The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 – Brian Kelly, Nick Sirianni

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

Jonas Knox and LaVar Arrington, in for Colin Cowherd, give their thoughts on LSU’s season opening loss to USC and what it means for both teams, Nick Sirianni responds to some of his players that have expressed dissatisfaction with playing in Brazil, another edition of Herdline News, and more! #2prosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Orale. Oh, okay, pass. Yeah. We are off and running here on the college football weekend. We've got a lot of college football. we want to touch on, but we must go back to the most immediate. We want to touch on it. We want to most immediate result from the college football opening weekend, which

Flippermin's going. Just say this. I know everybody wants to look at and say, well, first full weekend of college football, I demand respect for week zero, and I will continue to pound that drum every single year. All right. Those schools deserve respect and do not throw shade at those rainbow warriors from Hawaii who are in that game.

against UCLA after winning their first game. I mean, it's okay to lose the Rainbow Warriors these days. You know what I mean? It's more acceptable. That's a great point. You know, it's more of a societal thing. I didn't even think about that. You're right.

They used to get your hard. They used to get your hard tab if you lost to a Rainbow Warrior these days. That if you throw shade at them, you got problems. Yo, you won't be allowed around anymore. So they're in the driver's seat, actually. Damn. USC LSU was a fantastic football game last night in Las Vegas. It was.

I think, and I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was just under the impression that if USC struggled with Kayla Williams, what the hell were they going to look like without him? And it actually looked like a team that was not afraid to be physical. They were physical. Yeah, like it was a real dog fight against LSU, and they ended up winning the game. And they played deep.

defense, something that they obviously hadn't done in quite some time. So the move at the defense coordinator's position obviously played dividends because it was defense that allowed them to stay in the game and close enough to be able to win a tightly played game against LSU. I didn't think that they had. I did not think that USC had it in them to win week one against the LSU. but I don't know. I came away from the game. Did I have more question marks on how good can LSU be?

We just chalked this up to this was a week one deal where they were susceptible to a loss if they played against a quality opponent because it's so early. We saw so much sloppy play. I can ultimately say we saw a lot of sloppy play in the Penn State game against West Virginia.

I mean, this is generally the week when we talk about, you know, scrimmages, you know, for the pros. And you're able to get out there and you're able to play and the game doesn't mean anything. Whereas in college, every game matters. And even with the expanded playoff, all these games still matter because you're playing for bi-weeks. You're playing for so many different things,

home-field advantage. There's just so much at stake this year in college football, but there are teams that are accepting the challenge of creating a strength of schedule. And you see matchups like this in week one, which I thought was it's amazing for college football. I mean, I don't know what the ratings were on that game, Jonas, but I can imagine that it was pretty high. Well, that would be a little bit difficult considering that, you know, Disney and DirecTV decided, you know what, why don't we go ahead and get into a little bit of a pissing match over the contract? And so many people weren't able to see it, weren't able to see USCLSU or the U.S. Open for that matter.

Because they had direct TV. Yeah, because they went on and realized, oh, I didn't know that our parents were fighting. So that's nice. So you walked in. I can certainly bet. I can bet that people found ways to. watch that game. Yeah, I mean, I just...

Maybe it hurt the ratings for certain. Well, but I would also say this, though, and like, not even just the rate, because who the hell knows what the number is going to end up being? Because it was a great game. And for those that got to watch it, I mean, you got to see a really fun game. It definitely was a four-quarter game. Hell yeah. Yeah, and tune out.

But I, it's just, it's funny when these cable providers and these networks decide they're going to go ahead and drop this on everybody because, like, nobody was aware that there was some sort of a dispute, or at least most people weren't aware there was a dispute, until they went to go turn on that game last night and realized, oh, I'm screwed. And it's funny how they pick this week of all weeks to where they're like,

okay, well, if you don't want to work with us and you don't like the numbers that we're offering, there's been statements back and forth of whose fault it is. But nonetheless, it was a great game that maybe some people didn't get to see, because again, their parents were fighting, and DirecTV

and Disney and whatever other issues were going on. We're playing out before everybody else who was trying to watch a football game, especially on a holiday weekend. I'll say this. With USC, I know everybody's celebrating it and they're looking at like, man, Miller Moss and the way he performed.

