Green Light with Chris Long - NFL & College Football Gambling with Stanford Steve. Fantasy Football with James Koh. Cameo from John Basedow.

Episode Date: September 24, 2021

(4:01) - Hello, Layup Line, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Anniversary, Deshaun Watson and Restaurants and GBU: Monday Night with Peyton and Eli Manning, State Capitals and Mic'd Up Taunting Referee. (27:11) - NFL and College Football Gambling with Stanford Steve: Like-ability of Clemson, Alabama's Invincibility, FCS Championship Odds, NFL MVP Odds, Drinking Beers with Rookie QBs and Best NFL Games to Wager on. (1:05:00) - Selecting Taylor's Inflatable Doll and Restaurant Destination. (1:16:08) - James Koh on NFL Fantasy Football Week 3, Value of Cooper Kupp, Redrafting Fantasy QBs and Zeke Elliott or Tony Pollard? (1:30:35) - Chris' High School Football Coach John Blake Announces His Retirement. 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 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. http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I got the Panthers, big boy. Who you got? I have the Panthers. Smart man. What's your score? My score? Ready on three? One, two.

Are you sure about the cross talk? Because it might be hard for the people to hear. I mean, I get that. It's cool for us. It's 2317 Panthers. Ooh. I went 2613 Panthers. That's great.

I have a spread of 13. That's great. I think the Vegas line, the Wynn headquarters line, is like eight or nine eight eight I think what's your score again 23 17 okay six six and 13's a difference to seven yeah so you're going on to three you got your ten or ten or under you're in good shape 11 or over I'm in good shape is that right nobody's listening that's amazing we were like is that right nobody's head popped up they don't give a fuck at this point you know it's kind

of thematic when it comes to the Thursday night game because this is the first game that if we like this is the test all these other games have been captivating you know this is the one that we're like yeah football really is king because motherfuckers are watching darn old davis mills the third i just put that on the end i don't know that he has a dad named davis mills and a grandfather and i was wrong splitting the difference is 9.5 so if it's a 10 point panthers win it's m g all right all right 9 and below for you very strategic of you It wasn't strategic. I know, we're guessing.

Good luck to you. Good luck to you. Good luck to you, the viewer of that game. Which, hey, here's a little pro tip. If you want to watch every snap of a football game, download bet, win. These ball games become captivating when there's money on the line. Yeah.

It can be $10. I don't care. Bro. Yeah, preaching to the choir. Welcome to the party that you've been standing. standing outside of music blaring. Great to be here. Keep that hotline handy. And we're about to skip to the pod because there is no chance that something noteworthy

enough for me to stay up till midnight and record a 10 minute open on the football game happens. Like there's zero chance. So next thing is going to be the open. Make, we're like minus 480 to have a good show. Yeah, good energy in Studio J today. Don't mess it up, dude. Let's not mess this up.

Okay. Let's not, you know, abstate this thing. Yeah. I never know really how to act in this chair because I don't know that you really like me personally. Well, my personality,

you don't really care for. Likewise. And then if I turn any stick up to 11 or so, you don't really care for that either. Oh, it's hard. I sort of just sit here and just get caught up in my feelings. Hey,

we were talking about, no, I do love doing this show with you. And likewise. Yeah. I mean, heavens, what a blessing to be able to share several hours a week with an old acquaintance from high school. That's good because it's the only time anybody outside your house sees you. That's fair.

All right. Hey, Deshawn Watson, you know, we were talking about the Panthers game that happened for y'all last night. Okay, whatever happened, I hope it was a thrill ride. Yeah. Panthers by 13 over the Texans. Oh, Panthers by 13 over the Texans should be bad for me. The Panthers were really close to having Deshawn Watson this offseason, and I likened it to, you know, the time I almost had a restaurant. Which is a great observation and actually hilarious.

Because quite literally, it looked like a huge miss. They were like, God damn, they went three first for this guy in like two seconds or whatever it was and they didn't budge. And they're like, we're not crazy about Bridgewater. We can have to Sean Watson. You think that ship sails and it's a big deal. Well, it is a big deal. because you dodged a real bullet there, Carolina.

And so did I with the restaurant. I was totally unprepared to start a restaurant. I put like a whole year into planning a restaurant. Oh, some of us were along for that ride. Yeah, you were. I know, I know, but I'm telling the listener. Okay, got you. And suffice to say, I'm not fit to run a fucking

lemonade stand, let alone a restaurant. I think you might. I'm doing a podcast, a foundation. A lot on your, out on your dinner table. Italian restaurant would have been a lot. I think, like Deshawn Watson for you, the Panthers.

I think you were about to just say it. You moved a chef to Charlottesville. Well, he moved here. Okay. Moved to Seaville. We had a couple spaces. Yeah, we had some spaces. Decided, ah, that's a high price to pay.

No thanks. Yeah. A few first, a couple seconds. Yeah. Boom. Boom. Pandemic. Pandy with the assist on this thing.

Boom. Pandemic. Pandy with the assist. I'm not a restaurant here. Is that what they call them? Yeah. restaurateur and shout out to our restaurant tour friends who are who who have trebwater and are now a mouse getier are now thriving oh yeah and listen we've got some good ones i went to dr frank last night

on the mall here always shout out maya but dr frank is amazing i'm not usually into french food speak of the devil mesquite texas hello that is a tasty little city i would eat that city I would just eat that city of. Is that where it started? Barbecue. I see the research part of the hello is taking a turn to the south. I don't need to know. Mesquite.

I prefer barbecue did start there, though. East of Dallas. Yeah, let's say the Mesquite potato chip started right there in Mesquite, Texas. You know how I like to say? I like to say Texas. That city is high in sodium. 2 a.m. people are just munch in that city. Mesquite spelled, of course, MES,

quite. Yeah, no, I'm a good speller. Not a good seer, good speller. More on that to come. Also, a big hello, if I may, not to step on your segment here, but, uh, by all means. Helsinki. Resillo hit me up and he's got a buddy. He hit me up. He's got a buddy from Finland, whose brother is still in, you know, in the mainland. Can you confirm that he has a buddy? Because I would be shocked if Ricillo actually has friends. He does. They're just out of the country. Right. So, no, but anyways, he's got a buddy from Finland,

whose brother is in Helsinki. His name is Veyku, and he has a fantasy football league that he's involved in, and all the dudes in that league, their favorite podcast is, Greenlight Pod. Said with a Finnish accent. Shout out to those guys.

That's awesome. Yeah, hell yeah. Shout out to you guys. And, uh, yeah. So Rasillo's best buddy who lives in Finland. Yes. has a favorite podcast no his best buddy who lives in new york formerly of finland uh has a brother in finland got it got it so it's one of those things i mean like it takes a while to get there but

as it does to get to finland that's how far our reach is right now uh a white flag with like a blue cross on it sure yeah no from uh hockey video not uruguay not to be confused with uruguay no or uruguay as i think they prefer it to be called i'm not sure on that one though you better be sure. Osi Uminura. Hey, layup line, speaker box, the love below. Now that's ass backwards.

All you got in the refrigerator is rat worse. You can't stomach is bald in a nod. You got that bad purse pocket. Stop and look. The song is knowing. You remember those days? Speaker Box, Love Below Days. Hey, yeah.

Do you remember? Hey, I'm not even listening. Even though you don't know any music bit. That's right. I probably, uh, high school. Yeah, like post Miss Jackson. until the 2003 the album

turned 18 from the windows to the wall finish it people liked that that thing last week where you were rapping yeah I don't know

what happened on Sunday night I maybe perhaps you hot box studio J perhaps I was low on sleep

but things got away from me a little bit I'd like to apologize to everyone out there he sure did just read through that whole fucking verse

yeah and I it sure as heck was all kept, which blew my mind. Well, it is late Sunday night. I'll remember that. Okay, please.

So anyways. Oh, three Xs on the speaker box. Yeah, three Xs. And it turned 18, which makes me feel incredibly old. Um, which means it can, you know, smoke cigarettes, go fighting the war, date Leonardo DiCaprio. Ha ha.

Woo! That untouched. Nice. Honestly, there are three dates today that I had saved that I wanted to tell you about that made me feel old. This is a big day in sports history, by the way. Low key. First off, Mike Gundy. I'm a man.

I'm 40. That happened today. Secondly, Tom Brady became the starter. They finished stashing away that 163 pick in the draft that they knew all along was going to be good. And then they planned to get Drew Blood so hurt. And that was the day their plan went into action. Drew Blood so much, he needed a transfusion. Oh my God.

Remember who hit him? No. It's Mo Lewis. It was Mo Lewis and he's one of the most important tacklers in NFL history. Knocking Drew Bledsoe out, giving way to the goat. Jolon Dunbar knocked out Alex Smith to give way to a pretty revolutionary cat at quarterbacking Colin Kaepernick. So you never know when a guy exits the football game, what happens after that. And the third date or reason that this date is big time in sports history is Steve Gleason blocking

the punt in prime time. It's awesome. Steve Gleason, jersey over the left shoulder. Shout out to Steve. He is like a spark. He was a spark in that football game. He was spark for that city. And he's a spark still today.

So shout out. And he wore the number 37, which is another number for you to feel old because that's the next. That's the next number. And you know what? Here's the fucked up part. When I used,

there were two things that used to make me feel weird about being 40. Mike Gundy and the movie about this, this is 40. I was like, man, when I become 40, like you're halfway to dead, dude. Like, what's the point after that? Like, what is it going to be like at 40? And you know what? I'm staring it in the face and it's that bad.

