The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1398 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, College Football Recap Week 1, Adam Schefter, Josh Pate, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

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Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humble the Boat, the Thunderdome. On this overreaction Monday, September 1st, 2025, this program begins now. Football! It's happening. Oh, it's happening. On Thursday, obviously, the NFL kicks off, but we're already week zero and a week one, full slate of weekend through college ball. And it has been electrifying from Jump. Nebraska, Cincinnati, at Arrowhead.

Electrifying came down to the final drive all the way through last night's games. And then tonight, North Carolina finishes it off against TCU, where we will be there live for the kickoff show and halftime show. Lucky to be down there as the Bill Belichick era starts. But their storylines all over football already. Now, granted, the NFL storylines are a little bit of, you know, there's a couple guys have been paid. We'll certainly celebrate that. But most of it's carryover from last week. And then as we get into Thursday and then Friday night's games and then Sunday's games, obviously more will develop.

but the story of today is mostly college ball. We're going to debut something here called the first 15. It's about to hit you right in the mouth. I mean, this is about to be something that's about to happen. I've been thinking about it here for like a year or so. You know, the first 15 minutes of these Monday shows, maybe even every day's show, but first 15 of Monday for sure,

we need to hit like the top five headlines in our eyes. And in the NFL and in football, obviously you script the first 15. So the first 15 minutes are about to be an absolute blizzard of information in storylines throughout sports as we cover it in only a way. that we can, which is the dumbest out of all parties. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this

for a living. Ohio State was awesome this past weekend. Maybe it'll be a part of the first 15. The toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Ty, don't look now. Iowa might be a team. Grinowski looked like he couldn't play quarterback there for a little bit, but then he settled in. Thank you. Thank you. And Iowa did their thing. Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Cowboys AP Town Sports gamblers. How'd we do this weekend? I saw a top five all lost. Not good. Yeah, the sports books are up. early in the college football season. Texas, Bama, Notre Dame, Clemson, and Indiana were your most bet on teams for this college football week one.

And none of them covered, none of them did what they were supposed to do. Yeah, large percentages of people betting on those. And whenever the top five goes to the way of the sports books, you can start to expect maybe a little update in the app, you know? Sure. Maybe some new cars purchase for the people that are running the sports book.

But know that the sports books already have a good lead on us. So we need to catch up. And we will do so as we learn more about all these teams and do we know enough about anybody right now i don't think so but maybe maybe we do maybe these eyes saw some things and made us believe that they're the real deal nine-year NFL vet looking incredibly cool this appears to be a football costume this appears to be one that we're looking for uh there's j ballers here debauch how you doing pal good to see you look amazing doing great glad to be back with the boys

yeah football season great to have you hope your daughter did fantastic in her golf uh tournament and And we will follow that all year. Plum Mustangs lost a heartbreaker. Oh, no. Football? Tight? Close one? Yeah, real close.

Yeah, real close. How close? Is that, is... Oh, no. Not good. It'll bounce back. It's good. Probably a good kick.

We got a lot of time. We got a lot of time. We'll do it. Oh, the bread. It can't be missing kick. Are you missed the kick? That's how? Let's get to the top five headlines.

Yeah, I think so. I was just reading through text. I wasn't there, you know? I was following along via text messages. Not fact week. Yeah. Let's see what these boys got. Long see.

It is a long scene. It was a home opener. It was home opener. Oh, home in front of the new Jumbo Tron. Yeah. Well, I don't know if you know, but in Pennsylvania, they're only allowed, like, one week of training camp and like one week off because it's like too high and tough and stuff. So, you know. It's other states as well, just so we understand.

It's not just Pennsylvania leading the way and looking out for their player's safety. Now does it hinder the toughness of a team potentially, but the boys from Plum always going to be tough. They're going to show their mental toughness after bouncing back. For a Friday night loss, got a long season ahead. Netdactronics, jumbo-tron. They said, thing looks spectacular. Not a lot of highlights show. Thing looks spectacular.

I'm excited for that. I'm also excited for this. This will be the top five headlines in our eyes. Now, granted, will our top five headlines match other people's top five headlines? Maybe. But on this particular sports day, the five things that we think you need to hear about, we're going to cover early in the first 15. So let's put 15 minutes on the clock, please.

Yeah, we got an actual clock. I mean, things are actually. happening. And let's start with roll that thing. Let's go with number five tonight, the Bill Belichick era debuts down there in Chapel Bill, North Carolina. They'll take on TCU in a game that's going to be

on ESPN, a game that's going to be, I think, electrifying. Now, with the underhit, we think so. We think, what you saw, Matt Patricia against Arch Manning, which we will certainly talk about here in a little bit. They were saying, Matt Patricia, basically Bill Belichick, Steve Sarkeesian. Well,

Bill Belichick is actually now in college ball. What will he do to the high-paced TCU offense? We shall see. There was an article written on ESPN.com this morning actually pretty balanced. Covered all the things that have basically happened since Bill has become the UNC head coach. Obviously there's been some drama. There's been

a lot of drama, but there's been a lot of good in the building as well. Like for instance, tonight, I believe Michael Jordan will be on his side. Julius Peppers, Lawrence Taylor, Eric Church, Chase Rice, who I was actually there for his last football game as a North Carolina Tarheel. They lost by one point to the West Virginia

Mountaineers. I remember that. Hell yeah. It was in North Carolina and Chase Rice will be there, obviously. Same with Blake Snow. So whenever you're talking about the who's who of North Carolina, Mia Hamm is going to be swinging by. It's like the attention that this North Carolina football team is getting is obviously at a different level than it had been over the years, but will they be able to play football immediately? Will they be a team that'll be able to jail quickly like some of these other

teams that we've seen around college ball that got a lot of Transfer Portal people, got a lot of people that maybe didn't know each other just a few months ago come together to play good football, or are they going to be a team that got a bunch of people that don't know each other come back and be bad at football? TCU is a tough task, but tonight should be electrifying down in North Carolina. Yeah, at 333 wins in the NFL, I think he's going to be able to figure out in college. 5 and 11, I think, was his year one record for the Patriots, so it might take a little bit here, but they're going to be in every single game.

Yeah, I think it's going to be an under as well. I think it's going to get a little tight. That's the number five headline as they take off on run. 23. Remember the Michael Jordan sponsorship there. There is a stat about the betting here for Bill Belichick as an underdog. Yeah, I do. This is from Hembow, by the way. I don't want to take this as my own.

Agreed. Clock ticking. From 2001 to 2019, which is the Brady-Belichick era, the Patriots were underdogs 53 times. New England went 32 and 21 with a 604 win percentage in those games. The best record in the NFL as an underdog over that span. UNC is a dog today.

So we assume that this is going to go under because we think Bill Belichick will make you play left-handed. They said Matt Patricia Belichick, Steve Sarkesian. What does that mean, actually, Dee? But as a man who was drafted at the top of the second round to the New England Patriots defense. That really means the defense is very, very prepared and prepared to show one thing pre-snap

and then another thing post-snap. We're all good lives and we're all on the same page. A defense is tough to stop, especially for these young quarterback. So you talked about to taking time early on. He has free agency. He has a draft already brand-new team. I think they'll be prepared. I got UNC winning straight up.

Oh, I like that now. He does have connections to, we, We all have connected here, Lombardi and Belichick, with DCU, great football team, and at the end of last year, they got real hot. They figured out who they were. A lot of tempo. How will Bill Belichick manage that? We shall see. Let's go to the number four headline from the weekend.

Hey, special teams are special special, special now. We're not just talking about a little special. We're talking special special. A lot of great things for the brand across the board. Let's go down to the Beamer Bowl, where we had some Beamer ball. South Carolina Return Man, Vicari Swain, takes this thing 80 yards to the crib. game. It was a cagey affair. Both teams looked good, actually. Lenore Sellers is a guy. Cannot wait to see what he does in the NFL and also for the rest of the year for South

Carolina. And Vicarie Swain is an absolute menace. He's a DB who, uh, great vision, great everything. And then let's go to immediately after the game. They're calling this to Beamer Bowl because obviously Frank Beamer, Shane's, uh, Padre, his father, uh, coach of Virginia Tech for a long time. Shane Beamer went to Virginia Tech. Shane Beamer started his entire coaching career at Virginia Tech. Now he's a head coach at South Carolina with the highest that he's ever had there. Frank Beamer, before the game, said he's love seeing Shane live out his dream as a head coach. And taking on Virginia Tech, obviously going to be a little bit of tear of heart. But blood is thicker than legacy is what Frank Beamer said.

And after the game, this is what Shane came up to say to his old man. Oh, man. Oh, man. I thought you'd like a special team's touchdown. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Love you. Beamer Ball in the Beamer Bowl is a magical thing. Virginia Tech started up much better than they did last year. They had a lot more question marks around the entirety.

But South Carolina gets a big win. Special teams are going to be good because of Beamer Ball. Lenora Sellers seems to be a guy. Yes. They're talking about him being a guy guy now. He's big, he's strong. Great leadership as well, which is great, and he can spin that thing. I love what South Carolina did here early.

And also, if you're going to get kick returns and punt returns every game, you're going to win those games. Got to win that third phase, and you know it's better than anyone. The Cardinal's saying with special teams is a re-kick on puns. That was a re-kick, set him up for the DB to do his thing, special, special play in the Bigmer Bowl. On that note, he elected for them to re-kick. Not every coach does that. It was like an illegal formation or something.

Sometimes, they'll just take the 10-yard penalty from the end of the spot and move on. Beamer born, embattized in special teams. So we'll do the re-kick. All the coverage team's tired. Everybody's very tired going down to field. Now, he hit a good ball. I'm not saying he did not hit a good ball. Sometimes your second ball, too, Mulligan can hit a little bit better.

But the people that are trying to cover that thing, they want that second ball not return. We've already run down the field. Yeah, we have already done this whole thing again. And that ball was murdered, obviously. I'm not going to blame the punter, but a re-kick, you're right. It's a great decision, easy for me to say, a great decision for Shane to make,

but also for them to make them punish. That's a beautiful thing for the Beamer Bowl. There was also a re-kick in Rutgers and Ohio this weekend as well. The second one was blocked. So a couple times this weekend where the re-kick has got shoved up someone's ass. Let's talk about punter Devin Bale, okay, kickoff guy for Arkansas, tries to hit a squib kick instead, boom, right off a guy over his head, excuse me, scoops that thing. Now, you can't advance it, but I do like that he got nasty with it. He put that

ball immediately on his outside hand, too. He wasn't going to get stripped. He was actually looking to stiff arm, folks. I think he was going to stiff arm a couple people. Hits a guy right in his thigh or his chest, bounce up over his head, grabs it. A lot of people say, hey, do this every time. I agree. I mean, I agree off the shin, actually, up over his head. We should do this every single time. Now, if he avoids that, and that ball continues left and goes out of bounds, this is starting at the 40, as opposed to them getting the ball, so it's a little bit of a dangerous situation. But you rarely see anybody on a kickoff return team standing right in front of a kick, and that is by design. That is so that you don't

get blasted with the ball. I respect and appreciate how athletic Devin looked there, and yeah, if somebody's going to stand in that, go on, Devin. Now, you have no idea where that's going to bounce. But if that goes right back to you, if you can master it, that's a good trait to be able to have there, boss. Yeah, I mean, maybe we changed the rule, too, of not being able to advance the ball. Because after seeing him catch that, it's like, you know what, if he was able to execute this, let's let this boy maybe try to run it back for a touchdown. Could you imagine? Because it looked like he was ready to... And he had a steam, too. He was going. And he was natural. That's a punter, by the way.

We looked that up because I was like, damn, very athletic kicker. No offense to the kickers, but that's a very athletic kicker. Turns out he's a punter. That makes a lot more sense. As a punter, I'd like to let everybody know within the special teams group, I think we are the far superior athletes. Now, the kickers are going to say, yeah, but we're like brain surgeons. So who's more athletic? It's like, yeah, we get it. But the punter, he's ready to move.

Let's talk about some of these kickers. Miami last night, big one. Kid, it's a 47-yard or minute left, fourth in three. Now, I do not like the conservative play calls, okay? I didn't I love what Miami did there late. I think Carson Beck can get you in and out of a play. I think Carson Beck can execute an offense. I think they look great.

Carter Davis came in as just a kickoff guy at FAU. Now he's become the full-time starter. They put his stats up. Like, hey, this guy was 4 of 11. I think they were all real long. Because he was the kickoff guy. So I think he was probably the long field goal guy. And I didn't hear a lot of context being given when he put that stat up there.

Can't do that. I'd assume he was the big, like. 50 plus. Yeah, sent him out there for the big one because he had a really strong leg. But whenever you stepped out there for that 47-yarder, and I only knew that 4 of 11, Stett, I thought to myself, I don't know if this one goes through, pured this thing. I mean, absolutely pured it.

Well, it wasn't down the center still. That was a no-doubter off of his foot. And that thing is clearing the upright. I mean, if they would have had the little stat-cast thing on it, we're talking probably 60-some yards. What a beast. Another kicker, absolute stud. Iowa kicker, Drew Stevens, hits a 55-yarder over there in Iowa. Ty, you got Kranoski, who didn't look like a quarterback early, but figured it out.

You got a kicker they can hit 55-yarders? I didn't know that. Yeah, it's huge. And this is the longest. hit the net. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, that looked like it was good from 65.

It was the longest field goal for Iowa in like 12, 13 years. Iowa football, like that is, he's a massive weapon for them. And he delivers time and time again. So, yeah, Drew Stevens is an absolute stud, and he'll be vital for the Hawks. Big Ten, you've got to be able to beat the win. You've got to have a big leg. He's probably going to have some misses. I mean, nobody is going to go perfect in a Big Ten, especially with how hard

is the kick. Snaphold, everything operation. We saw that on display last night, Miami, Notre Dame with the snap being outside. It's very difficult to get a snap hold kickoff with anybody. let alone in college when it's not a full-time job for everybody. That's a huge kick. Who do you got this weekend? Iowa State, South Hawk.

Yeah, do you know his, their kicker? Kyle Conrarty, 63 yards. Which! Opening week! Bang! Come on. So clean. Now, obviously, that put them up 27 to 7 over South Dakota.

But what a ball there. 63, just to execute that. Once again, snap, hold, block, kick, everything live in a game. Unbelievable, especially for a college guy. That was a pure ball as well. I like what I'm seeing. Yeah, and he's slowly becoming like a legend at Iowa State. Last year in the Seahawk game,

he hit that walk-off game-winning field goal in Kinnick, 50-plus, and then another 60-plus yarder this week. Like, he's unbelievable. Yeah, I think he has a 62-yard under his boat as well. I think they said this would be a record for himself. I don't know. But they also said the record was 58, so, I mean, whatever, he's a dog. Yeah, and love watching him.

