The Bobby Bones Show - 25W: Is Colorado the Real Deal + The PAC12 is All But Done + Frank Reich & Bryce Young from Panthers Training Camp + Selfish Rants

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

After a huge win on Saturday, Bobby and the guys discuss whether or not Deion Sanders was overreacting, or if Colorado is the real deal. Plus, with only 2 teams remaining in the PAC12, how long before they cease to exist? Bobby and Eddie went to the Panthers training camp and sat down with head coach Frank Reich and QB Bryce Young to talk about their career and the upcoming season. And the guys all get a chance to vent about their teams this week.  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: @25Whistles   Follow the Crew: @MrBobbyBones @ProducerEddie @KickoffKevin @MikeDeestro @ReidYarberry  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Download the Drap King's app. used to code Bobby Sports and get in on the action. I lost so much money. Oh, gosh. So did I. Week one was not good to me. To be fair, I did what I shouldn't do.

What's that? I doubled up. No, I doubled up to catch up last night, and I won, and I won, and I won. I won. Okay, okay. Because I took Duke plus 12 and a half. How did you think that was going to happen?

Because I didn't think it was going to happen. Oh, so it's the opposite. I can stand to it. Yeah. You reversed. Man, I should start doing that. No, no, no. I don't like that because you just, I was totally on tilt and I was like, I don't know which

ways up or down. You know, so I just, you know, a gymnast will flip around and they lose where they are like Gabby, Gabby, uh, ugly, um, no, no. You think of Simone Biles? Simone Biles. Yes. Gabby Barrett's a singer. Close.

Um, so she like couldn't determine if she was upside down. and so she had to like stop. I felt that way betting. I was like, which side's north? Where do I bet? Which the line? So I was like,

there's no way Duke covers. I don't care how good the quarterback is. And I said, okay, I'm betting Duke plus 12 and a half. I was with, I played nine holes of golf with Jake Owen yesterday evening.

And he was like, I want to bet Duke money line. And I remember thinking, you idiot. And then I was like, okay, I'm hopping on because I just said you're an idiot and I've missed every single thing.

So I'm the idiot. Yeah, maybe he's right. So, I didn't bet the money line. He did. That's good money, dude. Wow. I know.

Jeez. I thought that 12 and a half wasn't enough, too. For Clemson? Yeah. I was like, that's, I thought it'd be like 17. I agree.

Well, Davo Sweeney is just... What's going on over there. What a joke. Yeah. That was bad. I mean, there's still jinx from not coming on our show last year. That's what I'm convinced of.

That's all I thought of. Like, when I was watching it all go down. I'm like, oh, man, I mean, this is it. We cursed you. We cursed you last year. We cursed you. It's still happening. Coming up in a bit, we have Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young and head coach Frank Wright from when we went over and hung out.

Just two great interviews. If you saw like clips of them inside of too much access, just wait. The whole interviews are so good. We talked to Bryce about a few different things, including the differences from that leap from high school to college and then late from college to the pros. And then coach was actually awesome. I didn't know if he would be. He's a head, he's an NFL head coach. And those guys are always like, I'm an NFL coach.

He was fun. Had a good sense of humor. Yeah. You never know what you're going to get. I agree. So that was cool. I'm going to say big shout out to my dude. It was not a Photoshop either.

Dion Sanders, what a win. Yeah. I don't think TCU is as great as people probably thought they might have been, but they're still a solid Division I, Big 12 team. Yeah. And Colorado went in as a, what, 15 point underdog? 20.

20. 20. 20. That's crazy. And I'm very biased. I love Dion Sanders. I spent a lot of time with them. We spent like four months together.

I love that dude. I've said it even before he was coaching Colorado. What do you want me to do? You want me to kill somebody for you, hide a body, run through a wall? I wrote about him in my book, Bear Bones. I posted a picture of him reading my book. I was like, I guess he read this before they went out and played the game. Kidding, people are like, you must have to Photoshop that.

I didn't Photoshop it. We did a show. It was awesome. I was so happy for him. I was so happy for him. Question for you. Is it a little too much to come out and say, Now do you believe?

No. Because it is one game. It would be inconsistent if he didn't. Because he's all about living life right now regardless. Like we're going to win. When we win, we're going to have fun. When we lose, it ain't going to be that fun. They won.

They just beat number 17 team in the country. They were a 20-point underdog. He's not saying we're going to win every game this season. They're going to play Nebraska next. That'll be interesting. They could be Nebraska. But he has to be that way because that's what he is. He's right now.

He's right. now. And so yeah, do you believe that's what he needs to do? He needs it. He doesn't need it because he's so good at it. He's staying in the news. He's, let's go. I told you. I told you. I told you. And he gets a week of nonstop I told you. If they lose the next game, who cares? That it's not much of a story anyway. It's like, oh, they thought they might win three games this year. I was listening to people say if they win three or four games this whole year, that's like one of the greatest coaching turnarounds in the history of coaching. They won one game last year and they just dropped that whole roster

and brought in basically 80 new kids. Yeah. It's a great game too. I was in a foreign country catching like snippets of it. Do you know what I do now is I go to TikTok and I just type in the game and somebody's usually streaming it from their phone like looking at a screen?

That's what I do for UFC. I mean, no I don't. Is that legal? No, I don't. That's what I did for the games. I was in Paris. So big Dionne Sanders lover. That guy's awesome.

One shocking thing that you told me about him that he doesn't like neon. Neon Dion. That's not his name he likes. He doesn't, he didn't. He didn't come up with that. He didn't use it. Nope.

That's pretty crazy, but he does like Coach Frye. Prime time. Prime time, baby. Time's his nickname. Yeah. Yeah. All right,

let's go over and do the tittle tittle. Week one is officially done in the books for college football outside of that Colorado game we just talked about. What was your biggest takeaway? That I lost a lot of money. Mostly betting on LSU. I thought I had it all figured out. It was like LSU.

First of all, they were like a six and a half point favorite. I'm guessing, I think it was like six and a half points when the game started. Maybe it was three and a half, something like that.

Regardless, Florida State scores early and I'm like, I'm about to be smarter than the room times too, so that just load up on then LSU plus three points. I'm like,

I'm about to be so rich, and then they just got dominated. Yeah. So my takeaway is that I suck. a betting. And I suck this week. I think if I, this is what I'm going to do starting right now and you have my word and I'm going to let this be a, if you ever want to audit my Drive King's account, you can.