You think? No, I was going to say it's not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. No, it really isn't. Whatever. I'm still like a kid. Yeah. Just with a grown-up set of responsibility.

How old are you in your head pictures? Yeah, I don't know. 11? How old are you in your head pictures? 86. We're like, we got a reverse Benjamin, putting thing going on in both directions. Yeah, we're growing apart. Yep. Also, I've been on a Del McCory kick. So shout out to Del McCory, Bluegrass.

Yeah, those three dates, man. I got a big thank you for Rico Rapoli. He works for the Yotes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Yotes. Yeah, yeah. And I'm stacking sweaters. You got a new one. Yeah, I got a sweater on the way. I got the Kachina sweater coming in, uh, 2X, from our man, Rico. Hey Rico, Medium, my friend. Rico Smalls is what. Rico Small. Shout out.

But no, I'm gonna have enough sweaters to be like the princess and the pee in this motherfucker. Yeah. Just stacking them up, sleeping on top of them. I'm so excited, man. This is my second sweater. So if you have a hockey team, implore them to send me a sweater.

I'll wear it. That's a really good looking one. That's a beautiful. Full marks to those guys for going back to that. Absolutely. I'm excited to don it. Good bad or ugly here. You tell me. Good.

Well, no, I'm just, I have an idea. So I got this idea. Okay. You know this taunting thing everybody's talking about? Yep. Yeah. Well, half the problem is refs don't know what taunting is. Or like when guys are actually buddies or, you know, not actually giving each other shit.

We put a taunting official in the booth that actually played the game or something to that effect. He radios down. He says, yeah. that is taunting or no those guys just spent like you know Memorial Day weekend in Miami together everybody's miced up he gets to hear what's going back and forth yep yeah yep a person in in in his 20s or 30s he's gonna get it way more than yeah at hockley right or even at hockley's son Sean hockily hocky hocky hocky so that's good that's great yeah the radio down, it's going to be like, yeah, unfortunately, he not only stepped over him, but also called him a bitch.

That's going to be a 15-yard penalty. Exactly, dude. I think we're on to something. Yeah, all right. Maybe I'll pitch it to Peyton and Eli, because that's my real good. I'm going on the Manning cast, dude. So I got called up from the practice squad because, listen, I got hit up to go on their new thing, which I don't pay attention to stuff.

You know me, like at all, in my own. world. So, man, spoiler alert. It's awesome. Yeah. Manningcast is amazing, but I had no idea what it was. And when they called me to go on there like mock Manningcast, I was like, oh, no big deal. I talked about this. I, you know, I had a, I went, went to the porch. I was like, I almost forgot I was supposed to be on the thing because I was like, it's just a mock game. They're probably just shooting the shit and they're going through the tech. Not true. I get up there. They're in their bubbles. There's a football game going on. It's like a blowout. It's a preseason game. And it is nerve-wracking, dude. Yeah. I was like, oh,

Peyton knows my name. I know Eli knows my name. Hit him a couple times, but Peyton knows my name. So they asked me back. They called me up. It must have went well. I am so happy for you.

Thank you. Because one, it means you're cool, you know? First and foremost. Two, this broadcast is amazing. And three, I don't think I think, I don't think I'm cool. I think what happened is they were like, let's get a guy who like does a lot of stuff,

but like it would be easy to get. and probably smooth on the mock game. And then they were like, holy shit, I like this guy. So I'm not popular, but in effect, I'm cool. Week three, though? I mean, this isn't week 17. It's week 13. It's, it's Eagles Cowboys.

And it's Eagles Cowboys. I was a cat caught my tongue because I was going to do the Monday night theme music when you said that. Yeah. And then I realized Monday night football is taking a bit of a turn. They don't do it anymore. And like all my rowdy friends aren't coming over because Hank Williams. And it's not just.

straight horns. Right. So then I was gonna, yeah, point being, Peyton and Eli are bringing this thing back. They are. I really like them. No disrespect to the crew like on the other side of the channel, but like just in general,

I like the format of a conversational thing. When I was on their little mock game, like Live Watch is basically what it is, which is also going to be fun because they're going to get a lot of people with fucked up backgrounds. There's going to be moments and God forbid it's me that has one of these moments, but I'm going to try to get through it smooth. I think it's just a cool way to watch the game.

And when I was on there, Peyton and Eli talking football in real time, I learned like a few things. I feel like or could imagine sitting there for an hour or two and learning a ton about football. I didn't want to get off the mock game. I loved it. I learned more. I still watch the game.

Advice to you, just lock in on the combo. Don't worry about the game. I'd lock more so in on Peyton. You're not going to have a choice because Peyton talks about 75%. of the time, which I think is right. That's the right split for those two. Eli, strong, silent type.

Yep. And yeah, yeah, the way I've been doing it is I start on the main telecast on ESPN for a few minutes. Yeah. And then I'm quickly over to the Manning cast. It's, I don't know. Rarely do you see something new and different work so quickly? Well, I think there, you know, Peyton, Eli seems to be just dipping his toe in the water here with this stuff. And I think he's going to be really good at it.

Peyton has been somebody that you were like, oh, he's going to walk off the field. and get whatever job he wants because he is like just that charismatic. So the two of them together, people eat the brother shit up. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you thought Romo got a big deal, if Peyton Manning literally changes the whole Monday night viewing experience,

if they're going to ask him to get into a booth, that's going to be a pretty high price tag. Now, one of the questions you asked, do you want me to be here for it? I'm happy to sit in this chair. we can, we can tag team it. Did they? They were like,

are you bringing making making? Yeah. And I was like, I'd love to. And they were like, we don't have enough squares. Oh. Because there's a max,

there's a maximum of squares. But, but I don't mean to blow your mind here. We can be in the same square. It's just more zoomed out. No, they wanted me like a little closer up. They were like,

you know, we don't want everybody's heads to be different sizes. Hmm. All right. You missed an alley you. Maybe I'll just be here. I can say things into your ear that are like,

smart, clever, witty. Okay, cool. Well, let's talk about that. We're still in Good, Bad, Ugly. We've got to get on with the pod. Yeah. We'll workshop it. We're sure. What's your good? My wife organically started quizzing me on State Capitals.

I don't remember how it came up. And I'm to be honest with you. I didn't do as well as I'd like. And you're going to think, oh, I went 47 out of 50. What was that thought? That was you, that was you doing me. Yeah. That was me.

47 out of 50? Me doing you doing me. Yeah, but I had the placement as a kid. I all my self-esteem. What states did you miss? I missed Iowa. Yeah. Des Moines.

Very good. Jesus. I missed New Hampshire. Concord. That's right. He's been doing this recently. He's been on a states kick. Can I tell you something?

In Alabama, quickly, I said, Montgomery. I said Birmingham. That said Montgomery, Montgomery. Montgomery. So. Flea market. Here's a mnemonic for you. Living room.

Dynette. Just remember that guy. Yeah. So listen. Yeah, I am. I really went 48 out of 50. But now I was like, I was between Ames and Iowa City for Iowa. Des Moines wasn't even on my radar, but I was doing quick. I had no time to study. Reed's been studying states for whatever reason like he's freaking seven years old. You had to print it out downstairs. You had a blank map and you're trying to fill in. You had a blank map. I didn't know this. State. I didn't know this for state.

State names because I was bored one afternoon. Wow, Reed. Read. Actually kind of a dope game. Hey, let me tell you some. Here's the problem. I had the place. Matt. I probably am doing about 25 out of 50. We'll do that another day. Okay. Let's just try one. Sure. Kansas? Yeah. Lawrence. Topeka. Topeka, sure. Here's one I know, Helena, Montana. You got that. Virginia. Sacramento, Richmond. Yeah. Like, we're good in states that I spent time. Okay. Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania, sure. Harrisburg. There you go. I've been there, dude.

Missouri? fuck it's it's on the other side of the state yeah you said you're good in places you spent time and you're there for about it's two words so it takes me twice as long it's Jefferson City that's right Thomas Jefferson City

yeah you would say that you're fucking colonial fetish white privilege and none taken you too like colonial shit all right bad it's impasse time in the NBA which means

it's just short of stale mate time and it's both of those things actually in Philadelphia with Ben Simmons and I'm bored with it dude I'm totally bored with it it's nothing against Ben Simmons like you know if you don't want to be somewhere

in pro sports these days like I don't I think we're past the point of just demonizing cats but I'm talking about the way we consume this shit like how long can we ride stories like this in the NBA I'm just you know it's like it's drama inflation I'm all for player mobility

I'm all for you know throwing a fit, but I'm not all for me having to read about it every three days. Like anything's changed. Like, dude doesn't want to be there. Like, why? I don't turn the TV on and watch things like first take. Nor do I. But if you do right now, do you see this Ben Simmons stuff on a loop?

I'm so glad I'm not a TV guy. I'm just over the NBA stuff. I think the NBA drama is fun, but when I start knowing all the agents, I'm like, what am I looking at? There's plenty of Panthers, Texans on. Top headlines ESPN.com NBA page. Discord relationship fueled Rosas's firing. Warriors Wiggins remains unvaccinated.

Lake up find $50,000 for Simmons remarks. 76ers Rivers wants to convince Simmons to stay. A lot of drama. A lot of drama, dude. It's just a tumultuous time in that league, bro. It's tumultuous in all the leagues. But like the NBA to me, I'm just like, damn, there is a lot of headlines that just have nothing to do with basketball.

