Previewing the NFL's NFC/AFC East and More

Good late evening, everybody. Are we all ready for fire up?

Absolutely? If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.

That's true. Well, I have a great crew tonight, mister Taylor Phillips, thank you for being back on the program tonight.

Absolutely, yes.

And then my co host, mister j D Southern Fride, gentlemen, how are you tonight?

I'm doing well, doing well, excited to have a great show. We've got some great content coming.

Up for you.

We do.

It's a pleasure to have Taylor on with us. Thank you for joining us.

And yeah, man, we got a lot of stuff going on. We're going to talk about it all throughout the show and can't wait.

There's lots of stuff happening in the sports world, even though let's face it, it's what a week or two weeks away from Hall of Fame game? Isn't that coming up real soon?

Thirty first of July, I'm pretty sure, yeah, which is like.

A little over a week away or something. Yeah, a week from tonight? Actually yeah, crazy a right speaking of that though, right now is like I can tell you the ACC kickoff, So college football media days they're all happening. ACC was the last couple of days. I know the American Conference theirs is the next couple or was today and tomorrow, Like a lot of college football is starting to heat up. Two. So for those of you that love football, which would be me that time of year again, yeah,

I like all baseball, football, hockey, and basketball.

Okay, okay, so this is a good time of year for you.

Yes, JD.

What's your favorite sport?

I would have to go college football. I love college football, and then of course I played baseball. They're a very close second. I love all sports though, like Taylor said to you, I mean college basketball, literally watching Little League World Series softball, Women's Little League World Series is literally on my TV right now. So give me competition sports, give it to me injected into my veins.

Okay, okay, Well, let's see the title of the show is previewing the NFL's NFC and AFC East, and of course there's some more topics, but we're gonna start out with the NFL because NFL is like pretty key, pretty big stuff. Right now, NFC East. We're gonna start with Eagles, Commanders, Cowboys, and Giants.

JD.

What do you think about the NFC East this year?

I love it.

I can't say that they're the best football conference. I would probably have to give that to them the AFC West. But as far as the Eagles, can they repeat as division winners? Obviously they're primed to mm hmm Washington. Who knows Jaden Daniels might have a sophomore slump. That virtual one and a half time speed that he plays might not help him out this year. My co host Willow, she might chime in a little bit this evening. She obviously is disagreeing with something I say. But the NFC

So NFC East, Yep, very good word, very good word, Taylor.

So yeah, I'll end it with that, though, I mean, the Giants are loyal to day Ball. You've seen the Saquon Barkley clips. I would lose sleep if we lost him and then it happened. I mean the Giants, golly, I would love them to be good, but as they're going to be the bottom dweller in the NFC East again this year.

Taylor, your thoughts about the NFC East.

The Philadelphia Eagles are the Super Bowl champions. I think that I think they'll repeat unless some other team cuts back on, you know, turning the ball over for example, the Lions. The I can't remember who made the playoffs last year. But yeah, also yeah, the Commanders, Yes, they're they're a juggernaut too. In second place. Like Jad said, Daniels might be in a sophomore slam, but we'll see. But the Commanders have loaded weapons. The Lions have loaded weapons.

Mark Livingston says, Brian Dabele deserves the benefit of the doubt. Vincelim Bartie couldn't coach that team. Wow, that's pretty harsh. Yeah, uh, but I agree with you guys. The Eagles Commanders, I I can't see the Eagles not taking that. I mean, who have they really lost now?

Well, and to Mark's comment, he was the one I was specifically mentioning that has defended Brian day Ball.

To me, Mark, Mark is the one, and he's an Eagles fan.

I feel like he might be like two sided in this, like, yeah, please keep Brian Dayball. We keep beating him, like, don't fire him. We like the guy here in Philadelphia. Like, that's just really weird to me, Mark, that you're rooting for a rival team, do not fire their head coach. I'm just saying, you got a little shady business going on there, Mark, What do you think?

Yeah, maybe he wants to keep the Giants where they're in the bottom of the you know, NFC East so AFC East Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Patriots. So my question, it's gonna be a two part question for this one. Is there a surprise team this year from them from that division? And do you think who is going to take the division?

Pretty simple, the Bills are gonna are definitely gonna take the division. There is no surprise team in the AFC, the AFC East. The Dolphins are still struggling even with a tackle a poa tagaloa. The Jets are still being the butt fumble and then the Patriots, Oh god, just terrible, absolutely terrible. No wonder Bill Belichick left them for the University of North Carolina Tara Hills as head coach.

