The Bobby Bones Show - 25W: Bobby Surprises the Guys with Super Bowl Tickets! + Eddie Claims His High School Teacher Wanted to Sleep with Him + Brandon Marcello on the Scenes from New Orleans from the CFP

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

Bobby surprises the guys when he tells them that he got tickets to the Super Bowl! With a caveat of course. After sparking a debate at Caitlin's birthday dinner over the weekend, Bobby brings up the story of Eddie thinking his high school teacher wanted to sleep with him. Plus, 247Sports reporter Brandon Marcello joins Bobby to talk about the scenes from New Orleans during the terrorist attack on New Year's day, why Ohio State has suddenly become the heavy favorite, and more!    Download the DraftKings Sportsbook App today: https://dkng.co/bobbysports   If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA).   21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/ NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. N/A in NH/OR/ON. New customers only. Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 wager. $200 issued as eight (8) $25 free bets. Ends 9/19/22. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details.     Follow the Show: @BobbyBonesSports   Follow the Crew: @MrBobbyBones @ProducerEddie @KickoffKevin @MikeDeestro @ReidYarberry  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Siamese twins. It caught everyone's attention. It did. I couldn't stop thinking about it. So there are these two Siamese twins. Their brothers are connected. They're not connected to the shoulders. They're connected like at the head.

At the midsection. Yeah. And one of them straight, one of them's gay. Oh, no. Oh, God. And we debated for 45 minutes how that goes. Lots of questions about it. But no answers.

No answers because we don't know them. Yeah. And so my, well, I had lots of theories. But if one straight and ones, okay let's say the straight one is like making out with a lady and he's like and then she like does stuff

to his stuff and is the their stuff yeah but it has to be like thinking about because they have one wiener oh there's one yeah they're a touch

that changes in everything oh no they have two heads and two sets of shoulders but then as it goes down to the middle they connect close your eyes close your eyes yeah you can close your eyes

all you want but you still feel it it's yours so my theory is one of them as something's happening to him is like, oh yeah, and the other one's like, like, like trying to vomit the whole time. And then my theory was, do you put up a curtain in between them? Like pregnancy, you said.

Yeah, but that goes all the way down. So it has to be like a curtain that has like a cardboard that goes under the chin. So you don't see even though you are feeling. Dude, we spent 45 minutes talking about this last night. And his story started with, I saw this on TikTok. And I'm like, who knows how true it is. And he brought it up. And I sent you the link.

Just so you would believe me. And it's a true story. And I'd love to have them on the show and talk to them about... Oh my gosh, that would be amazing. We have lots of questions. So which one would... Oh, you talked to both of them, I guess. Yeah.

I thought I stopped myself in the middle of it because like, which one would you like to talk to? Well, you're going to talk to both of them. I know. Because they list like different things. Because that, you're right. Like, that was a funny conversation. We talked about it, blah, blah, blah. But on the way home, my wife started researching more, too.

And then she found the other set of Siamese twins, which are girls. and she was talking about how one of them wants to go to law school and the other one just wants to cut hair for a living. So it's like, what do you do? You know one studies while the other one cuts. But I would say the weird part of that is when she's like in the courtroom, Your Honor. What does the other one do?

Yeah. And like if you're going to law, if your sister's going to law school, you might as well just take the classes too because you're there anyway. No, you can not be interested at all. Like you could literally bore. you. Yeah. Or they have two different brains, though.

One actually maybe, maybe smarter, not the word, but is better in tune with reading and learning from a book. Yeah. Or another one doesn't learn that way. The other one's more creative wants to get here. But to me, it's the straight gay more than it is the jobs. That's just crazy, man. And imagine being the person on the other side of it.

Yeah, but that's already a thing. And that's what Eddie said too. I said, there are fetishes for everything. That's true. Everybody would like that. Yeah. And because I don't know if it's the same two girls, but one of them, like, once, one of them's married and, like, they want to have a kid. And that dude, like, come on.

Boy, one of them is married? Yes. Yeah, to a dude. That's a different set of Siamese twins, but yes. And it's a different kind of dude. Oh. Okay. Oh, okay.

Any dude that wants to marry Siamese twins. He didn't. He married one of them. I know, but, come on. I know what you're doing. It's a little messed up. But is it a two and a half some? Is it a three?

It's not three. Technically. And a half. It's so weird. So anyway, I couldn't stop thinking about that. That's up. Oh. I thought about it all night and then it's what I wanted to lead with here.

And I'm picturing it, but I don't even know if I want to look it up. Can I do another Eddie story as we start this? Yeah. Eddie thinks he has a teacher in high school and wanted to have sex with them and he was telling us to dinner last night. Yeah. Eddie was dominated the conversation last night. Not because he was like, I must be the person that talks. He was just on fire.

There were just little things that came up and I was like, I have something to add to that. And I don't know. I was not a part of whatever it was where this came up. I just heard you say, my teacher wanted to have sex to me in high school. We were talking. Somebody was talking about how they cheated in high school, and there was a girl that helped him cheat. And I was like, was she hot?

And he says, oh, and then we started talking about teachers. And that's how this came up. And now that I'm older, I see it clearly. Please explain to the fellas here why you think you had a teacher in high school that wanted to have sex with you. When I graduated high school, there was a teacher, an English teacher that we had. And once we graduated at the graduation ceremony, she said, if some of you guys want to come to the house, She talked to me and two of my friends.

Some of you guys want to come to the house and have a drink. Like, I'll make one for you. A drink? And at the time, I told my buddies, like, we were talking about, like, should we go? Like, that sounds kind of fun. Raider 1 through 10. Six and a half. If you're in high school.

I know. At least that. And as she was your superior. Exactly. At the time, we're thinking, like, that's so cool of her to just, like, want us to go over to have drinks. Like, that's awesome. We're 18.

Like, how cool she? Any other thoughts other than like this is cool? No. Not one, but now that I'm older. Oh, so even then you didn't think she wouldn't have sex with you? No. Oh, so it was just old. I got it.

Now that I'm older, it's like, I understand. It's probably a little lonely. This is kind of weird. Was she lonely? Yeah, she was single? But was she like, did she have boyfriends? Do you know? Not that I knew of.

Okay. Can I ask you the question I asked you last night? I don't know what. I asked Eddie, I said, do you think if you and your two buddies would have gone over at her house? Oh. And she was like, I'll fix you drinks. and you had no idea. And then she was like,

I want to have sex to all three of you at the same time. Would you have done it? Like all three of you're all naked with her, like fulfilling her fantasy. Would you have done it?

And my answer last night was, yeah. Oh, it's a story. It's a story. Like probably. I just don't feel like I want to get naked with dudes. You have to have a couple of drinks.

I know Bobby, so obviously you couldn't. Maybe that's why because I'm just saying, like, you couldn't just do that like dead sober. No.

But I appreciate your honesty where all three of you are just like naked with her. Let her rip. Yeah. Even outside of that, like, I don't have a lot of those letter rips. Not even sex, but, like, anything. So I don't have, I wish I had more of let a rip.

It was kind of my mantra when I was younger, dude. Like, just let her rip. Whatever happens happens. Interesting. Yeah. I change now, though, dude. I'm married, got four kids. Oh, yeah, for sure.

This is in my wife's birthday party last night. Oh, nice. But again, he wasn't, like, demanding that he'd hold court. It was just the first thing. I was like, do you about this time? He's twins. One of them's gay, one straight. And then way we went, and he goes, then I heard him, because I'm just trying to, like, talk to people. I don't even like talking to people. But he's just,

and then it is like, yeah, yeah, I think my high school teacher wanted to have sex with me. And I'm like, all right, I'm just going to dedicate fully to this because he's on it. Like, give the hot hand the ball like you take it. That was. Just a couple weeks off of work. I was going to say a holiday break. I guess. Just kind of let it rip. Those are good. Good ones. Thank you, man.

Kevin? Yeah. God dang, dude. what's happening I cannot believe the Patriots won you lost the first round pick I know I know that's your team

I was so upset for you like and then they fire the coach yeah like there was nothing fire them before the game to make sure they lose so I was thinking about it

and maybe it's like a wishful movie type scenario where Kraft went to him before the game like hey if you win this game you will not come back and he's like I'm gonna stick it to you

because I love my players and then he won the game and after the game And after the game, Kraft's like, you know what? You're out, dude. I tried to tell you. No chance. No?

I mean, that's a cool storybook line, but remember a couple years ago, Lovie Smith did that and got fired? Cost him the pick. Yeah, he was getting fired anyway. Yeah, he was an interim coach. He was for sure out. Or not the interim, but the one-year coach. Yeah, whatever it was. But yeah, that's kind of how I pictured it.

And then it's like the reality set it. And it's like... You had the number one pick. I know. So how does that happen? Is it the players just being like, we're going to play? The thing about football was different than basketball. You can't throw, that's gambling.