And I'm not that good at this that I want to talk about the NBA with regularity. Another bad thing came across my desk, so to speak. Your TV show thing. Season 2 episode 6, you're thinking they're more coming. Nah, I reached the end of the road with Dairy Girls. Dairy Girls is excellent. I rated it a 95 out of 100 on my notes up. Dairy girls follow 16-year-old Aaron and her friends as they grow up in a world of armed police

and armored land rovers and British Army checkpoints in the 1990s of Northern Ireland. It is awesome. The writing is awesome. Anything Irish, like Ireland is a place that's very fascinating and comes across well in film and in TV shows. Great show. Dairy Girls, great show. Probably not preaching to the right demo right now, but it's a terrific show. Love Dairy Girls. Oh, and they're coming back. They're filming a third season now and it will be the last one. You're not talking to people that might like Dairy Girls on this show? You don't talk to people that like Dairy Girls? I don't think so. I think this is more of like a... What is our demo? I think our demo's favorite TV show is

Maybe like arrested development No no workaholics Law and Order You think we have Law and Order people Whenever I hear that bell I think Or like the gavel or whatever it is Like what's that noise at the beginning? Yeah I'm always like

The thought in my head is like I wish I was into that Because it looks like a really cool inclusive community Like to like all the seasons of law and order They never stop. I hope our demos are best of development. This show is just like you can take five years off. The plots are all independent of each other. Somebody gets killed.

They try to figure it out. Simple. I'm not going to even read what Marsa Pim Matt just put on the screen. It feels like an entourage demo. Is that what he said about us? Damn, dude. And nothing against entourage, but I never got into it. Well, the problem is there no shows on TV these days.

You got to the streaming services. Oh, fuck the streaming services. Is everybody realized? Except for Amazon. It's the same thing. You know, we had cable where we paid a lot of money and picked the shows. Now we just have a bunch of different apparatus. Good.

No, it is. Where we just pick all the shows. Yeah, I hate it. Pay a bunch of money. Smart TV. Smart TV. Yeah. It's one of the, like, the single, like, most damning things about our, like, technological

evolution is that we call that thing a smart TV. I got it ugly. Okay. We don't have one. So, does that make sense? Yeah. Makes it a bit of a shorter show. Yep.

We're bumping uglies. Here's Stanford Steve. No, not bumping uglies here. Yeah, let's get together and talk some college football. Hutt-hike! Hut-Hut-Hik! How's that for you, Misophoniacs?

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Hey, Steve. Yeah. You know how SportsCenter is SC? Yeah. Do you wear like a lot of the gear and think it's like Steve Cochlin? No, my mom used to do though. Nice. Does her name start with an S or just for you?

Yeah. No. Nice. No, she was, yeah, she was Susan. She also like, Thought she could like get away with buying like USC gear and I'm like mom University she's like but it's got my initials man sorry that's amazing that's like there's an emoji that says CL yeah I like that one it's red yeah um Steve so how's that shit on your head what my my hair oh god the mullet oh yeah yeah I like my mullet yeah this is a mullet and uh I didn't get it

trim this week. I had to cancel my appointment with Dana and I just had something to do. You can make all the bald head jokes you want but that's that's atrocious. I don't know if it's atrocious. I don't know if I think what might be atrocious is like honestly I just had this written down and

I wasn't going to save it for something else but what I have written here is making sideburns. Do you see how awkwardly they're hanging out of the hat? I was just going to go there like are you guys talking about like pet peeves and stuff like that guys that have hair touching their ears or over it like drives me crazy oh y'all are crazy it's a non-starter for stea no i'll i'll give you guys that i'm like one of very few to be wearing a mask these days and sometimes the sideburns get trapped and then they're toast for the rest of the day well that

must be what's going on now what no you can have you have you have one side burn out of the hat over the ears like that's just brutal yeah you need that's time to cut like right there and you've got no real like sideburn coming down by your ear. Like you don't grow hair there. That's true. It's just no, no, no. He has skin going all the way up above his ear and then he has like a fucking ponytail off both sides of his side. That's fair, but it's mean. Lori and I talk about how we, we make the sideburns. We make them up. We? We? She and I, yeah. It's a collaboration. It's not a we deal. So it is a thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't grow sideburn hair. No, not really not. That's interesting. Yeah. I don't know why I can't come up with a word, but we, uh, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we,

manifest these sideburns. Hey, Steve, what's worse? This mullet or the slate this Saturday? Ooh, that mullet. Okay. But sticking with the theme of the show, how shitty is this slate Saturday? Is there something I'm missing?

Yeah, I think you're missing a lot. I think we got good ones. How about Friday night in the ACC? Well, that's right. Yeah, that's half the reason the slate's so bad Saturday is that Virginia's not playing Saturday. Besides Virginia people, you watched that Carolina game last week

can tell me that wasn't fun. No, I mean, it was fun for a bit. It was fun for half of the game. Like, when we were on offense, that was a lot of fun. That was fun. It was fun. It was just, we don't, we don't look at hanging with UNC and, like, losing by, you know, 17 in a game that gets a little bit out of hand, you know, and you're constantly playing catch up in a high scoring. We don't look at that as like the equivalent of doing that with Clemson or Bama. It's still UNC, bro. Like, as good as they are, like, to me, it was like, ugh. Understood. Understood.

It was comical. I worry that Chris is like so deep in the media now that he needs to see two teams ranked against each other to get excited about a game. And that's, I'm sorry. I think he's, I think he's already that that far. That's a heavy accusation. That's fair. It's a heavy accusation. I can't wait for Virginia Wake.

Over. Over. I cannot wake. Hey, Steve. Yeah. Looking at these UNC odds, they started out the year, plus 600. No, they started off at plus 1100. Now they're plus 600.

Simply because they put 60 on Virginia. Yeah, so it means a lot to smoke Virginia. Do you like their odds right now? Is that to win the ACC or the title? To win the ACC. I would definitely take a shot with them. You look at what Clemson is, guys. I mean, it is not great.

And like going through the numbers and when you really look at it, find me the offensive linemen that have been drafted under dabble. Yeah. There might be two, I think. Like, it's a, it's, I mean, you guys are obviously sick of it. If people outside the ACC are sick of seeing Clemson at the top, but it's pretty obvious what he's done. And, you know, been blessed to have great quarterback play.

And now the quarterback play is it's step back. And those five-star skill guys aren't getting the touches that they're normally getting. And now you've got a whole mess. They can't, they can't move the ball. The rushing numbers, and then I went back and looked at last year when I started thinking about the offensive line and seeing them get beat up, and then you see how many times they had to throw the ball to ETN to get him the ball to get him involved. It's pretty eye-opening, man. I'm really, really, really interested in their road game at NC State this week.

I mean, I know when NC State's not any world beaters, but you know the place is going to be jam packed. Yeah, low-key, low-key tough place. That big dude's going to be waving on the pole, you know, from that 13th. Thursday night game a couple years ago. Yeah. It'll be a crazy environment. So, I mean, their D is stacked. Don't get me wrong.

That dude, Brazzi, he's from right around here in DMV. He's a baller. I was talking about this. It was a perfect segue because Clemson, to me, this is a perfect year to show the difference between Bama and Clemson. You know, like, I think for a while there, because you inherit two otherworldly quarterbacks, and there's just, like, kind of this comfort. there. You don't have to worry about the other dudes on the team. You don't have to worry about

depth so much. You also play in the ACC. So I guess I'm wondering, is Clemson like here to stay? Or does this show that they're not like, they might be here for a while, gone for a while when it comes to being like true national title contenders? I think they're here to stay as far as what Davo's done recruiting. But this goes back to the point I was making at the beginning of the season when I felt like this was a year for teams to get through that haven't been. there. And Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama, all top quarterback draft picks. This is the year to get them because guess those guys are coming back next year. And this is the time. You know, Bryce Young, unbelievable effort last week in Gainesville. It's just third game. He's ever started. And I'm getting

a lot of heat because I don't really like Penn State. And I said the atmosphere in Gainesville was better than the whiteout last week. Oh, they don't like that. They're very proud. They don't. Happy Valley is a very proud place. They do not like that. But you just said it. Like, you know, the kid down at Bama and DJ had spot starts last year and both looked good. And then one of them has taken it to the next year. And I'm wondering if that's like coaching, if that's development, if it's just the players around them.

You talk about the offensive line. Like I can name two guys that got drafted this year for Bama and Leatherwood and Dickerson. So like to your point, I don't, the delta between those two teams, it might have looked less because of those two great quarter. they had. Well, Bama, every quarterback, it's like one after the other, performs at a high level. Yeah, it's, it's crazy. And you talk about, you know, up front. And I think that's the next biggest thing. You got Bill O'Brien coming in, who's obviously had plenty of experience calling plays. And the biggest issue for them, you had to protect the quarterback because they don't have a guy behind him that has one snap of experience. And then with Clemson, it's just mind-boggling to me

because there's a couple things. I do think Uiangolole was shell-shocked against Georgia. That D-line rocked them. And, you know, a lot of expectations, and you come out and ball out in those two games and set a record for a visiting team in South Bend last year. I mean, you're feeling pretty good about yourself. I mean, look at the guy.