It was a big storyline. He waited his turn, you know, got it finally got his opportunity. You know, we saw glimpses of it in the bowl game last year. He comes out. And, I mean, He was making plays. Yeah.

He was delivering the ball. He was making plays where he needed to make the plays. I mean, it wasn't an offensive explosion. It wasn't like, you know, it was like the craziest of accomplishments by him or this USC offense. But what I will say is they look to come out and compete and be, you know, be very competitive against a team that was, a 13th ranked team now as we've heard from Q sometimes you look at these these rankings and these ratings and you create an

expectation a standard for that team and maybe preseason wise looking at it from the recruiting aspect of it who they've gotten out of the portal what they were able to do and offering scholarships to to high school players how many players they have coming back you know you look at LSU

and you were anticipating at 13 that they should really be too much for a USC team at this point in the season and they weren't. And so for me, I look at it from the standpoint of, man, does this mean that now where I felt is though this is this is me coming into this season, the inaugural year in the Big Ten, how competitive can these Pack 12 teams? teams be, these former PAC 12 teams beat in the Big 10. I think USC had the biggest game to prove to the onlookers out there that the Pact 12 can indeed not only integrate into the Big 10, but actually be competitive in the Big 10. I think that this sends shockwaves through the Big Ten community because I don't know that anyone was looking at USC as being one of those teams that could possibly be a problem in the Big Ten.

And look, to your point, it is week one. And maybe we look back six weeks from now after USC's gotten ripped in half by a couple of Big Ten teams and go, okay, well, it was just that one game. And maybe LSU is not there. And maybe LSU isn't. That's why it just left you feeling like there were question marks coming out of that game. But you don't want to take away from the value of what both of these. each teams are top 25 rated teams. Can't take that away from it.

And so with USC, and if you just look at their, like, keeping it locally out here in L.A. If you just looked at USC and UCLA's schedule this year, UCLA's got the harder schedule by far. It's not even close. And you see USC who's got some winnable games down the stretch. So this is a big win for them. It's one of the bigger games of the season for them, gets them off and running. I think it maybe changes a discussion about some narratives about USC football and what they look like now. as opposed to years pass.

So it feels like it's a feel-good moment for USC and Trojan fans following the departure of Caleb Williams, and now this team looks to be off and running for the year 2024. And then there's LSU. And then Brian Kelly, who's... Me and my family, we ain't done winning yet. Well, they're done winning in week one, that's for sure. They're now 0 and 3.

They don't like winning in week 1. 0 and 3 to open up the season at LSU for Brian Kelly. and this one you could tell kind of rubbed in the wrong way. Here was the LSU coach afterwards. We're sitting here again. We're sitting here again talking about the same things, about not finishing when you have an opponent in a position to put them away.

But what we're doing on the sideline is feeling like the game's over. And I'm so angry about it that I got to do something about it. I'm not doing a good enough job. as a coach and I got to coach him better because it's unacceptable for us not to have found a way to win this football game. It's ridiculous. Now that's a threat, Jonas. Oh yeah. He threatened all, every single player, every single coach, every single member of that team that was on that sideline, whoever it is that he identified doing what it is that he just said they were doing, you're in trouble. I'm trying to figure out which part he thought that they all were pretending like they lost because when they got the ball back after the go ahead touchdown. They were pretending like they lost.

They were pretending like they won. Listen to him again. Play it one more time. Listen to it again unless I heard it wrong. We're sitting here again. We're sitting here again talking about the same things. About not finishing when you have an opponent in a position to put them away. but what we're doing on the sideline

is feeling like the game's over. Yeah. And I'm so angry about it. So there you go. Stop it right there. Stop it right there. He's basically saying your SOBs did just enough

for us to be in position to win. And I'm telling you, when they showed his face after USC got that last scoring drive to take the lead, his face was so disgusted and so dejected.