Iowa, Iowa State might come down to the kickers. We'll see. And it'll be a showcase event. And then obviously, there was an 80-yard punt. That's the greatest thing I've seen. Tulsa Punter, Agnes Davies from Victoria, Australia, hits this thing 60 yards in the air, lands at about the 34, and then it gets a 24-yard roll.

Unbelievable 80-yard ball. 90 yards from foot to spot it stops. That's football. When I watch that, I get real excited. How could you not watching a torpedo fly that far? Everybody in that stadium, 150? Yeah. Yeah, probably around there.

$150. Everybody in that? $200,000. It's a dollar beer? It was big, yeah, everybody in that stadium. That's one of those things. You hit that ball in a stadium, everybody goes, oh, that's what you're looking for.

When you punny, you hear, oh, that's not good. That means there's a check. You hear a hole, like you just hear air just being kind of sucked. It's like, yeah, you hit a good one. That kid had to feel that immediately coming off the foot and gets a great bounce. Now, the return team is telling the returner,

you catch the fucking ball. You catch the ball. But any time a punter gets a good bounce, they always try to blame the returner. He put it over his head on purpose. He put it to a place that that guy wouldn't be able to get it so that he would be able to get a 24-yard return. Congrats to Angus.

That's a big-time ball. And I love it special teams or special special special. Now, let's go around college ball. Who's real? Who's real? Who's real? Who's real? Who's fake? His Ohio State all the way back because that defense is seemingly unbelievable.

How about FSU and Thomas cast to all knows? He flipped the entire culture of Boston College. Is he going down to FSU and doing the same damn thing? And there might be some sort of record on the line here for Castellanos. Yeah, funny enough, Thomas Castellanos becomes the first quarterback in the history of football to go into a team as an unranked opponent and beat a ranked opponent, then decide, hey, I'm going to transfer. Transfer to the team that he beat. And then that same team that he beat a year later will then play for them and then beat a ranked opponent. He's the first player or other hashtag stat that.

Yeah, it might be a real stat. we don't know, but we do know, he is real. And anytime you talk mass amounts of shit about an entire institution and you turn around and back it up, I love it. Shout out to Thomas Castellanel and Mike Norville. Utah, unbelievable, powerhouse. We'll talk about them here in a little bit because their quarterback might be the guy. Miami, obviously huge win.

Carson Beck, in and out, he can get it done. And C.J. Daniels, one of the nicest catches we have ever seen just so happens to come in week one in a massive to take a lead right before half. catch. Carson Beck looks like he's rated home down in Miami. He's got handsakes for everybody on that team. Oh, yeah. I think he's potentially in the second floor getting shoulder rubs down there with the boys. I think Carson Beck's

fitting in very well with the Miami. LSU. They could be a squad after their huge win with Nussmeyer over Clemson. And then obviously anytime you think about college teams that could be real, you think about who's

Rich Rock coaching? I'll be a VU. Could be a real deal this year. No doubt. He's where buzzing. They were absolutely buzzing. Terrible first half. Hey, it's going to happen. Week one. Thirty-five zip second half. Listen, Bobby Moe's not going to just go out there and lay down. I agree. Robin Morris is a really good team. Oh, yeah. But Robin Morris is a really good

team. This is Nico Monsorella here. Now, Morsuchel, he stuck around, okay? We thought he would leave. He did not. Shout out to him sticking around. And then we got a couple guys that are all over the field. Now, if we win this weekend against Ohio University, we're only three-point favorites in Ohio, okay, which

is certainly something. I like us a lot in that. And then Pitt is able to get a big time win. All eyes are on game day, potentially heading to Morgantown for Pitt, West Virginia. So who's real at this point? We're not 100% sure, but we do know there were some highlights there were put across the board. Let's go to the number two headline from the weekend. How about some arch madness? Or maybe is it arch sadness? Oh, no. I was part of the problem. I was very loud. I called him, Neil, I called him the one. I said, I known his boss was his young man. He's going to Manning Pass Academy. This is going to be

the one. I went to bat for him very, very, very, very loud. I think a lot of people did that has seen him play, and obviously people that think of a manning and automatically think of some traits, he's certainly one of them. But what this Ohio State defense did to him and the Sarkesian offense as a whole, we have no idea what Archon Texas are going to look like this year. That is a fact. I don't think necessarily Caleb Downs that Ohio State defense is the best way to start the entirety of your career. But nonetheless, he's going to have to learn quick. Who do they got this weekend? San Jose State. So he might go crazy this weekend. We should see how the rest of the year goes. Big loss for Texas.

huge win for Ohio State, who might not give up more than 10 points all year. And then the number one story from the weekend, Coach Corso's perfect farewell. Game Day was an honor to be a part of the people at Ohio State took care of us so well and cheered and celebrated a man who was given so much to sports as a whole. And he was perfect with his picks. And he was perfect. It's perfect. Very close.

It was perfect. Pretty damn good. Very damn good. He was perfect. All the teams that he coached are played for. one throughout the weekend. So, like, everything about it seemed like the proper send-off for the sports icon that is Coach Corso

and getting a chance to go out on that 50 and be on that desk as he gave that re-it. It was really cool. Obviously, he was emotional. A lot of parties had been around him a very long time. That Friday production meeting, obviously, he's ever-present. He's always active, and you can feel his sense of joy, of life, and energy, and everything, every single time.

He will certainly be missed behind the scenes. I think everybody will understand that. but certainly on television as well, as the entire world celebrated one particular person who's given back to a sport and to a show more than maybe anybody in the history. So shout out to Coach Corso, shout out to Ohio State, and maybe he could still send a text for his picks

because it feels like he's seeing the board pretty good. He certainly didn't real well. Sell him, Lee. Yeah, he should. What if he makes a substack? That's not a bad idea. What if he makes a substack and puts that thing up there? That would be classic.

Coach Corso's only fans just giving out his pits every single weekend. Coach, you're the man. I appreciate you. Went to a luncheon on Friday. The tail end of it, obviously because our show is during lunchtime, so I caught the tail end of it. Just like Tarrico, Tom Jackson,

you're talking about the people that were just there giving thanks and appreciation. And then the stories that were being told about him. Yeah, he's a dog, dude. Always has been, always will be. And it was an honor to watch him work and see him do his thing. So that was our first 15, 21 minutes.

Boom. I think Fuba. I think it was. Pretty good. 15 Fuba. I mean, not to mention the other things. Yeah, we got a couple other little things we'd like to do every single Monday. How about you probably slept on? Now, there's a couple players that

play on the West Coast. Yeah. And these games started very late. Very late. I was up very late on on Saturday. Unexpectedly, 3 a.m. night on Saturday. Football still on. Okay. Football still on. These games on the West Coast were happening. Two guys that you probably were sleeping while we're playing

might be the two best guys in the country. That is just no bullshit. Now, granted, we haven't seen teams play against great opponents. Some teams play against great opponents. We have no idea what they're going to look like. This dude, Devin Dampier, he's a problem. Filthy. He's an absolute problem.

This guy had 19 rushing touchdowns last year. Yeah, 1,200 rushing yards last season. And now he threw 12 touchdowns and also 12 picks last year as well at New Mexico. but he ran for 19 touchdowns. And I'll tell you what, obviously the passes are nice there. They just give him the rock. This, he's unstoppable.

It seems like you can't tackle him. Now, does UCLA suck? Maybe. They might. We have no idea. They might absolutely suck. But I know this guy was electrifying. They went on a 21 play drive that was nine minutes and 44 seconds long.

Jeez. 21 plays. Just an absolute 21 drive. I didn't even know that was. possible to have 21 play drop and I think they had another one that was like 19 plays or something like that you're talking about an insanely powerful team and you team that up with their defense that they're always going to have in Utah it's like is this the year for the youths maybe yeah Kyle Whittingham has only had three losing season in his 21 seasons of coaching so last year

they went five and seven or whatever they did but they didn't have a quarterback like they had a quarterback cam rising who was supposed to play just never I don't even know where he's at like he just never showed up last year so now they have a quarterback they brought him in from New Mexico. They brought the O.C. in from New Mexico. I love when teams do that. And they have one of the best offensive lines in the country. So if they can run the ball and play defense like Utah does, could be the favorite in the Big 12. Okay.

Could be the favorite in the Big 12. West Virginia still exists, but watching him late night was certainly a little bit of a scary sight. You know, this guy's really good. He seems to have it. And also, Cal's quarterback. As we know, Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza came

to Indiana out of Cal. Freshman from Hawaii here. was committed and enrolled at Oregon before even joining the Oregon football team goes into the transfer portal. First time ever. Senior signs letter of intent, goes to Oregon before football starts,

transfers to Cal. So I guess letter of intent doesn't mean anything, especially if you can transfer before your freshman season. Yeah, not anymore. Okay, that happened. And I'll tell you what, who's happy about that? Cal, they got a guy. Sagapolito Telle.

Sagapolette. Yeah, Nail it. Jaron Kiave. Jaron Kyave Sagapoletele. Boom. This dude might be the one. He's very tall, very athletic, and look at these ball. I mean, yeah.

All of them. All of them. He started six to six, first game ever. Yeah, I don't know how far we are into this highlight, maybe 50 seconds. We're 50 seconds in. All of these balls are just perfect ball. Like, that's a runner's ball. Obviously, that's a touchdown.

But that ball is right here. If that was in at the 50 or at the 40, that ball is gone. All of the passes are right where they're supposed to be. He's tall. He's a left. so it's a little bit awkward sometimes for defense. I mean, and he's off balance. On the run.

He's got Vic in him. He's got two in him. He's got some Pat White in him because he's able to move. I mean, he is the real. This guy's the guy. Look at that. Oh. Yeah, very, very calm.

He could have bought wings. And dropped that thing over the guy's wrong. I mean, that guy had no idea that was. That guy thought it was a back shoulder. Nope, sorry, it's front shoulder, actually. You're going to drop it right. It is, he was outrageous. And people will probably fell asleep and had no,

and nobody's going to talk about a Cal, Oregon State. Oregon State now, we don't know what they are either. Sure. Okay, their coach is not happy. Obviously, there was a lot of bickering Malik Murphy, who's their quarterback now, formerly at Duke. He and the coach were getting into a little bit on the sideline late. Feels like Oregon State might be in some trouble, football-wise.

But can always bounce back. But these two dudes were playing very, very late night, and you probably didn't see them, they were a show. And it was a cool way to not fall asleep, I guess. Sunday morning kind of hated these guys. Saturday morning, kind of, hey, these guys, McKenzie's up early, how you doing?

We need breakfast. We're up here doing it. I'm like, you don't know. Last night, Sagapolita, yeah. Okay, Devin Dampe here, we're going crazy. I'm so sorry into the early morning. I know you're up there snooze,

and we're very thankful for that. We'd like you to continue to do that. But, boy, it was a late night on Saturday, and I think that's going to continue with these two. Yeah, it will. And it's crazy how week one works because everyone was super down on Cal coming this year. They had a ton of transfers out.

It just didn't feel like good vibes around the program. and then this kid comes in week one and now and everyone's super high and they're like, oh, anything can happen this season and then on the other side there's teams that just laid an absolute egg this weekend and their season's done. Yeah, Oregon State fans probably feeling that way.

Alabama fans are feeling out. Well, that was my first thought. Florida State might be real though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, they might be real real. Ballet will be real once Sago how do you say his name? Sagopolde.

Yeah, once he's the quarterback for Alabama next year, they'll be real good. Yeah, well, so that's what happened with Fernando. He comes over to Indiana. He was a quarterback last year that led Cal into the spotlight and to the, you know, everything that they were in. And he goes to Indiana. Kurt Signetti was like, okay, we need to reload. Let's get a quarterback that has experience, some wins and some big time games and everything like that,

which is becoming a blueprint for a lot of these teams. And then now, Cal didn't even have a quarterback post-signing day, really? And then who knows what happens with Sagapolite Telle? I assume maybe he thought it was going to be a comp or what, like with Dante Moore, who very good with Oregon. Very, very good with Oregon. Maybe he thought I need to play right now. I need to go find another thing. And then Cal is just sitting there originally his team.

He was right. And he's like, hey, you need to come. Yeah. Dante Moore's a guy. But Sacramento Telly, he needs to be on a field because of what you just said there. I'm not saying Cal is going to lose him. Ron Rivera is their general manager, right? Yeah.

Okay, so he's going to do everything he can to keep him for sure. And I assume they got a lot of money out of Cal if you can drum up the alums. A lot of finance people out there, I think. Highest main player ever in the three of the NFL. Exactly. Aaron Rogers, you want him to give him. money maybe to keep this kid around maybe but if they can keep him he's going to have he's a game changer for them people want to come play with him yeah and i uh hawaii a lot of uce's travel to a couple

different schools you know b yu obviously utah uh why not cow oregon gets a lot why not boise state gets a lot yeah so i love assuming was he like a top quarterback in his class yes he was okay four or five star depending on what site you looked at and he actually beat out uh high state's backup last year went to count he beat him out pretty early and camping. Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, you're looking at the future of the NFL. Let's not get a twisted here, Sagabotel. The future.

Yeah, I love this guy. I mean, it looks like he was impossible to fall. Seven against scout team. Yeah. Yeah. That's legit how it looks. That's exactly right, though. I wanted to go to bed so bad in the two games that were on were both these guys just going bananas

out of nowhere. It's 1 AM and these two dudes are just all over to. That 21 play drive you would think would put you to sleep but he was on the other there's two of them playing he was on the other one just crushing you look back Utah still has the ball somebody must be hurt over here you're watching this game Utah still has the ball something must be going on in this game no it's no we're watching Sagapolta and then you look over here and they still have the ball

21 play drive 944 you can do that when the quarterback can run hard and also run outside it is uh you need a quarterback that can move they run hard too when they're getting the ball to, you know, some of their tight ends, some of their other receivers. Those guys are not going down. All right, let's change speed a little bit here. Let's go to the NFL. Joining us now, Senior NFL Insider for ESPN, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schaefter. Jeffty, sorry we're delayed.

Gentlemen, what's going on? What are you doing? Where are you at? You're at the Open? I'm at the U.S. Open. It's become something of a little bit of a trip. Like, end of summer, take my wife and daughter. So this is the day we're doing it.

And, yeah, nice a little day. I appreciate you calling us in the middle of it. Hey, hey, sorry. I go out, I work a little bit here. You know, you see where we're at here? U.S. Open is the ESPN event? Yeah, it's good. I got to go work.

You know, those situations, please tell the family we said, thank you for allowing you to have a little bit of time here. How is the U.S. Open? I've heard the Wimbledon's a great vibe. I heard people, a lot of beers. U.S. Open, good time. What is it like?

You know what? Last year we came and it was awesome. Literally, I got here five minutes ago, so they're now wandering and doing whatever they're doing. I'll join them in progress. But by the way, I heard you say, we'll see if Florida State is for real. I watched them on Saturday.