You can't tank a football game. Because there are too many players? Because everybody's competing for a job, for next season, for everything's on film. You can't tank a football game. So a head coach can make personnel decisions to actually affect the game, but nobody's going to play less hard because also you can, that's how you get injured too, going 60%. So you're not going to have players go 60%.

95%. You can put worse players in, which ends up what's happening in what happens in basketball. When they tank, they just don't, their calf strain. They, low management. Their best players don't play and they lose by

playing worse players. But even those players play hard, but you just put it in bad players. But yeah, no, they, dude, I could not, but you had the number one pick. Unbelievable. And in a draft class that's really not very good.

So you needed one of the team, yes. And we don't need a quarterback, obviously, which is great. We're in great position. Number one pick. we can trade it and load up because somebody's going to be desperate for Sanders or Cam Ward, whoever it is, and we go and win.

So why are you 5, 6 now? 4. You're 4 now? 4. Oh, yeah, the top 3. Yeah, 4. Whoa. From 1 to 4.

So Titans are 1. Browns Giants. Browns, Giants, Patriots, yep. Titans need a quarterback. Yeah, Titans eat everything. Defensively, they're okay in a couple of places, but they don't have a couple of these alignmen. What quarterback would you take?

Cam? No, Chador. Would Chador come here, you think? I don't know. I don't know. Shadur is very Joe Burrow-like. Yeah.

And how he plays. Pretty mobile, but not a guy's going to run the ball. He's not a Lamar Jackson. He's not a, well, Josh Allen's mobile. He's big. He runs through things more than around things. Great arm. competitor.

I mean, probably, should are over I don't trust Cam Ward I don't either I think everything he does in college there's no way that works in the NFL Caleb Williams can't do it there's no way Cam Ward can do it also who cares what I trust

because I know nothing except I watch games and talk to people who at times are involved in it but I'm not you're acting like I'm an expert but I mean they have to have a quarterback yeah they could trade they could trade that pick and get a quarterback like

do you go and trade it for three or four picks and get a Cousins. It's kind of a stopgap for a couple. I mean, because obviously Kurt Cousins was hurt a lot of this year.

I don't think what we saw, the bad version of Kurt Cousins we saw was the healthy version of Kurt Cousins. They paid him 100 million bucks or over the whole, and he's not going to get all that. And they're going to cut them before March, I think, to save a bit of money.

But they could trade that and take a haul. And if you're, missing a lot of parts and you're not trying to win right away, okay, but if you don't have a quarterback and a coach, you're not going to win. Yeah. Like, period. So I guess it's just what the Titans

want to do. The Titans' colors are slow though. Just the baby blue? The blues. It's a slow color. It doesn't... The throwbacks are cool. The oilers is cool. But it still looks slow. Those colors are slow colors. Earl Campbell was not slow. But he wasn't... He's big, dude. He was awesome. Yeah.

You're not making sense because he's not... Drew Hill, dude, he was fast. You're talking about Chris Johnson was fast. Now I'm talking about the oilers blue guys. Drew Hill. The singer? No, he was a receiver for the Oilers back in the day. I think. I think. I don't

I could, I don't know. They could trade that and get a cousins if they trade for cousins before or who else would even be on the market? It depends what Minnesota does obviously with Sam Darnold too. Great call there because they're going to have to retina. The Steelers Russell Wilson, Justin Fields.

That's another one. Justin Fields, yeah. Anybody going through quarterback rehab right now, meaning the Baker Mayfield or the Sam Darnold? Because like a Tribeschi is a backup forever now. Like he did his little, he's a backup forever. And then even Carson wins. He had a shot in, it was god awful.

What about Menshoe? He's down to backup. Done to, done. Like all those guys, the Menchews, Aiden O'Connell. Like, I can't think of anybody else going through quarterback rehab. Oh, you know, but they're not going to trade him now because he's actually good again as Bryce Young. Yeah.

Yeah. He played great yesterday. He's bald out. They lost a couple games in the past six, but he's like, he looks like the real deal. And I know I'm biased because I like Bryce Young a lot, and I've stood by him. Him and Bo Nix have been my guys. When everybody else is like, you're an idiot. I'm like, I know.

But still, I like Bo Nix and I like Bryce Young. I like Bryce Young smiling after he scores a touchdown. Like, did you guys see that? We also met him, and he was so nice. He's so nice. We spent time with him. He was so nice. Okay.

I guess somebody need to tell you guys. Sadly, Casey, this doesn't involve you since you're the newest person. Oh, no. That's all been there, dude. I know. You're the newest. But I... I've been waiting to tell you guys this. But I have a Super Bowl tickets.

What? No way! No way! Here's the thing. Oh, no. It's a caveat. Only one of you could go. No.

Pickle ball. Figure it out. No. Oh, I'm out. They're for 2035. I do have us Super Bowl tickets in New Orleans. Coming up, February 9th. Oh, no. No, no.

Oh, no. No, no. Oh, no, that's not the caveat. There was a terrorist attack. Okay, okay. Just make it sure. So, read my, Kevin, Eddie, and myself. That's five. I have four tickets. Oh.

Sorry, Reed. You need a camera? I guess you could. Well, the thing is, again, the plan is to go down. Dang. I know. It's tough. I know.

The plan is to go down and we're going to do the media stuff on Thursday and Friday with all the players coming through, all that, la, la, la. Dang, that's cool. But I have four tickets for five people. Oh, my gosh. So more people can go. Only four people can go to the game. That's what I'm saying.

To the game. And I don't have a solution. And this is not a joke. I don't have a bit. This is not a bit yet. Yeah. There will be a. Oh, no, there will definitely be a.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But what I would... Here's the promise that I would like to hear from... Because I'm going. There's no chance I'm not going. Okay. So you're out of the question.

Because I got the tickets. Yeah. And I don't even know how good they are. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. If you've never been to Super Bowl, it's fun to go to Super Bowl. Never been to Super Bowl. And it's in New Orleans, so it's not cold.

Who's been to a Super Bowl? Only me, probably. Yeah. No. Definitely not me. Um, what I want you to do and please do not talk to each other about it, I want you to do.

to pick who you think should not get the ticket. And we're going to do that on the show later this week. You're going to talk it out. Dang. I mean, I'm ready to go now. Yeah, me too. Oh, really? Come on.

Okay. Because you always pick on me. Is that why? I don't know. I don't know. I'm happy to do this now. Is that why? I didn't think about that.

It's still a cool experience. Reed's like, Reed's talking himself down. I didn't think about that. I'm writing that down. Oh, my God. You were going to all say that. Keep going to say that. Keep going to say that.

Hold on. Kevin, who do you think should not get the... I want to say one more time, I do not have a fifth ticket. I'm not coming out of my pocket with a fifth ticket. The end. So this is not a thing where I'm like, just kidding. There's not a fifth ticket. Kevin, of you four who should not get the ticket? Well, I did think about Reid for a second, but...

I got to go with Eddie, I think. What the? What? No, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Listen, listen, okay. Eddie, and you know, you deserve everything you've ever gotten with Bobby, but you do everything with Bobby, right? And rightfully so, the right-hand man to Bobby. And I just think, and Reed, he's got to go out with a bang here. He's going out in a few months. Okay. So, charity. You know, we got to send him off. He's penalizing you because I feel you're talented and your performance. No, it has nothing to do with that. As at a level that I feel like it also elevates my level. Like, he's jealous. he hating on you? I guess man. And like now he wants to throw a bone to read because he's quitting. You're forgetting that read is quitting.

That's an interesting strategy though to go in and put people left that he doesn't think should be when you're only one of the ones left on the chopping block. So you're putting Eddie on the chop. You think Eddie should not be able to go to the guy. He's at, because you're going to have to go. Everybody's going to, we're going to, we're going to a whole thing. We've got a whole thing. Oh my gosh. That sounds like so much fun. It's going to be awesome because you and I are going to do a couple of raging 80 shows on the way down. Oh my goodness. for like markets.

Can I change my mind? No, no, you cannot. By the way, I'm having to pay for the whole thing, which sucks. Just so everybody knows. Hey, thank you in advance. Thank you, thank you. But we're going to do a couple stops because some local markets have been crying that we're not there. We don't go anywhere right now.

But I'm like, we'll take a bus. We'll do podcasts on the way down. We'll stop and do it. We have a friend of ours who plays music who's also going to go with us on the bus. But not going to the game? I don't have a ticket for them. Okay. I literally don't have a ticket for them.

So whoever's not going to the game in this. room can hang out with that person. You guys have fun in New Orleans. Who is it? I want to know who I want to hang out with. I wouldn't allow it if I wasn't somebody that we were close to. I'll say it's not George. Not George Burge.

That would be the incident because we're super close with George. It's not George. But it is somebody that I feel comfortable enough being on a bus for two or three days with. Oh, that's good. Garth. Yeah. That makes sense. Like do it.

Okay. So, Kevin picks Eddie. Eddie. I mean, it's easy now. I had an answer earlier. No, don't do. Don't do. That's why I wanted you.