But I'm just going to let you guys know how much money I've won and lost period on college football only. NFL, I suck balls. I am not, I never win at NFL or I went all at NFL and it doesn't matter because NFL's a crap shoot. College football, I will tell you, I think I'm up $9 from last week, but that's only because I bet $750 last night on Oh my gosh. Thank you for being transparent. Yeah, I know, I have to.

I'll be honest with you guys. I bet $750 last night on Duke plus 12 and a half. And I can show you just so you don't, do you want to audit me? No, I believe you. Yeah, I believe you. Okay. Let me just, for my own sake,

so people don't think I'm full of crap. But what I want to do is I'm just going to tell you guys how much I've won and lost. So if you want to ride with me or die with me, whatever you want to do, I will be honest with you Because I don't want you My face log gets not working I don't want you guys being upset

We missed the parlay again because stupid LSU We missed two of the four Yeah, South Carolina Yeah, that sucked. I hated that for them That was rough That's rough I mean, Pittsburgh Rattel had no time to throw the ball Yeah

Had no time, the offensive line struggled The thing about Colorado too, They didn't have all their best players playing either So Arkansas too, baby Yeah, it was good. Yeah, man.

You all look good. I mean, we didn't play anybody, but still. Yeah, yeah. And our boy, Joyner scored the first touchdown. It was really cool to see.

Carry on Joyner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. After doing all of these things, all of these way too much access, I look at the screen. I'm like,

that's my boy. I know him. I caught a pass from that guy. John Rice Flumley. Let's go, baby. He looked good, too. Yeah, dude. He did.

So, yeah, we have a series called Too Much Access. Go look at on, you go to my Instagram, Eddie's Instagram, but it's, the official one's too much access, Bobby Bones. But the YouTube page is, what, Reed?

It's also too much access. Bobby Bones? Yeah, also too much access Bobby Bones. We were just going to do too much access, and we could have got that on like 90% of the places, but we didn't want to have one of them that was off and have to be like, all on these pages were too much access. Right. So then we just went too much access Bobby Bones.

As of right now, we're looking pretty good to go do Arkansas. This week. Let's go. We have a really fun episode that's not Arkansas coming up next week. Yesterday we put out the UCF episode. So anyway, it's super cool. All right, next up.

Some more Colorado talk here. There's a lot of talk about Sanders and Hunters being favorites for the Heisman, going from 100 to 1 to 28 to 1, 81 to 22 to 1. Would you put any money on them to win the Heisman? The hunters, the kid that's the wide receiver in the defensive back? Yeah. That is so novel. first of all, to win the Heisman,

you're going to need to win eight games. At least. You're going to be super dominant and win at least eight games. That's about the worst you could do. Mostly, the Heisman is a quarterback from a team that is playing in the playoff or the national championship. So, I think if you could get it at 50 to 1,

sure, that's fun to put 10 bucks on. Do I think they're going to win? Nah, I don't think so, because I don't think they're going to be good enough to win nine games. if they win six or seven games, it's going to be, to go from one win,

it's huge. I could not be a bigger advocate of Dion Sanders. I love them. And hopefully he calls me up and he goes, you believe me now? And then we'll go undefeated.

You believe me now? I'd love it. I'd love it. But the, I mean, Shador Sanders, threw for 500 yards. He had four receivers

at over 100 yards. It's crazy. TCU just did, they weren't ready. And they, lost all, but I think three starters. But still, yeah. No, I don't think they're going to win the Heisman.

I think it's Caleb Williams is to lose. It's him. And if I were taking him versus the field, I'd probably still maybe take him right now. Caleb Williams? Yeah. Pack 12 didn't lose single game. I know. The whole division. And their last name of their last year of existence. They finally. Check us out now.

Yeah. I mean, they got teams, they got Stanford going to play in the ACC. Yeah. Crazy Stanford. And SMU is going to, but that one's not as crazy because it's Texas. It's still crazy to be in the ACC. Yeah. Because it's the Atlantic Coastal Conference. But I mean, these California teams, that's hilarious.

Yeah, it's going to be like just the coastal conference now. Because you've got all these teams. All right, next up. That's the next leads to my next one, actually. Do you think the conference will cease to exist in a few years? I think that, yes, it will not exist. And then it will exist again in another form. Meaning, remember when the Cleveland Browns had a team and they moved to Baltimore?

And then all of a sudden another Cleveland Browns popped up. Was that a long time ago? I don't remember that. Late 90s. Oh, wow. I don't remember that. The Browns moved to Baltimore. In the middle of the night,

packed up, moved to Baltimore, got the trucks and everything. That's crazy. You should watch a documentary 30 for 30. I remember it happening, but it's great. They, like, overnight, had to, like, get the heck out of Dodge.

What on earth? People were stealing chairs out of the stadium. Wow. It's wild, dude. So the Cleveland Browns moved to be the Baltimore Ravens, and then a new Cleveland Browns popped up. which is now the Cleveland Browns. I think that'll happen with the PAC 12,

or the PAC 12 will be a division of like a Big 10 or one of these massive conferences. You'll have the Pacific conference. It may not be 12 teams, but it's over. They couldn't get a TV contract. It's wild. They couldn't get a TV.

I mean, that first USC game, you had to watch it on. I didn't watch it. Like Nick, tunes. You had to do your TikTok, watch somebody watch it. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. All right, what else? Last one here. Marvin Harrison, Jr. got a lot of hype coming into the season. Had a bad game and first game, but it's all right. Who's the best college wide receiver you've ever seen? Great question. Probably Calvin Johnson. Calvin Johnson at Georgia Tech?

Yeah. And a running offense? Yeah. He was Georgia Tech, right? Yeah. It's awesome. And then I think I just have a little bit of after the fact bias too because I'd watch, I watch on TikTok a bunch of him playing wide receiver in college and no,

and how he just got so big and so strong. Probably Calvin Johnson. You? Probably Larry Fitzgerald. He pops in my mind right away at Pittsburgh. I don't remember him. They weren't very good, but he,

I think, pretty sure he was a Heisman finalist, too, and their team was awful. Yeah, I don't remember. He was that good. If he's that good, and they didn't win eight games, because I just made that whole declaration there.

That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I don't remember. Eddie, you? Oh, I don't know, dude. Waddle? I don't know. In college, receivers don't ever, like, stick out to me.

Go to the Heisman last year. Two years ago. Alabama. Alabama. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Slim Reaper. Yeah.

Oh, there you go. Nice. So he, I mean, he was awesome. But again, like, Domit. I mean. Julio Jones was really good. Yeah, that's right.