They're going to be for real. They're going to be for real Florida State. I'm just telling you right now. They're good. Yeah, they're big. They look big. I think that was my biggest takeaway is if you see a team that's big and very athletic

and they're winning, like Miami. Yeah. Big, very athletic and winning. It's like, whoa, that team can go. Florida State, big, athletic and winning. Whoa, that team can maybe go. Ohio State, big, athletic. That team can maybe go.

we go. West Virginia. Big, athletic. That team can go. Bryce Underwood for Michigan, buddy. Big. That guy can go. It looks like you guys paid the right guy. Looks like you guys are in a good spot. He was very comfortable. You know, it's amazing. That guy is

18 years old. Like, I met him last summer last month. He was at that time. He was 17 years old. I like to come into all this pressure and money and static. I get that age. I just, I think that that is incredible. It's a lot to ask of a young man.

He looked apart on Saturday night, and you'll see, what time is that game against Oklahoma on Saturday? Do we have any idea? We do have an idea. It's either at noon, 3.30, or 7. 1-4-3-30 or 7 just because it's... Yeah, it's not going to be Big Noon. Yeah.

It is... Or maybe it's 8. At 7.30 on ABC. 730 ABC. Let's go! That's a big game. Hey, Venables and the boys over there are very pumped about where they're at. Underwood gets his first real.

test. I like that he's blocking people, too. He's just blindsided, blocked the guy. So big. The college, so big. So big. So, too freshmen. Did you see how comfortable he was? Oh, yeah. Like, I know it's New Mexico State. No offense, New Mexico. I don't want to, I don't want to say, you know,

because some of these smaller teams can give people hell, you know, and I don't think we give them enough credit either when that happens. But he was just sitting back there and just reading and going through his progressions, it was like. That play when he was backed up in his close to his own end zone and kind of threw it over the top, I think this tight-in 17, over a couple, like that was like some next level stuff. Yeah, he's really, you guys

got a guy. You guys haven't had a guy a little bit. You know, JJ leaves, you ain't got a guy. Now, God, God, hopefully they play. We pay a lot of money from a guy that owns one of the islands in Hawaii and all of a sudden we got the best guy to ever play football. That must be fun up there in Michigan, Shifty.

Well, we'll see, again, it's early. And the guy, I think, will have a great career. And I don't want to expect too much of him early on, but It was an encouraging start. He looked strong. He looked apart. And we'll see how that plays out.

Okay, let's talk about some deals that got done here. Cowboys and Doran Bland, were they waiting on the Micah's stuff to pay other people? Or was this always in the works? Well, I think when you have all the money that you save on Micah Parsons, you can go allocate that elsewhere. Like Duram Blan gets done, I would think at some point,

but wind up signing Tyler Smith to a contract. And it's a lot easier when you have all this money that you're planning on Michael Parsons to spread it around. So, the Ron Bland is the first benefactor. The fact that Micah didn't get any deal that he will not be the last one in Dallas. I'm sure there'll be others

and also benefit. Thomas Smith will be my guest for the next one and we'll see how that plays out. But the Ron Blan gets a big deal over the week in four years, $92 million. All right. Let's go to the kingdom. DeBud has a question for you.

Yeah, stand with cornerbacks. One of the best cornerbacks in the league. Trent McDuffie. I saw a report saying a deal may not get done out there in Kansas City. What's the update there? Well, again, I think eventually some deal will get done. They're going to want to keep Trent McDuffie. He's a front line, elite cornerback, but they're not going to get a deal done before the start of the season. Nate Taylor reported that for ESPN.com. And the two sides have not had significant discussions recently. Not a big surprise that it won't get done. But again, I would think the Chiefs were revisited

at some point. They're going to want to keep them. It's not like. they're moving on from the guy. It just means that they're not going to get the deal done by the time they open the season Friday night in Brazil. Amazing, right? It's Monday, and the Chiefs in Chargers play Friday night in Brazil. We got the Cowboys Eagles Thursday. We got the Chargers Chiefs Friday in Brazil.

Football week is here. Here we go. Kind of a neat little thing. Yeah, we've got UNCTCU tonight. We're back in ball, brother, and it is great. Speaking of Cowboys Eagles, there's a player that would not be playing in that particular game. he is now playing in Land of Cheese.

Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Chefty, kind of like everyone assumed, you know, after Michael Parsons gets traded to the Packers and gets paid, his back is fine. We got our first glimpse of him at practice, Don and number one for the Packers. How do we feel? About the one?

It should have been zero. Hold on. I'm just watching these videos today. I'm watching him running around. I'm watching him hit a tackle dummy. And I said, man, it's amazing. How much better your back feels when you get $188 million? Yeah.

It's amazing. I think it's a proven method to fix somebody. You got a little ham-y tightness, we know the remedy. You've got a little back tightness or a little soreness that might need a second or third opinion. We know the answer. This is kind of a sports doctor thing. This is kind of a sports medicine. I don't know why everybody else isn't adapted.

You're right. Give him $100 million. Yeah, exactly. To your point, though, I would have appreciated if he was zero and Matthew Golden was one and not the other way around. But I get it. First player since Curly Lamb. Bo to wear number one. It's a big deal. They want to show him like, hey, we wanted you really bad. So they do that. But Shephti, any word on what the Packers' plans are for his

usage going into Sunday against the Lions? Well, they have not committed to using him yet on Sunday. Again, I'll say this. As a general rule, if you're getting $188 million, I would be surprised if he's not out there on Sunday. Now, they want to make sure that that fact feels okay this week. Let's remember he hasn't gone through camp at all hasn't participated in any of the drills he's been working up to the side so obviously there's going to be a conditioning level we'll see whether you can play the whole game but i'm going to guess he is out there i'm going to guess he is a factor and you bring up the numbers right he's wearing number one the last time curly lambo wore that number was a hundred years ago

we haven't seen a packer in that number in a hundred years that's pretty incredible thing 1926 was the last time of Packer War number one. Curly Lambo is a G, though. He is. Yeah, Curly Lambo got into some shit. I mean, Curly Lambo, I did a little research on him as I was going to call.

I think the Lions Packers came about where it was, why it was. He's the founder of the Packers, basically, and this dude is a dog. Curly Lambo is a dog. Everybody knows Lambo Field, Lambeau Field. Curly Lambo started the Packers, I do believe. And there's some things that happened where he had to be really, You know? Standing on business.

All of them. Yeah, we're number one. I think he was star position. All of them. Yeah. They made him serve popcorn. Ball handler. Zero would have been sick, though.

I think so, too. And I just, I don't love Matthew Golden wearing zero. I think you got a speedster receiver. Golden won, too. That's pretty sweet. And then Micah becomes the first player ever to wear zero for the Packers. Like, he's a Packer forever problem. Charlie Lambo?

Fullback, quarterback, and kicker. Yeah. Whatever you need. Of course. Hey, coach. That's Crowley Lambo football. That's right. And we're expecting the same out of Micah.

It is amazing. His back is healed. I'm excited to see. They haven't said if he's going to go or not. I would assume. I saw him bouncing around his house. I think he's a pretty good shape. Yeah, I think he's ready.

He ain't get blown up there. The house is ready. He looked fast. Yeah. Mulligetta, let him know. Oh, yeah. We're not going back now. He didn't go ahead and be pretty confident about that entirety.

We have tried to get David Mulligetto on the program. We think tomorrow. We'll get a chance to chat with him. We'll be excited to go behind the scenes on how it all came together. Let's go to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Shepty, I know there hasn't been any contract adjustments, or at least it hasn't been reported.

Is Cam Hayward playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday? We're going to see that he's got a decision to make there. It was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw that Jaylon Warren as a new deal. Yes, he does. For the next two years, tying him to Pittsburgh through 2027. They have not resolved that. They have not been able to figure it out. And so I would think it's going to be really interesting to see if Cam Hayward is on the practice

field on Wednesday as the Steelers get ready to open their season on Sunday against the Jets. I would have a decision to make Wednesday. I would imagine he'll have a decision to make Sunday. Probably will get an idea where he's at on Wednesday. If he's not practicing, it's not going to be a great sign. But I don't know what's going to happen there. It's kind of lingered out there all summer long. It has not generated the amount of attention that some of these other issues have. But it's about to get interesting there. And again, Maybe Cameron Hayward says, I was going to play on this deal. It didn't sound that way early in the summer, but we'll find out.

Cam Hayward not playing for the Steelers this year holding out because of money with the whole year won't be a stealer, you don't think. It's just like, oh, so much, you know. That's why whenever you do a podcast and all those things, people are going to hold everything you say against you. Even if it's out of context or not the same situation at all, they're going to do it. Cam Hayward knows that. He puts his big boy pants on.

He'll be in the Pittsburgh Steelers' Ring of Honor Hall of Fame, whatever the hell it is at some point in his life. It seems to be a little bit of a disconnect right now. He's been in practice, though, talking to Coach Tomlin. He's had pads on this year, but he hasn't. He's been open about it, but he hasn't really been a distraction. Interesting.

It's kind of a Trey Hendrickson situation happening right in front of her eyes. I don't think Cam wants to do this. Feels obligated to do it, because you guys can't just disrespect me because I've been here for so long. Well, that's the thing. Probably has people behind him and around them being like, they're taking advantage of you because you're a Pittsburgh Steelers.

They, you know, they have your brother on a team, your dad was on a team. You've been here the second-longest tenured guy alongside Mike Webster, right behind Ben Rothsburger. Like, they're going to try to take your... They just pay D.K. McCaff, $33 million. That's a lot of money. Pittsburgh Steelers just paid D.K. Beck off $33 million a year. He's never done anything for Pittsburgh. You have 45 different foundation events you do every single year.

You go to everything. You're like a mascot of Steely McBeam or whatever the hell his name is. He's not even a mascot. You are our mascot around town. Somebody needs Steeler Representative. go. And his people around him are like, they're taking advantage of all this. They're just giving them like Jalen. Yeah, you bring up

D.K. Metcalfe. They paid D.K. Metcalfe. They paid Jalen Ramsey. They paid Jono Smith. Today they paid Jalen Warren, who's been there. So they've paid a lot. Darius Laney paid. They've paid a lot of different players, not to mention T.J. Watt. And so

everybody seems to have gotten paid except Cam Hayward right now. By the way, I know it's a different deal, but Chris Boswell's in the same boat, too. We haven't talked about that either. I don't know that a kicker's going to walk away and retire before the season begins, but Cam Hayward wants a new deal. We want it to be addressed.

Chris Boswell wants his deal addressed. So it's not just Cam Harrod right now. Shafti, Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and Yenzer Tone has requested the floor. Pay Chris Boswell $60 million a year. Okay. Pay him that man, whatever he wants because he's been the best player besides Ben Rothsburger and T.J. Watt for the last, I don't know, however long he's been there.

Yeah, whatever you need to pay him. What is the kicker number right now? What is the kicker number right now? I don't know what he's making, but the top kickers are making $5, $6 million a year probably. I think he's like a million below whatever the top is. I mean, think about that. That's one vet-min contract. You can up that thing

a million bucks and make him happy. You know, the Steelers are disrespecting all their vet players. They're going all they're trying to win for their better players. They don't normally pay people unless it's going in their last year or whatever. And I believe he has two years left on his contract. So, you know, they did it with TJ. They did it with Ben, but, you know, they're special people. They don't usually trade in pay-wire receivers either.

Well, they also don't normally fire offense coordinators in the middle of the season. They've been doing a lot over there. That's a good point. But we'll work out. We'll win a Super Bowl, or will this be the first time in Tomlin's tenure where he's under 500? Oh, no. Got the Jets, week one. Justin Fields could have been your quarterback. Better win that one and the season's over.

Yeah. I love it. Do or die right out of the game. They don't win week one season's over. On that note, Shephti, last question here. Shout out to Sunday ticket, by the way. We're that. That was really nice whenever they were having their dispute with, you know, Fox and everything. Yep.

They came out quickly and were like, Sunday ticket won't be affected by this, really. Needed to hear that. Goated. Thank you for doing that. Cannot wait for Scott Hansen to be one of the four. And then it's a Colts game somewhere to disappoint me if I'm not there, and any other two. No, Colts can win this year.

That was rude to me to say. But two of them are always going to be the Colts and then Hanson, Red Zone channel, and then the other two top games, I can't wait for that. Oh my God, I cannot wait to get there. Shout to YouTube TV Sunday ticket. Go ahead, pal. I mean, Colts play in Indianapolis this week. Pretty absurd to think about.

Against the Miami Dolphins need to win that one. Another door die. That's another team probably you could throw in their season. Into this. Yeah, into this, Chefty. I'm assuming Indy might be involved in this, but these last two years, you've basically hit the nail on the head when it comes to the projection

of how many head coaching openings there will be during the off season. Looking at it right now, obviously there's some situations that might happen that could change things. What's your projection as of now as far as, you know, head coach openings go when you look at it as a whole,

who right now do you know has to win going into the season? Carter, what I would say is it doesn't really matter now. We haven't seen a team lose a game yet. And so I've seen over and over where a coach looks like he's on the hot seat and that team all of a sudden plays better,

and feel like, oh, look, I think everybody feels like Brian Daibald's on the hot seat. But I think the Giants are going to have a better season than people expect. So all of a sudden, if they're ripping up wins and playing better, he's off the hot seat and somebody else who we weren't expecting is going to be on the hot seat. I think you have to let the season play out. But we've seen on average about 6.8 head coaching changes per year. I believe a couple of years ago, there were 10. I believe last year it came in lower.

That tells me this year, it will probably be around at the average. but a little early to ask the question. I understand why you would. I'm not prepared to give you an authoritative answer right now. I would say, just going in, my guess is 6 to 7. It's usually the number, and I would imagine we'll be around that number. But let's see how this season's shaking out before we're putting people on the hot seat and running them off. All right.

Well, you certainly will do that as soon as time calls for it, which we appreciate. Yeah, we do appreciate that. Have a great time at the U.S. Open. Tell your family who said hello and sorry for keeping you so long. Oh, good. Happy Labor to you guys. We'll be in touch next Monday, if not sooner. Happy Labor Day. Is there a game or a match happening anywhere near you right now?

Right behind me, we're about to go into the Cocoa Gough Naomi. I was supposed to begin here about 45 minutes and so. All right. 45 minutes. We appreciate you. Enjoy yourself, man. Thank you, guys. Have a great one. Ladies gentlemen, Michigan, Man.

Adam Shepard. Yay! All right, let's talk a little bit more about those stories that we ran through at the beginning. Arch, Arch Manning, that was a tough go. Tough. That was tough go. Matt Patricia's, Dan Rolovsky did it.