No. You need to do based on what you thought. I can't pick Kevin now because he's such a jerk. Pick what you thought initially. Initially I had to read. And I had to read because he is leaving us. He's quitting. So why would we reward him?

See you. His sadness, we're not going to be around it. Yes. Yeah, that's fair. It's simple. That's the whole fight. That's it. Mike, I'll say that everybody here deserves to go.

It's hard to pick someone. Mike, just say. And being in my position, I'll just say me. What? No, Mike, you're not understanding the game. That's funny, I was going to say me. No, you weren't. Yeah, it was.

Yeah, it was. You know, as King Solomon said, you both get to go now because you picked yourselves. No, I'm just kidding. Right. Mike, you're really like going, you're punning the ticket? No, I would love to go.

Okay, then you're in. Pick somebody else. Okay, now I'll go read. All right, I'll go, Mike. Oh, man. This is a mean game, dude. We should have written it down first. I'm kidding.

No, it's a cool experience. I want, okay, here's what I want. Reid, who are you going to pick? I was going to pick myself, 100%, I swear. Okay, but you can't pick yourself. It's like Mike couldn't pick himself. So, pick, who else would you pick, not you? Well, then I would only just pick Mike because he likes going home.

But no one's going home. I know, but, I mean, usually on trips. Like, Mike usually doesn't stay out and, you know, go do things. What do we do? What do we do? I like going home? I like going to the Super Bowl. Never been to a Super Bowl

That's what I'm saying I don't have an answer Okay so I don't have an answer either I think we got our answer Which is? Reid picked himself Nobody picked Kevin I had Kevin

But you made me go to my original No you're original You didn't have Kevin Kevin was what you picked when you got pissed Yeah it's stupid he picked me I have no conclusion We're gonna have to do something That is fair

And probably Like drawing or something This is crazy like some game of skill or something Super Bowl trivia maybe I don't even want to do that because some people have an advantage I would still lose

Yeah, Reed would not go Hey think about this though I will probably never get to go to a Super Bowl in my entire life because I will never purchase tickets because I don't watch football You know that none of us would purchase tickets Like I don't know you might

I don't think so You might be given tickets What I'm going to think about and consider because I don't want anybody to back themselves out because all four of you guys deserve to go Thank you man

sweet of you thank you I'm going to come up with some sort of game or challenge it better not be pickleball no no no it's fair for everyone it'll probably be a game of chance some game of chance or like

Squid game or like Opies yes somebody dies or like Operation or something right like a old kid or something that's cool but I'm going to say this one more time I do not have a fifth ticket

this is not a bit I got four tickets Okay Holy crap That's crazy So Four of us will be in the Super Bowl That's all

Dabble's back in With the Giants see that They rehired I mean they kept them on Nobody even cares Nah who cares Yeah It's funny because like every season

There's a team I just forget about That even exists And this year is definitely the Giants Like I haven't watched one Giants game Don't care about them So Yeah I need to mark off my Eddie thinks his high school teacher wanted to have sex with them

I keep notes of everything I want to talk about I watch the murder of Air McNair Have you guys watched that? What's that on? Netflix Oh, you haven't watched it? I mean, I've watched documentaries on it But I haven't played this one specifically, no

It's part of that series? Yeah, the Untold, is that Untold? Yeah. You watch it? Yeah, I watched it a few months ago. I watched it. You have watched it, Casey. Mike, you watch it, Reed?

No. Okay, well, you're not going to Super Bowl. That was the test. There we go, Casey. I'm going, but now Casey's. So Steve McNair played quarterback for Alcorn State. Titans drafted him. Third overall, I believe, third or fourth overall.

Kane was a really good Titans quarterback, made it at the Super Bowl. A couple AFC championships was murdered after he retired. Turns out he had, and you guys can correct me if I'm messing you this up, he had like an apartment that he was out of renting or owned that he would like have chicks. Right down the road. And so then. And one of them was all cuckoo. He gets murdered.

It was a mistress. Do you say that? I'm in the middle of speaking a sentence about it. So, no, I haven't said it yet, but it was in the sentence that I was current. Yeah, I thought you may skip over it. He was murdered. And when they came in to find his body, they also found the body of a woman with him. Turns out his woman he was dating, but there was all this drama between her and him before that.

And so it looked like a murder suicide, meaning she killed him, then she killed herself. But during this documentary, That dude that got on the gun. Oh, yeah. There's something happened that's not that. Something happened. I don't think she did it. And documentaries can sway you.

She probably owed him money and then something happened and then you just shot everybody. I've seen too many movies too where they put the gun at someone's head and make them shoot themselves in the head. Like where they're like, okay, well, you put the-stage of suicide. You put the gun in their hand. They're like drugged and you make them shoot themselves in the head. The dude lied to the cops about the guy. He's like, I know who she was. He sold her with the gun.

And the cops are like, well, you lied to it. He goes, yeah, my fiance was next to me. I couldn't say the truth. Yeah. Oh. The only thing is they didn't go, from what I remember, they didn't really go much further into that, did they? I don't think that they went much further into it back then,

so there's not a lot to go on unless you're investigating it now. I don't think it happened like we were told it always happened. That's too shady where some dude just happens to sell a gun, lies to the cops about it. He went to jail for like maybe murder. Something else, right? Assault. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

they talk about Dave and Busters at all on this one? Yeah We're short to Dave and Busters Is that time about all the players are going in?

It's crazy because like now my kids they have birthday parties at Dave and Busters and every time I go in there I look at that bar

I'm like that's crazy McNair was right there like just his chick right here So the boyfriend The chick that killed him We'll call her the murder Yeah we'll call her the murder

We don't know I think Officially she's the one that murdered him According to the police reporter Or whatever Sure Yeah

So we'll say her Although there's something up But it's a closed case right Yeah, but things can be reopened. I've seen enough CSI. They pulled the thing in the box out of the show. So what was funny was this dude's talking on, he's like, man, I was the biggest Titans fan.

He goes, I'm my favorite players. He goes, I would get autographs. I didn't miss it when the Titans came to Nashville. His girl is her. And all of a sudden he's like, we broke up, we were still living together because we couldn't afford rent. And all of a sudden, she was my favorite player. Oh, weird.

Yeah. And he's like, how I'm supposed to like my favorite player. And then you start to kind of feel bad for him. And you should feel bad for him because, like, his girl, and she's dead and she killed him and her. But mostly I'm like, yeah, that suck if your ex-like was your favorite wrestler or your favorite ball player.

Like you couldn't even like him as much anymore. Like a Dallas Cowboy, my wife. Like your wife and Dak are together. That's the weird. I started struggling with it. That's crazy. Then you can't even like watch the team. Everything reminds you of it.

And didn't it look like a different, and it was a different Nashville? But the Nashville, when the Titans moved to town, look like Mountain Pine. Yeah, not much going on there. Dude, nothing. Yeah. Nothing. So you should watch it, though.

It's not long. It's like 50 minutes. Yeah, it's not long at all. Murder of Aaron McNair, I believe is what it's called. Super Bowl odds are out. Oh, let's take a break. We'll come back. Mike, go take a break real quick?

Yep. We do have Brandon. We'll do Super Bowl odds, all that. All right. First, let's do this. Do I have a spot to read? There's just a pick six. Okay, cool.

All right, let's talk about pick six. Oh, you played it. You had Texas and played? awesome, man. It's the most fun. Because what happens when I leave Nashville and I go on vacation or whatever, I try to get all my bets out of the way, you know, and there were just obviously too many NFL bets that I could not make

when I left. Because our state allows draft kings, but Texas does not. So when I realized I was down in Texas and I can play pick six, let's go, baby! It was awesome. Dude, you can even do kickers on pick six. A lot of states that you can't do normal draft kings,

you can do pick six, which is, and I can't really say anything more than that. Yeah, thank God, though. But in Texas, you did it. It's awesome. So you pick players, and then you picked it over and under on stats. You can do as little as two players. Or you can do 10 players.

The more players you do, the more money you get, obviously. You can do passing yards, over and under, a certain amount. Russian yards, receptions, interceptions, sacks, field goals made, a field goals attempted. Dude, it's awesome. So if you are a listener and you're like, I can't ever do draft kings and do the bets they do it because it's not allowed in our state.

Hey, go download the Pick Six app. Yeah. Did you ever feel more confident in that than you do like a line or something? I feel like I'd be like, oh, so-and-so is going to get receptions for sure compared to like, oh, I don't know if they're going to win this game. I felt so confident every single time I placed bets. Nice. I didn't win much, but I felt confident.

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It's rare, but sometimes you get on that heater. And I tend to not believe that my heat's going to last. So then I start to get a little timid. But you just on it. And everything wins. Rare. That is exactly the opposite of what's happened to me. Oh, you're a freezer.