He did not care about the camera. Seeing his face, he did not care about any type of any fallout that would come. His face told the entire story. Like you knew, and for what is worth, Jonas, maybe you needed to fix your face and fix your posture and what you look like. Now, granted, there was only like eight seconds left. There was only like eight, two seconds left. Yeah, it's over.

But you still, as the leader, you got to go down fighting. Don't have that trash face. Like, you ate some do-do out of the trash. Dude, fix your f*** face. Don't come up on the camera screen. Like, you're going to make a face for everybody to see in the nation. It ain't my fault we lost. By the way, you're talking about one of the.

great lines in a movie one of my favorite lines Tom Cruise's in Vanilla's guy, he's got this deformed face and some drunken a hole walks it behind him since dude fix your effin' face fix your effin face I swear to God

that's what somebody needed to say the goddamn coach Kelly last night it's the meanest thing you could ever say to somebody with a real problem and if I were there and like watching my hands in the bathroom I would have laughed so hard I would have grabbed myself That is just an unbelievably terrible thing to say to somebody.

But back on the subject of LSU, this is what I wonder, and look, everybody wants to, you know, week one, you all want to come out and have a great performance. I remember Frank Reich when he was in the NFL, he had a horrific week one record. Like it was like they lost, if I'm not mistaken, he lost every single week one that he coached in the NFL. And that's Indianapolis. that's his short time in Carolina before he realized this organization stinks and I'm just going to go play golf, F this. But I look at it and I go, I wonder if part of Brian Kelly's frustration is like, now there's like this narrative building with him that if you don't have your team ready for week one,

what does that say about you? Because Frank Wright got really frustrated towards the end when the conversation was always about, you guys seem to start off slow, you're always losing week one. and it's almost like it's a reflection of the coach. Am I not getting these guys prepared to play? Because this is three years in a row. They've come out week one and they've been close games. And to his point, they were in control there

and couldn't get a stop down the stretch. And Moss went up and down the field on them at will. And I just wonder how much of that is a reflection. And, yeah, a team's performance is all coach's reflection. But I wonder if it's again we're having this discussion about me not having these guys ready for weeks. one. I mean, ultimately, that's what it's going to come down to in the annals, right? Is that Brian Kelly is not able to get them done or get it done that way, have them ready for week one.

Now, again, it leaves a lot of question marks for both teams. How good is USC? How good is LSU? If I'm LSU, it could work in your favor, even though you're behind the eight ball immediately out the gate. it could work to your advantage. Just by pure circumstance of this being a part of an extended in a larger playoff

pool, but make no mistake about it. The amount of pressure and intensity of possible fallout on losing a week one game and you're at a major Power 5 school, an

SEC school, that's not a good look for your coach. I mean, we have conversations about Ryan Day or James Franklin who lose one game. Right. One game. We're talking about one game.

They might lose one game. And we're talking about they're on the hot seat to get fired if they can't win this one game. So when you're talking about a team like LSU that has the type of tradition connected to them, they have national titles. They've had Nick Saban. They've had great coaches.

Les Miles came in there and dropped one on them. You're looking at a guy who is the winningest coach in Notre Dame history. And you take on this job where the resources are supposed to be so vast for you to be able to build the team that you want to have. You've been there long enough to do this. Why are you not coming out and dominating in LSU fashion and form? and don't give me the do-do face like it's somebody else's fault. Don't try to deflect it

by what you're saying in the post-game meeting for self-preservation. He does have a good do-do face though. It's really good, man. He's great at it. Oh, man. It was such a disgusted look.

It's like, man, who did it? Like, who messed this up? And what happened to the Cajun accent? Does that just go way after two and a half years? When you got one foot out the door because they forcing you out, That Cajun accent has to go because you might not be able to get another good job, a job interview if you go to one of the schools that's going to hire you when they kick your ass up out of LSU.