Now, Dan Roloski was pro-Arch Manning. So Dan Rolovsky is going to get on the side of Arch being screwed here. Ars just being held back. Sarkesian is given a limited offense, which might be true. Sarkesian might have done that. And then he also pointed out a lot of things that Matt Patricia was doing to Arch Manning. We've seen numerous film breakdowns now from Dan Rolovsky, where Patricia would show one thing, almost like you and meba defense that the Ravens do,

and then they have somebody hand in dirt, and they're dropping back. It was kind of like a high-level NFL-type defense was taking place for that Ohio State Buckeye defense. Now, they're obviously studs, won a national championship, best defense in the country, I think last year. They lose their defensive coordinator. Ryan Day has to rehire at that position. Still have studs all over the place.

Lost some guys in the NFL, JTT, Jack Sawyer, amongst those two guys that are gone. But they were able to reload, and then they bring in. Matt Patricia. And Matt Patricia kind of gets laughed at because at the Detroit Lions, he was horrendous. He was out of shape most of it. He was on quad because he had a broken ankle. There was really nothing good that came out of his time with the Detroit Lions. So bad. Like everything was bad at the Detroit Lions. We actually got along with him, like friends with him, because Vinatari and him have known each other since he was a ball boy with the New England Patriots. So I've known him a long time. I think he's a good dude. I think he's a funny dude. I think he's an

upbeat dude. But I think whenever he became a head coach, he might have thought he had to be a hard ass, might have thought he had to be a different person because of how much he saw Bill Belichick and how much he learned from Bill Belichick. For whatever reason, it didn't work. And nobody worked in Detroit before MCDC got there. So, you know, just jot that down as a wash. Bingo. Everybody forgets this guy used to draw plays on every desk that he's ever been at. Loves ball, addicted to ball. Whenever he was at the Patriots and Bill Belichick, now everybody talks about Tom Brady getting learned defenses from Bill Belichick. Matt Patricia was defense coordinator with Bill Belichick. You're talking massive brains. Everybody remembers

that should have handed it off to Marshawn Lynch situation where the boys actually practiced this exact situation leading up to the thing because Matt Patricia saw something early, yada, yada, yada, he's a super genius. And it was on display on Saturday. Is that what you're thinking? And is this a problem for everybody in college football? Is this the blueprint for Arch? Other teams just need to do what Matt Patricia did? Or is this Ohio State defense going to be different than everybody else that Arch is going to see? Coaching is a huge part of it, obviously having your guys prepare, but having very, very talented guys is another part of it. And they have very talented defense that secondary is probably the best, if not one of the top three best in the country with the guys that are still there and the guys that they brought in.

But, yeah, they show some things pre-snap. They show some things post-snap. And that third Buckeye is the biggest one to me, pressure them 14 times, 12 of which only came with a four-man rush. If you can get home with just sending four and having those other seven guys have eyes on the quarterback, break on the ball, anticipate right routes communicate them pass them off that is a huge huge weapon when you don't have to sacrifice guys from the coverage to get after the quarterback so that was a big deal for mattie p and the players you know taking on this on that he did a great job but in my opinion i'm still going to put some more of them more than than dan o did on arch you know you got to come

out there you got to make throws he's starting quarterback of texas he started quarterback of texas and you know he is his first time being the started but you know he's a joint he's been there for a couple years and I was surprised that how his mechanics look like his throwing mechanics he had some off yeah I don't mind his sidearm but just the total body not not stepping into it doing things off the back foot not something you expect especially from a manning I'm sure Sark will clean some of that stuff up I don't think you know Sark yeah you're going to be somewhat conservative when you're facing a coordinator in defensive talent like you're facing but you still had opportunities all the way until the end of this game where if he puts that ball you talk

about a runner's ball earlier. You put that on that receiver across the field. Who knows what the rest of that drive looks like? He did make some big time throws late in the game. We know how athletic he is. So long, long season, I think Arch would be just fine, but this is a hell of a test to come out of the gates with against Maddie P and Ohio State defense. Fourth quarter was definitely his best quarter. No question. And is that because he finally figured out what the hell Matt Patricia was trying to do to him? Is he like a manning where he's trying to dissect and learn and go forward? Or was he just kind of caught in a blender and Holy shit, we just need to bury the ball and move along.

The Texas defense, too. Great. Very, very, very, very good. I mean, you're talking about these are two best defenses in the country last year, right? Texas and Ohio State. So literally, a lot of carryover in that particular realm. But what a tough start for both saying, having to take on the Texas defense. He gets a win.

Congrats to Ohio State. Congrats to Ryan Day. Huge. Tight shirts. Very tight. Yeah, he's wearing tight shirts. We're seeing a lot, coach. We're seeing a lot. Every part of your skin.

He's in better shape than he's. has been in a long time. He looks very good, looks very fit. Huge win, and I'm excited for him. Cardinal Tate, damn, take! What a catch. Bounce off his chest, off his shin, double grab, catches for a touchdown. Sane can spin it. He can certainly do that. Arch can, as well as what everybody was saying. And that fourth quarter being his best quarter, I think we're kind of looking for like, okay, maybe that'll carry in. Maybe he just kind of settled in. Too little too late. But also, it's like, you're starting quarterback in Texas. Everybody's expecting you to be great from the jump in this thing. Yeah, no one cares if

if you're right tackles a turnstile and he turns around to block the past rusher with his back basically, but it is going to be all on arch. But the other thing with Patricia is that's not getting talked about is people are thinking like, hey, Belichick's probably going to do this, you know, tonight with UNC. With Caleb

Downs, it's probably the only reason they can do what they're doing. Like you talk about amoeba defenses and moving guys all over the place. Like Caleb Downs is probably the only reason he's allowed or able to do those things. because he probably makes up for half of the shit that they're doing. He's the chess piece that's confused in Arch,

and Patricia's just the one letting him. Yeah, he had him down on the line multiple times, and he would drop back into coverage. They only brought pressure, or they got pressure with four men or whatever, 12 times out of 14. They're showing six, though, every time. Like, did not blitz them?

It looks like a blitz every single time, and then who's backing out? Well, you have to try to decipher who's going where. And whenever they're showing zero or cover one, and then they're dropping somebody from one, cover two back there. Are you and the wide receivers on the same page? Probably not. Are you able to have an

out of this? Probably not. Are you making the right read? Maybe. It's like I think Sark, Arch, and that Texas offense got a big wake-up call with a very, very talented defense. A lot was made off of, you know, they lost their entire D-line. You talked about Jacksor and JTT and the two boys in the middle.

They lost off, but Downs is back. Igbenosin was back. Matthews, who had the interception. Those three all started on the back end last year. So like, while they were not as experienced up front in the back and then Sonny Stiles at linebacker. They were very experienced there off of a championship defense. Caleb Dons, I met his dad

Friday night. It was cool to meet him. It has a good presence about him, his dad. And obviously, Caleb and Josh Downs, brother Josh Downs now with the Indianapolis Colts. I think there's a three year age difference, I think. And one of the stories that I was being told is that whenever he was very young, he was taking a picture

with his family. And Josh is like out running away and Caleb is like directing him to come back and stand in line. Mr. Downs is basically like, Caleb's been like this since he's three years old. Just has always been very mature. He's been great at ball. I guess there was a return or a punt return or a kick return or something. Whenever he was like a very, very little kid where he was like seeing the field and cutting back.

And I was like, because I asked him, when did you know? He's like very young. He did something that were like, oh, we might have a guy here. And it's like almost been written since he was a kid. Like this guy is a guy. He goes to Alabama. As soon as he steps foot on the campus, they're like, that's the one. There's a gold jacket on that guy

As a true freshman at Alabama That was Sabin's Alabama too Which Boy, oh boy It ain't Sabin's Alabama anymore No, you know it is not This ain't your daddy's Alabama This is not all your daddy

That ain't daddy's Alabama either I mean it is a wild time down there But Caleb was a guy as soon as he gets there So when that Ohio State gets them Plucked up there It's like they immediately We got the best player In all college football

on the defense side, wins a national championship, couldn't try to do it again. It's like he's the guy, and Matt Patricia knows he has that, and now it's like, if you can keep that culture on that defense aside, especially Big Ten football, you can really confuse and beat people up,

especially if you're going to continue to get Ohio State-type athletes. Good for them. Let's talk about that Alabama team. Boy. Do we have to? Don't do it. Dan Olovsky said he counted 21 loose.

Yeah. What? It means you would have to watch every single game, every single player, And he did. Every single play. And that's why he used to go. Counted 21 lives on Alabama State.

Traders. You got 21 Traders is how Rich Rodriguez would describe that. But I think that was the biggest takeaway. He's like, not only are they losing to Florida State, who is completely reloaded. Yes. Completely. And teams have been able to be very good whenever they use the transfer portal hard and get the right guys in there.

Thomas Castellanos? Right guy. Right guy. Everybody else? Insanely athletic. They brought in five new offensive linemen and felt like Thomas had some time. They brought in D-Lyman and felt like Thomas had some time. like they were getting to the quarterback.

Felt like who they brought in, big, fast, very athletic. And Thomas Castellanos has to give the entire team a lot of confidence, especially whenever he comes out and says, they ain't got saving there anymore. I don't know who the fuck's going to stop. Basically. He said that? Then he comes.

And now he's got shirts that say, like Nick can't save him. It was a wild thing to say, especially because Alabama still most five stars committed to the 2026, still got like, one of the best offensive lines in all of college ball. Still got five stars and blue chips all across the board. Kalyn DeBoer, also another year in his culture. He gets his offensive coordinator back that he had at Washington, and he had an Indiana whenever they had a bunch of success.

It's like, this is going to be the Alabama team. And then you're watching it, it's like, that's Alabama? They got bullied. Beat up. Yeah. Lazy. Yeah.

Lazy. spot like you want to loaf and be lazy you better be a fucking heisman winner you're if you're just another guy on the team there's four guys behind you that are yeah willing to sprint full speed even if they're not going to make the play it's like all those things kind of made i think not only alabama fans who are obviously disgusted now they're making up stories i hear guys are getting door dash fast food one a m day of hotel at the hotel not the hotel they're walking around flip-flops after curfew nobody's saying it's like friends are air Who knows?

Who knows? It's like all these things. It's like now, if this continues, those are only going to get more and more. Because Sabin created a standard there. And that is one standard. You're going to go. And if we're going to play like a ass,

there's only going to be one reaction when you show me on camera. Says Blue Polo guy, I don't want to hear it. That was awesome. Legend. Legend. That's amazing for his moment. Then moves along. I like Kalin DeBoar a lot.

And we don't know how he is like in practice and behind closed doors. But it seems like he's just. emotionless on the sidelines. You guys always talk about looking behind you. Vinnie always thinking, hey, I got to do everything. Like, Saving, those guys were scared to death at all time, so they all always performed with that hard edge or whatever. It seems like they just don't give a shit.

Yeah, that's what Alabama fans are saying. Yeah. And you know, we're going to stop giving a shit. Right. I'm going to stop giving a piss. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to stop. Football. This is the greatest. We're so lucky that we get a chance

shout about tonight. UNC. will take on TCU. It'll be the debut of Bill Belichick as the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heel football team. I alongside the college game day folks will be doing the kickoff show and the halftime show. So we will be boots on the ground in Chapel Bill. We cannot wait to see what this new era of Tar Heel football will look like and they'll take it on a tough horn frog squad. This team moves. This team's quick. What will Bill Belichick try to do alongside his boy and an entire team with 70 new transfers but stars are going to be out Michael Jordan's going to be on the side yeah that's right Julius Pepper's going to be on his side yeah Mia ham's going to be on his what no more yeah no I hopefully okay I mean right

I hope yeah he would think so how about Eric church whole heard of him Talladega Here's your son-on-on-a-th. I don't know that one. What's it? I don't know that one. Nine-year NFL if I don't think we do either. That's very shit, Butler. It's all right.

You won't hear that one. Lombo's just going to follow him around. Yeah, hey, Springsteen. Come on. Hit me again. Doc Stead was here at Boss Conner, Natty Schmidt. One-Hap of the Hammer.

Cowboys AP tone is here. And joining us live from an attic in Ohio. Fresh out of a dinner that, I'll tell you what, I don't think I've ever seen a group of people like that together before. AJ was certainly there. gentleman a j hawk hey j that was awesome were you holding court at that dinner what was going on on friday night we just so happened to getting dinner two separate groups our backs two feet away from each other okay he's like the one way i'm looking the other way he seemingly spotlight of that

conversation not even close that's a bold-faced line barely even spoke at that situation but yeah you're there though you're at the point of the circle you know that situation he said not dinner it was it was awesome. You look like a very powerful group. I'm going to let you know. Shout to Giuseppe's over there in Columbus. Great at time. Giuseppe, founder.

Unbelievable on his road to recovery right now. Okay. Just, I don't know how long ago. Do you know how long ago it was? I do not, no. Do you know what happened to Giuseppe? Not really.

Where do you live? That's like 40 minutes from where I live. Oh, okay. You need to know what happened. His son was there. His son was doing great. Tiovanni? Just.

Jovani? Good Giuseppe. Giuseppe Paizan that created Giuseppe's. He and his family. Wow. Wonderful Italian. He was driving home. You guys are going to feel like assholes right now. Just won't let you know. This is going to be a very, very serious story. He's on his road to recovery. Not a lot Giovanni talk over there and a lot of, you know, I don't have a situation. The Irish asshole sitting over there. Giuseppe got teabunded. Uh-oh. Oh, thanks, Connor. Paralyzed. Oh, no.

He's 65 years old. Now he's back walking. Okay. He's like, he's going to get his ass back into that restaurant. I do believe. Talk to the family. Obviously, the family is like, as the story was being told him, we're like, holy shit, we're so sorry. He's like, no, he's going to get back. Like, that's how it is.

He's going to get back. Like, that's how it is. His restaurant packed to the gills on Friday night. And me and AJ just like two feet away from each other. He was talking, I just met Caleb's dad about a minute and a half before that. So I was the only person I knew at that table. he's talking to the table of what seemed to be bigwigs. I mean, we're talking, this is a big deal over here.

I think I saw some people potentially watching, securing. Wow, okay. What's happening here? And we're just having a light little dinner over here. You know, a light little dinner on this. Light little dinner. Yeah, light little dinner. A light little dinner on this side.

You look like you were having a good one, though. I want to let you know, I looked over everyone. I'm like, AJ's really chopping it up in there. A lot of laughs, a lot of big time laughs. I'm a great listener. I'm a very good listener. People say. Yeah, but you're dissecting as you're listening.

I'll jump in if I'll jump in if I'm asked to or it's needed, but I'm not going to, like, you know, shoehorn myself into conversations I don't know anything about. Well, I do. That's made a living on that. You know what they say, the quiet lips, loud brain. That's right. That's what they say.