I've been in the freaking freezing. This month, because all my draft kings, you now look and my favorite thing is what they call the stat sheet. This month, it's the seventh, it's the sixth. It's the sixth. This month,

I'm negative $4,299. Oh, my deal. I've missed every game. I've missed it. Which is literally not true because I've wagered 5,246. So you want some. And won 946. But I'm telling you,

I could. You're in the freezer. Call coats for kids because I need some sort of charity because I am frozen. Are you these all kinds live bets? Let it go. Let it go.

Frozen. Somebody get a chip me, tink, ding, tink, chip me out of this thing. Yeah, no, dude. I've tried everything. All kinds. All kinds. And so I just don't know.

I don't know what's up. I don't know what to do except just stay in the game. Oh, I was going to say, okay, I'll say take a break, but okay. I bet it that And I'm like, you know what? I can't be that frozen.

Yesterday, it was the Chiefs minus 10 and a half. And I thought maybe the Chiefs with, it's not like their quarterback doesn't have any starting experience. And I know Chris Jones was out and most of those guys, but I was like, they're playing the Broncos, about 500 team. Chiefs were plus 10 and a half, about a thousand bucks, Chiefs plus 10 and a half. First quarter I was like, let it go, let it go. I'm begging for a coat.

Dude, it was awful. every college football, playoff game, big losses, all the way around. It's been terrible. So when people are like, oh,

you only talk about your wins, no, I don't. I've had pretty successful runs in the past six months. Don't get near me in case I'm contagious. Because going around, there's flu,

there's neurovirus, there's COVID, and then there's what I have right now. And I'm going to affect you. That's rough. It doesn't matter what I pick, I lose. I've been reversed.

myself on a game yesterday. I bet $250. It was the Cowboys plus two and a half and they were winning. And I was like, I've never bet on the Cowboys playing the Commanders because whatever. So I said, so I'm going to bet on the Cowboys. And they lost by four.

I couldn't even reverse my reverse. I lost on that one too. It's freezing in here. It's freezing. Reed's been sick. Reed sitting by himself. He's like, oh, I'm good, man. I know. I got really sick on Friday.

Vomiting. Yeah. And so I was like, you don't got to come in. He's like, no, I'm all good. I've not heard of a virus that's all out of you by Monday. No. Yeah, I'm probably going to skip workouts today and tomorrow.

I think you should. I don't want to get you guys. Probably all the way to February 9th. Yeah. Wow. Kevin's like February 10th. Come back. So, okay, so there's that.

I just wanted to make sure we all knew what was up. We're going to talk to Brandon Marcello now. It writes for 24-7 sports. Check out his articles, 24-7.com. Follow him at Brandon Marcello. he is the college football guy and why I restate because you'll hear it early in this

I'm like hey we're here to Brandon Marcello I think a lot of people not so much Brandon because he knows me but it did happen here I think a lot of people don't realize we're doing the interview because I talked the same in real life

as I do in the interview and we've had coaches that have been like pretty vulgar not mean but like insane like hilarious stuff and then we realized oh they didn't know they were doing the interview yet

and so Brandon comes on And you can leave all the beginning stuff on. But I say, hey, okay, here with Brandon Marcella. So he knows that we're in. It's official. Because I just think people hear me talk and they're like, oh, the interview is like going. He's talking like a normal human and not even that well. So that's why I say, hey, we're with Brandon Marcella.

But we talk about a lot of newer and stuff. So we're going to do this with Brandon. And we'll come back after this. Hey, Brandon, in the last couple weeks, it seems like you were in a lot of different places. Where did you go to games? This past week I went to. down to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. I was there for a few days,

a couple days longer than I thought I was going to be. Oh, because of the guy that the terrorists that drove in to the truck? Yeah, yeah. I was actually on news duty that day as a result of that. I had to go down and go to police headquarters and everything. So a little bit of a wild, wild situation.

Okay, Brandon Marcello was on with us. Will you talk about that for a second? Yeah. You know, I woke, I was planning on sleeping in that morning. You know, I think like a lot of people in New Orleans, and I got a call for my boss asking if I was okay. It woke me up. And I was like, yeah, I immediately thought he was thinking, like,

Brandon must be drunk. He's like, so I thought, I thought he was asking me if I was hung over. But no, he's like, no, are you okay? There was a terrorist attack in New Orleans last night, and I immediately shot out of bed and, like, ran over to my window, because I didn't know what that meant. And then he filled me on the details. And, you know, he said,

you know, you don't really need to go out and go cover that, so to speak, but, you know, look into the game, see if the game's still going on and everything. So I got up, went down for breakfast and found out there was going to be like a press conference at the police headquarters. So I just said, you know, screw it, I'm going to go down there, went down there, did some reporting, ran into a congressman, ran into the sheriff of Orleans Parish. And then we had a press conference, I think at 1 o'clock. But during that time, a lot of information was starting to leak about the game, but it was going to be played, it was going to be delayed. And it was a weird scene just because it was the FBI was there, Homeland Security was there.

Obviously the police force was there. About 400 police officers were on the streets at that point. The place was just crawling with uniformed officers. Yeah. And then they delayed the game, which obviously was not the most important part of that day, but still a lot of moving parts. Right. And I would think it may even be easier to delay it a week than a day. Like, I don't know.

You were a part of that situation. Like, when did they make that decision? And what did they do differently in that one day time? Did they, like, bring in people to make it more secure? Yeah. So I guess about like seven and a half, eight hours before the game was supposed to kick off, they made the decision to delay it one day. And they still hadn't set a time.

They just said 24 hours. And so at that point, that started leaking. And then they finally confirmed it right after 1 o'clock local time. And, you know, a lot of fans were scheduled to leave that next day, fly out and everything. So a lot of fans did leave. The attendance for the game only ended up being 57,000 something and change. And the capacity there is well over 70,000. It was still a great atmosphere, but a lot of people just had to go home because of travel.

Interestingly, all the airlines decided to refund tickets or whatever, give them travel credits for free, no cancellation fees, if they had to do anything out of New Orleans. And so a lot of fans were able to stay as a result of that just financially. But I talked to several families and stuff at team hotels about it. And some just didn't feel like safe staying there. But it was incredible just how much more security was in that city, you know, less than 12 hours after that attack happened. I mean, Canal Street, which is where I was staying on, which is right off Bourbon Street. I was about 1,100 feet away from where the attack happened. it was just you couldn't get anywhere without seeing a police officer about every two seconds in your field of view.

And sirens were going off everywhere. And I guess what was so really, really crazy about all of it, such a tragic situation, obviously, just terrible, was that, you know, in the morning hours, they were telling everybody to stay indoors because they were still sweeping the city for explosives. They didn't know if there were other explosives in the city. And so they were telling everybody to stay in. And meanwhile, I left my hotel room, obviously, to go to that press conference. And, you know, there was a lot of people just walking around the streets like it was a normal day. And, you know, that's just New Orleans for you. You just can't slow people down there, whether tourists or locals.

But, you know, I can't imagine the pain in everybody's going through in that city because it's so resilient anyway. That's kind of it's in its DNA. It's New Orleans. It's a Crescent City. It's a big easy. You know, it's party all the time, you know, that never sleeps. But you could tell, like later about it. afternoon when everything started settling in, people were kind of shaking up a little bit about it,

not as many people on the streets as you would expect. Did they do anything security at the game or they're like metal detectors or anything when you got there that, again, because they only had a day. That's why I thought it would be harder to get it flipped over in a day than a couple days or even more than that. What about when you got there? Yeah, they up security. I mean, they had a lot more officers there.

I mean, I saw Homeland Security there. I saw FBI agents there, special agents with Homeland Security. and then of course the police force. They had bomb dogs outside sniffing every vehicle that was parking in the parking garage, as well as any team buses or even media buses that were coming up. So we had to stand on the bus for about five minutes as the dog was going around. Metal detectors at the entrances. Nothing like two out of the ordinary as far as like just going through the entrances.

Because if you go to the games now anywhere, really, and everybody knows this, it's like security's pretty amped up anyway with metal detectors. and people, you know, all that stuff. So, you know, for the media, it took us maybe five minutes to get through security, which wasn't too outrageous. But it was a very good thing to see, especially the K-9 officers.

And then when you walk through the stadium, I mean, it was, I don't know how many law enforcement were there, but it was substantial because I've never been in a college football game where I've seen the FBI and Homeland Security just walking around among the crowd. With Marty Girl and then the Super Bowl in February, you were just there as that happened. Would you think twice about being a part of one of those events in New Orleans?

Personally, yes. Because, I mean, but the thing is, it's just like any big city is going to have security issues anyway. You can't keep an eye on everything at any time. And because of the way New Orleans is structured all the small streets, side streets and everything, I mean, it's pretty much just foot traffic anyway. so like anybody can come and go. And with that attack, you know, the big question there was the security measures as far as just the ballards, the security ballards that would go up at the end of Bourbon Street or some of these party roads I would call them where, you know, people can just walk on the roads like Bourbon Street. And those security ballers are just like if you go to a, you know, the shopping mall or whatever, you see those metal posts like yellow posts or whatever in the parking lot.