In Alabama, that's right. And they were really a running team too and Julio was, they weren't wide open quarterback centric like they are is now. But, okay. Is that it?

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Just tease it. I owe it to our listeners to get something right. And me. I owe you crap. I'd appreciate it. But I'm just looking at some of these games and I'll figure it out.

The game that I think people are given a little too much credit to is just too versus Ole Miss game. Ole Miss is a touchdown favorite. Ole Miss is going to stomp a hole in Tulane. Tulane's pretty good this year. You know Tulane used to be in the SEC?

They left. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. They pieced out. Probably smart. Back then, probably, but the money just wasn't the same. Yeah, that's true.

That's when Arkansas and Vanderbrenn, Arkansas, and who came in with Arkansas? Maybe a Vanderbiltz. I don't know. That's when we came in, though. They were there. with Arkansas. Mike,

we see who came in the SEC with Arkansas that year? Mississippi State? Nah. I'm just naming. Yeah, and I don't want to. Ole Miss? Nah. Alabama's seven-point favorite

in Alabama versus Texas, which is an interesting game to look at. Do you see the Miami-M Miami game this past week, by the way? Yes, I did. Are you going to bring up A&M in Miami? You're going to pick them? Not yet, but I would just remember Miami of Ohio, the quarterback going,

we're the real Miami. They did. They were. They got rolled. Right, right, right. So it was South Carolina. That's what it was, South Carolina. 19.

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Call 100 gambler in New York. Call 8778. 8778. Hope and wire text, Hope and Y, 467369C. Show notes for full details. This is pretty cool. Now we will get to the guy. Number one draft pick.

Bryce Young. I was surprised they let us talk to him. I'll be honest with it. So cool. Yeah. He was awesome too. He went to the same Powerhouse High School in Southern California that Matt Liner went to, that Matt Barkley went to. He originally committed USC before changing to Alabama. He became the first Heisman winning quarterback from Alabama when he won in 2021. Here he is. Starting quarterback. Carolina Panthers. Yeah. Bryce Young. Which speed is more of an adjustment high school to Alabama or Alabama to here? I don't know. I think it's hard to compare. You know, it's different. You know, it's just, you know, I think it's different. It's, again, it's a jump, you know, all across the board. There's a lot. Things are just different aspects that you have to account for. Different things, different operations. So I, you know, it's tough to compare.

Where do you get more free stuff? Pros here or Alabama, because that's all I would want. I just want gear. That's a good, you know, that's a good question. It's honestly pretty, pretty split too. Like Alabama, like Alabama was great with the, with the gear, you know, you get, you know, all the Alabama stuff. You'd get all the Nike shipments in. They'd always give it to us, put it on a locker. We'd always have new stuff. But same here. Like this is, we showed up to train, you know, showed up a couple of days of training camp. Everyone's walking around these hard black hoodies. I'm like, where'd you get that? Like, it's in your locker. I was like, look at that. Is it unlimited? Not, not unlimited, you know, you got to, you know, you can't, can't just, you know, you got to be, they'll, they'll work with you. I'll be hooking everybody up. I'll be hooking everybody up. They're like, why do you the extra small and extra large? Yeah, no, if it's, if it's like, you know, if you abuse, you can't abuse it. Like if it's like, you know, if it's people, you know, hey, I got a large shirt for workouts. Like, hey, I get an extra large. I need an extra.

Like, I switched to a different size shirt today. It's like, you know, that's, but when you're just like every day, I need a new shirt or it's like, let me get a hoodie. Let me get another hoodie. You get it like, honestly, I haven't asked to double up on any of the casual stuff yet. So I don't know, to be honest. We shouldn't initially. We shouldn't ask you for gear. Yeah, yeah, we're going to ask for the whole size.

Yeah, we want everything. I probably get you some, like, one of these, like a workout shirt. I don't know how they're going to. I work out on that now. It doesn't, it just said, yeah, doesn't even have the shoulder pads. I want it all. I want the whole day. Yeah, I want to walk out there looking like you all geared up completely.

I don't know if I can full of that. Let's talk about draft night. What's that like, dude? Like what? From even just waking up being like, dude, today's going to be a crazy day. I'm about to be rich. Like, that's crazy. Yeah, I don't know if the rich part necessarily went through my head.

But, yeah, it's definitely surreal day. It's a real experience. something you dream about as a kid and it's crazy. You know, you always, you know, it seems so far for all your life. You know, you go through youth in high school and college and, you know, maybe eventually you think, maybe it'll be there, but you never be focused on it. Even when you declare, it seems so far away. And then on draft night, it's just a rush of all, everything you've done, all your path.

It's like it comes, kind of comes into fruition from that moment. And then, you know, after that, you had to move on and build from that. And, you know, it hits a refresh. And, you know, you got to restart and start from ground zero. But it's surreal. And, you know, luckily I was able to share that moment with my family and, you know, my parents were there. And we were able to share that because, you know, it's definitely a journey. It's definitely a process, you know, getting to that.

But it's hard to some of the emotions. They're just so overwhelming that night just because of, you know, how much it means. At what age did you start athletically being superior to other people on the field? That's like six. Do you remember? Athletically superior? I don't know if I would. Yeah.

It's outrunning. You are. dude yeah yeah yeah i don't know if they told you but you're pretty good i wouldn't categorize myself as at at all um but i i don't think there was there was never a time i really i've played like you know i've i've played in middle school like i've played p and been like yeah i probably like but organized like real football i don't i don't think i've ever really i felt confident i felt like all right i can execute and but i don't think i've ever really felt like this is too easy like why That's never came through my head.

So, yeah, hopes, it still hasn't happened to me. I'm going to tell you why that's not true. Because I'm a big Arkansas fan. I watch you torch us for like 500 yards. Awful game for me, like the worst. Like, I never sat through a more miserable experience of watching you just carve us up. Probably the game you threw more than any other in college. Would you imagine?