I mean, they still got six four, six-five guy. They don't have the slot receiver this year, like, you know, third in Renfro or even Amari Rogers last year who had a great year for them. So I think that's one of the things they're trying to find also offensively. But it was pretty funny last week because I had to ask myself, like, all right, there was a weather delay at Clemson,

but is Davo, is he wet or is he just really sweating because he has to coach in the fourth quarter? Yeah. I had to look at that. It was a little different seeing Davo a little riled up in the fourth quarter. So where do they finish in the SEC if they were in the SEC? Because we always talk about them as this like SEC team and I'm kind of wondering, like the best way to put it into perspective is if Clemson led by Uyong

Lele. Nice. Is down there in the big show. Who did they finish behind? I think definitely behind Georgia, definitely behind Clemson. We saw them lose to, definitely behind Alabama. There's a couple wild cards I still need to see more from. I was really impressed with Florida last week and what they did to Alabama, knowing the experience and talent that Alabama has on defense and running speed option and getting

guys' responsibilities all messed up. Alabama look really bad defensively, Chris. Like even on like up front, their twists, their guys running into each other, blitzes, guys running in their teammates. Like you don't see that from a Nick Saban defense. Like I can't imagine what that film session was like this week. So you got Florida who's a wild card.

I probably would take them because of recency bias. What I saw them against Clemson, Ole Miss is another wild card. Yeah, that would be a barn burner. And their defense has stepped up. I mean, I think a lot has to do with, with an effort level, effort level to start there. But Ole Miss is pretty good.

LSU's got guys all over the place. Can Coach O, you know, organize things? I don't know. So I would say, I mean, A&M's got the best D-Line, maybe in the country besides Georgia. So I would say Clemson's probably fifth, sixth. Who do I need to watch? Who do I need to watch at A&M up front?

Leal, the D-Liman. He's phenomenal. Okay. And I'll tell you what, watch that game. this weekend, Arkansas, they're going to play three down guys. They get after it. It's very interesting that matchup this week because you're going to like, you're going to like that one, Chris.

There's going to be a lot of defensive front seven talent in that game. Speaking of the Cochlin Award, the non-heisman Heisman trophy award winner gets the Cochlin. You might not remember this, Steve, because you gave out Illinois plus 10 and then left the podcast for a week, but this is a running segment we do. is that the kid we're looking at this week? Is there somebody else?

Who tops the standings there for the call? Who do we have to watch that's not going to be a Heisman trophy, hopeful? Ooh. Well, Friday night is a big spot. I actually like Syracuse at home. Brennan Armstrong. Brennan Armstrong. Quarterback's not really a Cochland Award.

But best quarterback in the HACC, they'll never give him a Heisman. True. Okay. Yeah. He's not buying it. He's a Sam Hal guy. Michael Mayor. I like Mayor. I like Howell. I do have Howl way ahead of Spencer Rattler. I'll tell you that.

Yeah, I'm not hearing great things about Spencer Rattler. I don't like what I've seen there. I mean, in the comparison, and it's what we do now, right? Like he comes in after Baker, after Jalen Hertz, after Kyler, and that's just not fair to him. But he's the quarterback Oklahoma, and now he's got time, you know, he got his time to shine. He just hasn't. I think their offensive line has a lot to do. do with it because their skill guys are serious. Notre Dame tied in Michael Mayer this week against Wisconsin. They're an underdog.

I'm not sure they should be this big of an underdog. It's a weird matchup because we know, you know, both teams have been known for their offensive line. But when you look at Notre Dame, they're down there in a third left tackle. And that's a problem against Wisconsin, who's obviously led by Jim

Leonard, who's awesome DC. So I like, Notre Dame, I trust the quarterback cone, but I don't trust their old line. And on Wisconsin's side. I trust their O-line more, but I don't trust their quarterback Merts. So I think it's like an under game. I think that game and the A&M game, I like the unders. Yeah, there we go. Cowboy reads on the under in the Notre Dame Wisconsin game. He gave me a stat that said the last five times that Notre Dame played at a neutral site, they were under. So I'm going to, that's going to

be my lock of the week. I'm just throwing that out there. Okay. How do you feel about two biggest games in college football this week being in NFL stadiums. Well, that was what we were going to ask you. We hate neutral sites. It feels like the fucking new era bowl is happening in like October, is it October yet? It's September still.

We just had Earthwind and Fire Day. Listen, I don't like it. You have the best gift that college football gives us is the energy. It's the crowd. It's the pageantry. It's the fucking tailgating. And then you put a game like this in a, albeit a very

beautiful pro stadium relatively speaking at least it's not like the the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte like a big concrete block there's some history here but it's still neutral and it really sucks because the four teams involved in these games have probably I think maybe they were all

drafted besides Arkansas in our stadium draft yeah yeah that's true you know who else is neutral this week Notre Dame in Wisconsin oh yeah well no that's what we're talking about but other than that. So the A&M and Arkansas are playing Jerry World. Oh, I hate that. There's nothing I hate more than a game at Jerry World in

college, bro. And it's always two red teams, dude. Two red teams that don't have the same color red. Two red teams indoor, I just want to throw my TV out the window, especially Jerry World. Do you have the same color red in the top of your mullet as the back of the mullet? I don't have any red in my mullet. What color is my hair? You're, uh, that's a dirty blonde. I'm a dirty blonde, huh? Yeah, I think so. Manufacture sideburns is what we do. Manufacture is the word I was searching for, not manifest. Did you just text your wife and ask her?

No, I know. Manufacture. It's not, it's not. Lori is my hairdresser, Steve. So Lori and I come up with the plan and we manufacture the sideburns way better than the sideburns that Davo cuts off above his ears. That's the stupid. I feel like Dana's Nick Sabin and she's working with five star recruits here.

And you're fucking, I don't know. I think Lori is also Nick Saving. and for sure working with a three-star recruit. No, you're not, no, your cyberans are like one star. Your cyberans have like shadow pictures on rivals.com. No offense. All I know is that would be really offended. There's a lot of things you're better than me at.

There's a lot of things like you're, you got better, certain better features than me, but cyberns is not one, dude. Sorry. I would be really offended if I was a hairdresser and my client wore a hat 24-7. Yeah, that's weird. I'm, you see me.

On a podcast. I don't know. Hey, these cameras, they put my peaks. back at the top of my head. Is there a neutral site that we actually like? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, if you're playing the Rose Bowl. Maybe the Raiders Stadium in Vegas now. Yeah, it could be interesting if you want all your players to get suspended before the game.

I'm not thinking of the players. I'm thinking of the fans over the game. So what if I told you that the Wyoming Cowboys were third? 30 point favorites on the road. Oh, because the team they're playing is bad. At a college, at another college football team. No, who is? Yeah, Yukon hasn't won a game and like... They lost a holy cross.

Holy cross. Yes, indeed. Steve, you laying the points? What are you doing? I think you have to. Yukon's as bad as, as there is. I mean, they got a game with Yale coming up that I thought they would win. Their season win total was like two.

I thought it would go over because I thought they could be. meet Yale in Holy Cross and that ain't happening. It's not going over now. It's really, really bad. I mean, I asked my buddies, their Yukon season ticket holders. It's a 3.30 game. I asked for Scott wanted to know what the crowd would be like at the rent. And my buddy says less than a thousand.

Wow. Looks like Maryland 30 minutes before the game up there. They call that the turtle shell. When did they start branding that as the turtle shell? Shut up, dude. No one cares about that stadium. No one. My college pick has to do with Maryland this week.

Most likely game I'm not going to watch whoever they play. Who are they playing? Kent State. Oh, fuck no. No chance. What's the pick? It's like 1,500 people at that stage. There's a scenario.

Your guy's favorite fan base, the Maryland Terrapins up here. There's actually people talking and gathering now because next week, Friday night. Sounds like a terror cell is what this sounds like. Friday night, they have top five Iowa coming in. And like people are actually talking about going to tailgates up here. So I think they're getting a little ahead of themselves. And I think Kent State covers the 14 and a half at Maryland. Kent State's had to go to college station and they've had to go to Iowa two of the first three weeks.

They rushed for over 250 yards against A&M. They hung around for a half. They hung around for a half against another top five defense, I think, in Iowa. Maryland doesn't have a top five defense. I think Ken State gives them fits, and I think Maryland wins a close game. Oh, that's nothing. So I'll take the 14 and a half.

The turtle shell is nothing. I'm betting Kent State. Thank you, gambling, dad. I will be betting Kent State with my heart and my wallet and my brain. Do you have a lock of the week here before we run you through the FCS odds because this slate is so cheeks to us. Kent State. Kent State is the pick.

Okay. That's lock. Yes. Okay, let's talk about FCS odds because you know, people are into that. South Dakota State, JMU, North Dakota State, Montana, San Houston, Southern Illinois, Montana State, Eastern Washington, Delaware, Jacksonville State.

Can you tell us anything about any of these schools? Obviously, South Dakota State, most likely... Jack rabbits. You like the Jack rabbits. Yeah. JMU's got a good program too. It's crazy because they don't really ever play each other. Obviously, obviously you see the geographical separation at the FCS level,

which is what we need. at the FBS level. Yeah. So, um, South Dakota State's pretty darn good. Um, I,

I like them. They won it last year. What is the nickname of 380? Plus 380. Plus Houston State. Hmm. Oh,

I know the bear cats. There you go. With a C or a K. Okay. That's right. That's right. He's right. Um,

okay. Okay. Perfect. Yeah, no, FCS championship odds. You got South Dakota State plus 380 there. Uh,

Jam used plus 400, Cowboy Reed and, and Taylor back there. to Duke spec here. Dukes. Y'all got the scoots, huh? The perpetual scoots. Hey, they're also, though, they have beaten tech a lot, it feels like, and that's

something we haven't been able to do. They've been ducking. They've been ducking us. Tech's been ducking JMU, I feel like probably I would if I were tech. And by the way, my lock of the week is going to be the under and the cone bowl. Yeah. And do you have a lock of the week? I sure do. You feel like you're skirting that lock of the week.