They're like those, but they raise up out of the ground. that can come up and down. And they also have these things almost called like a wall, almost called like it looks like a snow plow that comes out of the ground as well at the end of the road. So no one can get through it. But those ballards, the smaller ones are supposed to be on the sidewalks that come up. So they're staggered. So you have like one here and then one here behind it.

And so if someone was to try and drive a car through there, there's absolutely no way from to do it. But the issue there is that New Orleans, they've been under repair since November and they weren't working. And so they've had to put temporary structure. up, whether it's just one of those metal steel gates that you see, like at, you know, boxing events or old wrestling events in the 80s, or they'll park a police car at the end of the street and just kind of block it with their car. And obviously, they didn't have anything really on the sidewalk to stop this attacker this past week. So they say they're going to have this all fixed before the, for the Super Bowl. But, I mean, you know, you can't be safe really anywhere,

anywhere these days. And personally, as I get older, I just want to avoid large events unless it's work-related. But it would definitely be in the back of my mind if I were to go to New Orleans and go to one of these big events. And for that matter, any big event in any city. But probably especially New Orleans, because as I said, there's just so many little small roads and nook and crannies around the French quarter that, you know, you just never know what's going to happen there. Plus, as you know, Bobby, you walk around. Every time I'm in New Orleans, I hear stories about people getting mugged or getting followed around or whatever because it's such a hot spot for tourists and the pickpockets are always looking out for you. Yeah, and in drunk cities too, it's easier to, if I are pickpocket, I go to drunk cities because people are drunk.

No clue. Let's talk about that game specifically. I was like Parker Jones for a second. And again, we can get to the game. But that, first of all, if I'm a walk on, I'm not getting right on the sideline anyway because I don't deserve to be. And I feel like they're going to be like, hey, walk on, move back. Like, I feel like I would just know my place. Aside from his toes are a little over the line, hit the referee, the referee wiped out through the flag.

He's also, he's a walk-on. Don't wear such a bold white undershirt. I thought that was problematic too. Why are you drawing attention to yourself, walk-on? All those thoughts happened. Now, what are your thoughts about the Parker Jones situation as a whole should the ref have thrown the flag, the reaction, does he transfer? What do you think about that, Brandon?

Well, I can see why the ref threw the flag because it's against the rules, but also if it's one of those situations where it didn't necessarily affect the play, it also didn't affect your involvement with the play as a referee. You had other officials to help you. I probably want to throw him the flag. Also, I'm sure if he looked at the replay of it, he would have seen how much of an accident was. It wasn't like the kid was legitimately like three feet into the white zone, you know, along the sideline. He was just there on the edge.

And it was just a huge play. And it was the first big play of the game for either. really. And so everybody was excited. I feel bad for the kid just because I was there in the stadium, but I had the broadcast on my computer on the side, whatever. And every time I looked like they were still, looked like they were still talking about the kid over and over and over again. They were making him a superstar without him really wanting to be a superstar. And I, you know, that's part of the, you know, part of the problem or part of what you signed up for as a football player, but not necessarily as a walk-on football player. The other thing is, is that because of these

playoffs, now you're able to dress out everybody who's on your roster. So like 105, 125 kids or whatever, whereas if it was like a typical road game during the season, you'd only have like 60 something players on the sideline. So that walk-on would have never been there. But because the playoff, they allow you to travel your entire roster. And I'll tell you, it was so many kids for Georgia that a lot of their walk-ons were in the press conference room because I was to have to do some TV before the game. It was the only quiet area I could find. But then it wasn't because there was about 25, 30 walk-ons in there getting dressed out for the game because they didn't have enough room in their locker room, an NFL locker room of all things too. So they should probably,

maybe they should just look at like not allowing that many kids on the sideline. I know they want the kids to have the experience and reward them for being there at the game, but that doesn't necessarily mean they need to be on the sideline for the game and getting in the way. So maybe we cut back on that and just for that three-hour period of time, they're not with the team, but the rest the week they are and they're enjoying the festivities. I did a deep dive on him. I think most people did. He was a no-star recruit. How do you even get on as a

walk-on at Georgia as a no-star recruit? Do you know anything about his story? None. I didn't really look into him all that much, but you know, sometimes it's just a matter if you know somebody who knows somebody. And then also a lot of these teams, including Georgia,

they do open tryouts for walk-ons. They'll do walk-on tryouts every preseason. I mean, every team I've ever been around they do that. Sometime the middle or early part of August camp, they'll do tryouts and maybe bring on a two or three guys if they've got room on their roster. But I'll say this, in the new era of college football that's starting up here this upcoming year with the scholarship limits and all that, you're not going to see a lot of Parker

Joneses out there anymore. It's going to be kids that can actually contribute. Well, also, with a haircut like that, you're not a cornerback. He's a cornerback. I've never seen somebody fast with that haircut. He's white and with that haircut. No chance. He reminded me a lot of like Will Mushchamp,

because Will Mushchamp looked like that, like playing football as well. And he was a good football player. Same with Kirby Smart. Kirby Smart was a really good linebacker at Georgia, but like you would see him. Lineback. That's a football player.

This guy is supposed to be a cornerback. Like Cooper DeJon's the only white corner. I mean, when he came out, they were like, well, he's white, we cannot believe it. There's no chance as a kid. And I hope he, like, bounces back and has a good career. I'm sure he'll play. If he wants to play, he'll play at a smaller school.

I think maybe he's a legacy kid, though, like maybe his parent or something play there. But, okay, let's talk about that game for a second. Now, it's right. Everybody's just jumping all over the SEC, and they have their chance now. Okay, if you're going to take your shots, take your shots, because everybody's doing it. Not you, but everybody's doing. SEC sucks. Does the SEC suck?

No, it's just not as good as it once was. And it hasn't been the last two years. And for that matter, college football this year, when we look at the equivalent, quote unquote elite teams, say the last four teams in the playoff right now, I wouldn't say that any of those teams, maybe one of them, Ohio State, matches up really with any of the previous teams we've seen in previous years, even the most recent years. I wrote this in my column about Notre Dame after that game that I believe,

and I know a lot of other people are saying this too, and I don't think it's hyperbole, that the era of SEC speed and the athleticism, and having that just absolute dominance over the other conferences, that's over. And not necessarily because it's the fault of the SEC. It's because of the transfer portal because of NIL. It's spread out talent more than ever.

As I've said before, there's more talent than ever among the big schools, but it's more spread out than ever. So what you're going to get is games like this where Notre Dame beats Georgia, because Georgia is just not as good as it was in the previous years. Same with Alabama, four losses this year. And you look at Notre Dame,

I think they got great coaches, but look at every point that was scored in that game. It was by transfers. Like, Notre Dame's never been that type of program in the last couple of years to just go, let's get transfers in and depend on them. No, they had to do that. And that's the way college football has been trending.

And every player that contributed significant moments in that game were transfers. And in fact, most of them, if not all of them that scored in that game are transfers that just arrived this past off season. Got Riley Leonard at quarterback. Jaten Harrison, the kid who returned the kickoff for a touchdown, he was at Marshall. You know, Bo Collins, who caught the touchdown pass, transfer from Clemson. Times have changed. And the SEC's days of having exclusivity to the athletes in the South are over.

Those kids now are going up north even more than they have in the past. And I think that will continue. And what's really going to hurt the SEC, in my opinion, even further potentially, is that all the money in NIL with boosters and everything is up north in these Big Ten schools. They have the bigger boosters. They have the bigger NIL collectives than anybody in the SEC. And that is what's going to attract this talent even more so or these next two or three years. Because now everybody's paying $20, $22 million a year.

And then on top of that, people are going to be paying, NIL money on top of that. And the Big Ten schools have the deeper pockets, the bigger donors. And I think that could potentially sink the SEC even further. And the SEC can't stockpile like they did because it's so easy to leave if you're like the old Georgia teams, they had three NFL running backs. The might even go back. We could do this all day with all these SEC teams, the Georgia's, the Alabama's. You can't do that because if you're third string and you're awesome, you're just not going to sit. You're going to go somewhere else. And so again, the depth will not be there anywhere, but everywhere will have better ones because the big schools

aren't able to hold three ones. You can't hold them. And, you know, that thing with Georgia and Alabama is they would hold them and develop them in their system. So that by year, two, year three, not only are they obviously ready to play, but they also understand the system and they've been playing in it in practice for two years. So they're ready to start and not just start, but excel in the system. Now these kids are going, I'm not starting after a year. I'm going to they'll transfer elsewhere, and they don't quite get the development. I mean, you could say I've been coached the last two or three years, but you're being coached by two or three different coaches.

