The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: He Is Him, Restrepo

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

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Sponsored by Diageo Americas Inc. New York, New York. This is the Dan Leventor Show with the Stugats podcast. Ward with time. What a catch by Restrepo and a touchdown, Cainz! Now we're running the league 8-0 Isn't that sweet, you bet so Top five team, baby you know Miami's Restrepo EA Sports ranked him too low He should be like one hundo This is his team, everyone knows

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We hear on this show. No, of course. It is game time Do yourself a favor download the game time app create an account and use code Dan That is D a n for $20 off your first purchase terms apply download game time today Roy. What time is it game time? It is a mind bleep of the highest order to think, Stugats, that Jonathan Vilmet, one time I asked him, among all athletes in the history of the University of Miami, who do you regard as the greatest of the athletes? And it used to be a long time ago Alonzo Highsmith, but then people upgraded that to say, have you ever seen Andre Johnson who seems to have muscles on top of muscles to see Restrepo take down every University of Miami wide receiver in the record book?

Crazy. Super weird. Yes. Physically tiny seems feel smaller to me than Barrios or any of those. Santana Moss feels physically smaller. It doesn't make any sense to me that he's going to demolish the University of Miami receiving record books. And certainly left less physically gifted

than those receivers that you mentioned, not highly touted as a recruit, a guy that just did all the things, worked on his game, and you actually look at Miami, and I understand Kim Ward is highly touted coming from Washington State, was the number one transfer portal quarterback, depending on where you look.

He was a zero star coming out of high school. Incarnate word was his offer. So you look across the offense, and you see a guy like Zay Horton, who FSU was saying, you're not gonna beat us over the top. What's their highest point type of catch is slant. Zay Horton all of a sudden,

a guy as a part of a big wide receiver core that had a lot of questions about it. Miami's really developing a lot of these players. How did it feel to have a normal victory? Just no one questioning it, no referees, nothing. I wanted it to be, I wanted the, no, I didn't miss that. I wanted the final score to be more reflective

of the actual type of beatdown that was it I mean they had their biggest play was a QB sneak that Went for 40 yards But the games are in the playoff Mike like there's no one there's no one on the schedule that scares you at this point It's college football. They're probably they can lose they can lose to God's they can lose one and then lose Championship you can lose No, they're not gonna lose. No. They're not gonna lose.

It's possible. Don't underestimate Mario Cristobal here. Trust me, I never have. But they're not gonna lose this year. Trust me on this. Brad Kai is the all-time leading passer in Hurricanes history, huh? You know, you mentioned Mario Cristobal

and you mentioned the one-score games that Miami has been in. Those one-score games, ample opportunity for Mario Cristobal to blow a game. One bad decision and you lose that game in their close games. Pushed all the right buttons. So maybe, maybe, just maybe,

he's learned to bring in people into his staff that can mitigate some of those concerns which are not invalid. Jessica, you do not have it possible them losing the ACC Championship game? Are you just doing regular season schedule games? I mean, even if they did losing the ACC Championship game? Are you just doing regular season schedule games? I mean even if they did lose the ACC Championship game, I think they'd still be in the playoff. And I think they have a real shot at winning a potential ACC Championship game, even if

it's against Clemson, which is looking like the best team in the conference right now. I'm a little bit more worried after watching the FSU game about Clemson. I was watching that and I was starting to get more worried about Clemson because I think FSU has really good defensive backs at least at corner and they were kind of challenging Miami to make plays. You saw that a little bit with Virginia Tech too. Two games that K-Mord didn't exactly pop off although K-Mord certainly found his later in that Virginia Tech game but Clemson trusts their secondary to play man on Miami and make those wide receivers to make plays. The aforementioned Restrepo would

have a tougher time. But Mike, is it fair to say even if you get to the ACC Championship game and you lose, but you haven't lost, right? So, but you lose to Clemson, that's your one loss. You're in the playoff, right? That game is going to be more to Clemson than it will to Miami if that plays out. I think we're looking ahead. Miami's gotta prove that they can TCB week in, week out. But I think you can probably run the ball against Clemson.