I mean, that's why I'll give True Detective the first season. Those guys carried that accent, all those other characters all the way through the year. Brian Kelly lost it after like an hour and a half. Hey man, they sent him on his way from LSU. How is that sound with his family? My family. That thing's going to turn him. to, yes, me and my family would like to vacate the premises of Baton Rouge.

We are now not enjoying our state here as guests of you pleasant people that have not been very pleasant to us. Get us to a golf course, Johnson. They said that I was a football coach, but me and my family thought otherwise. It's time for us to go somewhere else. Forget you on y'all's Cajun accents. Maybe I can't communicate with y'all clearly enough to get together. game plan that I've been trying to give y'all.

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In for Colin. Coming up in, we'll call it about 20 minutes from now, you're going to hear some unfortunate news for one player in the NFL. Unfortunate, but fortunate. We've got the details on that for you. Again, about 20 minutes from now. So when the NFL announced that they were, because I don't know if anybody's aware of this, the season kicks off later on this week. So we've got Thursday night, you've got the Chiefs and you've got the Ravens that'll kick off the year.

And then Friday, you've got the game in Brazil, which, look, we talked about on our show, two pros and a cup of Joe, which you can hear weekday morning, 6 a.m. Eastern time, 3 o'clock Pacific. Just a little earlier than this show. A little bit earlier. Myself Labar and the hell's that guy's name. Brady Quinn, the big swing and D of the big noon kickoff show. Damn. Batter up. But you can hear us.

And we talked about when this game was announced, like, man, who wouldn't want to go to Brazil? Like, I mean, for an NFL game, like, sign us up. We'll go there. We'll work remote. We'll do it from, you know, we'd like to pick the establishment to do it from the. But the point is, get over to Brazil. That'd be a good time. Who wouldn't want to be a part of it?

Well, apparently the Philadelphia Eagles don't want to be a part of it. Philadelphia Eagles don't want to be a part of it. Like that's a problem. Players are not happy about it. They are not excited at all. Now, maybe this is all just a front so that they're better halves, you know, aren't worried about them going over to Brazil and not making a back. I don't think it's a front.

And I think it's a very serious approach because their uniforms kind of tell you and confirm that they're not taking this whole thing lightly in terms of what the possibilities of what could. play out in Brazil. Tell you what, though. I'd love to go play in Brazil. You don't know why? Why? Because my eyes work. That's why.

Okay. And that dog hunts, if you know what I mean. But the point is... They're going to be under such watch, bro. I mean, listen, there's always going to be dudes that's going to do what they're going to do and be who they're going to be. I mean, no, that's called room service. I wonder what... I wonder what the over under is going to be.

be on dues that get caught up like where they got robbed or did something that got them sent home from the trip. I wonder what the over under. Or fell in love again. You know, like listen. Hey, tell the wife and kids, I ain't never coming back. I ain't never coming home. Where's mom at?

Put mom on the phone. Babe. Yeah. I ain't never coming back. It's like a postcard from South Paulo. And next thing, you know, the Christmas got cheaper. But the point is... Whatever happened to that one player that played for the Eagles?

You never seen him for or heard from him again after that Brazil game. I don't know. He's like big into Jiu-Jitsu now for some reason. I don't know what happened. He's personally training, too. Love soccer. He's really been to it. He may revisit the NFL just in a different capacity.

So the Eagles are not happy about it. Pariani, the coach of the Eagles, spoke with reporters about, you know, how he's trying to get his team focused and prepared and ready and with a different mindset as they approach Friday's game. We're going there to play and win a football game. That's our goal. That's our, you know, our only goal as we go down there. And so, you know, it's just putting, it's just getting everybody in the right mindset of what you want, what you need to be when you go down there.

It's like you can control the things that you can control. We're going to Brazil to play. That's what it is. And we're excited about that. We're excited about the opportunity to play in a neutral site, knowing that, you know, and they have a slightly different schedule of things that happen. I mean, they can try and pretty this up all they want. And, well, listen, logistically, you know, to start off the year, it makes more sense.

