Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Cotton Bowl

Episode Date: December 27, 2017

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Oh, that is a great reason. Go to Carvana.com to sell your car the convenient way. Welcome to the shutdown fullcast 40 for 40. We are looking at an actual real live bowl game. I know it's been mostly blowouts to this point with very few things managing to salvage anything resembling entertainment between the beginning of bowl season to this point. But ladies and gentlemen, that is over with because somehow like a beneficiary in a will you didn't even know you were listed in, right? where like the eight or nine people in front of you all died randomly and mysteriously because you definitely didn't plot to kill them.

You have lucked into a fortune. Yeah, it fell in your lap. It's the Cotton Bowl. 2017. We are looking at somehow the USC Trojans playing the Ohio State Buckeyes for free. Not for free, actually. Somebody else paid for it. But it's free to you.

They are playing for free. Yeah. I mean, they're playing for free. That's not cool. I'm playing for $550 in NCAA-approved gifts. Ooh. Like belts and balls that say cotton bowl on them and sunglasses. Cotton bowl gifts for players.

Keep talking. You're good. You're good. And maybe like a PlayStation one. Let's see. Cotton bowl. Ah. Okay.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. You guys ready for this? This is from SB Nation.com. I love that site. Would not disclose. Yeah, let's see.

The cotton bowl is where. It's in Dallas, Texas, right? Uh-huh. Yep. Yeah. So, the cotton bowl, it's in Dallas, Texas, and they won't disclose what they're giving them. You know what that means?

It's guns. Just guns and cash. Just open it up. Oh! Guns. and a chili pie. Just a slab of meat. They're like, here, we'll top it.

Just put like a big hot piece of brisket on top of it. Frankly, that sounds delicious. If you wouldn't eat a piece of brisket off a gun, you should never go to the state of Texas. You can't vote in Texas. Yeah. That's what they, you don't have to, you don't have to show ID at the polls,

but they do hand you a gun and a piece of brisket. They're like, all right, you have five minutes. You got to do this, And you've got to swear loyalty to that picture of Earl Campbell's thighs. That's what you need to do. That's what greatness is. Yeah, no, I'm thrilled. This is actually like an entertaining game.

This should actually be, this should be, dare I say, good. Because you know who's going to keep, you know who's going to keep both teams in the game? Sam Darnold. Yeah. Sweet Sam. Sweet beautiful, Sam. Yeah, did you already get that crock pot of, like, delicious. Boiling draft speculation going?

Yeah, let's get the amateur idiot in here. Just sauntering in, like, oh, where are these guys going to be drafted when they play real football? Where? When they really get to the league, we learn things about them. Yeah, it'll be fun because you're going to show up. Sam Donald's going to throw like four TDs and four INTs. It'd be great.

You'll have no idea what to do. Sam Darnold's entire year this year has been, and I'm convinced intentionally. and complete, like, you know, Bill Belichick will put stuff on film that they'll never do again? Sure. Just to make you wait time. Just so when they line up, it's third and goal from the three, and we've seen them do this four times. He does the exact opposite of that.

Right, right. And a play you've never seen. Yeah, that's what Sam Darnold's doing, the scouts, convinced, because he's far too talented to actually be this inconsistent. So I'm convinced he saw the teams that were at the top of the draft order, saw Doom coming, and was like, yeah, let's make this complex. Let's make this hard. Josh Allen, man. Browns are looking hard at you, bro. Guess what I'm going to do?

So Josh Rosen takes a look at all these I&Ts and just gives up and just openly says, like, basically, I really don't want to play for the Browns. Whereas Sam Donald's just kicking back, casual, knows he's put in the work to throw the sufficient I&Ts to not be picked number one. I also like it because that's the one time when the sports internet will like rise up in defense of the Browns.

like how dare you play where you are selected and you play with honor and field tea every other week it's like oh man if I played for the Browns I blow up the stadium I'd change my name I'd move to Europe I'd just fucking quit but draft time no the right and honorable thing to do

is to fly the Browns flag above your manner leave everything you love behind you are a brown now wouldn't this suck by the way if like this is how the real world went like few were drafted out of college and it was like hey man i got like a really good GPA and my resume's looking great it wasn't me but you know got some you've been drafted by bush gardens you work there now yeah or like the worst like the worst failing companies got to go ahead and take

the cream off the top right like i worked my way from poverty and i got a scholarship to yale and this is amazing you work at the off brand circus the off brand circus has selected you with their number one pick they take very poor care of the animals and everything smells I was first in my class and now I work for Jarl Rul's festival company Yeah, Sears. I work for Sears Right? They're like, yeah, no, no, no, I have

I have a medical degree from Stanford University You work for Sears now. Go ahead of Sears. You are John Sears. We've changed your name. You are franchise manager. Get Blockbuster Video back on the map. First in Harvard Law. Your boss is Jarl at Blockbuster Video.

Baby! Yeah, this is, it's a perverse thing. I'm really enjoying it. I'm going to really enjoy watching everyone be very confused when Sam Darnold goes out here and looks absolutely. This was going to happen, by the way, the last two minutes of every half. If that's exactly like if they get the ball and they need to score,

Sam Donald is going to race down the field, throw three brilliant passes, lacing them through coverage and score. Because that's when Sam Donald's, that is best and when he has time to think that's when things go bad right so that'll be fascinating to watch also fascinating uh watching ohio state because every now and then this year i don't know one out of every five or six games uh they come up uh sleepy awful distracted i don't know giving up fifty five to iowa somehow these are all things that that are really true of ohio state i

I still don't know how they lost games, especially when you watch their good ones. It's baffling. It's also weird because, you know, I think J.T. Barrett here and elsewhere has been pretty heavily maligned this season. And, you know, that's because he looked like shit against Iowa and was inconsistent elsewhere within the season. But you look at his season total numbers,

and you compare them to 2014 when he was this, breakout candidate that everybody thought, oh, Braxton Miller, that's, Braxton Miller's down. Ohio State's fucked. And he just came out and, you know, made a very good case to be in the Heisman final category before he got injured in the Michigan game. And you look at the numbers from 2014 and 2017, and they're like weirdly similar. His completion percentage is like almost exactly the same. His touchdown interception ratio.

almost exactly the same 45 total touchdowns on offense in both years but because perspective is a son of a bitch the cool shit you did as J.T. Barrett, guy nobody had ever heard of or expected anything of

in 2014. When you do that in 2017 as J.T. Barrett, senior leader on this team that should make the playoff not so much. It's good. It's a welcome reminder that everything you achieve in life will just become the next stumbling block for you

congratulations never try that's awesome by the way i'm just going to go ahead and uh and list some numbers here um who has uh who has more touchdowns passing more passing touchdowns that's j t barrett jt barrett's got 35 passing t ds y's y'all 35 sam dartle has 26 you know but you see how through okay okay that's cool a yard's passing passing that dude bear it through for good god bear it through for you know almost 3,000 yards while still being like having duties in the rush game right at darnold their whole offense he threw for like 3,700 yards it's ridiculous but like in terms of like efficiency and rating barrett's marginally better as a college quarterback does that translate to the

next level answer we don't care really don't I mean it might but if you can predict who makes like a really good professional quarterback, then you should go do that because no one can. There's like very few. Oh, no, no, no. There's definite predictors. Well, yeah. Tall.

Can walk, you know. Can run. Can throw the ball. That's really about it. Probably like play college for like at least three years. Ah, ah, but Drew Brees is not tall and can't walk. Mm. I've been foiled.