And their passing defense is good, but it's not like a top 10 unit. Most encouraging thing, I think, that came from that FSU game, and I know Cam was a little frustrated by it, was they were daring him to play it safe. Here's a Mahomes comparison that's a little out there, but you know how teams just treated Patrick Mahomes, like we don't trust you to not take the treats

way down deep. We know you trust your arm and you wanna have these big explosive plays and you don't like to matriculate. Cam Ward took what was there. Miami absolutely dominated the line of scrimmage. This running game is getting better so I do think that there's a path there. If Cam Ward cannot have turnovers the way that he had a clean game against FSU and they go back to what I'm sure Mario Crisabal, which the identity was, which is more ground and pound, they certainly have a shot.

And Miami as a team, I think at this point in college football, I don't think that there's a dominant team. I think there's like six teams that you can talk yourself into winning a national championship. Whether you have Miami in that class or not, that's not important. What I'm saying is Miami has a chance. I also think Clemson has a tougher schedule remaining.

They still have to play Pitt, which we know sometimes that hasn't worked out well for Clemson and Miami. And they have to go to Blacksburg too. And they play South Carolina, which isn't a conference game, but if they lost, obviously it would impact the playoff race there. I have a college football admission to make. I told Lucy this privately. I'm going to say it publicly now.

I am falling for James Franklin and Penn State again. They play Ohio State this weekend. They appear to be different. This team appears to be different. Don't do that. Dan, they appear to be good offensively. They're really good on defense. They play Ohio State and I am buying James Franklin at Penn State knowing they're probably going to lose to Ohio State this weekend at home. Those are called intrusive thoughts and you can keep them to yourself. Keep them to yourself. I'm sorry.

I mean, something's got to give this weekend. Like Ohio State fans, the ones that I saw in my timeline were not happy with that very close win against Nebraska on Saturday. They were treating it like a loss. When you see Ryan Day's address on the feed, you know something has gone deeply wrong. Lucy, I don't know how tapped into it you were on Saturday, but that was to me the prevailing storyline is how Ohio State, and we've seen other programs and their fan bases make this mistake. They're not satisfied with, okay, you can pencil us into the CFP. They want to win it every year, and it seems as though they're pushing out a coach, potentially pushing out a coach that's

done a fair amount of winning for their program. Yeah, he has an insanely high winning percentage at Ohio State. Like Ryan Day has lost to Michigan a few times, and then George every once in a while, you know, this is a very successful coach. But after watching that Nebraska game, which, let's just give a quick thoughts and prayers to Nebraska fans. I don't know if there's a fan base who has been through anything more than Nebraska, because like if you're a Florida State fan, yeah, this just sucks, but you know there's

no hope. Nebraska, it is just the same horrible nightmare every single week, but with this game specifically, I saw so many edits of Kurt Signetti in Ohio State gear, because they're already like, we want him to come here, which is an interesting thing, and I also think that is sort of related to Nebraska in the sense that Nebraska played Indiana last week,

and they lost by like 40 plus, where they had Ohio State on the ropes and had Nebraska not Nebraska the whole situation. They probably would have won that game. I think there is like reason to be concerned if you're Ohio State because considering how much money they spent on that team, like you should probably beat Nebraska by more. Okay, but I will say this again and again. I don't think it's a reminder anyone needs but i'm going to keep doing it

you cannot trust college kids to be consistent week to week i'm not talking about football and just talking about college kids and so when there are close games played for an ohio state and when you guys laugh at the idea that a miami team that I saw fall down 3510 at California that they can't go to Georgia Tech and lose a football game when I saw down by 25 and with 4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter not that long ago against the team that's kind of like Georgia Tech in California like get out

of my life with that is an I do not trust when I see Texas do what they do week to week or Georgia somehow lose to an Alabama team that's not that good. I do not trust anyone in college football to be unblemished anymore from week to week. Why? Because I don't trust college kids to be consistent about anything.