You've got more travel time, et cetera, et cetera. It never makes any sense. That's kind of a crap way to start off the year. It never makes any sense. to have to travel abroad, travel far to play, especially if you're playing a game that counts. And it just is what it is. Like, is that a great play about the NFL to try to expand the game and expand the borders? Sure it is.

Introduce it to a different market, sure. But is it a hassle for the franchise? 100%. Why not do a preseason game? That makes more sense. I remember when we went to Osaka, Japan, it was a preseason game. It was a preseason game. The game didn't count.

Make it more of an exhibition. But to play games, meaningful games that count towards your record, I don't know. And I feel like lately I've been more of a critic of the decisions that I see coming from the league offices. I don't want to come across as I'm a critic because I'm a tremendous supporter of the Shield and what they represent, what they do in a lot of ways. but I wouldn't be doing my job correctly if I didn't say the things that I felt when I felt them when I'm saying them. And in this moment, I just feel like there's certain things

that you're talking about two really, really good franchises with really, really strong fan bases. And I know you're looking at it from the standpoint, like they'll travel and stuff like that, but you really just cheat at one of these teams out of having a home game. And the fans, the onlookers,

A lot of times, and I think we learned this during COVID, the venues matter for the creation of the show itself. Because when you don't have that, COVID showed us, if you don't have fans in the stands and you don't have that noise and you don't have the pageantry connected to these games, it just doesn't. It's like watching a movie with no music. It's like the storyline of it, the flow of it is just all messed up.

the energy of it is kind of messed up. So to me, what's the energy going to look like in Sao Paulo? What's that stadium really going to feel like to the onlookers and to the players? Specifically the players. Like, I know you're going to draw attention from your fans that have traveled there, but again, there's still nothing like one of those teams getting to say, we're in Lambo or we're at the link. And this is our season opener.

Like there's something to be said about that. Being in a neutral place and a foreign country, I just don't think that that's going to hit. It's not going to hit that way. Like if you did a preseason game, like, and this is no disrespect to, you know, the people listening in Brazil on the IHart Radio app. But if you did a preseason game,

like they don't get the NFL. Like it doesn't go there to play games. So you could present them a preseason game and they'd be thrilled. Like nobody's going to be like, oh, I'm not going to go see the NFL. the Eagles and Packers. It's a preseason game. Like, no, they're going to go because there's an NFL game there. Like, you're going to draw a crowd. You probably have to say there's going to be a relevant soccer exhibition match at halftime of the game to get...

Damn. To get the local population to want to go. Yeah, I mean, they're going to be like, there's a game? What type of game? Football. Oh, it's a soccer game? No, no, like football. Like, oh, it's a soccer game? No, like football. You're a soccer game. No, like football, you know, like football. Like, oh, it's a soccer game. Like, no, no. It's like that game they play in America. Yeah.

Like when people get tackled, they really get tackled. Like, you've never seen this before? Like, let me go on YouTube and show you like, look, this is what it is. This is what's coming here. But they would show up. Like, if you did a preseason game, they would, like, they would show. And also. Because it's a spectacle.

Yes. Right. Like. And plus, I would venture to guess in the. middle of training camp for a preseason game, these players would be way more open to going to Brazil. Oh, I'm sure. Because it doesn't matter.

Yes. But this game matters. You have to be dialed in. That means that the way that they're going to monitor you is going to be downed in. This is a game. This is a game situation. This is a work trip. You're not there as preseason.