You never know what's going on in there. Something. There's words somewhere. If they're not coming out of here, where are they? Let's talk about the words coming out of there for you in all of Ohio State alumni and fans. How do we feel after week one? Obviously, huge test against Texas. Your defense looked phenomenal.

Obviously, Arch did not look good at all. A lot of people blaming Sark. A lot of people give him Matt Patricia. A lot of credit. Obviously, the players are insanely good over there at Ohio State. Julian Sane gets his first start, his first action as an Ohio State Buckeye quarterback other than just the spring game. What do Ohio State fans say? You guys got to feel great about this national championship repeat, huh, after week one?

Ooh. I think people feel pretty good. Yeah, I mean, you talked to Ryan Day going in. They said, like, oh, what's your expectation for Julian Sane? He said, just a win. Let's go out there and let's get a win. victory and they did i mean 14 to 7 you would like to have a little bit more of a cushion but i think they like they did everything they needed to texas an awesome team their number one ranked team in the

preseason so of course anytime you get a victory over a team like that especially to start the season with all these new guys some inexperienced guys i should say coming in yeah it's uh it's a good win for the bucks they're going to keep it moving but yeah i think it was a positive situation i think so too great setup the the tribute in how you guys paid your respects to coach corso was cool that was really cool i think obviously the game day people are probably going to send their thanks to the Ohio State folks, as they should. But, you know, everybody we've met over at Ohio State has been very gracious to us, which is why we didn't want to hate them.

Yeah, exactly. We were ready to, though. We had to. If we had to, we had to. It would have been easy. That's just so. But we didn't. I don't think it would have been easy. It would have been easy.

That's what I'm saying is it would have been hard to do that. It would have been, oh, so easy. But again, I did not want to do it. Like, genuinely enjoy the Ohio State, the team and also, like, the players, the alumni that, you know, Will Howard, you just talked to him, like they were, he was very nice to, you know, us, the other guys when we were at the Espeas, which is

about another guy. I mean, Bobby Carpenter's in Ohio. They opened up a facility for it. Everybody there, very kind to us and has been very kind to us. So we're happy that we don't have to act like we don't like them, even though Connor's like, really? Can we still act a little bit like that? I could go. It was cool.

It was very cool how the Ohio State people treated Coach Corso. That was awesome. With the band lineup behind them and the whole place, I mean, that was just, that was an epic moment in proper send-off, and him being absolutely perfect on all of his picks and every team that he ever coached or played for winning throughout it. I think it was a great send-off for a sports icon. How did you feel about it as an Ohio State fan?

And did you guys chat about it at all about, you know, I'm happy our band did, I'm assuming your band has never done that for anybody or anything ever before, let alone the horseshoe doing that. Yeah, I don't think so. And when you were telling me like the schedule and how they were doing it, you know, okay, course was going to come out after the end, all this stuff.

I was thinking, man, that's a lot of movement. moving parts. How in the world do you, like, put that together logistically? And they nailed it, man. It was great. Like, I thought it was, it was a beautiful situation for coach. And I love that he wore the tux and then he gets all the picks, right? All of the stuff. Like, it worked out exactly how it should work out for a legend like legally. Yeah, and it very rarely does, right? Doesn't it feel like that never happens. You never get the right sendoff. Feels like he got his flowers and then all his picture right. And he's right. I love that. That's unbelievable. I love that. The tuxedo was awesome. Nobody knew that was coming. Get up there. See him in a toxic to start. Yes.

Yes, immediately what I said too. He was getting a little emotional. I think multiple different times, like kind of taking it all in, as was everybody, you know, because it was like we're not going to see him around as much anymore. The Southwest flight thing that came out on Thursday or Friday whenever they paid tribute to him. I started getting a bunch of messages asking me why Coach Corso is flying Southwest and I'm not. It's like, I don't know, but I also do know that I think I have offered up for Coach Corso. and he said, oh, way too much money, don't you do that? Like, Coach Corso is literally like old school, the oldest of schools. And, like, traveling through that airport that he did for the last 30 years through Orlando is like his thing. Like, I think he loves it. I think he loves seeing the people. I think he likes the energy and everything. And now, granted, if I was Coach Corso or his agent, okay, he was same one, I met him, same one for 38 years.

It's like, I think we would try to talk him out of that whenever he gets eight. 80 years old, you know, he's like 90 now, 80 years old or whatever, but I think Coach Corso is very much like, nope, this is kind of how I operate, this is the way it goes. And that's like another, another reason why it's like this dude is such a legend, there'll never be another one. Like, they'll never be another Coach Corso, and there's little storylines like that through everything. The flight thing made me think of the Peter King story about Lamar Hunt, when Lamar Hunt was

flying from Kansas City to New York or Dallas, whatever, and he was sitting in like 38B. in the middle reading a book and this guy essentially invented the NFL. Some people are just in their routine and like to travel that way too. Yeah, he's a football coach at heart. So he's like a creature of habit and everything. He's probably been doing that for decades now. And like

you said, you know, I'm sure he enjoys like people see him in the airports. Like, holy shit, that's Lee Corso. You know, like it helps you feel young and it's just it's what's easy to do. So, you know, yeah, I mean, if he wanted to fly private, I'm sure he'd be flying private. Well, that's what I think, too. Now, granted,

Should somebody have pushed a little bit here for the last time? Maybe. Yeah, like, I think there was a ball drop, but I don't know if Corso would necessarily say, you got it. Genuinely, I do not know. That's the type of guy he is. But I saw the video, and I just was like, sick. I'm happy they're celebrating him because we know the backstory.

I didn't even think about everybody being like, because this is how we acted as well. Yeah. When we learned of this, I did the same thing. I went right to the top of the, Coach Corso can't be doing this. What are we done? like he likes it like he like that's like his social media it's like his thing like and it's like really i didn't know that was the case now is he just saying that so he doesn't

step on any toes and he said because he's always just trying to you know dance who knows but other than the south other than the southwest thing yeah it was like what a perfect all of it the luncheon that we stopped by was magnificent the production meeting on friday they captured it it was great like everything about it was very very good so we'll miss them but what a a perfect way to kind of go out. And if you're ever doing anything for a profession for that long, and at the end of it, every person, including the other network, wants to say, thanks.

That was cool, too. You've done good. You know, AJ, you've done good there. He is, I mean, yeah, like, Lee Corso was college football. He, like, he, the juice, the energy, the pageantry that college football is, like Lee has embodied that for, what, 30, 40 years now, at least more than that, most likely. Yeah. Yeah, good luck to whoever has to follow.

That would suck. That would suck. The whole fucking sport. Yeah. Both networks, documentaries, more stories coming out about how legendary he is. Good luck. Come on, dude. Have fun.

Yeah, you're going to do great. You're going to do great. It's like, I was thinking that as he was doing it, I was like, brothers, no, what the, how the fuck, what are you supposed to do there? Yeah, legend, dude. You just got 127,000 people to go absolutely crazy. Even the Texas fans are doing it, you know? Even the Texas fans were clapping.

Yeah, well, you had to do it. You had to do it. It's just like, wow. All right. What a legend, dude. He was, he's always been very kind to me, which is what I appreciate, you know. Because I told the story before, but it's a truth. When I get dropped into college game day full time, it's like week three or whatever, week two, week three, whatever it was.

I get dropped in there. A lot of people in the SEC hated me because they thought I was taking time from David Pollock. The people behind the scenes, though, hated me because they knew that I was probably brought in there to potentially one day add the entertainment, the energy, the spice, if or when Coach Corso was to step away. So the SEC fans hated me

because one of the greatest players in the history of the Southeastern Conference, David Pollock, was potentially going to lose some time because I was going on there, which, once again, David Pollock incredibly kind to me. I get along with David Pollock. I respect David Pollock. David Pollock was great for college football,

and he was a great football player got hurt when he was with Cincinnati Bengals so he was all he's been great he was great to me very nice to me but the SEC and Georgia fans more specifically boy they hated me you know big loud dumb ass from Pittsburgh's coming in here and this guy's taking time away from one of the greatest dogs in the history why is this guy here they were loud boom boom boom boom but what people didn't know is behind the scenes people hated me not for that for the the guy who created this entire sport and the guy who created this show and the guy that created this entire being is basically, you're potentially,

you're never going to, basically, you know? So it was an interesting little thing there for a couple years up until now and still kind of happening, you know? Yeah, sure. So that is certainly, it's been an interesting environment for me. It's been a very, but like, the thought of being on that show

is just such an honor. It's like, I love the fact that I get to represent football. Like, that is a cool thing getting to do. And I tried to tell Coach Corso that, whatever we did like the round table shoutout session to him and I got a chance to say it on TV and I've said this to him off air too it's like he loves ball like that guy loves ball everything about he loves ball and it's like I think that is why I'm initially drawn to him and then the way like he goes about it it's like that that guy's speaking how I would speak

like as a kid growing up watching him so you know I have nothing but respect for these but there's a lot of people who don't have a lot of respect for me being the guy that's coming in there And I've certainly felt it, and I will try my best to represent for football, is what I'm saying, and for college football, especially in this magical time that we're in right now, where you have no clue what team's going to become the greatest. You can be ass, absolute shit a year beforehand, and then become a perennial power yet again. Looking at you, Florida State. You can be great, and then become, oh, no, what was that? Looking at you, Alabama. Will they be able to find their way back with Crimson Tide?

we shall see top 10 teams competed this weekend six of them against each other so obviously there was going to be at least three top 10 teams with an L there were four Penn State though no haven't talked about them they beat the hell out of Nevada Drew Aller looked good yeah Drew Aller looks like what we wanted him to look like after the terrible ending to his season last year he could have either crumbled or used that as motivation to get even better and maybe become top pick in the NFL this Penn State team is for real. Ohio State, obviously, they get the massive win over Texas. Texas's defense not getting talked about because Ohio State's defense is getting talked about. Julian St. and the boys, couple drops, Claire,

Jeremiah Smith, early. We don't know what that's all about. We assume that'll get cleaned up. Heartline now, the O.C. It's like tough sledding against that Texas defense, but I think that's going to be for everybody this year. Obviously, Clemson loses the LSU in the Death Valley Bowl, and

LSU is a real deal. They are. Georgia defeats Marshall. That's Tony Gibson's first game was Marshall's head coach. Sorry about that. Up and up. Sorry about that. Notre Dame, close to one to Miami. C.J. Carr, you know, he, he seemingly was, had some moments where it's like he's a guy. The run-in touchdown, obviously, he's crazy. The scramble all the way back to his own 30 or 40, then the no-look throw for his first touchdown. I mean, this is filthy. Watch number eight, just go ahead and jump. Yeah, I got you. And number two. No, yeah, we're going back that way.

I mean, he just made the guy even more wide open. And those are throws that a lot of guys can miss, especially in their first start. Get a little nervous, the guy's wide open. And then he does the billionaire strut with the big ball dance. So I like what C.J. Carr showed. Miami, obviously, all the way back in my eyes, I can't wait to watch them all season.

I put out a tweet deep butt on this spot. I said, we're about 45 minutes away from the month of September starting. I've only seen four quarters of this Miami team. I believe in them. I do. I believe in them this year. Not that I didn't last year. So many miracles last year.

So many miracles last year. And, you know, they were back for the first time, long time. But whenever their fans traveled out to Cal and I got a chance to see him before game day, the mom fans are like, this is different. This is different. Crystal Ball's got his culture in. So now you get a new quarterback, get a new everything. Is Carson Beck going to be able to continue to lead him?

Yeah, he is. And they're big, strong, and fast. And if Carson Beck can get him in and out of the huddle, Carson Beck can get everybody lined up on the offensive side, the defensive side is going to have dudes that can hunt, which they did. They decided to just end the game. You got guys making catches like that. Michael Irvin's losing his shit on the sideline.

I think there was like 60,000 people at this game, 66,000 people in this game. It's like, is Miami back? He's the U back. And then Florida State's back. Florida's back. The state of Florida back and college ball as a whole. Hey, we need, especially our age group for me,

being a South Florida kid, like that was the glory days for college football. U.N. being good, Florida being good, and then the University of Florida being good. UM and Florida State beating two top 10 teams opening week. That's huge. And then Florida doing their thing against Long Island University, I believe, you know, good

start of their season. So we'll, you know, they'll have a tough schedule, so we'll see what they're about. Malaguay. Still looks like the real deal. But yeah, if these three teams can be good, which they look like they will be, that'll be huge for college football as a whole. And for these two new quarterbacks, you know, coming in

new places, Carsonback and Castellanos, like, getting wins over top 10 programs. That's huge. And everything that I heard, that has been going on behind the scenes with Carson Beck. I grew up a Hurricanes fan, still a Keynes fan. So everything I heard that he's done with his teammates, and then how he clicked instantly with this OC, where he has much more control at the line of scrimmage

to get in and out of plays. Like as a player, I know even as a defender, we can kind of change and have adjustments to coverages to bunches to do. That just gives you so much more ownership over the defense or the offense as a player. So I love it. I saw Malachi Tony was unbelievable. He was electric from the jump, true freshman.

T.Y. Hilton S, for sure, great, great players. So, yeah, everything's looking good for UM right now in the state of Florida as a whole, which is big for college football as a whole, in my opinion. What are you saying, Gumpie? You're saying, yeah, let's keep watching hurricanes, not the dolphins. It's a hurricane, hurricanes, hurricanes, hurricanes. Is that what's going on down there in South Florida, Gump?

Yeah, it was nice to see the defense. That new D.C. we got from Minnesota was electric on the sidelines compared to what we had last year. Just that one bust at the end of the game. I would have liked they threw it a little bit more. They got way too conservative in the second half. I know the defense was playing well, but would have liked to see him kind of end it a little earlier.

I don't like three straight runs there in the fourth quarter when you put the game away, especially when it's only a 47-yard field goal. Like, if that's a 27-yard field goal, we got it. We understand. That kid makes the kick, obviously, kind of puts them in a better spot than they could have been. But they got really, they did rest on their yawnies there. They rest on their yawnies a little bit, AJ. This is a huge ball here, though, opening night with a minute left in the fourth,

47-yarder for a guy that was four of 11. in the past at FAU. I think they were all very long kicks. I think he was sent out there for like the long balls, so not high percentage kicks. But that graphic didn't say that. This guy's come out here 11 times. He only made it four times.

He had the box snap earlier too, so I know that has to be somewhere. And then the first extra point almost hits off the upright and goes here. Mario's a great recruiter. He's a great coach. But sometimes in that fourth quarter, he gets a little... He does need to get somebody in his ear that lets him know. That was the thing for Miami, too,

that really pushed over the edge for me was Mario Chris Ball. kind of talking about all the guys being back, like about how much more it means the, you know, Notre Dame rivalry for him and then, like, Andre Johnson was there. I think Clinton Portis was there. Ray Lewis. Yeah, Ray Lewis. Obviously Michael Irvin, everyone saw, like, the amount of

players that came back, if all that is happening, I mean, it reminds you tonight with UNC. Like, all these dudes are going to come back for all their home games, and they're going to continue to go and... Miami's a scene, dude. There's a lot to do afterwards, too. And I think Carson Beck's doing all that. For sure. From the reactions,

I'm seeing with his teeth. Yeah, I hope so, too. That's quarterback shit. Yeah. That literally is. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a college football analyst for ESPN now. Oh, wow. Really?