Except for Indiana, we trust Indiana. Yep. college kids to be consistent about anything. Except for Indiana, we trust Indiana. Dan, they're playing Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and Syracuse. They were down 25 points at Cal. Yeah. But their offense is so much better than any of these teams. I mean, maybe I'll give you like a little,

like Duke will have a little, a smidgen of life. Maybe like Syracuse will have, they'll have a nice drive. But like, and this brings me no pleasure in saying this. And I'm not even 100% doing the reverse jinx thing. I'm doing like a 50% reverse jinx thing here. Like they are just a better team in every way than last year. Agreed.

And I saw Vanderbilt beat Alabama. Right. Vanderbilt's good. That. Vanderbilt's good. That was a quality win for Texas. They almost got their automatic bid. Had they beaten Texas, it would have been great. I saw Northern Illinois win at Notre Dame. Northern Illinois is not good.

Northern Illinois, by the way. That's their game plan, and that's what they do. Miami's not doing that. Miami's winning games by large margins, even when they're trailing by 35 points in the first. Pro argument for Miami is a defense has got to prove that they can hold Miami under 35 points and I still think that Miami still hasn't put together its best football. Really?

Miami has room for improvement. No doubt. I think that their offense is on a historic pace in that, well across several places, but the stat that I was showing Jess earlier during one of the breaks was, they've only had one three and outs in their last 83 drives. They've had three three and outs all season. Two of them came in the Florida game.

That's the first time that anyone's had this kind of output to avoid three and outs since 2004. They are disappointing when they score 36. The number in that game was 38 against Florida State like they are Expected to score about 40 points a game and that can erase a lot of deficiencies someone brought up Cal We laughed about this last week, but Cal is they are there eight points away from being the number one team in the country All the losses by eight points this this Beat down Oregon State,

but they've always been in close games. It's just tricky. We're done, we're back to work. We're not going to defend the merits of our victory. I know, I know. Back to work. Better schedule, Miami's or Indiana's. Can you explain to me, can someone give me some analysis?

Indiana is the quietest undefeated team that hasn't trailed all season. They still have to play Ohio State, Indiana. They have Ohio State on the schedule. I believe they also have Michigan, so I think that's gonna pretty much solve that equation. Cal is a good team, but Miami's schedule just isn't as tough as having one top five team

on your schedule makes a big difference. I was so bummed watching Duke find a way to lose a game in which they had a plus six turnover differential. Jafari Harvey, the former Miami Hurricane, blocks a kick and Prashard Smith, the former Miami Hurricane, runs one in. Manny Diaz, former Miami head coach, goes for two, fails. I was so bummed because of exactly what

you guys are all saying. I will concede. Miami's most impressive win is at Florida and Florida's been a weird team to judge, but yeah, if you want to seize on they don't have good enough wins, they don't. Even if Indiana goes undefeated somehow, they have to play in the Big Ten Championship game.

And they'll play Oregon. Yeah, not the ACC Championship. So you guys aren't buying anything Indiana related. I think they're making the college football player. No, no, no, we're buying Indiana. I think the conversation is that the Big Ten is just a better conference than the ACC. Which I think is fair.

Yeah, it goes without saying. I do think it's a little inflated as both the SEC and Big Ten have their media partners that are gonna pump that. But if you look at Indiana's schedule. The ACC media partner is not pumping the ACC. Pitt SMU, a top 20 matchup, is at eight o'clock on the ACC network this weekend.

That is a huge bummer. Pitt is a team like Indiana. It's okay. They're undefeated though. They're undefeated. Dan, think about undefeated Indiana and the reaction to undefeated Indiana to the undefeated reaction out of Pittsburgh, in which I probably reminded a large chunk of our audience that Pitt is actually undefeated. I saw that Miami gets relief from not having to play Pitt, that the schedule is made easier by the fact that

they don't have to deal with Pitt because all of us would wonder whether or not they could lose against Pitt. The last time they were in this position when they were undefeated they were number one in the country. They had number one therefore they were number two in the country but if they won that week at Pitt they would have been number one in the country headed into the ACC Championship game and they fell on their face. I don't think Pitt and Indiana are fair comparisons

because yes, they are both undefeated and they're both teams who didn't expect to be undefeated and they may not have played the toughest schedule, but Pitt is winning games not the way Indiana is. Indiana is blowing out pretty much every single team they're facing, which is crazy. Like you said, they've never trailed. Pitt's been flirting with disaster for a hot minute now.