You know, we can chew sunflower seeds and send ball boys over to talk to people in the stands for you like this isn't that type of some of them still might do it anyway but this isn't it's not supposed to be that type of trip this is a real trip if you did so i'm not putting my phone number and i'm not saying that this is what players do or anything but i'm not putting my phone number on like a game pair worn gloves and like sending them over um to you know a fan in the in the stands that are a worthy um recipient of your your game worn gloves that have your phone number your you know your um what's that called what's that your WhatsApp you know you don't you don't put your WhatsApp information on that hand um that you used for the game that glove yeah who would do that

no you don't do that especially when it's a real game that matters and that it counts like you don't put you know your your WhatsApp on like you know a game worn say i don't know a towel that you wore like streaming towel, make sure your hands are dry and stuff like that. Just don't do that. And you don't give it to the ball boy or to one of the guys that handle the equipment or the video, the visual things that you use. You just do not incorporate them into being able to disseminate those gifts to the fans. You know, your give back to the community to expand, you know, the fandom in Brazil. Yeah.

You just, you know, you don't get that in regular season games. I wouldn't do it, that's for sure. Now, I wonder if people are catching the sarcasm on a Monday. I definitely would not partake in that again. Okay. Again, again? So what, no.

Only one time. Here's what I'm fascinated to see, though, because, like, Major League Baseball did this to where they sent the Dodgers and the Padres over to Japan to open up the year. But what they did was they sent them over for like a two game series and they came back and they concluded spring training. They didn't send them over and then, all right, games three and four next up and you guys just got to go play. I'm fascinated to see how Green Bay and Philly do in week two. Like I'd love to see what the hangover effect is because Green Bay is at home against Indianapolis and Philly at least, and that's on a Sunday in week two, Philly at least gets an extra day.

They've gotten Monday night against the Falcons at home. I'm really curious to see how they look coming off this trip to Brazil because I know the NFL wants money and they want all this stuff. I can't imagine if this goes poorly and these teams really struggle after the fact and they've got to start off the year like this, that the NFL goes down this road again. Like maybe some adjustments, but I just think a preseason game makes way much more sense. They're there for a reason.

And now granted, they haven't been back to Osaka, Japan. And I think you tried to integrate and penetrate a market. And if it works, then you build on that. If it doesn't work, then you tried. What's the next market up? Which is the next one that we could try to integrate in that may be receptive, more receptive, more of a growth opportunity? Because again, I think all of the plans that we're seeing take place

with the equity groups and different things like that being able to buy into franchises and stuff like that. They're clearly trying to create new money and more revenue opportunities, more business that increases the bottom line for the national football league. There's also this as well too. The president of Brazil has banned the use of X out there.

So like anybody, you know, like for us watching on, it's not going to fact up. for us watching on television. I mean, unless, you know, direct TV and, you know, somebody else gets into a pissing match again and they just shut off all the TVs for us to watch like they did last night. But apparently they've banned X because they want Elon Musk

to adjust free speech rules. And he's saying, no, that's the foundation of what we do here. It's free speech. And so anybody going to cover the game cannot use X to provide updates. So we'll get to watch. all the same, but then anybody cover, and I guess if you use a VPN to try and access it,

you're going to get fined almost $9,000 if you try and go on X. So if you... Not what, they're going to arrest you if you try to use it, if you don't pay the fine. I don't know. I'm not ever coming back to this place, so I mean, I'll take your fine. I'll tell you this much. They might not let you fly up out of there, though.

Anybody going over there who's looking for, you know, an out as to why maybe you came back late, there's your out. I tried to use X. Listen, honey, I don't have to tell you. I ended up here an extra two months. I was trying to take a picture of this assayee bowl and post it to X. Next thing, you know, I'm in cuffs, $9,000. And there's like...

Three months I had to stay here for. You know what? They gave me six months community service, and they said I couldn't leave until I service at least six months of community. And listen, I don't know how this lipstick stain got on my jeans. Okay? I can't explain that. You're going to take it up with the proper authorities here.

So there you go. There's your out for anybody. That happened while I was cleaning up the good streets of South Hollow. What we do? No. It is. Stumbled. Just as somebody stumbled and was thanking me and it ended up being some lipstick on the side of my leg.