I do remember that game. Yeah, probably. Yeah, it's pretty good. So I would imagine a game like that, you're going, this is the easiest thing I've ever done. It's still, it's not. easy. It's like you feel confident and you're like, all right, but it's not like, you know, you can't, like, it's not where you're like, you get bored. You're, you can feel things and you, you know, it's a fruition of the people, you know, comes in fruition, people around you,

what you're seeing on film, you know, things like that. You definitely get into a groove, but, you know, it's never to the point of like, I can just, you, there's no point where I've, you know, I've ever been like, I can't go through all my pre-snap stuff. I don't want, I don't have to go through all my sex. I don't have to go through my reeds. I'm just going to, like skip something. I'm going to, I've, I've never been at that point. I thought I saw you yawn during the game. That's what I looked like, like third quarter. That's what I felt. That was a bad one then. I mean, you do look so calm out there. Like, I remember the Texas game that, I mean, it was just, are they going to come back and do this? But you were so serious and calm. It

didn't look like you were in a high stress situation. What's, what's really happening inside, though? Yeah. You know, honestly, I've just a lot of kind of what I believe in in my philosophy. is just finding the best space for yourself, performance-wise, and to be successful. And, you know, for me, it's hard for me to put in words, but I feel like I have a mindset where I feel like I function the best and I'm able to perform the best. And, you know, I try to make sure regardless of what's going on around me, I control it. I can control. And that's, you know, that's my mindset and how I'm approaching things.

And, you know, first quarter, fourth quarter, wherever that is, you know, I try my best. And you sway and there's ups and downs and you kind of have to reel things back in or amp things up to try to find and stay in that headspace. But, you know, in those moments, it's, you know, it's authentic. It's, you know, it's a mix of, you know, letting go of whatever happened to pass, letting go of the circumstances around you. And I'm big on controlling what I can control. So regardless of what's going on around me, what's the play, what, what's my read,

what do I need to talk about, you know, what are we executing? What's, you know, what happens going on, how much time is left, what the crowd is into, stuff out of my control. And it's going to take me away from my job. So really my focus just goes there. But deep inside, the heart's not flying? Not necessarily. He yons, dude.

In the middle of games, I'm telling you. I saw him. I've seen it too. It was just like, is this it? There's like six guys playing defense, it felt like. Yeah, it's just, again, it's just for me. And it's, it's an everyday exercise. It's, you know, it doesn't just happen naturally.

It's, I've been working on this my whole life. And again, there's ups and downs. I don't just stay perfectly, but I try to do everything I can to put myself. You know, I'm not saying it never happens, but I try to do everything I can in regards situations. to, you know, keep my heart rate, keep my mind, my mindset, keep where my head's at in the same spot, in that ideal spot for me, regards to was going around. And again, it's just like anything. I'm trying to execute, just like we're trying to, you know, play every playing. We're trying to

score every drive. You know, it's something that you have to work towards. But, you know, that's just what I try to do. Your sophomore, you're at Alabama, you threw for a ton of touchdowns and not very many interceptions. I think it's the first year you started. It was like some real unrealistic stat, a big SEC guy. And I remember. I remember thinking, oh, this sucks is going to be there a long time. Respectfully, like this sucked. It's going to be there for a long time. But I think maybe you had like seven interceptions the whole year.

Is there an interception in your mind from your entire college career that goes down as your worst interception where you're like, that's the one that I just think back to it. I was like, I knew I shouldn't have let the ball go then. All interceptions hurt for sure. You know, it's never, you know. There's so few, though. There's got to be one that you just hate. You know, there's turnovers.

you know, anytime you turn the ball over, it's always bad. You know, obviously, obviously national championship hurts, you know, looking back on it. Which one was that one? This last year ago? Yeah, two years ago. You know, obviously that hurts, you know, that's a big one. Actually, fun fact, we were just, we were just, it just happened to come on. And like, for some reason, as we were walking and they were doing like SAC replays

and they did the Iron Bowl from this year. And my last pass at Brian Denny was a pick. which I was like, and right when it happened, I threw it, I knew I was like, I was like, ah, like, this might, like, I don't think I'm going back in. This might be, you know, I hadn't figured out what I was going to do next, but like, we'll see. But like, if it is, like, the last pass just had to be an interception. But again, any time you throw, you know, just turn the ball over, that's something, you know, just as a quarterback. You know, you never want to do your prior self and not doing it. I mean, it happens, but, you know, you want to minimize as much you can. So, you know, they all hurt, though. final five questions to that I found that in my career like I got fined a million dollars once for something I did on the air it wasn't terrible but I have lived through it and also I have learned that and even I've been on stage doing stand-up and it's I bombed and I've realized I've gotten out of it and I've been actually okay because of it and I've seen it be real dark what I thought was but I've actually climbed out of it to a new level of success and asked that question about a setback because in those times has it shown you that Okay, not only did I learn from it, but it ain't over. Like, sun's coming up tomorrow and let's just keep going.

A hundred percent. I feel like, you know, I feel like it's inevitable for basically anyone in any aspect or walk of life to not have a setback. You know, it's going to happen, whatever it is. You know, I feel like, you know, again, I'm a big, I'm big on controlling what I can control. So once it happens, you know, you're going to feel emotions, you know, you're going to, but once that's over with, I feel like you have a choice of, are you going to dwell on it? Are you going to let it, you know, change how you think?

Are you going to let it, you know, just turn to a negative? or are you going to try to find a positive from it? And, you know, I'm not saying that's as easy as that. You know, a lot of things, not everything's the same. Things will be harder than others. But I try my best to once the emotion, you know, you let the emotions run. And once that's over, try to condense that, you know, what can I learn from it? What can I take from it?

Because, again, if, you know, if things like that can be a blessing in disguise, you can grow from it at times. And this may not always be a universal truth, but most of the times that's what I try to look for and to find. And again, it's not easy. But again, I 100% agree with what you're saying. You're saying, your sentiment. I've been there to have trying to turn those downs and those things that you may, you know, wish you didn't do or, you know, wish you could get back.

How can you grow from how can you learn? How can it make you stronger? So you have hit a huge milestone. It's talking about money again. Dude, you got money now. What's the coolest thing you bought? It's poor people talking to you. Yeah, that's why.

Yeah. What's the coolest thing you bought so far? Everyone asked you this. Lambo, Lambo. No, everyone asked you this. and everyone gets so disappointed with the answer. I'm sorry, it's so overwhelming. I legit have not bought anything cool or, like, expensive.

Like, I bought some clothes. Like, does that, like, and nothing crazy. Like, nothing that I could, like, just name, like, where you'd be like, oh, my God, like, stuff that other people, like, on the team have to. Like, I haven't made, like, a major person. I haven't planned on. Like, I pay rent. Like, I got that.

Like, that's really the biggest thing. So if it changes, I'll let you know. No, but I'll hit us up. Yeah, yeah, please hit us up. Let me be my number one. Do you have the credit card thing on your phone? Because when I swam my credit card, it shows with my phone. It's a pay.