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, the host of Josh Page's college football show from On3 Sports and Yahoo Sports, still a thing. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Page. Hey, what up, dude? I watched what you watched last night. You just hit on, I think, the underrated storyline of college football the past decade. So you're talking about all these state of Florida teams. You sit next to Sabin every Saturday.

Last title he won was the 2020 year. You know he won that with a defensive backfield made up entirely of starters that they got from South Florida? Because none of the South Florida kids were staying home. Ohio State's roster has been littered with South Florida kids. Clemson, Georgia, they all go into Florida. Not because those kids are dying to get out of the state per se, but because for the past decade, Florida, FSU, Miami combinations thereof have not been able to present a viable path to play for a title to those in-state kids.

So you're right. If the wheel on that ship has started to turn a little bit, it's the biggest story in college football, not just because you may have two or three premier programs back. Think about what it does to pluck two or three premier players per recruiting cycle off the rosters of the other contenders, because that's been the dynamic shift the last decade in the sport. Who was the name of the guy that had the yachts and thoughts and ended up on a cot, eating two hots and a cot?

Nevin. Shapiro? Yeah, Nevin Shapiro. Is he back? Does Miami have money? Does Miami have the money to be able to keep up with everybody, seemingly? I mean, they've paid a quarterback now back-to-back years, but do they have enough money to be able to keep up with the likes of the Big Ten? Dana White was on the sideline, too.

Yeah, his daughter goes there, right? He just checked her in. He's become a Miami guy. Do we know that information about every team before we go into the year? Because it feels like that is the piece of information that we need as we project what the future looks like for all these parties. Yeah, so I'd say yes tentatively already to your question. Then I would say you've got just a,

an utter assassin as your head coach, who also happens to recruit 25 hours a day. But I've always thought of Miami, kind of like I think of USC. Like, if you ever were to get the forward momentum, you saw who was in the stands last night at that game. You know how deep their pockets are. You just got to convince these people that, hey, hey, ball's moving. It's starting to roll downhill because then everyone wants to put their sticker on it. Everyone's, they won't all have the rub with it.

It's just they happen to have deeper pockets there. So if you initiate Miami, which they've already got a lot of money, but if you really initiate South Florida behind the cause of Miami football, yeah, it's a runaway freight train. I'll tell you what. I'm Florida boys, are good of football. They are. They certainly are. And everybody was really feasting

on South Florida. I still think the big money schools will be able to, but if Cristobal can keep Du Bois home, I mean, why not? Norville is able to just turn over a team and make them big, fast and strong. And then Napier's got his culture set in Florida. Is Florida a good state of football?

Come on. Congratulations. It was must change television whenever it was on. There for a while must become must watch. Let's go to another top 10 school. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Peyt, another top 10 matchup we watched on Saturday night was LSU heading to Clemson. Did we get bamboozled by Clemson

again? You know, all the returning production, did that make us forget that they haven't beat an actual good team in probably the last three or four years? Or is Ellis, do you think LSU is a really, really good football team? Both are probably true. Tone, let's be careful when we

say we? Because I've backed off of Clemson a little bit, the closer we got to the season. You made a point, though, that it kind of extended itself into this LSU game. So Clemson last year, great year. Everyone thought they built on that this year and returning starters, sometimes an overrated stat, by the way. If you return guys who have reached their ceiling, you're just banging your head against your ceiling again. So they faced three SEC teams last year. They go 0 and 3. They go 14 of 40 offensively on 3rd down against them. They then go 3 of 12. on third down against LSU. So they're like 17 of 52 on third down against highest levels of competition they face.

They can't scale up. They can't scale their competition level. So what we're probably looking at, just until I see otherwise, we're probably looking at a team that is absolutely capable of doing what they did last year, banging on the door of a playoff spot. Who knows maybe they win the ACC again? I'd be very careful of that trip down to Georgia Tech in two weeks. But I think they're capable of what they did last year.

I just don't know that they're capable of anything more than that. Your eyes play tricks on you every summer. You open that preview magazine and you see X number of returning starters. And then you watch a quarterback coming back. Oh, he's got his same offensive coordinator, same system, same head coach, best receiver room they've had there in quite a while. All of those things are true. You convince yourself, that means things just scale up another 20%.

Sometimes you just are who you are. Ironically, he may have himself, Kate Klobnik, in the same mess that Nussmire was in last year. Nussmeyer was a good quarterback for LSU last year. He had no run game. And the other night, Clemson had no run game. And if that's the case, it's unfair to put those guys in a position to just expect them to, you know, mount up and shoulder the entire load. Nussmeier threw 12 picks last year because they couldn't run the ball.

Kate had a really good touchdown to I&T ratio last year. This year, my instinct is if they can't run the ball any better than they did the other night, you're going to see him more turnover prone, which will lead to, is he a bust conversations? No, they're just putting him in an unwinnable. position if that's the case. Yeah, desperation will lead you to throw the ball into double teams and shit like that is what I believe Josh Pade is talking about at this exact moment. They need to run the ball with Dabo. Did you see him? Yeah, man. He came out. Hey, that was one of the better hill runs. It was. I've seen, I mean, that thing was tucked in. The pants were up to the belly button. But he was, I mean, he was really striding. How old is Dabo? Can we

look up how old this man is? 35. That's old of those hip flexors. The hip flexors. His His stride link was not shrunk. His stride link is still every bit the same as it was 10 years ago. And you know good and well he works on that. 55 years old with those hamstrings. Those are 55-year-old hamstrings. He played, yeah. 55 years old, you're not supposed to be full.

I mean, you're talking. He was striding out. Tom Cruise. Yeah, but even more forward lean. Whoa. Yeah, Tom Cruise's got to work on his base because he doesn't know where a bomb is. That's a good point. Dabo just knows that he's got to get to that 50 faster than anybody else.

He's trying to catch up to the man in front of him or whatever it takes is. So he's got a little bit more forward lean, especially because he's coming down that goddamn hill. That thing hits a little whoopty-woo there, too. Oh, yeah. You know, that thing's like what's the place Cedar Point in Ohio? That thing is like Cedar Point's best roller coaster. Now, it's not Kennywood. It's not Canywood.

Really? I saw someone from Kenneywood this weekend. Do they have some sort of event or something? Yeah, there's a ride outside, too. It's called Keep Your Head on a Swip. Oh, yeah. Well, Sue us. We like the booze and fight. Yeah, sorry.

Welcome to Kennywood. They will have you booze and fight. They shut it down, actually. They shut down Kennywood 21-plus nights because there was six straight nights of fights. That lady's voice. Hurry up, let's go! We get on a ride!

So good. Inside jokes who are drawn. I'm from rural Georgia. I know nothing about what you're talking about. It sounds great, though. It's just really poopy roller coaster, and there's a fight out this weekend. It's an amusement park called Kennywood.

Actually, here's the hat. Thank you. It's in Pittsburgh. It is the greatest amusement park in a country outside of Disney something. You know, so if it has Disney before it, it ain't keeping up with it. But if you want to have a good time with the family, go during the day. Yeah. You keep that family out of there at night.

You keep that family out of there at night. I'm going to tell you that. Go ahead, AJ. Back to paint. Sorry about it, Bob. Yeah, Josh. Obviously, everyone's talking about Arch Manning and how he performed against that Ohio State defense. What do you think of Arch's performance?

How is he going to do the rest of the year? But also, the Ohio State defense and Maddie Patricia, what he was able to do with some of these guys that have not played a ton of football. far at the college level. What do you make of Arch and what do you make of this defense Ohio State has? Yeah, I almost wish you asked a question in reverse, AJ, because a lot of people are leading with Arch. Arch is not the story here. Ohio State's defense is the story. I got to be real with you. There were two instances this Saturday where I looked and I said, if you didn't know any better, but you just knew the storylines, you wouldn't know which team is which. BamaFSU is one

of those, which we can talk about whenever. But this one right here, like if I tell you one of these teams just won a title, then they're replacing both coordinators, huge chunk of their roster. That's an operation that is ripe to have a reality check, especially against a hungry team, equally as talented, still on a mission, got Arch Manning as your quarterback, and they stoned him. It made him so indecisive. I'm standing there on the field. It was one of those games where if you just watch the quarterback, don't even follow the ball, don't even look at the secondary, don't look at the line of scrimmage. You can tell he's got time to throw. Either he's missing wide open guys or there's a blanket over that Texas wide receiver corps, mostly the latter instead of

the former. I don't think they have the kind of speed at receiver they did last year. They can play that in the building all they want to and let it echo through the halls. They don't have the kind of speed they had in their wide receiver room last year. So they're going to have scheme guys open a little bit more. But there should have been something. Imagine this time last week if we had Sark just like quad box him here and we said, hey, you're going to hold Ohio State to 14 in the shoe. Will you take that? He would have signed his name. on whatever dotted line he could. And it wasn't enough.

That was pretty, that was pretty surprising to me. Dude, Ryan Day has gone from people questioning whether he's the guy for his own job, like seven months ago to he's a genius. He was always the same guy. Nothing's changed about Ryan Day. He was always the same guy as just his Wikipedia pages different. He's thinner. He's in much better shape now.

He's in much better shape now. Tider clothes. We all saw it. We all know we're talking about. But he is in such great shape right now. Pat, Patrick, can we please? Can we please? Someone needs to air this out nationally.

There is a big difference in hard nipple versus nipple ring. There's a big difference. That's not us. We don't need to be doing that. You go to somebody else and do that whole thing. We just know that he was jacked up. And how could you not be? He had chills.

Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Like, do we? Who also has slum down. Yeah, Dwayne Johnson looking very thin. He looks like he's becoming like an Ironman type thing. He might be.

Hey, Rock, whatever you're doing, you look great, Bob. It might be working out together. You look good, maybe. You talked about the Alabama FSU game. You don't know who's who. That's a good time to talk about this. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Pete, how much do you think Kailen DeBore needs to be worried about keeping his job this year?

Right after the game, we saw that, you know, hey, his buyout $70 million. Are we looking at, you know, hey, Alabama needs to go to the playoff this year, or he's likely out, or how do you see this whole situation panning out? I don't know if it's that. I just, I don't know where we are. are with them. I mean, that's my national championship pick. You think Saturday was bad for Bama. Imagine picking them to win the title. And then that gets thrown in your face. I think the new reality of college football, okay, is for big time programs, Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, etc., you're used

to there being a really high floor. So like the worst case under Nick Sabin ever was going to be nine wins. Kirby at Georgia, worst it could ever get is like eight or nine wins. That's what you think. That's not the reality anymore. So you're driving down the interstate still, same interstate, but there's no guardrails, there's no median. It's just edge of a cliff both ways. Florida State found this out last year, by the way, where if a tire falls off, there's no limit to how bad it can get. Like, you think Bama can't miss a bowl game. They absolutely could miss a bowl game, or he could get the ship ride it, but your question is, he needs to be worried about his job. Dude, he needs to be worried about the competitive character of his team. There's a big

difference in, ooh, I mean, Arch Manning, a little inaccurate, or, you know, your guys miss assignments, they drop balls. Like the fun. competitive character being called into question, running back, stoning your linebackers and basic run fits, can't shed that stuff, turning down blocks in some cases, dropping balls left and right, not because you just misjudged it, but because you maybe turned it down over the middle of the field. That's like non-negotiable stuff. That's stuff you took for granted under Nick Saban. It's stuff I take for granted, frankly, as a viewer from every major program. So that stuff, if it doesn't get corrected, I don't even know what the answer. Like 70

million dollars is not even a real number to me that's monopoly money i don't i don't know what the answer there is i just know that that high floor is not in existence anymore so there's no limit to how bad it can get if that stuff doesn't get corrected you you don't look down the road to georgia you don't look past this saturday i don't care if you're favored by five touchdowns you don't look past the next opponent and we've just been so accustomed to being able to do that with these big time programs i don't know that you can do that right now josh i don't know if you saw obviously the pictures of Coach Saban's office and then

Kalen's office obviously drastically different. And then Kalen, the way he goes about doing stuff versus how Saban goes about doing stuff, multiple different ways of doing things. You know, like there's a lot of that that had to happen. And following Coach Saban in Alabama would be a, like, trying to

follow Coach Corso on college game. That would be a very, that'd be a very, very difficult task. I think with all parties, let alone the fact Sabin still lives there, still has an office, in the building and obviously is still very prevalent in college football world because he is great on television on college game day so everything he's saying on college game day Alabama fans are like yep that's what's being said hopefully to the boys that's what's being

said right now because that's what it has been but what kalan de boar is doing is trying to build his own legacy at alabama and he's going to be compared to this guy who is not a this guy is out of some never ever land yeah this guy unbelievable incredible competitive stamina and an incredible ability to lead, adapt, evolve, listen, let alone gut decisions, just in the moment being able to make a decision that nobody else. I'm going to, yeah, I'm changing quarterbacks, halftime national championship, actually. Bang, putting another guy in here multiple times. I'm going to do that, actually.

And then let alone who goes where, how he recruited. It's like Kalin had a very tall task of becoming an SEC coach to begin with, okay? That's a tough, tough conference from Washington coming in there. but then to follow the guy, actually. And then now he is the guy on TV for college football, seemingly an impossible job. Is he going to be able to, he's had success. When he was a D3 coach, had success. Indiana had success.

Washington has success. We assume he's going to win. But is that just, is that the right assumption, I guess, would be the question for you, who's kind of down in the middle of it all down there in the south? I had the same assumption. I still think the dudes are stuck. Like, I think he's a winner. I mean, I've sat in that renovated office and point blank asked him, taking over for a legend.

Not the stuff you say on TV. Like, we're off the record. Just shoot with me. That guy's got a lot of intensity. He's got the right mentality. The right mentality is this. All right, in college football and sports for a long time. That thing you just said has existed.

99 percenters out there say, boy, you don't want to take over for a legend. Well, 99 percenters aren't qualified for the Alabama job anyway. So by default, you have to be a one percenter. You have to be different. You have to mentally be wired a little different. He is. The big secret in college football has always been, yeah, you don't want to take over for a legend cause of the situation the legend left.