Everybody does things differently. And I think that's going to start showing up, too, Bobby, is that we're going to see players that just aren't as refined technique-wise and fundamentally as some of these programs. And if you're a program like Georgia, what Georgia's trying to do right now is they believe that they can bring the kids in and maybe not like they have in the past where you say you've got three guys, three deep and keep them on campus all three, four.

years, but they believe that they can just do two. They can still do that. They're still focusing on maybe we can keep enough kids here and develop them and bring them up the system. But man, that is so difficult to do without paying those kids more. I mean, if you're going to do that if you're in Georgia, at this point, you're going to be like, we've got to pay our backup, you know, you know, two times what he's going to be potentially making elsewhere just to keep them on campus. Let's go to the Texas game. And I'm a big believer that kickers need to be like CIA agents, they don't need to be noticed for being any different. Because when they mess up and this Auburn guy has long hair. Curly hair. It's just too much. It's too much if you're a

kicker because when you mess up, as a kicker, you need to be normal. You need to be like 5-9, 510 skinny. We don't want you to know what your face looks like. You need to stay to the side. Because when it's not, when you have something about you that stands out physically, we will never forget it. I will never forget. Side show Bob's hair coming out of that helmet, that Texas helmet. So my rule would be, like the New York Yankees.

No facial hair for kickers. No long hair, no big bold glasses. You're not wearing one sock up or down. You look as generic as possible like a CIA agent and you kick the ball because that makes you, like it makes me not like them. I don't know. I don't like Texas anyway.

I hate Texas. But your thoughts on kickers just need to look standard because just kick the freaking ball. that's a problem like kicker as soon as they can walk on a field you automatically hate them even if you're a fan of that team because you're just like don't screw this up yeah you're right yeah when a quarterback goes out there you know gets subbed in or whatever you're not going oh man here comes the backup no sometimes you're thinking oh yeah you know because the hope is always something's better with the kicker it's always worse we're always assuming the worst and kickers don't have swag kickers don't have swag at all for any reason a quarterback can have like he can have something about him they're like dang he deserves long here earring that chains, that quarterback, like, that's what he's about. The greatest kicker does not deserve that Auburn guy's hair. Nah, yeah, well, that and, you know, it didn't help that his coach was like, Steve Sarpegian got up in his face and gave him a little like,

Tony Robbins. Let's kiss here a moment. I was funny. I was in the Georgia team hotel in the lobby watching the end of that game with a bunch of Georgia fans and player parents and everything. And, man, they were cheering hard against Texas. They're like, we do not want to see Texas. for a third time this year on the football field if they advanced in the playoffs.

And of course, Jordan didn't have to worry about that now. But when Bird Arbor, Auburn, was missing those kicks, it was as if they were Texas fans. They were going, oh, my God. Like, even though they wanted him to miss those kicks, they're like, oh, my God. So it's just something inherent in all of us, I think, with football. It's just like, it just changed. Kickers change our attitude. Because I almost think we see them as like the nerd on the field.

like this band nerd doesn't deserve to be on the field. Be the nerd, though. Yes, you need to be the nerd and not the long-haired. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so let's do this. Hey, so real quick, I want to bring this up. Yeah, go ahead. I'm ready. You see this? The kicker, I don't know what team it was, so forgive me. I just came to my mind. The kicker went out during halftime this past week to warm up while the band was still on the field. I saw that.

And he was kicking, trying to kick balls between like the drum line and the tubus section. Yeah. And the fans went nuts on him. They went after him. Usually everybody just hates the band. They'll attack the band, but they went after that kicker. So again, kickers, you have like, you can't do anything right. I mean, but if it was a defensive tackle out there warming up and he knocked a trombone

player down, just says a tackle down here. That's showbiz, baby. It's like pun, and just, we'll stay on this for just one more second. Like, I hate, the worst job would be a punter because nobody ever wants to see you. Even your own team. A kicker, yeah, you're like, you're going to ruin this. We know it. There's a negative feeling.

But if you ever have to see your punter, that's in a negative situation. Like, think about that. You're only on the field whenever your own team does not want to see you. That sucks to be a punter. I'd probably be a punter and a kicker. And I would have my hair cut short and I'd be in contacts. I'd be as low-key, generic as possible. Okay, so Ohio State looks ungodly good now.

Like they figured it out. I don't know. They're going to dog-walk Texas, I feel like. But if Ohio State... just plays to what they're kind of capable of. Can anybody stop them? I like Notre Dame's defense potentially against them. Their cornerbacks are really good.

Notre Dame does have, yeah. Yeah, that's the one like matchup I see remaining in this playoff that could challenge Ohio State. I don't think Penn State matches up well at all with Ohio State. They played earlier this year. It was a quote unquote low scoring game. Ohio State won 20 to 13. Penn State missed a lot of opportunities that game, but so did Ohio State.

state. And I think that got overlooked. And with that being quote unquote a neutral site, the national championship game, instead of being at Happy Valley like it was early this year, that's just not a good matchup. Also, Ohio State wasn't playing anywhere near as well as it is right now. I think this Ohio State team, Bobby reminds me a lot of, say, like a superstar NBA team that just goes through the motions in the regular season. And then once it comes playoff time, they just go off. They tap into that something special that's in them. And we all know, oh, yeah, that's why they're the richest roster in college football because they've got the best players and they've turned it on when they had to. And, you know, I reversed a week or so ago my pick for

Oregon, Ohio State because I saw how how State played in that Tennessee game and then also talked to some people around the program about how they were doing some doing things differently, offensively, and they're just like, we're just got to stop shying away from throwing the ball to Jeremiah Smith. He's the best player in all of college football, so we're going to throw it to him, even though he's a freshman. They got away from that a little bit near the end of the season. And boy, he's tearing it up now. And Oregon just had no answer for him. And no one in this playoff, I think, is going to be able to slow him down other than

than made in Notre Dame. Notre Dame's got the best corners in all of college football, not just this playoff. And they could slow them down. My question, though, is can Notre Dame actually score enough points if they were to meet in the national championship game? Because that offense, it's good for maybe three touchdowns in the game, but good luck getting four or five out of them. and I think they'll beat Ohio State at this point the way they're chugging along,

you might end up having to score that fourth touchdown late in the game. And I don't know if anybody's equipped in the playoff remaining to do that. I feel like Penn State and Notre Dame is a better matchup for Penn State to actually win the game and then get run. Because I think Penn State can beat Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame's a one and a half point favorite. Is that right? Are they a point favorite? I think I looked last night.

I think that seems to be a pretty good matchup. The Ohio State Texas game. I hate Texas so much. And I think what has avoided Ohio State from being the big, bad villain, is those two losses during the season. And it's kept everybody off of the $20 million. And it comes up occasionally. But because they had two losses, because they lost to Oregon,

semi-middle of the season, they lost to get into Michigan. It's kept them from being the big villain. Because had they been undefeated the whole time, I think that would have been the storyline. 20-plus million. But those losses have made them, I won't say likable, but not near as hateable. Well, also you have a program under a head coach who hasn't won the big one, Ryan Day.

He has struggled in top five games, and now they're finally winning them. So in a lot of ways, he's as much of an underdog as you can be at a Blue Blood program that's paying football players $20 plus million. And you just lost three weeks ago or four weeks ago against rival Michigan at home. So people are just like, this Ryan Day is not good or whatever. I mean, he's good. It's just that he kind of gets in his own way at times. and he's not getting in the way right now. He's letting that talent play loose and play the style that they need to play to win.

And, you know, it's just so crazy. I mean, back in June of July, you know, the question for me, and I talked to Ross Bork, the Ohio State AD about this and wrote a column on it. And it was, what happens if Ohio State loses the Michigan for a fourth straight year? It was thought of unheard of at that point because Michigan, we thought, was going to be average or bad. Ohio State had the richest roster in Colorado. football and it he said very much kind of what he said after this last loss against michigan that you have to take the big picture in the consideration it's not just one loss against michigan anymore

in this 12 team playoff era you can lose to michigan and still make the playoff and so what if you want a national championship i don't think a lot of fans will care about them losing the michigan but the problem is is that michigan fans can still hang that over your head all off season yeah you won the national championship buddy but guess what we beat you and we got you at the big house this upcoming year. And they won up the year before, too. Yeah, and they won it up the year before, which also, it's like semi-sweet chocolate chips to me.

Like, I like chocolate chips. And if I see them in the fridge, I'm like, oh, I'm eating some chocolate chips. And I'm like, you know, I like, I found chocolate chips and I get to eat them. But they're kind of like semi-sweet. That's kind of like if Ohio State wins a national title. They got chocolate chips. That's pretty cool. But they're semi-sweet because Michigan beat them and had won the title the year before. And you're right. I don't hate Ohio State as much as I should.

I hope they beat. I hope they stump. I hope Texas quits. I hope Texas folds the program they get beat so bad. had next week. Okay, final thing, and you can push back on my theory. First of all, everyone's like, you don't want the buy week because the rest. But three of those teams that lost were the underdogs, more so than it was the buy week, I think mostly it wasn't the buy week. It was they got beat by better teams. Your thoughts on the rest and the people going, the by week's what lost it for them? Yeah, the favorites won for the most part. I mean, they did. And even in a game,

like Notre Dame and Georgia, it was like a one or two point spread. So who won, won in that game? I don't think the buy affected anybody substantially. And in fact, I could argue that Notre Dame, if they had the buy, would have beaten Georgia worse. And the reason why I say that is because Notre Dame lost their best defensive player in the first round against Indiana. Riley Mills, their defensive tackle, led them in sacks, and he's a big piece for them, not just defensively, but also strategically and schematically against a team like Georgia that was going to try and run the ball up the middle.