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This is the Hurdline News. All right, Bo, what do we got? That's right, guys. San Francisco 49ers, rookie wide receiver Ricky Pirceol was released from the hospital on Sunday one day after being shot in the chest during an attempted

robbery while walking to the union station after an autograph signing event. Glad to hear he's doing okay, man. Like some of these people got to do better, man. You got to do better. What, you're trying jacking for, what they sit for his watch or something? Rolex. So stupid. Yeah, as Rolex. So a life

was less than a watch to you, huh? I hope they put them dudes like under the jail. This is one guy, a 17-year-old, just walked up to him with a gun. And he got shot through the chest, went out his back. I guess he's out of the hospital and recovering. But that on top of the fact he's been dealing with this shoulder issue that he had, that dates back to college.

Like, it's just not gotten off to a great start for Ricky Pearson. You're doing a signing. It's not even like you were doing something where you've been. be like, dude, like, make sure your surroundings are okay. Make sure you have the proper protection, this, that, and other. Like, the dude was doing a signing. And I guess he walked, so he went to Union Square to go do some shopping afterwards and just 3.30 in the after, like, we're not talking like 3.30 in the morning after he left a club.

And broad daylight, some guy walks up to him with a hand can and trying to get his watch off him. Like, I just don't. And used it. Yes. And used it. Like, I don't. What are we doing here?

I don't know, man. I don't know. I'm glad he's okay, though. Shot in the chest is just so scary to hear. So glad he's doing well. You was trying to take him up out of here. I mean, you've shot him in his chest. You're trying to take him up out of here.

And I also wonder this as well, too. And he recovered and he'll recover physically and all of that. Emotionally, yeah. Oh, that's that PTSD from that. You know, come on. He's going to have to deal with that for the rest of his life. Yeah. So I do wonder.

And it's also a bad reflection of, you know, the city. It's a bad reflection of, you know, a lot of the narratives about the city. And there's a guy 3.30 in the afternoon walking to his car, get shot in the chest. For his watch. Yeah. Wow. This wasn't like no personal beef or anything like that. Just I need that watch.

Come up off that watch at 3.30. Yeah, not ideal. The Los Angeles Rams are hiring former Nebraska. head coach Scott Frost to a senior football analyst role with the team. Frost was 16 and 31 at Nebraska as a head coach, but he was successful at UCF and as an assistant at Oregon. So he'll be in the NFL now. By the way, it became almost a joke that Matt Rule, your guy Matt Rule, the guy used to bully at Penn State.

Yeah, I didn't bully him. So the, used to wear him out. We did bang him up in practice, though. We didn't bully him. Matt was good people. And, no, he's been on Fox Sports Radio. He's friends with Anthony Gargano, Fox Sports Radio host, and he used to come on the weekends and do interviews with Gargano.

And Matt Rule's awesome. And so he kind of got labeled this as well, too, because Scott Frost lost so many close games at Nebraska to where, like, Beau, his record 16 and 30 at Nebraska? Like, we're talking like single possession games that could have gone either way. that's a completely different looking record. But he's like the case example of guy who was,

that's his place, that's Nebraska. He went back there. He was being celebrated. And it just went terribly. And it almost, I wonder how many people look at it. They were looking at the way he was like clock managing and stuff like. There were a lot of criticism, if I recall correctly. Yeah.

That was coming his way in terms of how his reputation began to erode there. But, you know, that's one thing that for me I don't know man like okay it ended up working out for for you know

Michigan coach now it ended up working out for him but I would never want to risk my reputation and what it represents as a player and what I've represented to that community by going in there and being a coach yeah I wonder if if people saw that

and we're like I don't know I'd rather there's going to be more people that remember Scott Frost as the coach that messed up, then the player that, didn't he win the Heisman? Gray player. It came close, something like that. I wonder what happened if you gave Scott Frost a quarterback like Dylan Raola

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I had a buddy of mine who tried that out and I was like, yeah. Did it work? No, no, no, no, no. No. But everyone tried. I mean, you know. I would think that if you were able to doppelgang somebody that you'd be able to. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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