I think that's why this SMU game is so big for Pitt, and no one's going to watch it. And what if I told you, Dan, there's an undefeated team in the ACC that narrowly beat Cal by less than a field goal, the best defense in the country, the Cal Bears, and no one's talking about them. It's a pit at Miami. I don't feel like enough people are talking about

Indiana or Pittsburgh because- College game day was at Indiana this week. Well, because no one takes them seriously in terms of winning the national championship. They might make the playoff, but once they get to the playoff, I think everyone assumes they'll lose, right? People need to wrap their head around

an almost statistical certainty, because Signetti doesn't seem like a coach that you're gonna catch napping, right? I don't think I use approach to status where they're gonna be looking ahead on folks. That dude will take care of business week in and week out, and even if they do slip up, they're in a conference where you have to justify

holding them out of the CFP, you don't. You have a one-loss Big Ten team, you're putting them in. I have to remind holding them out of the CFP. You don't. You have a one-loss, big 10 team. You're putting them in. I have to remind myself not to do this too, Stugats, because I've done it before. I've done it earlier this season with Miami, where I'm like, oh, whatever. They're going to lose the first big game they play.

It's still an accomplishment to go 8-0 in a college football season, even if you, quote unquote, haven't played anyone. Indiana team blew out Nebraska, who almost beat Ohio State this weekend, and Ohio State could not run the ball on them whatsoever. And then they had to play Washington with their backup quarterback and still won that game. So I think it's impressive whether or not you think

like they're an elite talent team that can actually go toe to toe with Oregon or Georgia. I still think that like, college football is more fun when we get to celebrate teams that are playing well. But that's what people question. So I have turned on the 12-team playoff. I started the season by saying I don't like it. I love it now. Because more teams have a chance to make the playoff. More team seasons are interesting and the fan bases get excited later into the season. So for that, it is a great thing. But I think most college football fans think once we get to the playoff, it's still going to be something like Oregon and Georgia. Is Kurt Zignetti going to springboard

from $600,000 a year ago at James Madison to like four and a half this year at Indiana to like nine next year at his new school? Did you see his incentives for winning Big Ten games? Like apparently he's just, he is cleaning up nice this season with the extra stuff in his contract. Wow. Let's transition here to a former University of Miami player

who I think was somebody that a lot of people were laughing at this weekend. I'd like from the group in general, because we haven't talked a lot about professional football today, I'd like to find and get some nominees for funniest thing from the sports football weekend. But Tyreek Stevenson is a Washington command,

I'm sorry, he's a Chicago Bear, excuse me. That's mine, by the way. And then- Former NFC defensive player of the week. At the end of the game yesterday Now it was a weird game in that most of the game Caleb Williams did not do anything The commanders were in control of most of the game But then there is a crowd shot toward the end of the game of Tyreek Stevenson of the Chicago Bears

Very confident that this Hail Mary is not gonna result in anything. He's asking for crowd noise. He's got his back. The game is going on. Yes. He's got, he's playing with the crowd as the game is going on and he gets back into the play but then he's responsible for this tip. Is he not? That ends up behind him and can't end up behind him. He tipped it. Yes. He got himself back into the play and actually made the tip. You need to bat it down. He has publicly apologized for this. I imagine Bears fans will be totally reasonable about this and realize that he got back into the play.

But he apologizes, saying to Chicago and teammates, my apologies for lack of awareness and focus. The game ain't over until zeros hit the clock. Can't take anything for granted. No staking. Improvement will happen. Hashtag, Bear Down. Nobody in Chicago wants to hear any of that.

Are you kidding me? He is getting crushed on the score today. I mean, come on. That is a legendary local radio station in Chicago. And I am telling you, they are spending their entire day bashing Tariq Stevenson. Even with the apology. They're certainly bashing him, but I think Shane Waldron and Iber Fluse are probably taking the brunt of it this morning because they blew it and they still almost ended up winning the game because Caleb Williams in the last drive on offense was like, hey, I'm actually going to do something here. Let's cook a little bit. And then they actually blew it on this ridiculous Hell Mary.