They didn't have him in that game. And I think if he's in that game, that's probably even worse for Georgia. So, yeah, I don't buy into the buy thing right now. But what I do buy into, Bobby, is that we got to reseed the bracket. We can't do this crap where we reward the four top conference champions with the first round by. So you get like the number 10 team or whatever with the first round by

with one of the top four seats. Don't do that. Just put the teams in and rank them one through 12. If you're number four in your Notre Dame, you get a first round by. We got to get rid of that. I mean, in the instantly men's basketball tournament, they don't give conference champions a first round by. They just go, you have a spot in the tournament. They don't say you'll have one of the top four seeds or one of the top eight seeds or anything like that.

They're just saying you're guaranteed a spot in the playoff. Do it that way now. Guarantee them a spot in the playoff, but rank them the way they are. And if they're outside the top 12, have them bump out that last team at number 12 because usually it's going to be a team that we're all wondering should be in the playoff anyway. So that's what they need to do. Brandon Marcello, follow on my Instagram at Brandon Marcello.

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Yeah. But okay. I'm with it. like just looking at the matchups Broncos and bills that should that should be a steam roll right it's in Buffalo you can always say you never know

I hate it's dude he lets that ball fly it's your boy it's your boy still this isn't even one that I would dude I'm so cold though it's like you don't even know I know I know I know

hard like that's a two seven so that's the best of this round and the worst of this round so Buffalo probably right we pull up to spreads, Kevin? Yeah.

Because I would guess that one's probably a touchdown or more? Touchdown for Buffalo? Nine. Okay. Yeah. So we'll just do

winners here, but I do want to hear the spread. So Buffalo is the two. Let's just say they get that. Okay. Chiefs obviously get the buy. The Ravens and Steelers, those games are oddly always good.

Always good, yeah. The Steelers kind of suck, though, now again. Yeah, all of a sudden, they're 10 and 7. Yeah. And, yeah, after starting so. hot. But those games are, I still am picking the Ravens, but what's that spread? Five? Nine and a half. Wow. Yeah. Not even based off their previous games, huh? No. Good for Lamar.

Okay, so we'll put Baltimore there. So that means Buffalo and Baltimore, if that's the case, we'll play in round two because they do the receding. The Chargers in Texas is interesting. We need a coin for this one. What's the spread there? Is it Chargers? One? Two and a half, Chargers. Wow. I definitely see the Texans win in that game. Sure. They've not played well recently. The Chargers are just consistent.

Yeah. They're just consistent. But I think Kansas City is hoping the Texans win. Yeah. They've already had to play the Chargers twice. Yeah, and the Chargers always play them tough. Yeah. I'm going to...

Who do you think? Who wins that one? I go Texans. Any reason? Just because, I mean, I don't think the Chargers are there. I think the C.J. Stroud still has a little bit of... No tank Dahl. No tank Dino's tough, but I mean, I think...

No Aryan Foster. No Andre Johnson. No David Carr. David Carr. Okay, Texans. I can't... I mean, you? Yeah, I'm going to go Chargers.

I think Harbaugh is a difference. I'm going to go Chargers too, just because of Harbaugh and Herbert. Better quarterback, better coach when it's close. Casey? I agree. Chargers. Reed? Football. Yeah, we're going to go Vikings.

Okay. So then let's say it's the Chargers. Well, Kansas Kansas does not want that to happen. You know they're rooting for the Texas. Yeah, definitely. You have to be. But it's Kansas City and then the Chargers,

Baltimore, and then Buffalo. We're just running the AFC side. Let's just say it's Baltimore, Buffalo. That's a good game. Yeah. You think playoff Lamar shows up? He kind of shrinks in the moment. Josh Allen pulls it out.

I think that it's in Buffalo. It is in Buffalo. And it's cold as crap, and that definitely helps. Yeah. So that's one of those two where I'm like, I'm not going to argue with you because who cares. But I go Buffalo.

The weird thing about the MVP race is that Lamar has definitely the stats. Josh Allen's team has the wins. But he does not have the stats that Lamar has. He's having a great statistical year. But they're using the, well, Josh Allen's team is winning. Lamar has the stats, but his team isn't winning. but if you're saying Lamar should beat Josh Allen, then you've got to put Joe Burrow in,

who also doesn't have the wins, but has the stats. So if you're going to penalize, if you're not going to penalize for losses, then you got to put Joe Burrow in the mix. They finish seven and six. Yeah. I think it's also, the bills have a better record, but Josh Allen doesn't have like a Derek Henry

or Jarmar Chase. So I feel like that's really what's also like bolstered his case. Also just the narrative that Lamar's already won twice. But I hate when some, someone doesn't win because that crap gets held against me for awards all the time and I hate it. They're like, you don't need another CMA award. You don't need another. And I'm like, I don't need it, but I deserve it.

Right. Yeah. Like, look at my balls. Give me the award. I say that to people. You say that? Yeah, yeah. Because Joe Burrow, stats, like, crazy.

If you're going to reclorses, one to 5,000 yards. If you're going to penalize Lamar. It's all to Jamar Chase. No, T. Higgins. Tehiggins is awesome Do you see him say take less money to stay in Cincinnati? I hope not. Come to New England.

I think he's going to New England, yeah. Gaseki had a good year too. Yeah, they have no defense, though. They play with 19 guys on offense and two on defense. So, Buffalo and Kansas City again probably. That's fun because that's the new Brady Manning. Yeah. Is the Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes.

Let's go to the NFC side. Man, the Rams are actually coming on. The Rams are pretty good, guys. and they have if you're going to have you have to pick Stafford or Donald I'm picking Stafford

yeah for sure even though Donald's been really good this year I'm picking Stafford and he's won a Super Bowl Vikings or Rams Eddie I'm gonna go Vikings

I'm gonna go Vikings I think the Vikings kind of gave us a little glimpse of like okay maybe we're not there yet but I think they really are especially coming after

coming off a loss like this yeah I think I'm gonna win this one what's the line there Kevin it is Minnesota minus one and a half you know what's

interesting about this game is that LA does not have a home field advantage. So they have the home field. So I guess the advantage of me they sleep in their own beds. Yeah. They drive to the stadium. They don't have to take a flight to the game, but there's no rabid LAF, yeah.

I'm gonna but if it's like quarterback and coach, which is when it's close, it's usually what I will do. I guess I'll go Rams even though that means the Vikings online because I'm on. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

But I would take Stafford and McVeigh right now over Kevin O'Connell and Darnold, even though all four of them are good. Like that's not... I guess I'll go Rams.

Huh, did you go Eddie? Yeah, I went Vikings. What'd you do? Kevin? I'm gonna go Rams too. Is it weird that your name? Yeah, but I love to hear you. I will watch a Vikings game

just so I can hear his name over and over. Got it, got it. Is it spelled the same way? Oh yeah, the exact same way. Just so I could be like, you know what? If I was ever an NFL coach, this is what it would sound like.

That's weird. That's cute. Who are you picking? I'm going to go Rams. We're going to pick the Rams after the storybook season of Vikings. I hope the Vikings win, but I think the Rams. Me too. I agree.

Yeah. Okay. We got, this game's terrible. We got Baker and then the Redskins. The commanders. Whatever, dude. Get it right. Whatever, dude.

Again, that's got to be a close. What's the spread on that one? Two? Three. Tampa Bay, three. They're playing in Tampa. In Tampa. I never trust a rookie. He's had his down, then kind of back up.

I'm going to go Baker. I'm going to go Baker over the Redskins. Commanders. Kevin? Yeah, I'm going to do the same. Every time you don't believe in the bucks, they just somehow keep staying alive. Eddie?

I'm trusting the rookie on this one. Jalen? Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Conference foe. But I think they have the team and then an ex-c cowboy coach. Yes.

Packers Eagles? Good game for a 7-2. Yeah. Like two actual teams that... Rematch of the Brazil game at the start of the season. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. The turf won't be coming off with every step, though. But I like the game.

What's the spread on that one? Yeah, it's Philly minus 4.5. In Philly. Definite home field advantage. So they do see them on a neutral site pretty close. What is it? Two points now. Used to be three. I think that's two.

Yeah. Yeah, I think Philly probably. Eddie? Sequan's going to have a heyday, Philly. You just love the NFC East, huh? I mean, there are people. We're not there. Is that how it works for the NFL?

Because that's how the SEC works for sure. I mean, kind of, sort of. You don't ever root for the Eagles. Like, never as a Cowboys fan? I would think you would hate the Eagles. I feel like it's the opposite. I would think that, too. If the Jets were actually relevant,

I would always root against them no matter what. The bill's pretty much the same for the most part. They've been losers for so long, though. It's kind of hard to hate them. I don't hate the bills at all. It's like hating the Cubs. and I'm a massive Cubs fan, but nobody hates the Cubs because we sucked forever. Yeah, yeah.