I sure do have a lock of the week. We'll let you get to us in the pro segment. You can catch up. Hey, I'll stay right there. Notre Dame plus six and a half. Oh my God. 2116. Get your own game.

Get off my corner. Okay. Virginia Wake Forest over. There you go. All right. Free. Transitioning to pro real quick here. Urban Meyer, we talked about Bama earlier.

He was caught on a hot mic saying, it's like Bama every week. Yeah. So how bad is it in Jacksonville? And over under, I'm going to set it a year and a half. in Jacksonville. Are you taking the over or the under for our friend Urban Meyer? That's a really, really good one.

I'm going to say over. I think it's, I mean, you saw the reports right before week one about how he's trying to do some college things and the guys in the locker room are just not having it and trying some, you know, raw, rock college stuff and guys are just, I mean, it's a different level. And I think of urban, like, how he is. And, you know, saying that to Fangio after the game, it's kind of like this thing of is he, is he saying that because he wants other coaches to feel sorry for him? Like, no one feels sorry for him. And I, I mean, he was a master motivator in college. There's no doubt about that. And what he did and bringing all the different schools to their

highest success levels that they've had at those schools. But it is a learning curve, I think, just as, just as it is for players learning new coaches, as a college coach's whole life, going to coach the pros. And I mean, if there's ever a place that he's going to get the benefit of the doubt, it's Jacksonville because of the lack of success they've had. But, you know, he took this situation

because he was getting the best quarterback in the draft. They had the number one pick, the most draft picks. And he was going to think he, you know, all out back in the day when Jimmy Johnson, you know, molded the Cowboys and what they did through the draft. So I think a couple wins would help. I think that division is going to help them get a couple wins. So I think we're going to see improvement there.

I just hope, you know, we talked about Uwey Ungalala at Clemson, you know, getting shell-shocked. I just hope Trevor doesn't, you know, in these first couple weeks in the NFL because there's been some splash plays. There's been some nice flash, but there's also been some bad read throwing picks backed up. I could think back to that Texans game. So it's a whole learning curve. And, you know, that dynamic of the locker room is going to say a lot. And, you know, they got a situation where Arizona's coming in who looks like one of the best teams in the league. So all eyes are going to be on Jacksonville.

But I think they have the goods and the wherewithal to fight through it. Yeah, I think he lasts two years, tops. Jacksonville Jaguars versus Alabama Crimson Tide this week. We're going to say same time on the score here, on three here? Sure. Okay, one, two, three. 37, 21. I had 37.10.

Their defense is historically bad. Okay. Jacksonville. Of course, we both have Bama losing that game. Correct. Steve's going to say, Steve's going to say 56 to 3. I was going to say 4417. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not as easy as people think. It's too competitive, but it's not as easy as people think. So I'm looking at Justin Fields' debut last week, and it was definitely up and down. What do you see relative to what you saw at Ohio State? And it's just one regular season pro game, so we're not overreacting. Well, here's the deal. I mean, you can't talk about one without the other three, right? When you're talking about Wilson and Lawrence and Fields and Lance and Lance has probably played the least amount of these guys.

I don't think anybody's ready. No one's ready. But we don't live in that day anymore. I'm still a guy that thinks those guys should sit. But with the pressure from fans now, it's not going to happen. You got guys that are coached for their jobs. And when I look at fields, I keep going back to the snap in the preseason when he almost got his head ripped off. I think it was by Epinessa for the bills in that preseason.

Tim Hasselback did an awesome drawup on it because he talked about how the slide protection was supposed to go to the left. And this is day one stuff. Slide protection to the left, quarterback responsible for the end man on the line of scrimmage. Okay. He gets it all set, goes back, shotgun snap, never. ever even saw the guy that he was responsible for. And everybody talks about the offensive lineup. It was on him.

And when I go back to Nagy, I'm like, if he can't, if Fields can't show you, he could do that day one stuff. You can't put him in because he's going to get his head ripped off. Yeah. Like he almost did against Buffalo. So when I look at last week,

and I mean, I just think about the people that have been asking for him to start, because I don't know what they're going to do with their time now, that he's actually going to be starting. So they'll probably just complain about the play calls. Yeah. But I mean, there's a couple of huge things. You know, Robinson has a huge drop.

Mooney has a drop. You know, they had to lead. The defense was sensational. He made a big third down with his legs. So I think it's, I love the kid. I think he's shown me a ton in college. He got himself better. And I think it's a, you know, you're learning on their fire here.

And when you go to Cleveland, you know, everybody makes a big deal about Cleveland getting, you know, nine new starters on defense. you still got Clowny and you still got Garrett coming after you every snap. That's a predicament that he didn't have in college. So I'm really interested to see if they can get that run game going. Montgomery's been really good to start the year. So I like Cleveland a lot as a team. I really do.

I love the way they're constructed. I love the balance they have. I expect Beckham to come back this year. That's going to come back this week. Maybe he's going to help Baker. Yeah. Macon's fantasy. main option,

along with Zeke and Gus Edwards. Pretty accurate. But I expect a good effort from Cleveland here. I think it's going to be a tough week for the Bears. I think if you scored 20 points, that's a win. Which one of these rookie quarterbacks would you want to have a beer with the most?

And which one would you want to have a beer with the least? I think it's a layup on the least. I don't think Zach Wilson's having many beers. Yeah. You might have a mountain do with him. I feel for that dude in New York. I can't imagine what that this week has been like. But, you know, I probably, I'd probably like to have a beer with Trevor Lawrence.

I think Trevor Lawrence would be number one. I feel like we go on a swamp boat and have a beer. Who are you having a beer with? Well, maybe Zach Wilson. That'd be fun. He'd be so fucked up. Yeah. Yeah, that's actually the right answer.

His first beer. Just watch him. He's had a beer before. Like, this is nice, Zach. Let me talk to you about sex. Tim Tebow has entered the chat. Trey Lance. Tray Lance could be a lot of fun.

You probably put down a lot of... Go to college and North Dakota State. Yeah, North Dakota State. Yeah, you're right. Speaking of the AFC North here, we're just talking about the Browns. Are the Steelers better off or not as bad off as we think when looking at a line like three and a half

that they're giving to Cincinnati? Is it overblown them not having been? Because they've been here and he's not been great lately. I totally see what you're saying there. I think they might be better off without him. I mean, his biggest factor in being effective was his elucidness and hanging in pockets to get guys open. For so long. Now they got guys to get open quick, man.

Just get them the ball. Yeah. You know, I love the receivers they have. And you factor Nage in there also. Like, I think it's, it might be a nice change up just for him to see it. Like, hey, get this ball out. Let those guys create, you know, problems in space. So maybe, you know, a week off right here, you know, as you're early on, you got to win that you didn't think you were going to get in Buffalo week one.

Maybe it's a week where you just take a step back and say, hey, let's assess these things. And we know we got an extra game this year, obviously that all the players love. So maybe we use that to our advantage this week. Before we get to the NFL locks, we've got MVP odds. And there are two that kind of jumped out looking at these quarterbacks. Derek Carr, plus 3,000 to win the MVP. and Kyler Murray plus 750. He's a win-bed odds.

Is there a tremendous amount of value in either of those? Sure. But I still have, I mean, as good as Kyler has been, I worry about the durability factor, Chris. He's as good as there is athletically. There's no doubt. His arm is incredible. His legs are incredible.

But last year, in the year, he couldn't make it through the year. And what did they went, I mean, obviously you can't replace a guy like that. And they went right down the tubes. and with Carr, I feel like it's a whole different world with them. I mean, you watch that defensive line, man. Like, they are getting after it.

Crosby's hands, I mean, I wouldn't want to get in a ring with that guy. Yeah. No, I mean, his hands are, I mean, you know these guys and watch all of them. His hand action, like, as I'm trying to pass it on him, he's going, he's doing it. Like, I got no chance. No chance. He's really turned. He's really turned in.

And when he got in the league, he was a guy that was in fast. Fast forward, but you know, and not many guys are in fast forward. He truly is, but he didn't have like all the tools in the toolbox and he's definitely worked on it. And just by virtue of them resetting a little bit, they look competitive defensively. And then offensively, I mean, it's like the two picks they had last year, my guy, Brian Edwards and Ruggs, who I didn't see this coming. I mean, he was productive Sunday. They're like kind of like you take a pill that doesn't kick in for two hours. That was all they were doing with these draft picks.

They were just, they're delayed release, draft picks. And now Derek's like, holy shit, we got something here. I think they're going to be fun to watch all year long. I'm jumping out of the gym for the Raiders. No doubt. I think that division is phenomenal. Sucks to see Chub again, injured in Denver. But going back to Krosby, my buddy, who's a diehard Raiders fan,

I thought it was really funny. He was like, I was texting me yesterday. And I was like, how about your Raiders? And he's like, man, I knew Krosby was the guy from day one. He didn't even have a spot on the team. And he got a Raiders tattoo. Give me that guy. Give me that guy all day long.

All day long. I mean, that's a confidence thing. I just, like at some point, Las Vegas is going to have to get the run game going. And, you know, you got a guy in Jacobs. I think you've got to get him healthy and ready to go. Because that gives Derek Carr a whole other dynamic in the play action game. Because you know everybody's going to try and take Waller away.

But that's a hard thing to do if you've got to have guys up in the box watching the run. No question. No question. used to love seeing the safety's come down in the box. You know, Darren Wallet doesn't need more than a step. If you can create a little bit of indecision with that run game, I mean, you can just loft the ball in spots that nobody else is going to catch it. And I remember at the end of the Baltimore game, I was saying to myself,

like, I know you're trying to get the run game going late, but like you need this guy the rest of the year. Maybe, you know, massage a little rest in with Josh Jacobs. Three NFL locks before we get you out of here. What do you got, Steve? I'm going to start with Buffalo. at home, got their legs back under them against Miami last week. Washington has a crazy win against the Giants.