They gave Jaden Daniels like 13 seconds to throw the ball. Well, he gave himself that, I mean, fairness to Jaden. That's like a 70-yard pass with a rib injury. Right. A lot of the chatter after has been like maybe, you know, Flores blitzed earlier this season on a, wait, was it Flores or was it, I can't remember which game it was,

but there was another helm area earlier this season where they blitzed, I think they blitzed Darnold in the Vikings game and it was, the game was over. That was that. Bears defense was like, we're gonna just do the typical thing where we drop everyone back, but instead of having one guy in the end zone defending the deflection, he's going to be on the other

side of the field taunting the fans. Celebrating, yes. Celebrating the end of the game. Like it just is like so bad and if you watch the video too there's like four Bears fans in the front row of the stands pointing and they're like the play started the play started and it's just such a disaster. But I really do think this is on the Bears coaching staff because this is just awful coaching. It's awful Hail Mary defense they're confused about where they're supposed to be. And they-

It's handoff to D-Tackles. Also like this team last year lost so many games like this where they were leading in the fourth quarter and then gave up a huge lead. And then they were like, I don't know, maybe we should fire our coach. Maybe we should just fire the OC. Maybe we should fire both.

What do we do? Let's just fire the OC. We'll keep the coach around and we'll decide like a week after everyone's already fired their head coach and it's too late to hire someone that we really like. It's just like all of it's just bad. I think though when you say blitz that play, the thing that I'm always scared of is if I blitz that play, all of a sudden they're doing something underneath and now I've got

five or six guys running into the backfield and they're doing the flip the ball back scenario there is a reason that usually people do not blitz in that situation and I'm not afraid of Sam Darnold running down the field but earlier this season we remember Lamar Jackson running 40 yards down the field you generally go three or four pass rushers there and believe that an outnumbered wide receiver group is going to be able to knock the ball down because in most instances the ball, they are taught do not let that ball flip backwards. You've got to knock that down.

It's super rare. I mean the chances of that play succeeding are really unusual. Well you have to start by not taunting the fans because you think you've won the game already while the play is going on. The play's been going on for a good three and a half seconds. Really unusual. Well, you have to start by not taunting the fans because you think you've won the game already while the play is going on. The play's been going on for a good three and a half seconds before he realizes, oh crap, I gotta get in this play. It was like a 30 second long play.

It was the slowest play in NFL history. He did run with the ball for 12 plus seconds before releasing it 30 yards. But four of those 12 seconds were spent celebrating by Stevenson. What are we doing? Diana Rusini reported before that game, she said the decision on whether Daniels wants to play

and the decision will be made by head coach, general manager, training staff, and doctors. There will be five voices on this. Three of them want and need Daniels to play. The other two were doctors and paid medical professionals. Stunned that Jaden Daniels would play in that game. It's a vote of five and the general manager and the coach and the quarterback all want the quarterback to play.

He wasn't himself yesterday. He didn't seem like. At the quarterback to play. He wasn't himself yesterday. He didn't seem like he doesn't see he didn't see I mean he was able to throw the ball 70 yards in crazy throw move around to give your team an opportunity in that spot. So so Dr. Quinn wanted him to play Dr. Dan Quinn and is it Adam Scott is their general manager whoever their general manager is also Dr. Scott to play. I wanted him to play as well. Interesting. Hey everyone, it's Mike Ryan. You hear that? That is the sound of me cracking open an ice-cold Miller Lite. Maybe if you're the lucky winner of the DraftKings Weekend Observation presented

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This is the Don LeVatar Show with the StuGuts. I wanted to ask you guys something based on what I saw celebrated yesterday that I felt I wanted them to stop celebrating it. They turned National Tight Ends Day into a national holiday and I liked it at the beginning, but at the end, I had grown weary of the amount of celebration there was of tight ends all over the league. They get a day, and it usually concludes with George Kittle doing something big on prime time.