Paterno at Penn State, forget about the off-the-field stuff, just him on the field. Yeah, he was a legendary coach, but the program had waned by the time he stepped away. So if you took the Penn State job, if you took FSU post-Bowden, you were taking sky-high expectations with a rebuild on your hands. Sabin's last game at Alabama was a playoff game. game. So he left a pretty full cupboard. He left a really good situation. So guys like DeBoer look at it and say, well, I mean, forget about the expectations. Forget about people saying take over for a legend, this and that. I think I'm really good too. And so I look

in the mirror. I think if I'm given the right resources, I can build my own legacy. And I think he, yeah, he may have taken a dive into the SEC waters and realized, boy, there's something beneath those shark fence. Like, yeah, there's a little something more to this conference than I thought there was. But more so than that, dude, Pat, if you're just getting out executed, if you're getting beat by three at the gun. That happened to Saban occasionally. It's not that. It's the non-negotiable stuff. He didn't have to question this at Washington. You didn't have to question toughness about his Washington teams. So that's what I wonder about. That's why it's such a mystery to me. I went and watched him scrimmage twice. I went and watched him in spring. I watched him a couple of weeks ago.

I had no inclination that that FSU result was even possible. It was a baseball back to my Bad day. Rain was hard, you know. Tom Segorah, Burt Kreischer out there, shirtless, you know. Maybe it's just a bad night. Maybe just lay an egg on opening night. Maybe they just didn't have energy on opening night. Maybe they just didn't have maximum focus on opening night. Maybe that's just what it is. Maybe this is the one game. Breakfast ball. Yeah, breakfast ball. Maybe they need a breakfast ball. Should we give up on Alabama or no? No, I'm not going to give up on them. But look, hey, God gives us 11 more games. So if you're right, you'll see it. Like they got Wisconsin coming in. They go to Georgia in less than a month. So if that's just a one-off, which I have suspicions about, but let's just grant the floor to you.

It is your show. If it's a one-off, we're going to find out really, really quickly. I don't think it's a one-off. I am just living in hypotheticals. I did not like what I saw either. And I don't think that's just something you can fix, which is why I say some things about some players in the NFL, and people get mad at me for pointing out the obvious.

And then they say, still can change. It's like, I don't know. That feels like something. that you either got or you don't, but if the team can flip the script after getting embarrassed by Florida State, who might be all the way back, maybe Kaylon DeBoer makes his own legacy downer. Maybe he's got a DeBoer Street, Donner. That'd be cool. Maybe he's the Goat Donner. De Bolivard. Yeah, maybe it is the Boulevard.

Right down, Kalin de Bolivar right here. Yeah, that would be great. Kalin Da Boulevard. Boom. Yeah, that is a great street name. I mean, that would be fantastic. Let's go back to the Big Ten. You talk about the SEC, how there might be some things underneath the Sharkgills, you know, obviously in the South, very competitive for every recruit. A lot of recruits from the South. We understand that. The North has the national championships, and the North has a lot of money. Let's go to a school that seemingly has more than anybody could imagine or anybody actually gives them credit for.

Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Josh, Penn State obviously feels like they're all in. Everyone's talking about them, everything they're doing, the resources, whatever, everything about it. Is James Franklin, is this a year he finds a way to go and win those big prime time matchups, I guess, that we've seen him kind of fall short in the past? it's the year he better do it. That's a weird kind of pressure, by the way. They're not going to fire him. No, that's not what I'm saying?

It's a totally different kind of pressure. There's the job security pressure, which is when or you're fired, and then there's just flat out competitive pressure of I could be the Penn State coach for the next 30 years. I won't be able to win championships all those 30 years. This is a year I could win a championship. I don't know when it's going to come around again. Maybe I'm wrong, man.

Maybe they could do it every year. but I do view this as sort of a window year. Look, they're embracing it. They're all in on it. We went up there a couple of weeks ago. They are not shying away from that at all. They went and hit the portal for receivers, which, and I agree with them on this, they thought was the one missing link between them and being dynamic enough to make plays

like Miami did last night. Just a few plays, 50-50 balls, turn into 70-30 balls. You win 23-17 on the road in Columbus one of these times. I think they have the pieces. They're smart. the way. While all the rest of these folks had bullets flying left and right, they're up there playing Nevada favored by five pounds. They got a couple of tune-ups. Then they got a buy week. Then they got Oregon coming in there. That's preseason boys. That's smart. That almost makes that. You got to win

that game. It's the Ohio State game down the road. And you're going to go to the playoff no matter what. I have no idea how Penn State misses the playoff. But there's like two hurdles he's got to clear. One of them's winning those big games. The other one is at least getting to the national title game. And at that point, you got to win it. I don't know. But yeah, I do think they got the mixture of talent to do it. I like Drew Aller bouncing back and playing well, instead of crumbling, you know? Like, that sucks that that's how his season ended last year. In the biggest moment, a lot of eyes.

I forget what the ratings were, but it was at least 13, 14 million people watching him throw terrible ball. Yeah, this is over. Yeah, I mean, that is, they should have won that. I mean, and then he's got to sit all off season up there in Penn State, walking around, going to class. Oh, there's a big tall dipship of LaCostas. You blew it. Thanks. You're working on your sleight?

He's trying to go out and have a drink in one of these restaurants. All these restaurants are right on top of each other. Obviously, Happy Valley, very, you know, kind of a smaller area. He gets out, just gets done having a little bit, maybe an asai or something like that. Hey, why don't you stop eating and go practice throwing a football? That's happening every day of his life afterwards. And somebody can speak kind of from experience. And it's like, which way do you go?

It's like if he steps up, that's huge. There's a quarterback, though, for South Carolina. Every football team in America is looking to get to him. I saw a lot of NFL teams pulling for him. I also saw some XFL teams pulling for him. I think even some G1 teams we're trying to get here to potentially lead the way. Go ahead, Conrad. Yeah, Josh, and I can't believe you just did the whole F1 thing.

That is not a real sport. We're never talking about it again. Josh. Who won? Who won? Oscar Pia. No one cares. Josh, let's talk about football.

Josh, hey, Josh, Josh, Josh. Just me and you here, brother. Lenore Sellers. Okay, on Sunday, kind of let off the entire game again. Virginia Tech. They walk right down. He looks massive. He looks fast. And he threw the ball about 100 yards to Nick Harbor in the air. Why shouldn't I believe that Lenora Sellers is going to win the Heisman? And why isn't South Carolina being talked about as one of these teams that is going to compete for a national championship? I know they're definitely being talked about as a

playoff team. But when we're talking those top four teams, do you see South Carolina making that run this year? Yeah, they can. I mean, that's just foreign language. People have this pre-conceived notion in their mind, frankly, about a lot of programs that they need to reprogram because the sport has changed. And so when you get an alien as your quarterback, you got another one out wide, by the way. When you're fastest player on the field is 65-235 and spells his name Nick with a Y, you just need to pay attention to him. So that guy has learned to catch the football now, which is so funny. You ask the key about Nick Harbour at wide receiver. What does he need to learn to do, dude? If he can learn to catch, man. He's going to be nasty. Well, he can learn to catch.

All-American track. You got Lenore Sellers, who I know a lot of people are doing the NFL draft talk. Like, I stick to college football. I think he could be the best player in college football. They may have the best offensive and defensive players, respectively, in the SEC. This is not Alabama or Georgia. This is the University of South Carolina that we're talking about. And they knew they had them.

My only question throughout spring is, why didn't they go attack the portal at wide receiver more? Like, who do they have behind Harvard? So to answer your question, the thing that would keep him from winning the Heisman, is supporting cast. But the deeper we got into fall camp, all these people from South Carolina, they kept telling me, watch out now,

our wide receiver room is underrated. Week one, I don't necessarily know that I saw that, but that's okay, it's week one. If even a fraction of what they said is true, and that dude just is who he is, you're looking at probably the Heisman trophy winner this year, and if that's the case,

you've got a ceiling on South Carolina that's way like up here off the screen somewhere. Someone's going to have to deal with them. If they don't win it, someone has to have beaten them, and it's just crazy. We're talking about South Carolina like this. They haven't hit their ceiling, by the way. That was a week one version of them.

So there's probably still some upward mobility with them as well. And that's a place that's gotten told forever. Those are players that got told, we don't quite have room for you here. So go to option B. Like South Carolina was an option B for some of these guys. Those defensive guys that went in the draft last year, those weren't all former five-star top 10 guys. Those were other teams backup options that Shane Beamer and his,

staff took, developed them, pumped them to the NFL, and now, lo and behold, they've fact-filled, which you're not supposed to be able to do at South Carolina, and they shut a fairly good, desperate ACC team down in week one. So now they dive into conference play. And now that's just another of those teams, stack of pancakes, of these teams in the SEC, they may not be elite, but they're really good and they're tough outs. Yeah, and all we're going to hear is you, SEC people talk about, oh, you're telling me, South Carolina, our six best team couldn't beat the six best team in a big ten is that what you're saying watch come on down here and play stoops

at Kentucky at night. Okay, watch we'll go to Northwestern one of these games and then you guys come down here to Kentucky one night. That's what we'll do. We'll play a fun little game and that'll happen all year but the South Carolina team remember end of the year they had a little bit of a gripe to get into the playoffs and instead of making big noise, Shane Beaver

said we're just focused on our bowl game. They had all everybody play in the bowl game it wasn't like they weren't going to play. Shane Beamer, we showed that the punt return there it's like they're always going to play Beamer Ball in all three phases, which you can steal a win in college ball, or you can lose a game in college ball through special teams. And it's like they're going to be locked in there because they have so many great athletes. And the state of South Carolina creates some freaks whenever you talk about athletic ability. So if Shane Beamer can become the school of the Carolinas, especially down there with in front of a great fan base.

When we were down there, I mean, it's hot as shit. It is thick down there. here. It is very thick down. But it is a football town, but it is a football town down there. I hope they're able to pull it off. That moment between Shane and Frank afterwards was beautiful. All right, let's talk about tonight's game. Obviously, week one wraps up in Chapel Bill. Go ahead, DeBudge. Yeah, go up to North Carolina. I expect, you know, Bill Belichick team to be prepared. What I don't know is who these players are. I know 70 new players, but what are the expectations for this roster? And can you tell me something about some of these players on this?

Chapel Bill roster, and we'll see Don that baby blue tonight. All right, everyone check in here. This is your North Carolina breakdown. Okay. I got no clue. I have no clue who any of them are. I'm not sure. This is not what he's normally like.

He normally has all the answers. Oh, no. He normally has all the people who know that that are watching for the first time, maybe. Not a lot of people maybe seeing Josh Pate for the first time. As you've seen, thus far, has all the answers. Very well versed in all the things. college ball. Now, when this pops up here, one of the biggest conversations of the week one one night football here. That's it. Okay? He says, let me tell you, I got nothing.

I don't think anybody does that, Josh, isn't that kind of the thing? That's, look, if I flash carded that roster in front of that coaching staff, do you think even there's all those days? Absolutely not. Hey, TCU is one of however many teams are in the Big 12. Every one of them thinks they can win that league. TCU is one of them. They're one of these teams that, you know, like the sneaky better types out there that are getting down legit money in May on team totals. They were big on TCU, and most people don't know anything about them either. I happen to know a little more about TCU. It's a perfect stage for them.

It's going to be all about Bill Belichick, all about North Carolina. This is the one shot that a Big 12 team gets on a real, real premier eyes of the world stage on it. And North Carolina is such an enigma. But yet I watched Matt Patricia do what he did the other night, so it's not like I'm sitting here dumb enough to say, I don't know Belichick. I don't know if he can coach these college kids. I just don't know the caliber kid he has. Patricia's got freaks everywhere.

I don't know that Bill Belichick necessarily is dealing with that in year one at North Carolina. All right. Well, we'll watch tonight. Part of the kickoff show can't wait to get down there. We'll all find out. We will all find out. And we will judge accordingly. Is Ernie down there?

What? I don't know. I hope so. Night one, Ernie will be done her. He'll be tired. He'll be tired. He'll be darner. I think Lombardi and Ernie both on headsets.

Yep, for sure. Up in a booth. It'll be good to see them. In a blimp, maybe. Hey, did you see that Cal Kit? He's the one. Sagapolitelli? It's tough to pronounce.

Sagapolita. Yeah, it's tough for me. He's good, though. Everybody was... Good. They all keep saying... They all keep saying the Cow Kid. And I kept saying, no, if you're so high on him, say his name.

No, no, no, no, no. Just the Cow Kid. That's all you need to know. There's Cal Kids dominate. Yeah, he was the talk of the late night. He was the talk of the late night, for sure. Very late. He wasn't the only one.

Did you see Dampeer for you? Utah, too, he won for 90 rushing touchdowns last year in New Mexico. Y'all are going to Oklahoma Saturday, right? Yes, sir. Okay, so that was the talk. Like, you get Mateer and you get his offensive coordinator and you package them up. Utah did the same thing. It was just they went to New Mexico and got the coordinator and the quarterback combo,

and no one really paid attention to it. Utah looks like the best team in the Big 12. Like, they went out there and just bawled out. Everyone saw Winningham lose one year, and they said, oh, he's done, ride his Harley off into the sunset. Maybe he'll retire, and he's like, no, I think I'm going to stick with it a few more years. I don't really feel like retiring yet. I'm going to go get a coordinator and a quarterback from New Mexico, and I'm going to be right back in the picture.

And they are. Yeah, I mean, they're in West Virginia's conference, you know, and Arizona State obviously has got to do what they got to do. And let's not even talk about the Coogues, which are right down the road. That's going to be quite a battle. But he was awesome to watch. Where to start the incarnate word, right? Didn't their OC and quarterback get hired first? Yeah, and then I believe where did they go off?

Was that Washington State with Cam? Washington State, and then, yeah, they went down there. And then last year with Diego Pavia, that worked out really well for Vandy. It's happened, did UTSA bring someone up to Oregon, too? It's NIL, but for the O.C. as well. It's genius. Yes. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, uh, well, look like you've done a pretty good job, Donner.

Congratulations. Welcome to the big leagues. Come on up here. It's like what the Knicks were doing to everybody else in the NBA, but it's happening in big-time college ball versus small-time college teams. You got to watch yourself. You can't even develop your coordinators too good. I know.

They'll be gone. I love this. You can't let them talk. It's the best move in golf ball right now. These things like to gossip. Yeah, these things like to gossip. These things like to hang out. You can't let them hang out.

You got to keep them isolated in their caves. Yeah, yeah. Keep them away from each other. Keep them in their caves. They'll start talking and they'll leave you together. All right, Josh, we appreciate you, man. Congrats on the ESPN shit. More of the world needs to see you.

You're good at what you do, and you obviously love balls. So we appreciate that. You know, I appreciate you, man. Anytime, I appreciate you having me. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Pee. Hey, go on. If I was a flash card, that roster, to those coaches. You think they get it right?

That's a great call. That's a great call. Bill Belichick just calling numbers. He's number, they didn't even have numbers. Yeah, right. I don't know. Shit, he was hearing a different. That had to be something.