I don't like what I've seen from the Washington defense. Guys up front seem like they're doing their own thing, and I think that catches up with them, with Dave'll call them plays in Buffalo and Alan calling the shots there. It's, I mean, as good as Heineke's been, you've got to get more out of your defense, and they have not shown up to me. I think they show up this week, Steve.

I think we both like Washington football team. It's too many points, right? Eight and a half or whatever it was. North of a touchdown, I really like Washington because the key to getting pressure or beating Josh Allen is getting pressure with four. That's what Pittsburgh was able to do. I do think that that Washington football team front

and I'm like a broken record here, somebody's going to call me a hater one of these days, but all I'm trying to do is educate you guys. They're not what you thought they were. They're very good. No. They're just not what you all thought they were. Like, come on now.

So I do think they got enough to get pressure on them. I'm on the other side of that. All right. I go Buffalo there. I'm sticking with it. I think they got it cranked up. And I mean, Jonathan Allen,

Jonathan Allen on Feliciano, big match up. We'll see. I like the other side too. I love what I've seen from Epinessa for Buffalo, man. He's good. Game changer, man.

I loved him. I couldn't believe how low he went in the draft. I loved him at Iowa. Yeah. Love them. Yeah. Yep. He looks like he's gotten quicker. Yeah.

Delayed release. Yeah. He's another one of those delayed release draft picks. I would know. There you go. There you go. I would know. Hey, so you like the bills giving around a touchdown at time of tape.

What's next? I'm going to take whoever Atlanta's playing. So that's the Giants this week. I think Joneses looked good. I don't know why. They didn't go back to the Ryan decide late in the game against Washington. I think they cost them after the turnover they got. And I like the weapons they have, man.

I really do. I think Sterling Shepard's phenomenal. I think they're going to get Ingram back. Oh, good. That's good news, Mike. Oh, yeah. He's just phenomenal on paper. And then he, and then if you throw him the ball, Steve, he'll drop it.

Yeah, he will. He will once in a while. Yeah. Big day for Sequin coming back. Give me the Giants minus three. and I'm going with Bill against Sean Payton. I'm fascinated to see what New England does against Camara because I feel like he's got a couple options

to keep Camara in check and put some pressure on James and Judon has been phenomenal as a signing and I've still getting used to that single digit he's wearing. It looks good on him actually. A lot of things look good on Judon. He's been balling. He's a beast. So I think it's like we talked about week one with New England.

There could be a lot of undergames with them this year, knowing how they don't want to pull the trigger with Mac, you know, and just make sure we're hanging around in these games. I even saw you, I think you saw it last week against the Jets and all the turnovers they got. So Buffalo, Giants, Patriots. All right.

You can go, make. Love the Detroit Lions, plus eight at home against Baltimore. Covering Campbell. Baltimore, let down, etc. What more do you need? Quintez Cephas, that's what more that you need.

Seafus. Yeah. Was it both Seafus. There you go. Okay. I'm glad to hear you guys talk about the Raiders because I just I swallowed hard, okay? And went Ravers, Raiders minus three and a

half over the Miami Dolphins. Jacoby Brissette. Doesn't that smell a little bit? Shouldn't that be a touch higher three and a half points? I'm still really. That's why I would lean the other way. I still really from your choice of words. Normally I would but that's why I had to

be powered through it even. Grin, bear it and swallow hard. I got to pay attention when he's talking. Okay. And then we will go Cincinnati Bengals. Joey Burrow against who the hell knows. Maybe inactive

Dwayne, maybe Mason. Yeah. Bengals on the board. Well, I do like the Steelers for the record. I'm not going to put them as a lock. Saints Pat's under They're daring you to take the over at 42 Your brain says oh it's the Pats and the Saints But they're not your your uncle's pets and saints

Like things are a little different now I'm looking hard at that one Arizona Plus 7 and a half but I'd probably buy the point So I can't really give that out. Chargers Physical short week for the Kansas City Chiefs Coming off a Monday night game Where they struggle a little bit You know let's let's

Let's call it what it is Yeah so you know if you remember justin herbert's big debut it was it was on like five minutes warning against the chiefs and he kept it tight and this is not the same chiefs team uh that he saw last year and if and here's the thing about the chargers we've said like oh anthony lynn's gone they're going to stop doing stupid shit it seems to like yeah be a thing where they need to quarantine for a little bit longer and get this out of their systems uh because they've been losing football games much like they did last year but i think this week to get on track.

Give me the Bucks and give me the Seattle, Minnesota over. So my three are the Chargers, the Bucks and Seattle, Minnesota over. I think that number is in the 50s, but I don't care. It could be 60. I'll take it. Derwin James and Travis Kelsey.

That's going to be fun. Yes. Cowboy reminded me of that. You know what? I'm going to give out. What? Virginia Wake Forest under. I wasn't aware it was at 69.

Okay. That's a whole hell of a lot of points. So going back and yeah, we're going to go under. They're definitely going over. Friday night. All right. You heard it here to take that shit to the bank, man. We got all we got all our losing out of the way. All of it. Early. Steve, thank you. Happy hunting Sunday. Happy hunting Sunday to you all. And I really hope you lose your Buccaneers pick because if the Buccaneers win, get ready for the undefeated talk. It's coming. Oh, boy. Well, here's the thing. No, yeah. We're ahead of this one. Didn't the Rams beat old Tom last year? Yeah, they gave it to him.

Oh, yeah, he's going to be really mad. He's going to be big mad. He's going to be yelling at Ryan Jensen. Love you, Steve. Love you, Steve. Love is love. Bye, guys. Twitter, we got our shit together, okay? We got a real handle reflective of the name of the podcast.

Guys, we did it. applaud and now go follow us at green light twitter is at green light we also have a new youtube channel name as well green light tube hope you guys like that hey real quick man by the way Steve agrees with us neutral sites boo-boo totally boo-boo Steve now O for three on saying I love you thanks for joining me on that one but uh you hasn't said I love you back I don't think you will. I might call you Brian Burns from now on. Side burns.

I'm going to take a shower tonight. Yeah. And I'm going to send you a picture after the shower. No, no, no. The sideburns are good. Okay. Post the sideburns after the shower for all to see. Side pro, side burn.

Okay. All right. Okay. Hey, John Baystow. Remember we dropped a John Baystow reference? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to the king of TV fitness, John Bastow. Billy Blanks is up there, but he was more of a karate guy.

Ty Bo. John Bastow did a cameo for us, thanks to Chuck Wade, loyal listener, our guy. Wow. Yeah, sent us a cameo from John Bastow. Can we play it for Macon? What is up, Chris Macon, and the whole green-white pod crew, John Bastow here. I understand you guys shouted me out the other day and said, some really nice things.

Well, that made me feel all special and stuff. Warm the cockles of my heart, and we all know there ain't nothing better than warm cockles. So I wanted to return the kind words with some of my own. Despite Macon's consistent underperformance, your podcast continues to shine.

Keep going for your goals. Don't ever settle for ordinary when you have the power to be extraordinary. You feel me? make great things happen keep kicking ass on that podcast much love and respect now you can cuss out john bastow

much love and respect minus the love and the respect from john bastile that's what i'm saying my consistent underperformance yeah is that right yeah hmm well you didn't make fitness real simple for me 64161 hey john where were you

john you owe us for that snipe an appearance on the pod. That's right. We need to get John Bastow on the pod. And we'll bleep the word I just called him, just in case. Just in case he comes on the pod. Chuck Wade's reporting back. There's no way John Bastow is going to hear this pod.

So you can probably say what you want. That's a great, that's a great Wednesday Chris Long interview series guest. John Bastow. Could Baystow beat up Macon? Yes. It's the answer to that. What? I don't know.

He's made fitness simple his entire life. He's also got 40 years on you. He's only six three. His reach isn't as long. I've made fitness very difficult for a long time. One more update before we get to James Co. We need to secure a blow-up doll. And we know where to call.

Buy local. Shop local. Charlottesville, Virginia. You figured, you had that one right on the tip of your tongue. Oh, sure. Well, I'm. I looked at Google. That's how we know.

Okay. Nobody ever talks about it. about sex shops unless you need one and we do we need a blowup doll so let's call hello do you all have any blow-up dolls do you know the pricing by any chance okay yes ma'am she's having an issue with another customer okay and what's the the difference in the 42 and the 74 dollar blow-up doll that's what I want to know So I guess that's the difference Does it have anus?

Does it have an anus? Okay, that sounds great. The 74, does it have an anus? An anus? She left it off the first time. One blows in the dark. Great, okay. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Bye. She's going in. She's going home sick, dude. And now we'd like to introduce a new sponsor of the Greenland podcast. Yeah, shout out to her. She was very professional, but these are questions that, you know, when you work at a sex shop, like, they come up. So she did leave off the anus the first time.

It's not important because she's just going out to dinner with Taylor, right? You know that song? Cowboy Reed, you got to go buy it. And when Cowboy rocks it with that mustache, she's going to be like, that's the motherfucker right there, dude. That's him. I don't know if we're keeping in the first part of the conversation, but there was a gentleman there trying to return something.

What he was trying to return? You can't return things. To a sex shop. No. Mm-mm. Frowned upon at the very least. Well, we got to go with the $74 one. We absolutely got to go with the $74 one.