I like them having a day. Do you? It also reminds me to cook up portles. To score, any time to score, it's a big touch on the table. There were a lot of times. It's their day, right? There was more than, I think by the end of the day, I think there was an average of more than one

tight end touchdown per game. At one point, they were trending more tight end touchdowns. There was more than one per game. But you still got, do you think Kyle Shanahan was like, oh, it's a game plan here. Well, it is National Tight End Day. Let's make sure to get George Kittle involved We gotta get yeah, we gotta get kiddle one. You think that's how that's going? No

But you guys didn't think it was overdone National tight end day You guys all enjoyed National tight end because I did right up until I didn't the novelty so hasn't worn off It was too really I like them having a day but Billy saying it's too much Yeah, it was one of our losers and winners and losers presented by Smear and Off the World's Number One God to please shrink responsibly on God bless football this morning. It was the people that love National Titan Day, big win.

People that aren't a big fan of National Titan Day, big loss. Cause they would not stop saying, you just thought like, okay, we'll hear this a little bit at the beginning all day long, everybody was doing it. And really, when Toreko's doing it, I'm like, too much, buddy. You're trying to be like the crazy joker in tight end day.

You guys made special belts, so you're giving out to the players. Too much. Too much for the tight end day. But Atlanta in the bucket years, that was a doozy. You had four touchdowns scored by tight ends. I mean, what a game. I mean, I'm watching the Cardinals. No one can stop Trey McBride.

I'm watching the Packers, and I'm saying, I have not heard a more Lambeau name than Tucker Craft. Ooh. Like, that fits. That fits on anything that Lambeau is doing. If you tell me what does that person look like and what are they named, I would say Tucker Craft is a Green Bay tight end.

Dawson Knox could be a good Packer tight end. Oh, yeah, that's good. Tucker Craft is a Green Bay tight end. Dawson Knox could be a good Packer tight end. Oh yeah, that's good. Yeah. That is a good tight end name as well. Where is he, with the Bills? Yeah. But a good Packer tight end, you're right.

He's good with the Bills, he'd be a Hall of Famer with the Packers. Ooh, maybe. Mark Andrews still running around out there, and he will be able to do button hooks like Jason Witten until he's 75 years old. Poor Justin Tucker cannot make a kick to save his life this year, huh?

It's weird, right? What's going on there? Was it national kickers? Do any of us understand what it takes to be a kicker? Like when you say what's going on there, do you think we're going to get good analysis from anyone in the world on what's going on there? I don't understand how kickers do it.

Sometimes you see the ball, they make it move, it goes this way and then comes back this way and it goes right back. I don't understand how you can, listen, some people have said that I've been critical of kickers. Fairly or unfairly, not me saying the criticism, the criticism of me being critical of kickers fairly or unfairly.

You have been unfair to kickers, period. Just one in particular. I'm not so certain about that, but it is pretty remarkable that they can just kind of completely control, if you were to roll a football, you have no idea where the ball's gonna go, right? Like on onside kicks, you kick it straight into the ground

because you have no idea which way the ball's gonna go and you hope that it just does like a weird hop, it goes straight up in the air, and then your team can get it, right? But kickers have perfected this craft where they kick a ball that's the exact same shape that's so unpredictable, and they can have it go in straight lines,

they can have it zigzag this way and that way, and go just in between the two uprights. It's incredible what kickers can do. And now they can do it from like, damn near 70 yards. There was a 57 yard field goal yesterday that hit the net. That would have been good from 67 yards probably. Like it's incredible how good kickers are,

but then also when they're bad, you're like, how are you bad? Like how are you so good at this, but also so bad at this at the same time? It doesn't make any sense. I told you, I read a story in Sports Illustrated, I'm going to say 10 years ago, that nothing in sports had been improved more than the ability for kickers to make kicks with accuracy.