Was that in that article, that eight-scroller? I don't know. That, there wasn't much about that, no. Connor, what do you have to say here about Jose Cuerva? To be completely honest with you, I drank Jose Cuervo all weekend. It was the greatest thing ever, and I didn't even get hung over. Well, devil's reserve is the perfect drink for when mischief is on the menu. Amen.

It's time to listen to a little devil on your shoulder. Pour around shots. Get ready to raise a little hell. Let's get it right this. This is my first time. This is my first time. I feel like Ron Burgundy right now. He'll read anything on the top.

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I'll tell you what, they're sweet. Bottle of mischief. They're tropical. Raisin hail. I was going to say, that's an interesting way to. To go about that. I like it. What's that?

It's probably what they're serving at Kennywood. Sweet drop going that last one, spicy. Kenneywood was a little spicy late night. I don't know if you saw that. It's all over next. She's good and type Kennywood and that it'll pop up. A lot of Jensers letting each other know that they weren't happy about the disrespect that you certainly showed while we're on ride for the fucking race.

I hope this doesn't ruin Fright Nights because I'll be so mad. Yeah. When's like you want last year? Right. Yeah, I go over here. Really? What's your favorite part? I go for my daughter.

You guys drive over there for it on like Friday or Saturday? It's in two weeks. Well, it's actually about to be potentially a direct flight. Is that right? Yeah. If we do recall. Yeah, I'm more worried about the one in Nashville. Says who? Just know, we know people.

I've been praying for that on it. So long. We know people. Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't get to it earlier, but we got to get to it. We watched all the games. You watch all the games this weekend, age? We tried to. Yep.

Oh, yeah. Watch all the world. Everything's going on. world yeah there's a lot going on yeah we tried to we try to watch it all and we gathered up what we thought would be the greatest jeez louise moment of the weekend because we don't want to you know just kind of handcuff ourselves to just one moment correct so if there's more than one moment we'll do the moment but if not we'll just do the jeez louise moment of the weekend ladies you might have seen it. New Mexico Guard.

Richard Pierce, they call him Dick Pierce, running away after starting a little bit of a brawl with Michigan. You see him in the middle of Apollo, there's 78, a little late push after they push him back. He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, why? I ain't doing it. Stumbles falls all over his face, gets the hell out of there. I appreciate it.

He said, I'm not fight. I did one cheap shot after a play. I'm not doing all the other stuff. AJ, how do you feel about Richard Pearson? Do you think the next play, or maybe the next play after that or another time down the road today, earhole this guy? How would you have reacted here?

Yeah, I'm sure they tried. I mean, this is nice. You always get the flag when you retaliate. So if you're the first person, and then you let them retaliate, hopefully they get the flag. And then he turns and runs. I've never seen one turn their back on a ground. And not a bad hip flip, no, not at all. Not a bad hip flip.

Debuts your thoughts here. I mean, he got to pick him up and put him down a little bit. He almost stumbled. But, I mean, if you're going to do it, stand in there and take the push. You know, get the penalty. You know, if you're going to see on his wheel to take the push. Do you hear what he said? as he turned around, he said, geez,

always. He's got the next one here. Brian Kelly did a back bump and a full roll getting trucked by a ref, smacks his head off the ground, loses his headset. Once he chew out to ref, then he quickly realizes he's in the wrong.

I'm not supposed to be standing in the white. Ref not throwing a flag on him. Very cool of the ref. I think the ref saw Brian Kelly's face tumbled around and said, he suffered enough. We don't need to give another 15. Our source says,

have told us that Brian Kelly went in for an MRI this morning. Really? Real talk, real source. Tees and peace, Brian Kelly. Congrats on the win. We hope you're okay. In our last, geez, Louise, of the weekend comes from a duck. A mascot, Montana State, taking on Oregon before he even gets on the air.

Oregon, duck, faceplants, loses his head, and everybody loses their shit. Now, there was an alternate angle from the backside here. What do you think? Work? I don't think it's a work. He cares too much. Full panic afterwards. We hope he's okay.

Some would say it's a bad omen. The Oregon Ducks football team didn't even know what happened. Nope. Steam rolled. Why did they not have a clip to that thing? And that's our, you would think they would. Yeah, seems like maybe it was. Nope.

Jeez, Louise. Moment of the weekend. We continue on digital, but not for long because we've got to hit the road to get down in North Carolina. Have a great, happy, and happy Labor Day. Be a friend, tell other friends, something nice of my change your life. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Yeah, we've got to get down

Chapel Hill pretty soon. Chapel Bill, if you will. You have Michael Jordan on the show? He's going to be on ESPN tonight, I guess. That's a really good idea, AJ. We get to watch it in the box with Lombo, right? Yeah, do we get a headset? I don't know.

That's what I'm thinking, right? I'm assuming you guys might get a couple, hey, let's try the 70 power here. We're calling place. I'm thinking you're going to... Remember, this is a bell. a check coach team he's tattooed on your arm still i know but the when i got this tattoo there's a lot of different things about bill that are true today but again i i i do think to your point that's pretty

sweet tropical and spicy amen and the times of bill were sweet tropical and spicy baby but now i do think there is a massive chance that you know this this run mobile quarterback bill's got lopez they're going to be doing some crazy shit with this fucking guy because bill's always wanted a mobile quarterback yeah i mean they had cam newton a lot of people were saying we're watching back what he did with cam cam i think would even admit that wasn't the fullest super cam cam cam was a superman on the field dude i watched some of these guys and obviously everybody wants to compare everybody josh allen as you should josh allen unbelievable football player as well cam newton was just he was a defensive end like josh not josh allen isn't very tall

and very athletic and very strong and everything like that cam newton was a de-end clearly that his body was made to be a defense event, and he just so happened to also be the fastest defense event that was ever. And it's just, oh, yeah, he can dissect the defense, and he has a work ethic, and he's a phenomenal leader. And it's like, me and Venetary, he walked by his preseason, I think it was preseason or early in season, he walked by his rookie year, and we both just say, if that fucking guy could figure out football.

We are done. He's one of those guys. We are absolutely done. And he did, he did figure it out. He's one of those guys that's a big guy that when Stan's next. to other big guys looks bigger than those big guys. Yeah, people are talking about him like he's not who he is right now, though, too.

There's a lot of things being said about Cam, and it's like... He's got won an MVP. You ever seen him in real life, too? I don't think he'd be saying as much as you're saying right now. I mean, everybody's doing this to Cam Newton. He gets you, too. We've seen it at the camps. Yeah, it's not scared. Throw it down a little bit. He's not scared. He's about it.

Sellers, that was your big thing with sellers. He's a big boy. Huge. If you're huge, if you're huge, I think... That's why I like Drew Aller so much. Drew Allen. It's why I like Will Howard so much. especially whenever you're talking about going from college to the NFL. Like I think you have to be big. Drew Brees, hey,

Tyler Murray, these are anomalies. We're part to you. Yeah, these are incredible, incredible athletes and players and everything like that. But if you're big, you can see, first of all, which is a fucking pretty big, massive thing. But you can also absorb more, and you're going to get hit, like in the NFL.

Unless you're Peyton, Eli, Tom, who had an incredible ability to, you know, literally. Ha, ha. Just going out. Ha! Nope. Which not a lot of guys these days are ever going to do

because the mobile quarterback is such a thing. It's like, yeah, what Cam was. He was special, man. He was special. That's a great point about the NFL now, though. We don't get any more of the, like, cool, like, ball snapped, D-end wins, quarterback, instead of throwing it away or trying to run away, just goes down into a ball like that.

They literally looked like they were screaming. Yeah. I'm sorry. That error is done Johnny Hecker had one of those The punter I forget who He pushed somebody

He was punting he was jogging down the field They push somebody He did remember that Is Elvis Duberville? That person came running back And he The full you can hear through the video I was like man

I would do the same thing I wouldn't have I mean you chose to push You set that up there I don't know if that would have been to play And as soon as you push that guy Eyes are not leaving him No

No Like, that is, that is not a... It was Cliff April. Cliff April, yeah, okay, pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty strong, yeah. And, uh, all right, let's go wrap up college football tonight. AJ, congrats to your Buckeyes, dude.

That was a cool scene over there. It was, hey, I, it was great atmosphere. I don't know how you felt, but yeah, like, it was, it was awesome. The lead Corso thing, like, yeah, I'm glad it worked out how it did. I really, I didn't know how well it would. Shout to the production crew that built a second desk and then also on wheels, moved it and had the tech work. Think of the pressure on them.

Like, if you think about the pressure, to move the whole set and then to get it all to work, too, like, there is no time to wait. Well, then your band, as soon as that Corso tribute is over, they're doing the script Ohio. And it's like, they literally have no idea what's happening on earth other than what's two inches in front of their face. They are just watching each other. And the only reason why I know that is because they were like kind of, kind of if you had to go up a hill on a bicycle, what you would do, like, kind of back and back and forth, I guess, kind of do this. And they were making their way to us. And Coach Corso was getting off the stage at the time. And I'm like, holy shit. Like this is a, because they said immediately afterwards, the band's coming. And they need the whole field. You guys got a little bit of time, but you need

to get out of the way. That was like a big message as we're leaving a production meeting. And then as we're getting off, everybody's bullshit because it was so cool. What a moment. Oh, yeah, taking pictures. Go, go, go, go. Go, go. Go. Go. Go. That delayed to getting off the stage. At the lady to getting off the stage. So now, we had a short amount of time. It got shortened even more by the fuckery of everybody being so happy that it worked and then I get off and I see that band coming and I see Coach Corso literally just like

kind of starting to get off the stage I'm like holy fuck how's this going to work you know like is the Ohio that Tabittle going to stop I don't know what we learned about yeah what we learned about band members this weekend they get out of their way oh yeah

they're talking about that guys want to get out of their way coach you too get out of thank you guys get out of your way The band's a real deal. Don't. West Virginia has a good band. I never forget I was flying back from the Fiesta Bowl because you get a...

I forget the amount of money you'd get per mile if you drove when we played in Arizona, so I drove back home, of course. Good gimmick. It's a great gimmick. Holy fuck. That sucks. No. You take the money and you buy a plane ticket.

The cheapest plane ticket. Wake up. And you fly back. Yeah. So you get like $1,800. You pay a $300 ticket, $250 ticket. Now, of a sudden, we got $1,500 extra. I get the game now.

Yeah, we're going downtown. Yeah, that was the game. Yeah, we're driving back. They're going to pay us for every single mile. I have fewer planes, whatever fuck it is, who knows. And I get on the plane, and I'm in the back, and I look like a standard white, you know, just pretty casual standard. I think at that time a lot of people knew me wanted to kill me, but not everybody kind of knew me at that time. And I'm sitting next to a West Virginia fan, and there's a couple of football players scattered.

I mean, we all kind of did the game, you know? And I asked the lady, I said, were you out here for the Fiesta Bowl? and she goes yeah I go well how'd he go you know and she was like the band did amazing the band had crushed it and then she said and the team won so that was good and I was like

that's awesome okay I got obviously a family member of band playing and it was like literally go to the game how the band do it fucking murdered it half time no flogs kept it moving crushed it and I was like that was really cool to hear because I think you do and you should think of that

of like every performance should be our greatest and we should steal the show and i think there's some bands you watch it's like these motherfuckers are it's like the tibito is definitely everybody's locked in it's no doubt about it big production them spawn out corso straight in this i mean it's like the amount of the amount of this shit that they're doing they used to practice um i think it was plum high school they did on a soccer field they practiced on a soccer field yeah and it just became trenches because they're like i think our entire practice field just got ruined ruined just completely ruined and it was like we didn't think this through i guess because they were practicing on

parking lot it was too hot so they gave them a practice field to march on and by like a weekend it was just fucking literally just paths we don't even have we have a cornfield here basically they should put some seat because of how like militant they eventually were able to practice the football field oh you guys were kicking them off that's why i can't we practice i don't know what to tell you we did too we're running over you know what I mean the ball's rolling It's like, oh, shit. Are you fucking drawing a goddamn horse here? You know, it was a whole, it's pretty impressive.

That's his high school. So I got respect for the band. Also, if they're going to throw some rights. Mm-hmm. I like that. Need more of that. I like if we're fighting out there. All right, let's get down to UNC.

Let's wrap up week one. I think Reese Davis and Herb Shooter on the call? Yep. Mm-hmm. Nice. That'll be a good call. Me? I think you're saving going to be done there?

Des going to be done there. Got all those people. I wonder who's hosting. Yeah, I don't know. Is the other guy going to be there? I assume. He better be on the utter channel. Hey, will you FaceTime him real quick?

Will you FaceTime Steve? The other guy. Here, I'll face the home. Just see what I'm walking into down here at least. Hey, who's all down here, Steve? Outer guy hosting. He better have a UNC polo on. I know.

If he don't. We're live. We're live. We're live. I was just watching you. Yeah, we're live. We're still live, though people are watching not on the ESPN2 anymore.

Are you down in North Carolina or no? Yeah, yeah, I'm down here. I'll see you tonight, buddy. Who's hosting? Is Reese hosting? How's that doing? Are you hosting? I was going to host, but I think Matt Berry's here. Okay, okay.

Sick, sick, sick. All right, I'll see you down there a little bit. I'm about to hop on a plane. All six teams that playing those top ten matches are still going to make the playoff. Love it. Hey, the winners and the other guys.

Boom. All right, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. All right, sick. Okay, cool, Matt Barry. There you go. Oh, I cannot wait. Other guy would have been great, though. Yeah.

I mean, Matt Barry, this is my first time working live with Matt Berry, right? Yes. I know a lot about MacBerry. I'll watch him in the TGL. Yeah, TGL. Oh, have you seen a European team? The Ryder Cup? Their ass.

Thanks. They are, but I just want to know if you've seen them. Are they good? They got a pretty good. They got a pretty good. They got a pretty good. Yeah, but they left off the guy that cares the most. You see the guy on the DP World

Tour. I think his name is, I want to say Matt Wallace. And he gave an interview, and I don't think I've ever seen someone that emotional about not making it. William Wallace's boy is going to have energy. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, it's certainly going to be a thing. After watching the interview, I thought, oh, okay, so USA's going to win because they left this fucking guy off the team.

Boom. This fucking guy wants to win more than anybody. You saw the European team got a little nervous? No, I didn't get nervous. It was just, you know, just saw the name for the players. The Zoom calls, that was funny to see. They're a deep team, yeah. their team on the zoom call and our team which team did you like more uh our team had their

game faces on so i'll go you the europeans much more entertaining i'm a little light which is why they called us up for world war one and two yeah and also i assume their continent togetherness isn't as good as the countries no no doubt you know they just feel like they're taking on us we feel like we're fighting the world yeah no one says for god and continent But the point, great point. God and country, brother. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice and might change your life.

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