Consider me upsold. And we've got a few options for a location. I don't know how you guys feel about... Thank God we're in the bridge. Oh, right? Yes, the normal people checked out long ago. No offense to those of you. We got James Coe coming up.

I'm sorry, Cowboy. What are the other locations? So we've got the blow-up doll figured out, like, we got the who, but we don't have the where? Where's Cassandra getting a meal? We heard of Red Pump Kitchen in the downtown mall. Why? There was a red hub barbecue place down the hill. Off Main Street.

Did you know that, Reed? Yeah. Red Hub, Red Pump. There's a lot of Freudian slips going on in the restaurateur business. Porn addicts. Red Punk. How about bang? Bang.

Bang is good. There's a restaurant called bang in Charlottesville. What is it with these restaurant people, man? You guys are nuts. What would you have named your restaurant? Chris Long's. American steakhouse. You'd take her to Dr.

Hose. There's a Dr. Hose pizza. Wow, we really... We are just like a porno city when it comes to restaurants. Keep it going. Where else? Chaps. Ice cream?

Chaps ice cream. I'm sold on Red Pump for a variety of reasons, including that it's fine dining. I really want Taylor to be in there with Cassandra and have people in coats and ties looking sideways. People are saying chick filet. and no chick filet's too cute

chick filet would do a million views on some fucking stupid instagram account that a bunch of teenage and we're trying to do a grown-up prank dude we're you got to go to a real restaurant with a Somalié restaurants got to have a Somalié yep Cassandra likes fucking South American wines

yeah what's that one actually Argentinian wine I think is uh it's Primo I'm all back I don't even drink that shit so we're thinking red pump what if red pump doesn't seed him which seems relatively likely

might be anti-doll although ironic considering read the nook which is a breakfast place here is there we might want to try are there any restaurants that don't have any jack in the box currently I think this is one of the funniest bridges we've ever done

but I'm also, you know, maybe later we don't like it so much. Maybe you can go to the white spot. There's a burger place called the white spot. Charlottesville restaurants. CNO, try to do something with that, you sickos. Coldstone creamery. A liberal air with the, what else can you call it creamery? What else do they?

Is that just an ice cream shop, actually? Yeah, with a, Coldstone. That's super confusing because I drive by it a hundred times to be like it's a creamery. I don't go in creameries,

dude. I don't do creameries. We'll find out where Taylor's going to go. We'll update you. Quality pie. It's called quality pie. Feast. So Taylor's not aware of this conversation, right?

No idea it's going on. How long would it take for him to get the bed if we were like, hey, would you rather go to bang, quality pie? Give him a machine a pie. paper with all the names. Just give him a name.

You can go to Red Pump, bang, quality pie, the creamery. Wow. Okay. All right, we got James Coe,

but we also have a sex doll. James Coe is here. It is fantasy, but it's also the real thing. That's the way I like to say it. Hey, uh, James,

the reason you were waiting is because, uh, Makin was doing his pushups that he does daily behind his job here. Gotta get your pump on, I guess, man. What's going? I'm a little out of breath. Yeah, you are. That was just a set of 13, but it was a, it was a good 13.

Yeah, I see. Deep, warm. You're getting that deep, you're getting that deep, you're getting the deep in there? Yes. Like a deep sleeper. Yes. Your muscles are deep sleepers. I didn't even plan that, dude.

It just came to me. I'm sorry. I didn't walk you into that. No, but they're coming out, dude. They're coming out late in the season. and they're going to be. That's funny and that's fair. Okay, it's fair as fuck.

Speaking of what's fair, the cucks are 2 and O, the Liberty cuckolds are 2 and O. Man, and they might have set a league scoring record in week two. I forget, I don't focus on last week, but I think it was like 185 points.

Nearly 200 points from the Cucks. What are the buttons? 2 and O atop the standings. I tried to reverse jinks, the houses. I did so successfully, Lamar, two rushing touchdowns. In that game,

houses are on your heels at one-in-one. They sure are. They're close behind, I'm sure. But Co, I just want to give you an opportunity to write or wrong here. Do you want to regrade the drafting of our two fantasy teams here, respectively? I think what happened, unfortunately for Makin, he ran into a lot of bad luck. Yeah, he does. Thank you.

I mean, you're talking about Jerry Judy, Rahim Mostert getting hurt really early on. O'Dell Beckham has yet to touch the field. So I think he's running to a little bit of bad luck. I'm sure Macon being the fantasy manager that he is going to try to make that up on the waiver wire Tony Pollard is already on the on the squad has been added has been added to okay great I didn't know you I didn't know you could uh I didn't know you could uh to like add new players off the waiver wire yeah you'll learn that next season yeah Chris didn't know you could actually manage your team it's uh it's a quite a shock well you don't really need to manage a team when you have

Herbert chub Henry Allen Lockett Chase Samuel and uh Brandon Cooks especially. Look at you. Look at this guy. Look at this guy over here. Brandon Cooks is like, coach, I've been making plays over here in the bench. Like, you know, put me on the field. I'm like, Brandon, we have so many good players.

We're never getting all the targets in Houston, but we got a lot of good players. You know what I love about Chris is the fact that when he's like not winning and he's losing, he doesn't know, he doesn't even know who's on his team. When he's in first place setting records, the dude's listing off every freaking player on his roster. He's got it burned into his memory, bro. Come on, man. Yeah, I'm a bit of a front runner in this league. Three weeks ago when you said that you hated Jamar Chase, I think it was.

Well, I was afraid. I hated the pick. It gave me the hebi-jeebies, but evidently he sees the lines on the football, and he's balling, which, by the way, we had this question teed up for James. Like, I don't look at the waiver wire. I will after we finish this podcast. It's a good reminder to check it out. Once your assistant tells you the password to the website.

Exactly. Okay. But James, people trade people in fantasy football? How does this really happen? Because I've heard, like, Macon's always like, hey, right after the draft, I'll give you for Brandon Cooks or something. Well, point being, yes, it's allowed, but it never, ever happens. People get so protective of these players they had no attachment to two seconds before

the draft. So how do players get traded? How can we make more trades happen? And our league in three years now, I'd say two trades. Maybe. Maybe two. Oh, look, huge win. The Liberty cuckles won.

I got the confetti coming down in the whole thing, which goes to show you. Hell yeah. I haven't opened the fucking half since we've got a big win against big, Robert. Yeah, you make trades happen. You know, it's interesting. I've been in a lot of leagues, obviously. In my main big money league, trades never go. It's very rare for trades to go down.

Um, and in one league that, uh, there were trades happening willy-nilly. What I realized was a lot of its roster construction. If you don't allow for flexes, you kind of sort of need to trade because like, let's say you don't have good wide receivers, but, uh, but a team's got a lot of good wide receivers, right? Well, that team with good wide receivers could stick a guy in the flex, but let's say you couldn't stick a guy in the flex. Then all of a sudden trades become a little bit more necessary because literally guys just

on your bench doing. nothing. So you'd rather get an asset that you can play. So I think roster construction has a little bit to do with it. But that being said, man, I don't know. Trades are cool and all, but I don't know. Like I've never been one to like get excited about trades either. So I don't know. Hey, let's do a trade right now. Okay. Shall we? Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you. An on-air trade. Let's do it. Yeah. I'll give you, uh, Nelson Aguilar for Logan Thomas. Absolutely not. One, oh, here we go. For starters, I think it's, I think it's Agalore. I mean, you and countless others insist on saying Aguilar. Yeah. But to me, Aguilar is like an

A-G-U-I-L-A-R. Yeah. And it's just so clearly Aga-L-L-L-R. Okay, well, I'll just text him right now and find out. Second, please do. Hey, hey, Nelly, how do you say your last name? Uh, no, I think Logan Thomas is going to be a top five tied in by season's end. Heineke, he likes to look at them a lot. Okay. Uh, even Fitsy was. Fitsy didn't target Terry McLaurin, um, before he got injured. Well, you know, if I'd notice one thing about Jalen Hertz the first two games is that he doesn't even like looking at Dallas Goddard. And Dallas Goddard's not running routes. I mean, he's just blocking people. That is concerning.

He's his own worst enemy in fantasy because he's really good at everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a no is my answer. Okay, we'll try next week. Okay, that's it. We were one and done there. Next question, coach. Week three, James.

I don't need much, as you noticed. Going off preseason ADPs, average draft positions. Would you change anything? That's what that meant. Yes. Would you change anything at quarterback or running back a receiver? Quarterback was Mahomes, Josh Allen,

Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Lamar Jackson. No, I mean, not really. I think those guys all come through. I mean, we're through two weeks, you know. I think Kyler Murray probably needs to be bumped up a little bit. Tom Brady throwing nine touchdowns to two games is... That's a lot. I mean, it's a lot.

I mean, I don't think he's going to be holding up. this up obviously. So I kind of sort of feel like where we had them ranked probably makes a lot of sense. I do think Kyler Murray needs to be bumped up. And I think Jalen Hertz probably need to be bumped up a lot. And we all saw the writing on the wall, you know, rushing, again, rushing ability is such a cheat code for fantasy quarterbacks. We knew Jalen Hertz was going to get out there and scoot. So, man, I don't know, man. Like that's probably the one thing that I would say is Jalen Hertz being, you know, second only behind Lamar in terms of rushing yards is, is a little bit of a surprise and probably, I don't even want to say a surprise.