That across sports you can measure everything and whatever it was in the 1950s versus whatever it was in 2010, the improvement was greater there than it was anywhere else. What I'm telling you about the life of a kicker, it is so lonely because the other players don't respect them. They practice off by themselves, and they're just doing a singular thing all the time, and the only real friends they have

are the holder and the long snapper. And the long snapper understands how hard it is to be the kicker are the holder and the long snapper. And the long snapper understands how hard it is to be the kicker because you only notice the long snapper when he screws it up. Otherwise, you don't notice it at all. Same thing with the holder. To have that person at the end of games

with the pressure to have to work the following week with a whole bunch of people who already don't respect him and now he's lost the game as Well, because they've been colliding and he never gets hurt And he never risks collisions or Maddicas get hurt right, but when he's celebrating That's right. Grammatic is get hurt jumping up and down tear their knee ligaments when celebrating. Yes, but for the most part You're right I would not like to live in the place that kickers live in terms of pressure

because all of that seems like circus freak stuff that they're doing for a living and then everyone in their locker room hates them when they fail. I mean, I think they thrive under the pressure, right? This is their moment, they go out there. I feel bad for punters. Like punters, who cares?

I saw 17, 17. Punters don't decide things. Yeah, but no one wants to see a punter. That's, no, but that's why. That's not true. I mean. No, but punters, who cares? I saw a 72. Punters don't decide games. Yeah, but no one wants to see a punter. No, but that's why. That's not true. No, but punters don't, you're not waiting for a game end punt. Yes, I have, several times before.

I saw a 72. I don't know what you're talking about. You're being disrespectful. A 72 yard punt this weekend that jumped out of bounds at the half yard line. Like, it's an incredible craft. No one cares. Cause you can't even really get mad at a punter, right?

Even if it's blocked, it's not their fault. Oh, sorry. It's just her Iowa biases that are making an appearance. Greg the leg's been a disaster this year, huh? Leading the league in miss kicks. Oh, the worst. Six miss field goals this year. He calls us yesterday.

Even when we're scoring touchdowns, we burn all our timeouts. Even when we score a touchdown and go we burn all our timeouts. Even when we score a touchdown and go for two, we get a penalty that pushes it five yards back. Complete disaster. Did you use three timeouts in the first quarter yesterday? Yes. Yep. What's going on?

On a scoring drive. So this is an interim head coach. What has he shown over the last two weeks? Nothing. That makes you believe you should trot him out there. Is there anyone else that you can give a crack to? Bill? Can I get some audio please of Francesa complaining about Greg Zerlein? Do you guys?

The whole time they're coming down the field, you know if you score you need a two point play. You're gonna be up five. And you get a delay of game. Okay, that's not on Zerline, but good enough. That is Francesa and the Jets. What was the funniest thing from the sports football weekend? If you had to choose one thing,

because the Jets losing against the Patriots is funny. The way the Bears lost is funny. The way the Dolphins lost is funny. Heartbreaking to all the fan bases. Stugats, it is crazy to me that the difference in that sport between three and four and two and five seems like the difference between having a season to cheer for and a total apocalypse. And that's what happened to the Dolphins yesterday losing to the Cardinals at

home and unable to get to three and four which makes you somehow feel like you still have a season and two and five does not feel like you still have a season when you've gotten through the hard part of your schedule the easy part of your schedule two and five like with with a home loss to Arizona there as to what was supposed to be strike up the bleeping band again according to Tyree Kill. For me the funniest thing is the Jaguars and just the way they lose and how they lose every single week. And the Packers got him yesterday and love got hurt. And Malik Willis came in and he did the job.

And the Jaguars are terrible. They're awful. For me, if you're talking about all of football, you gotta talk about that kicker with the Trump shirt who missed the game with a field goal. That's just, especially with everything going on right now, that's just, ah. I have two.

So my first is I was following the Texas A&M Police Department tweet, like they were live tweeting throughout the game how many people they were firing, or not firing, arresting. And they caught someone with coke in section 336, and that is so not a Texas A&M thing. Very much an LSU thing, not an A&M thing.

That's our thing, man. That was funny. Then my second one is actually from me. When we were at Ole Miss and we were leaving the field, we saw Kevin Costner there. And I didn't know it was Kevin Costner. My first thought was just, wow, that guy looks just like Kevin Costner.