Like I bought something? Apple pay? Well, yeah, but if I use my credit card, it shows up. Oh, you're saying. Yeah, does that do that with you? Do you get that? Yeah. Okay, just making sure.

I don't know. So this is year one. You're the first overall pick. We were talking to coach about the unfair expectation of just first round picks, much less the number one overall pick. So I don't know how, what kind of expectation do you put on yourself, year one with this team. Yeah, you know, I feel like, again, expectations or something from, you know, for me throughout

my life has always been there and always come from different angles and everyone has different ones. And, you know, I respect that. And, again, I think that's the beauty of sports, everyone being able to chime in and talk and have expectations and root for people. And against, like, I love that. You know, I'm a fan too. So I love that.

But for me, I only let the expectations that we set in the room for, you know, in the quarterback room, in the unit room and in the team room. That's what I let, you know, that's what I use in my expectations. That's what I used to guide myself when I hope to accomplish. So, you know, that's really where all my focus is. And, you know, the external stuff, you know, it's great. It is what it is. But I don't really put in thought to it.

It's something I can't control. Don't ask any more money questions. No, we're doing with my question. But I will ask about fame, which is cool because we're sitting here. People walking by and they're like, oh my gosh, there he is. There he is. Like, people recognize you everywhere. Like, what's that like?

You like that? Um, I mean, it's definitely humbling for sure. sure um it's it's it's it's very humbling um it's yeah it's it's different um use your name get reservation like come on brice young young crime brice qb brys young qb like i i really try not to it has to be if i'm like if it's like something that's necessary like if it's like an event or something but i try my best not to it's um it's yeah again it's humbling and you know it's really a it's a reflection of um you know it's just it's humbling You know, it's something that's, it's an honor.

It's a blessing for sure. But also I understand that stuff like that is circumstantial. And, you know, right now I'm in a situation today of, you know, like you said, people being around and recognize me. And that's because of, you know, what's around and what's happened in my past. So I'm grateful for it. But that doesn't entitle me to anything in the future. That's not something that's unconditional, neither, you know, nor should it be. You know, I don't expect everyone to just unconditionally, you know, we're, you know, people are Panthers fans and want what's best for the team.

And, you know, again, it's conditional. It's based on me. All that is, you know, what I can do on a football field. So it doesn't entitle me to anything. It's not something that's, you know, that's just, you know, a given or guaranteed or how it should be. It's something that reflects my past and doesn't have anything to do in my future. So, you know, it's super humbling.

I'm grateful for everyone who has recognized me and came up to me and asked me for a picture, a autograph or just said hello to me. That does mean a lot to me. And it's surreal to see that happen. But at the end of the day, it's circumstantial. So, again, that happens because of what I do on a football. field and you know with that being said I have to make sure my my focus is on that is on on football and team on God on my family and the things that that they got me here and that's the reason

for everything so I'm grateful for it but it doesn't you know doesn't doesn't change it it sucks though when they because sometimes I don't like to do it either but what call but like hey maybe we can get bobby bones in and they're like I don't know who that is that hurts that always hurts a little that doesn't happen to Bryce yeah no doubt no no no because I would take QB I'll take QB at the end just in case they weren't a sports fan all right final question Bryce before you go and you're weighing over 200 pounds, did you just eat a bunch? Would you just eat a bunch?

I was working out. We had a, it was months. There was a pre-draft process. But you didn't, still, even with all that, you had to just eat it. Because when I,

like my gut, when I eat a bunch, like, right before I weigh, like you can actually affect that. Did you do that? No, I was, like,

there was, like, it wasn't a surprise. It wasn't a pop quiz. Because you waited over 200 pounds, right? Yeah. Yeah. But you had to, like,

you ate a bunch right before that. Yeah, like, I ate steadily. Like, like my diet and my work like I but like 30 minutes before you you weighed in you didn't like eat a bunch I had like a normal breakfast big Matt it was like like taco I mean because you I would have went you can go really hard and affect you're telling me you did not go really hard 30 minutes before I had like what was the pre-draft process was like months I want to say like I no no but 30

minutes before what did you eat anything I had a breakfast yeah like I had breakfast I was like what do you want to say well I want the truth he had 11 pancakes seven waffles Hey, we're big fans and big fan Just watching how you Not just how you perform But how just you operate as a person As an athlete, as a student athlete Like I think you are a great example

To a lot of kids I think you're a great hero To a lot of kids who look at pro players As heroes And we're really root for you this year Thank you I really appreciate that Do you have a whole though by the way? I've been holding you haven't said anything about it

Does it look natural? The coach tried to make me fumble It hit me in the face with it I didn't fumble it You can earn some Panthers gear I think with that You can You're going to ask me for anymore.

I didn't fumble the whole interview. Look at this right here. And I'm going to sue for Panthers gear because coached me in the face with the ball. All right, Bryce, good to see you. Thank you. Save you. All right, that's awesome.

Thanks to Bryce Young. Hey, I want to mention this real quick. We had our fantasy draft last night. I only played in two leagues. I really don't like playing one. And I try to get the same draft pick in both leagues, which I picked the number nine spot in both leagues. Oh, okay.

So what happened was in my first league, I was drawn and given nine of 12. So in our close friends league, we played forever. I got to pick my spot like third or four. So I just picked nine. So it worked out. I'm not going to have the same team, obviously,

but I'll have a similar-ish vibe, similar team. And so ninth pick, I took Sequin Barclay, contract year, whatever. And I went to play, we wouldn't play nine holes. Jake Owen and I did and my wife and his fiancee rode in the cart beside us. And I was like, I got to do this fantasy draft at dinner.

So there's a dinner. Everybody's cool. Jake was watching the game. I bet a bunch of money trying to cover up the, I should never. Don't do that. don't do that I did. Chasing?

Don't chase. Chase. And so, and I'm doing my fantasy draft. At dinner, this Mexican restaurant last night. So then we get in the car and we're driving home,

and I'm laughing out loud. I'm like, I don't know whose team this is, but this is hilarious. And then I go, it's got to be Eddie. Eddie's team has always been the San Francisco of 69ers.

Right. And my job is hilarious to me. But I didn't see the 69ers on the board. I saw the Tampa Bay tampons. And so I tell Caitlin, I said, somebody's the Tampa Bay tampons. I said,

it's got to be. Eddie. So we're in the car and I get on the Zoom while everybody's doing the drafts. And I'm like, who's the Tampa Bay tampons? And Eddie goes, me. And I'm like, I knew I'm laughing so hard. And she's like, why is that funny? She's like, we have your children.