We probably saw a little coming a little bit. And so we probably need to move him up a little bit too. I wonder how many he picked up on that last drive where they were in, in two minute mode and got that late touchdown against San Francisco. He's going to be a problem. If you play him as far as like, you know, I don't know about the passing game and all this stuff that he's working on. And, but if you don't contain him with your left end or your left edge blitzer, it's, I mean, he's very decisive. You know, he knows when to tuck it and run it. You know, in Great Britain, if you have diarrhea, they call it the scoots.

Oh, yeah? Chris has the scoots. I do? Oh, yeah, I don't know if you do or not. Really? Do you? No. Yeah, but next time you have diarrhea, just say, I have the scoots.

Really? Where did that come from? Great Britain. Okay. Yeah. Where did Great Britain come from? Oh, James said that Jalen Hertz has some scoot to him. Oh, got it.

Yeah, he does have some diarrhea, though. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Running back. Well, okay. All right. Sequin or as I like to call him sometimes just for fun.

Soquan. Nice. Sequin. RB4, maybe not. Maybe not this year. No. I mean, well, first of all, he was, you know, sliding in drafts because everyone was concerned about the injury and I think that was well founded, um, as we have come to see.

Um, you know, the top of the board looks pretty much like we thought it was going to look. Derek Henry, Christian McCaffrey, Aaron, Joan, Nick Chubb, you know, it's somewhere in your top five. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. You know, I think certainly Azeke Elliott not performing the way we're hoping that he would as a top five fantasy pick right now is certainly a little bit disconcerting. Not to me. I got him at seven. All right. Relax.

Yeah, but I told you at seven that it wasn't a good idea. You told me at six that you were taking Derek Henry. It looks pretty good at the moment. Yeah. It looks great. Tony Pollard was there. Basically what James is telling us is that week three is too early to redraft. Yeah, it's too early.

It's too early. It's a little too early. I will say a wide receiver, though, Cooper Cup, bro, he's an absolute game changer in fantasy because you took him, you know, in the middle rounds and he looks like he's just going to continue to just be dominant. He's going to be dominant. I mean, he has some kind of magic going right now with Matt Stafford. Oh, I'm telling you he's an absolute, he's an absolute league winner.

It's Kershaw like. And I took, I took the other wide receiver Woods. Robert Woods, Bobby Trees. So that was maybe a mistake on my part. But you went Tyler Lockett. And he's out performing decaf at the moment. Well, that's actually not a surprise to me, at least statistically.

I mean, that guy's criminally underrated. And we say it all day long, but nobody ever rates him correctly. We just talk about how underrated he is. James Coe, how has your fantasy odyssey begun this year? Unfortunately, my fantasy is looking a lot like Makins, where I had Jerry Judy, Rahim Mostert. Race to 100.

Who else did I have? Oh, I actually invested in Ryan Fitzpatrick heavily this year as well. And that's not going too well. So yeah, my big money league, man, I'm toast. It sucks. It sucks to be out of it after two weeks, but I am. I'm pretty much done.

Is it like college football like in the pre-playoff era where if you lose once in your league, it's like over? No, I mean, there's ways to come back, you know, but you know, I don't know. I'm looking at my roster right now and I'm not loving life. Not loving life at all. And I have no one to blame by myself. I've got no one to blame but myself.

That's not accountability I wish we had here. Hey man, can I give myself a little bit of grace though because listen when you put your stuff out there I got my ranks out there I got my sleepers out there everyone who knows who I like yeah you know so so we're in an auction draft so guys will bid me up. That's true guys will bid me up on the dudes they know I like man so um it's a little bit harder drafting against people who know exactly what you want to get done but that being said no excuses man I don't know why you play fantasy

you truly love it because we we we We talked about it a week or two ago. Number one, you're the guy that everybody's got the target on your back because you're fantasy guys, so everybody wants to beat you. Yeah. And also they watch TV. So they know what James Co likes. That's crazy.

It's diabolical, man. It's tough. Yeah. Who are a couple names you like for week three who will outperform their projections? Oh, man. You know, I think, I don't know about some under the, well, you know, I will say this. I like Quez Watkins a lot this week. If we're talking about a deep sleeper, for those of you in like 12 or 14,

team. I like Quez, man. Very asleep, like comatose asleep. Nah, well, here's the thing. Obviously, he's widely available. I think he's available in 90%. He's not available in some of my leagues because he's, he's on the roster. I drafted him in like every league, like in the 10th round or whatever it was. Dallas is getting absolutely decimated from the slot and Quez is playing about 65% of his snaps inside. So I think he's got a really great matchup. I know he's only going to see like three or four targets, but I don't know. One could be a bomb. I kind of sort of like him as a sleeper. Um, I don't know, man, like I think, question. No, it's too early in the

morning for these, for these dad jokes, bro. The question of a questionable. That was a questionable choice of, uh, dad joke. Oh, here we are. I will say this. I'll go against the grain a little bit. Um, I like KJ Osborne too against Seattle. Seattle. I don't think, I think they're a little bit of a work in development in their secondary. Uh, KJ Osborne actually leads the team in receiving so you know I think he's actually decent play and then Hunter Renfro you know slot man for for almost at Oakland I almost always say Oakland but Las Vegas I think he's got a really really good chemistry with Derek Carr who by the way is leading the NFL in passing yeah like come on now Derek Carr let's go I love it no question I mean that's no question with an ass I feel like the

Derek car hate is it's being tested I mean like the car haters are really being pushed this year We're just talking about the odds for Derek Carr winning MVP. Last question before we go, James Coe. They're plus 3,000, I want to say. Whereas we were looking at Kyler Murray, and he was like plus 750. So I don't know where the value is there. James Coe, where are you watching this weekend? I think this is a good T-Up, actually, because I watch games where I always watch games every Sunday.

Hey, there you go. On DirecTV. There we go. On Red Zone, on the Fantasy Zone channel there. as part of the Red Zone package. So yeah, man, you guys want to check me out on DirecTV? That'd be great. More points this week.

Ezekiel Elliott or Tony Pollard? Ezekiel Elliott. I mean. Well, for two so far. I know. I know Pollard. I know Pollard's making these splash plays, man. But at some point, the overall volume is going to, you know, overtake to Tony.

I just, man, I don't know. It drives me crazy. I'll take Zeke Elliott. He's still playing. You want to trade me, Zeke Elliott? I mean, Zee's still playing 70% of the snaps, bro. Like, he's got to be in there somewhere. I'll give you somebody for Zik Elliott.

Okay. I'll give you Nelson Aguilar and Kwez Watkins. There you go. I won't quite do it. And you know, I got to change my whole team name in some of my leagues if I give you Quez Watkins. James Coe, thank you for your time, man. Good luck this weekend.

You can catch them on DirecTV. And we'll see you next week. All right, man. Peace. Thank you, brother. All right. I know I said the podcast was over, but it's not. Okay.

Extenuating circumstance. I was actually on my way home got a text. And my high school coach, John Blake, who spent 25 years at St. Nance Bellfield stab here in Charlottesville, amassed 175 wins, six state titles, one of which I was lucky enough to win, is retiring. And when I say he's a giant to me, it's an understatement. And I'm pretty sure if you asked any player that played for him any of those years, whether they were NFL players like Kyle or myself,

or Aaron Steny or Division 1A players like Colin Pahanick or, you know, numerous other cats, or guys that y'all never heard of. Jimmy Zunkah, Mike Pascorelli, you know, Luke Thielen, he meant the same to all those guys. And I think his impact has felt probably subconsciously even decades later. I know that I operate a certain way

because of at least in part the foundation that was laid for me. Playing for Coach Blake, man. I meet a lot of people who will say like, man, it must have been awesome to have your dad as your coach in high school. No question. My dad deserves a lot of credit. You know, he's my dad.

He is my best friend. He knew a lot about the sport that I played, the position that I played. But also John Blake deserves like a hell of a lot more credit than I think he gets when it comes to my brother or myself. And he taught me things about the game that, and mindset that I couldn't get anywhere else. I appreciate you.

He taught us a lot about being even keeled, which serves you well in football. But the most important thing he did was read that man in the glass poem every damn game. And it was long. The first time I heard it was, man, that's a long poem. But he read it every

game without fail with tears in his eyes choked up. And it felt like, you know, there's 250 people, 500 people, 700 people, 750,000 people at a high school game. But when we were in that little pressure cooker of a tiny locker room there, it felt like there were a million people out there. It felt like, you know, I was waiting to go out and play in the Super Bowl.

Like, it felt like the same to me as being a Patriot or an Eagle and waiting to run out of the tunnel. And it was so quiet in there. And you could hear a pin drop. And he'd read this poem. He'd read Man in the Glass, which I'm forgetting who wrote it, but I've read it hundreds of times. I'd travel within college.

I had it on my phone as a pro. I had it in my locker, but I really didn't need to have it with me because I knew the whole damn thing by heart, and I won't bore you with the whole thing, but I will and congratulate and John Blake leave you with this verse. It's the last one.

There are four great ones before it. You can go read. You have the internet. You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years and get paths on the back as you pass, but your final reward will be heartache and tears if you cheated the man in glass, and then he'd say,

don't cheat that man. And then we'd walk out. what we'd run out. And that is a, that's a feeling I never got back anywhere else. I can tell you one guy that didn't cheat that man, that's John Blake. So congratulations to John Blake.

He never cheated himself and in turn. He never cheated the kids that he is still affecting, you know, that he coached 10, 20 years ago, still positively affecting, whether they're doing a podcast about the NFL, whether they're still in the NFL, whether they're selling insurance,

whether they're, you know, whatever they're doing, wherever they are. John Blake's a piece of them. So thank you, John. And congratulations on an incredible career. On to the next thing, my man. Y'all take care. Hey, we've got a really exciting event

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