Even if you're like the Cardinals and that was like your rival, they didn't really hate that we, because I played on the team. You're part of it. They wanted to beat us always, but I think everybody, it's hard to hate the Cubs because we sucked. Same thing with the bills, they suck forever. And so it's kind of hard to hate them. Yeah, I don't hate them. And they have to play in that weather.

Josh Allen's cool, cold weather. Eagles, Eagles, Kevin. Yeah, Eagles. Casey? Eagles, yep. Bucks Eagles would be that one Hey I think the Bucks can win that I don't think they will but I think the Bucks have a shot

To actually get to the NSC championship And they beat Philly this year too So that's interesting I do not think they will I would pick the Eagles in that game If it happens Yeah But I think the Bucks would actually have a shot

To win either one of those games And then Lions and whomever Lions Lions Yeah Lions and anyone else in the NFC I mean I feel like the Eagles are going to have

have to beat the lions or nobody will. Right. And I don't think they will, but I think that's really the only, right, Reid? You with me? Yeah, for sure. Does anyone feel different? Like, if there's a team to beat the lions, it's probably going to have to be the Eagles. Yeah.

Because you're going to have to put up points, and I feel like Phillies actually got the offense. And their defense is playing really good. Yeah. And then who cares about AFC and FC championship game so far out from that? But I'd love to see, and I hate dynasties while they're happening. them when they're over. I like to... It's pretty cool. I like the Patriots won all those. But I was rooting against them during the games.

But I liked it after they won. I was like, it's pretty cool to get to watch greatness. I get it. But I hope the Chiefs won at all. Again. Don't get it. Are they the favorite? No, the Lions are. The Lions are the favorite. I actually have the... An easier road probably? Wow. Yeah, I guess they don't have to

face the better, too. I mean, even though the record would say otherwise, I guess. I mean, the AFC is very competitive. the quarterbacks. Yeah. Yeah. Or like all the legacy

all the elite quarterbacks. Because even as good as the Eagles are, Jalen Hertz isn't, you know, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. And he's still banged up. So who knows?

Oh, I got it. Here you go, Eddie. He still hurts. Thank you for asking. The lions are at plus 285. They're the favorite. Kansas City at two, Baltimore at three,

Buffalo at four. And Baltimore and Buffalo are about the same, but just barely off. Philadelphia's at five. Not the very, very bottom. Who do you think's the worst? Eddie? Texans? Steelers.

Then Texans. And then next is Commander's Rams, backward, going backward, and then Broncos. College football playoff-wise, odds on those. Four teams left. Ohio State's got to be the heavy favorite. Plus 110, heavy. Heavy.

Then Texas Notre Dame at plus 380, tied for second, and Penn State at plus 450. Which, by the way, that's a targeting. It was for sure targeting. The Texas, it was for sure targeting. I've never seen more targeting in my life those referees of pansies Yeah that was bad

And the other play earlier on the other side Was not targeting That was elbow Elbowing Well when he went up Whatever I hate Texas They're about to get run

Yeah Dude that poor kicker though man That was just rough And we wouldn't remember anything about him Unless his hair was that long His name Scatterboo or whatever though On Arizona State

Oh Scataboo Dang, dude, who is that guy? That was awesome. It was one of the greatest games by a player that I've ever seen. By a player. Yeah. Unbelievable. Because I was annoyed at the beginning of the game.

Like, he was staying outside the locker room, giving everyone high-fives like that. I was annoyed too a bit, yes. But then after the game, I was like, you know what, man, you can give everyone a high-five. You can be the leader of that team. They gave him the MVP. They came during the press conference on a losing game. He was like, I'm the best runnerback. And I don't always get annoyed at that, but I felt like his was coming from a play.

of insecurity. Yeah. Like, didn't even get invited to the Heisman ceremony and he's like, I need to be, no, no,

he, and he thought that I had, you say whatever you want, dude. Yeah. It's awesome. Like catching, running,

passing, throwing. All of it, dude. He was Jim Thorpe. All of it. While throwing up. Dude, I just read a book on Jim Thorpe.

I don't know much about him other than he played a bunch of positions. Oh my God. Like crazy? Native American. Yeah. his dad ended up sending him to a in Pennsylvania to a what do you call those schools

way they've seen kids in high school? A boarding school. A boarding school. And the guy, because he was in trouble a lot, and the guy noticed how athletic he was. And so played football, old school days, leather helmet, Ivy League type stuff, went to the Olympics. And these, Decahathlon and Pindathlon, I don't know, too. They were massive back then, but it was a multi-stallel. think won two gold medals. By the way, it had him taken away from him.

Because he was Native American? No. Because he had played professional baseball and you had to be amateur, but he didn't even know he played professional baseball. He played for some crappy, not for real minor league team where he made like enough money to buy food. It wasn't like he was playing major league ball. He was like surviving, he was playing baseball just to live. They stripped the medals from him. They didn't give him back to life after he was dead. Oh gosh. but just a why and then died in poverty

but greatest athlete like did it all baseball basketball football Olympian amazing just and yeah his dad sent him up to a boarding school because of the trouble he was in and then the coach there was like dang like you can kind of do a lot of stuff I believe this is

I hope I'm making it my athletes mixed up on this one will you Google this Mike I think there was a high they were doing a high jump. We got to the school. And he was in like regular pants. And saw the guy doing it. He was like, can I do this?

Can anybody do it? And jumps it. And the coach was like, that's the school record. Like, you just did that. For fun. And shattered to the record. I'm fairly certain that was, I watched a lot of shows,

but I read a lot too. Over the break. Let me see if Jim Thorpe. Yeah, that was him. That was him. Dude, Jim Thorpe was freaking. and legit. Thanks for that lesson. I didn't know much about him other than my... I didn't either. Well, my brother, I think, lives like 30 minutes away from his hometown. So when I went up there to

go visit him, he's like, yeah, Jim Thorpe, we should go see Jim Thorpe's hometown. Like, okay. Even if you like go find like a podcast on them or learn, you'll be, it's really more than just learning. Because I spent this break learning mostly about, I spent a lot of time reading about prohibition because I didn't understand why they would, and now I completely understand why they did it. It was stupid. Why they did Prohibition? For sure. And they needed to do something.

I won't walk you down that. I love that stuff now. But 13 years. Prohibition was 13 years. No alcohol. Whoa. Well, there was alcohol. And I was reading about the smuggling and how they'd get it in from the island.

So I spent my book reading time reading about Prohibition. Dang. Super fascinated with that. I don't even drink. But I wonder why. And then Jim Thorpe, read a book on Jim Thorpe. And then I read a book about a technology book. Eddie, we were talking about this at dinner last night

about motion pictures. And I brought it up to Eddie. Eddie freaking knew it. I was like, yeah, the first ever motion picture. And Eddie goes, oh, yeah, the horse. And I'm like, how did you know that? Look at you. Cool.

I knew about school. The debate was, he's a former governor of California, super rich. He had horses, and he argued with his boys that a horse, when it gallops, all four feet come off the ground at once. There's no way to prove it. And in a gallop.

There's no way to prove it because you can record it. And then on our iPhone, stop it there. And then they only had photographed cameras, just still cameras. So he got a guy to set up all these cameras and every time the horse they took so many pictures

and basically you could flip bucket, it looked like the horse is running. And then Thomas Edison got involved is the whole thing. And turns out guys that the horse does lift all four of its hooves. In a run. Regular run. Confirmed. Okay. And now we have movies because of it. There you go. Wow. What that? Jim Thorpe. Really interesting story. That's cool. Crazy. They stripped his

freaking medals from a not even real professional baseball career. But he was so good at everything. All right. You know, back to Scataboo real quick. His mom did say that she knew, she heard this. When Scataboo was like in like a crowded place, he would get claustrophobic so he would run around people's legs to get out of it. And the mom said, that's why I knew he'd be a running back.

Did you see the thing where he'd put on pads and run into telephone poles? Yeah. That was another part of it. Awesome, man. All right. That's it. Thank you guys. You can follow. If you go over to at Bobby Bone Sports, and then the YouTube is at Bobby Bone Sports.

So what's clips of the show. At Bobby Bone Bone Sports, baby. At Bobby Bone Sports on YouTube. Reed is really begging that you follow the page. That's why I said baby. Hey, I already paid Thomas. I paid Thomas for subscribing. So go subscribing.

You make it a little. What's he talking about? I don't know. He was just a subscriber. Is that like a thing? Like, there's a glory hole on 3rd Street. He goes, I paid Thomas. Hey, do you know Thomas?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I paid Thomas. No, I was just saying, like, you know, back then, I was like, if you subscribe and comment, I may, you know, send you some money on Vimmo. And I did. I paid Thomas. That's boy. So you never know.

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