We have to have tampons because we're. Right. And I'm laughing so hard. She's like, why is so funny that he's named his team after a tampon? I'm like, uh, alliteration. I'm trying to get out of it. Thank you. I appreciate that. Dude, hilarious.

I just every year, and I've been the 6th and 9 for like three years now, I think. But before then, I would always try to be creative with like take a real team, take the real city, but then make a joke out of the mascot name, whatever. Dude, this one came to me like 15 minutes before the draft. We're 11, but Tampa, tampon. It's great. I think the best part is his icon. He actually had actual tampon.

With a little smiley face on. His logo. And crazy how far Cooper Cups falling on all the drafts. Yeah. And not crazy because of the injury and he missed last year, but, you know, you just, you know, fourth or fifth going, if you drafted to a week and a half ago, and you got fourth or fifth, you got Cooper Cup, you're just screwed probably. My league got drafted, I think, in the first round last week.

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Bills and Oilers. I remember I was watching out. I turned it off. Oh, wow. You remember that? I turned it back on. I talked to him about the interview. I was like, yeah, I cheated.

He also won the Super Bowl as a head coach. Wait, what? He was offensive coordinator, I think. Yes, with the Eagles. He was the offense coordinator. Which is why I asked. Peterson is, was. I believe the head coach who's at Jacksonville now.

But he was the OC, which is why I asked him about the Philly special. Yeah. Hey, so Kevin, is this your screw up? Yep. Good thing I'm a genius. No. Sports genius. I won't call myself a sports genius.

I retain an occasional fact. Okay. He was, I think, their first franchise quarterback, though. Carolina? Yeah. Yeah, he was the first quarter. The first one. Here he is.

Frank Wright. So honest question, coach, you're an honest guy. When I hold the ball, do I look more like I'm delivering good sports talk? I thought for this, I'd hold the ball to make it really look like I was doing my job. There was a flash. You know, it was like I saw the flash play, but not the consistency that we're looking for. How does the hold over the tip over it? Yeah, that's the eagle claw.

You got to get the tip of it, right? But then, you know, then to the peck and then underneath and get that. If I fumble the whole interview then, well, I guess I can't be. Oh, okay. That was good. You held on to it. Yeah. So,

I got it. All right, there we go. Which, okay, so if somebody fumble, obviously not fumbling the ball is a big deal. What if a player fumbles the ball but recovers it? Do you hold that against them? Absolutely. Even if they recover their own ball?

Absolutely. I mean, we give them props for recovering it. But listen, the ball, you listen to Thomas Brown talk, you listen to Deuce Staley talk, you listen to any of our offensive staff talk. The ball is the issue, right? Possession of the ball.

So, sure, recovering it, is a good thing, but if it comes loose, that's just an indication that the fundamentals and the technique aren't right. And there has to be a consistency to that. I have a theory, and again, please be honest with me, because I know you will, that if you gave, I could rush for 100 yards the entire season combined. Now, I'm six foot, 170, still pretty athletic-ish, athletic-ish. You look pretty athletic. But 100 yards for the entire season. Yes, you could do that behind our offensive one. Hold on, hold on. I got another scenario. That's the whole scenario. We've I've been talking about this for two years.

We've also talked about five snaps from the one-yard line. Could he take it in? Behind our offensive line, yeah, five snaps, yeah. The question would be, would I get hit so hard. I don't want to do it again. You definitely wouldn't want to do it again. Really? No.

No. But I would. A hundred yards. You heard it. We've been fighting about this for two years ago. It's the greatest thing I've ever heard of my whole life. I mean, we can cut it now. We're good.

We got what we came for. What are you looking for? We went and watched practice. Day one at camp. Like, what are you looking for day one? that's different than any other day. Execution. No, we're looking for the same thing every day.

Consistency and playmaking. Consistency and playmaking. You need both. So, you know, we're in day one install, so everything's pretty elementary. What I was happy about today was guys showed great retention from what we did during OTAs. Very few mental mistakes out there today.

And it was good give and take between the offense and defense. Coach, I have four boys. I love them all. A lot. But if you only say he loved three. Oh, well, that's my point. I do have a favorite, though. I mean, we're going to be honest.

We have favorites. Out of the whole football team, do you have your favorites? No, I have three daughters, and I've had this argument with my whole life, right? You know, because we occasionally talk about this, right? And we like to say, there is a unique love for each one of them. There we go. And everybody has a role to play and a way to play it. And so we celebrate that.

Right. But when one messes up, though, you can. kind of ignore them for the rest of the day. And I'm talking about your kids. Do you do that with the players too? Well, right? I mean, you treat everybody fairly, but not everybody the same. So, you know, some people, you need to jump on them.

Other people, you just kind of can let it slide and then say it's a little something later because you know they're going to be more hard on themselves than anybody, where one of them might be like, oh, you know, and they don't even think twice about it. That's a guy you got to, hey, we can't do that. But, hey, on this team, what you find most of the guys, most of the pro, players I've been around are harder on themselves than any coach is going to be on them. So that's why the art of coaching is not the yelling and screaming. That's just not where the money is.

Where the money is is squeezing out the extra percent or two that they have in their body, finding ways to get that out. When you move for a head coaching job as you just came to Carolina, when I moved, they put me in an apartment for a couple months until I found a house. What do they do when you're rich and famous like you? put you in an apartment until you stay in an apartment or like an Airbnb or yeah so stay in a hotel we stay in the hotel risk Carlton four seasons that type thing no that's awesome it's a good setup you know that puts you in a hotel right by right by the office building because when you first get there

what do you think my days look like it's 5 a.m. all till 11 p.m. right so you don't want any drive time you want to be at a hotel that's walking distance from the stadium where you're working and so that that's pretty much the transition. Unlimited room service, though? Do they check that? Do they give you like a stipend? You're never there. You get in the room and it's sleep for six hours and wake up and I'd still order food and go back to the room. Just if it was free. Yeah, I go back. I order a sandwich and go back, go back to the room. Coach, when you look at the schedule and you have a West Coast team and you're going to the West Coast, traveling across the whole country, how do you prepare for that? Like, do you got everybody's got to go to bed four hours earlier? Or a week?

Are you like, is there any difference? How do we do this? Yeah, that's a great question, and there is a science behind it. You know, there is a formula behind it, and you can't make up for it all in one week. But what you do, you stagger it as you approach the week, whether you're going east to west or if your West Coast team coming east, you know, there's a formula that you stick to. And it's, you know, start your day an hour later, one day, and then an hour later, the next day, that kind of thing.

