventional. They're trying to commandeer country roads, whatever.

But you got the outline of the state, the logo. I love the colors. That's RIP though, dude. That is RIP. Like Shenandoah River runs through mostly Maryland and Virginia. Yeah. So John Denver was just, it was just, it was, it was syllabic. The syllables were convenient for him.

That's why he did that, West Virginia. Now Northwestern, they looked good in Ireland. I did not like you did. I did not like the putting the Irish flag into the end. I'm cool with like an Irish. All that's sucking up worked. I'm cool with like a sticker on the back. Okay.

An Irish flag. But Northwestern, they got rid of the weird, uh, they were doing a weird number thing. They look, they look normal. They look good. They're doing a TCU. They copy and pasted TCU. Good idea. They look a lot better.

You told me to look at Georgia Tech. I have one thing to say about Georgia Tech. It's probably the same thing on three. One, two, three. The golds don't match. Yes. You're like, bro, you have a whole school full of engineers. And nothing matches.

And you can't figure out. It's, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Beville Conway is rolling over in his bed because he's alive. Yes. He's got, they've got, their colors are now Navy, gold, and yellow. Navy gold and yellow. Navy gold.

And sometimes. Three distinct colors. I mean, it's crazy. I don't know. Yeah, no, that's bad. North Texas, sneaky fly. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool numbers.

They're looking good. Vanderbilt. Good of you to ditch. Good of you to ditch the old stuff. Yeah, dude. I said the V. The association is a problem. Here's what I wrote.

I said, I'm sorry, comma, the Vandy V, much ridiculed is an improvement. No, it is. And you know what? It's just like,

it's kind of like the way we're moving the studio downstairs. It's not like we're Vanderbilt, but like there's some baggage you want to just leave behind. We've had a lot of trouble getting this plane off the ground up here. Like Vanderbilt, the plane is still on the ground,

but it's good to move forward and not have to think about the last 20 years. Yeah. I've enjoyed it up here, by the way. No, me too. There's a couch. Is the wallpaper coming down? We got paint down there. So, hey, here's the deal, man.

Notre Dame's bad. This Fighting Irish revealed their Shamrock series uniform. The uniform will be a white base and highlighted by the Notre Dame gold throughout. obviously, but they got the golden dome on the shoulders. Just doing too much. Notre Dame should, they should be the antithesis of doing too much. You have it.

Just don't fuck around with it. Toledo is fucking epic. Toledo's uniforms this year are fucking epic, man. Go look at Toledo's uniforms. Glass City, bro. Doing a really good job of Navy on Navy. They have some of the best numbers I've seen. Look at their numbers.

The numbers are beautiful. That's what we had for a season before we went to Yeah Monstrosity Right now North Texas numbers I have down here In Mississippi State earlier When I was looking at Mississippi State's throwbacks

I don't know what I said over here But you were like must be I think I said holy shit like three times Because Mississippi State Like all they got to do is figure out their unies man They got the cowbells going Cool colors I mean

You're telling me you don't like it? I love these uniforms. Oh good. Love these uniforms. Same garage. Same garage. Dude. Love these. Love these uniforms. The dowsing and Bell 50 year commemorative. Obviously, the first two African-American athletes to step on a campus in Starkville.

Like, that's a big deal. This is Mississippi. Yeah. You know, like that had to take some fucking balls. So like pause to say like big shout out to those guys. But also these uniforms are incredible. Yeah, time to get delete the block M with the state. Get out of here with that thing, dude. I mean, did you pay somebody $10 to clip art that? It doesn't take a focus group to be like this shit looks like a TV show high school.

It's like East Bay catalog cutting room floor. This stuff's their throwbacks are gorgeous. Tennessee bringing back the OG smokies as if anybody asked, I don't need Tennessee in gray uniform. Yeah, and it's two-tone gray at that. Get the fuck out of here with that. Do what you do. I'll bring back the man bun.

Oh. You know what I mean? That'd be like me bringing back the man bun. Like, and announcing it. Okay. And then Minnesota, I hate them. I hate Minnesota. I hate rowing the boat.

I hate the whole thing. I hate their uniforms. And then I hate the fact they went black and white. Yeah. What year is this? Like, you can't just be stretching the, you know, like you have colors. Just you can deviate a little bit, but remember when teams were like,

yo, we can just turn our uniforms black. That was 2003, dude. Like, grow up. You got to be able to roll a boat in the dart, you know, if you get caught on the water in the dark. Yeah, that's true. You got to be able to sprint out to injured players in the dark. Ro. Isn't that what he does?

He sprints out. Mm-hmm. I get it. All right. Hey, it's good to be back. It's good to have you back. Fun show. Yeah.

You, me. Yeah. everybody everybody i want to apologize to the group uh regarding uh borna corich who is going to lose um in in in new york this afternoon i'm really sorry that's okay you know i'm really i know you are and i'm sorry about what i have to do on on the new deal like it's going to be like 750 dollars missing i that's not what i bet but i've given out like three picks like ever felt really good about this one. Been watching Borna all summer.

All right, here's your chance. Get off the mat. Who am I running it back on? I'm going to give you somebody. Why don't we go sinkhole here, week one, and just see how much debt we can incur on tennis. You know what I should have done? What?

Cashed out a little sooner, which I'm going to do right now. Remember when Matt was like, I doubled up. You know, I came, it did a live, hit the live. I actually cashed out my initial bet during the second set tie breaks, so I'm chilling.

Oh, my gosh. I'm going to cash out right now. I can go buy a freaking happy meal on a rather large investment. Okay. Pull up to the drive-thru. I do appreciate you getting us to root against the American at the U.S. Open all day. Okay. I really like live betting tennis because I get a, you know, the psychology.

I get a, I understand where things are going. We'll go. We will go to exactly where we'll go. Oh. Brandon Nakashima. It's like this. American former Wahoo is plus 120 against Grigger Demitrov. I love that.

I'd go, I'd go lower unit than what we just did. So lose less money than I just did. Okay. But yeah, you folks go look up on your sporting ads. See how that way, guys. Nakashima. Nakashima. See if he's still in it as you're listening.

And Dimitrov. You'll know if it's a really bad day or just a bad day. Take care. I'll take care.