And he was trying to get down on the field and the security guard was like, you don't have a pass. I don't know who you are, you don't have a pass. Can't go. And all his entourage was like, hey, he's really famous. And she was like, too like too bad no pass you don't get to go on the field. I thought that was pretty cool They never let him on so Kevin Costner did not get to go on the field I got to go on the field, but Kevin Costner did not really the only plug he has is in his scalp Did you get to the bottom like Freddie Freeman's teeth situation? Yeah, I think I got a new batch of fake teeth

He definitely had Vernier's When he entered the league he fixed his grill up, but I think he's gotten them bigger I've told you guys that I believe that Texas A&M can win against anybody in the sport in a single game Yeah, that was gutsy with our coach did what coach Elko did to Once again Benj Wegman and with Marcel Reed which won them the game because they didn't have any answers. And again, we're gonna do this again because LSU has got another loss in that schedule. They're still gonna be in the CFP conversation

because LSU losses for some reason are good losses. They do this every year. They're not a playoff team. They lost to a bad USC team. You know how bad it is when Lincoln Riley gets a big win over you at USC? And we've gassed them up again. And I do think that Texas A&M is a team to watch

because yeah, they lost to Notre Dame at the beginning of the year. Texas A&M was not right. That was week one of a program. Week after week, they do appear to be getting better and pretty disciplined. To make it more impressive, Ted Cruz was at that game and they won.

Like they defeated the Ted Cruz curse, which is crazy. One of my other favorite funny moments of the weekend was Brian Kelly after the game. And like we literally never even remotely planned for the idea that we might face Marcel Reed. Like they were like, yeah, we didn't watch any film. We didn't do anything. And it was like, what do you mean? Not even one thought, we didn't watch any film. We didn't do anything and it was like what do you mean?

You did not even one thought oh, maybe this could happen and it's not and like Wegmans been hurt throughout the year a little bit So like this is not the first time we've saw we've seen him absolutely crazy coaching admission from Brian What did you guys make of Elko saying after the game? This is a real program. We talk real culture here This is not a fake program run by a politician talking a lot of bullshit Everyone assumed that was about Brian Kelly was it that was my question with it because I think it was such a great like Comment because I think it applies to Brian Kelly if you want it to but it also applies to Jimbo Fisher So I have no idea who is about buddy coach for he coached for Jimbo, didn't he? Yeah, he did.

Like he's friendly with Jimbo, right? That is probably about Brian Kelly. I hope he never tells us who it was about. The only thing it was missing was a little... At the end of that. Make me slip off my stool. I want you guys to tell me what I'm missing from yesterday's Witching Hour, which I have said involved largely bad teams and largely no stakes unless you consider the idea

that the difference between three and four and two and five are giant stakes, which can feel that way. You had on, if you had multiple televisions running, you had what looked like the Colts somehow returning a fumble 85 yards in a Colts-Texans game that was very close. You had the Pats over the Jets

and everything that was happening at the end of that game. You had the Cardinals over the Dolphins and everything that was happening at the end of that game. You had the Jags and the Packers and everything that was happening at the end of that game. And I think you had the Bucks throwing a Hail Mary in the Bucks Atlantic game. Am I-

Completed but out of bounds. Am I missing anything? Kyle Larson spinning out twice, trying to make an aggressive move for first. Probably way too aggressive when you're already clenching the final eight and you're just looking to get enough points to get in that final four, but you know, he was risky. You missed Jameis Winston.

Oh, that's right, I keep missing Jameis Winston. I keep missing Jameis Winston winning against the Ravens. He's so good man I'm not like great but like just man fun he had his pregame interview that he's very clearly spoke to the reporter and they had an actual conversation before and then when it seemed like the exact same questions were asked had very different answers where he was just going into giving all the glory to God which is good I just saw now another video where he was giving a pep talk

to his team in the tunnel and he told them to represent the names on the backs of their jerseys. Why don't we play it? Why don't we just put it? Well, I gotta put it in the video, dumb. Oh no, there it is, hey! Opportunities come once in a lifetime. And with those opportunities, we have to make the most of it.

Every one of us have an individual responsibility to go out there and fight for each other. Represent the names on your back, represents the names that's on your hip. Where we don't got no decaf. So represent the balance. Alright, one play at a time. Alright, together. Alright, here we go. 10-0-3, one, two, three, bam!

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