Coach, you go to Maryland and you're behind Boomer-Rosycin for a few years. If you went to Maryland now and you were behind someone and they said, hey, this guy's going to be here for two or three years, today, do you think you'd have portaled? That's a great question. You ever been asked that before? I've not been asked that. Let's go. I've not been asked that before.

I think because my playing days are so far behind me. But, you know, there's a side of me like, hey, the competitor, I know I'm good enough to play. me, you know, but then the other side is, you know, the way I was raised, I'm a little bit old school, like, hey, just grind it out, you know, just grind out. This is where you want to go. So, tough question to answer at this point. Do you feel, though, because I feel this way about you and I watch you, I mean, I think everybody now claims that were either at the game where you led Buffalo back or they watched it. And I do remember watching a lot of it, but I turned it off and you guys went way down. They turned it back up, turn it back on when you guys were catching up.

I don't, I quit on you, and be honest with you. But then I came back. But do you feel like you were, like, I feel like you were robbed. Like, you go and you're behind Boomer. Then you get, Jim Kelly is there. Even when you come to Carolina, it was like they had another, you know, was it a Kerry. Yeah. Like, I feel like in a different timeline somewhere, you're like the greatest quarterback ever. Like, well, I appreciate that.

No, the reality is, I had 14 years to prove that. And what I proved was that I was a really good backup. I was a really good backup. I was, you know, we talk about to the players, find out what your role is and be a star in your role. And so, you know, I was, I was, I was, I think I was a really good backup quarterback. One of the top 32, QBs, right? But going from that level to being the franchise guy for 10 years, that's a different level and a different level of talent. So I'm very comfortable with what I did in my career.

accomplished and very happy with it. Coach, the Philly Special. Will it ever come out again? I mean, is it just always in your back pocket? It's always in the back pocket. Secret play. Yeah, it's always in the back pocket. We're always looking,

always looking for ideas, and you're always recycling ideas, and there's different versions of it, so for sure. Do you ever have a eureka moment where you go, how did I never think of running the offense this way, and no one's ever run the offense this way?

and this is like I picture like these math professors on a board like a beautiful mind. Do you ever have one of those over with an offense? And you're like, how do not see this? Yeah. I mean, you know, I think it's just a matter of emphasis. I think over the years, 30 some years of being in this game, you never have all the answers, right? So you're always looking. And so you've been exposed.

I think I've been exposed to most different kinds of offenses, but I haven't been in every offense. So what you find is, that's why I like getting around different players and different coaches, diversity of thought. Like when we bring Thomas Brown in here, I never was in the Sean McVeigh, quote-unquote, system. And I always thought, well, it's great. They do a great job.

But then I was always critical about certain things. And now I get Thomas here, and I get a chance to talk to him and hear what's the thinking behind certain things. Wow, I didn't know that's what you were thinking. I thought I knew what you were thinking, but I didn't understand that part. Some parts I understood full well, but not all the parts. Coach, do you ever think of the camera being on you? Like, you know there are scenarios when the director's always going to say, show coach, show coach. He's real stressed right now.

Do you even think about that during the game? Like, I got to be cool right now because the camera's probably on me. Close up. I can, no, you never think about that. Never? Never. No, but what does happen is you got guys in the booth saying, hey, the camera's on you because, you know, you're talking and the other team could have somebody up in there reading lips

or, you know, something like that. So, hey, cover your mouth. If I'm calling a play out, which most of the time I'm covering it anyway. But that does happen. You're covering your mouth so they don't lip read. I always thought it was like, oh, bad breath. You know, I haven't had water in a while. That's interesting.

You didn't know that? No clue. Even like baseball. I was like, why do they keep covering their mouth? That's what it is. That's what it is. Wow. Are we really that dumb sound?

Wow. Okay, coach. You were the wide receiver coach, a couple different organizations. How hard is that? when you haven't played wide receiver? Or is it so, is it a different perspective to coach them since you've worked with them? I love coaching. I love coaching receivers.

It was a great experience. Really, I think it helped me be a better offensive coordinator and better head coach because, and I always felt like as a quarterback playing for so many years, you're working with the receivers. You know, especially the backup quarterback. I always felt like I was an assistant wide receiver coach because you got to get how the quarterback likes it. So love it, love those guys, you know, how hard they work, how much they run. I've learned a lot from a lot of, you know, Coach Larry Fitzgerald, unbelievable, you know.

Senior? No, junior. Oh, got it. You know, Reggie Wayne had shot of Marvin Harrison. You know, like those guys, like you feel like you're the student and you're listening and learning from them. Coach, how do you watch the whole game? Like, how do you, how could you see everything, you know, not just your quarterback, not just your receivers, just where your ball's going.

But how are your eyes on everything during the game? Because I coach my son's basketball team, and it's tough. My eyes are always on my point guard because that's my son and I'm hardest on him. Yeah, you're very selective, right? Certain plays, you're selective. Certain plays I'm watching the whole thing. And then certain plays, like, I know, hey, we've called this play and we break the huddle. They're in the coverage that we want.

And it's like, okay, let's just dial in on that guy right there. Because if we beat that guy, this is going to be a touchdown. And then you're zoned in on one guy. And there's other times you're kind of looking full field. This is the final question. And really it's a question I'm sure a lot of you guys are asking. But the development of Bryce, like what is the realistic expectation of the development of a rookie quarterback versus what's the unrealistic expectation of a first round pick, number one overall pick that a guy like Bryce Young, which is a different kind of pressure there with Bryce than anyone else.

How are you guys going into that this season? Just trying to keep the expectations focused on the day-to-day process. That's just so important. I'm never going to get tired of saying that because it's just natural. We all coaches, people, media, fans, everybody wants to put the expectations on some result. And it's not that we don't all have high hopes

and expectations for results, but the quarterback position is so multifactorial. There's so many things that go into it. You know, things that are in your control and out of your control. So we just try to focus on the day-to-day development and we're very comfortable with who Bryce is, with where he is, and with the players around him. So let's just get on the right trajectory and let's just see how it plays out. Coach, we really appreciate the time.

And one final time, I would rush for 100 yards through the whole season. We heard it here. One of the greatest minds in the NFL. And I think we'll just leave it at that. And thanks, coach, really appreciate it. Thanks, guys. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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I don't know how to feel honestly coming into the season by the Patriots. I know they got Bill O'Brien now, and they got, I don't know, Juju, Ezekiel, right, Elliot? Right, Eddie? Yep. But their offensive line, I don't know what to make of them, and they need an offensive line from Mac Jones, so I'm kind of scared. Not going to lie, Riley Reef, they're starting right tackle, is now out for the first four weeks.

Their defense should be good, but outside of that, I don't know what to expect. We've got Matt Carrell. Now they've got Matt Carrell. He's their backup. I know, which is crazy. And we play the Eagles week one. I'm like, oh, no. Wait, so who filled in the spot of the Panthers? Andy Dalton. Oh, so he's just the backup there?

Yeah, they have a, I mean, because Matt Carl is going to be a third-string quarterback. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So Dalton's the backup. He knew his role. So you don't think Zeke's going to be used there?

No, he will. Okay. Like, their running game should be decent, but they also need a good offensive line, and they don't have that. Yeah. That's what scares me the most. But Zee can play center, remember? That's true. There we go.

That's terrible, man. God, you got destroyed. His last play as a cowboy. That was it. It was awful. Eddie. You know, the Cowboys, what am I going to say? Like, let's just see what happens.

I'm excited. I mean, I think like every year it's just good. I think Dax's on a mission. He says he's not going to throw one single interception this year. That's not what he said. I believe him. That's not what he said. And so let's go on forward with that mentality.

Let's not throw a pick. Let's go to the Super Bowl. But I will say to college this week, I did lose a lot of money in college. But man, the fact that Oregon beat Portland State, 81 to 7, that's savage. What about Oklahoma beat in Arkansas State like 70? He was crying. Five to zero or whatever. And that's another thing for the coach.

Their head coach. for Arkansas State. I didn't see that. I was in, I was in freaking Paris. Sorry. And I was like, why can I not watch a college football game?

He was crying. And it's like, dude, don't cry. You expected. I didn't see it. Bush Jones. Oh,

and Bush Jones is like former North Carolina, former Miami coach. He was crying because he was embarrassed. He was embarrassed. On the sideline. My family are Oklahoma fans. And I try not to hate Oklahoma, although they did reject us

and doing too much access there so they can also suck my balls right now. Damn. for now. For now. Just that, just the football step. Just for now. Because that Patty Gasso head softball coach there, goat.

Yeah. You didn't mean that. Nope. Relative. Family. But the, you know what? Joe C. I love you.

Okay. Let's just retract that statement then. Balls my suck. Okay. I took it back. I did it backward. But it's like they're like, oh, I don't know. So for now.

Suck my balls. For now. Oh, boy. He's back to it. Oh, man. But my family loves them. And I'm good with them too. I just wish that they were nicer to us.

They look good this week. Yeah, I said, why do you guys run the score up in Arkansas State? And he was like, we didn't, on purpose. We just started running the ball at the end of the game. And they couldn't stop it. Oh, yeah. If you're running the ball and you're just plowing through them, they deserve it.

That sucks. I got to go watch Butch Davis cry, though. Dude, you can't cry? He won a national championship with Miami, right? Or was he in right after the national championship of Miami? I don't know if he won it with them. It's a Google away, Kev. That's what I'm on it.

because I know he was there for a while. I know he was in North Carolina for a while. As their head coach? No. Miami? Yeah. Do you're saying? Florida?

I'm not seeing anything. I'm just going from my head. Butch Davis. Type in Bush Davis, Miami. Yeah. And see what comes up. Nothing? Nope.

Was he never the head coach soon? Nope. All right. Well, I guess I'm wrong. It happens. He's at Tennessee, Cincinnati, Central Michigan, West Virginia. Was he ever an offensive coordinator there? At Miami?

Yeah. Nope. He's not going to quit with Miami. Did he ever stay in a hotel in Miami? I'm seeing you as a head coach there for six seasons. Thank you. Wow. 95 to 2000.

Thank you. Kevin. Well, Wikipedia. Butch Davis. He was the head coach of the University of Miami Hurricane Football team from 95 to 2000. Kevin, are you okay, buddy? There's nothing on Wikipedia. I'm literally looking at it.

Why only go to Wikipedia, though? You're like, well, not on Wikipedia. I give up. If it was not on the Internet, it's not true. He probably didn't win a national championship then. But, yeah, he did. he didn't coach at Miami anyway

I'll go about Arkansas we played Western Carolina obviously do you watch it I did on TikTok both ESPN some but I kept having to pay

$10 for over and over again for high speed access because I was using my phone because I use a what you call a thing where you hide where you're from Mike VPN I use a VPN

called I don't know who cares and it won't block on internet it'll block through cell phone So I said I was from Chicago. Got it. And then I was watching, but I kept having to pay $10 every 20 minutes for high-speed access

international. So I paid like 70 bucks to watch that game. Oh, man. Speaking of, dude, how are you going to pay for Sunday ticket? What do you mean? It's on YouTube TV. Yeah, I know. I don't have YouTube TV.

So I'm going to have to have a YouTube account, though, too. That's it. You get on YouTube as well. You get just a ticket itself. Heck yeah. But how much is that? Am I going to say $500? I don't know.

Dude, I'm going to tell you something. I'm rich now. I don't, I don't even look at a. prices anymore. It's $300. $300 for the whole season. That's a lot. That's a lot of money.

This might be the first year I don't have Sunday ticket. I'm kidding. Not that I'm rich, but I do like a price. Not kidding about that. Okay, that's all. I think we're going to wrap the show up now. And I love you all. And we'll see you later on this week.

Love you too, man. Thank you. And I'm going to do better. And I'm not going to try to catch up. At gambling? Double up to catch up. Not a good thing to do. But I did.

It worked. I came not. $9 a head after a bad week. I was chasing. It's like a horror movie. And I was Freddie Kruger. And the person that was running for me was the money I lost.

You were chasing. But I caught it and I killed it. And I came about $9 a bucked because I bet $750 on Duke plus $12.5. Maybe you can get me a Sunday ticket. And anything I ever said about sucking any of my balls, I'd just like to say that that's just a phrase I use. You don't mean it literally.

I don't know. You're still on the fence on that? I love Joe C. And I love Patty Gassow. But the football program, they've really done us dirty two years ago.

What about stoops? You like stoops? He's still involved? Yeah. I like all stoops. Mike Stoops, but not his brother at Kentucky who said we couldn't come either.

Yeah. Not that, dude. I like Bob Stoops. Mike Stoops, though. You know what? I'm not going to give him the balls yet. I want to think about it for a week. Maybe a couple days.

All right. Good for you. We'll see you guys next time. Bye, everybody. A win is a win. A win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th.

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