But do you think Rabel will change that team.

As far as I'm concerned, No, unless he proves me wrong.

Okay, j D, what do you think?

I mean?

That was the only thing I think from what Taylor said that I can disagree with honestly, is the Rabel turning the Patriots around thing. I think he should have been the higher for them last year. Rabel was out of coaching for a year. He could have been the coach of them last year, but they went with the linebacker that now his name escapes me. Forgive me for that.

I've been Keeman tracked so many names the last few days with media days, I don't even know what my name is Halftime. But the whole point of this is to say, like.

I just Mike Grabel, he shouldn't have been out of coaching, should have been the head coach of the Patriots already, so they delayed him for a year. But again, like I said, that's the only thing from what Taylor said I could disagree with about the AFC East. The Patriots, I'll take them. I'll take them second over the Dolphins because I think Tua Tounguabayiloa he's going to be injured again, probably at some point. Most likely they I just don't know what it is. They can have a great offense

Love the guy.

Wish she could win the AFC East, but it ain't happen. Then of course you got the Bills Sean McDermott. If they don't finally make it to the Super Bowl, how many years does.

Sean McDermott have not you know what I mean? Taylor? Is that a terrible question?

Like if he can't ever make it to the Super Bowl, can you fire a guy who consistently makes the AFC Championship game or takes you deep into the playoffs.

That's a tough is a tough one.

To the equivalent.

I mean, I guess it would be like firing Ryan Day like at Ohio State. Literally just last year, people were talking about if he doesn't make it to the College Playoff football Playoff win the championship, which they're going to be fired exactly, which they did. But you're telling me they really would have fired him if he didn't do that this year.

Like I man, I don't know, say he made it and lost. You you can't fire somebody like that, but.

You can't the future right At.

Some point though, Sean McDermott does need to get it done. Yeah, Josh Allen needs to get it done. Yes, I can't imagine being an MVP voter last year between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen And.

No, right, he's too busy getting.

Massages, Madcraft. I'm gonna say that this we're each week we're taking a different the East, the West, the North, and the South. So we are covering the NFC and AFC East. This week, we have not covered all the others C divisions, so stay tuned. Next week we'll do another one, and the following week we'll do another one, so we'll hit all of them. I do agree, though, I think the Patriots will be much improved. Now I do not want to subscribe to that. Let's look at

Hey, Candy, keep that handy.

I don't think of a schedule.

No, yeah, keep that handy for just a moment, Okay, And I didn't mean to rhyme, but I did, Candy keep that handy?

Uh? Yeah, I like it. So, Taylor, Bro, are you down?

Let's play You and me will play the win loss game with Candy.

Right now?

About the New England Patriots, what do you say you want to do it? Because the first part of their schedule, and I don't want to give away what I'm gonna say, but I think what they could start at is just absolutely ridiculous if you look at that schedule.

So, Taylor, are you down for it?

I guess Okay, all right, So Candy one more time the games and when she says, I'm Taylor, you and I will both just say win or lost, and I will I'll tally them up.

Okay, regular season, they're home against the Raiders.

I'm gonna say win.

I'll take win, all right.

So one and oh a piece at Miami.

I'm gonna say win.

I'll take a win, all right.

So we both got them at two and oh.

Home against the Steelers.

I'm also probably gonna say win.

I'm gonna I'm gonna say lost because I I know they've got Aaron Rodgers, but I just that they still have other weapons like h Naja Harris. They have, they have a better offensive. The Steelers have a better offensive line, keep in mind, and they're their defense, of course, has improved too.

Okay, So JD's got him at three and oh, and you've got him at two and one.

Yeah, that's fair, Taylor, that is absolutely fair that that could be.

But that's and that too. Most of these games are fifty to fifty games. Yep.

I don't necessarily really believe what I'm fixing to tell you all, but go ahead.

Yeah, got them three and oh, Taylor's got them two and one.

Home against the Panthers.

When Taylor you first, when Panthers are dreadful.

Okay, I agree, when.

They're still rebuilding.

I missed the Panthers talk last week. We'll go. We'll circle back to that once we finish up ye later another show, Yep, we'll do.

We'll do a final recap at the end, after we've done each of the divisions. So at Buffalo loss.

Loss bills are too good for the Patriots.

So four one and three and two yep.

At the New Orleans Saints, when.

I'll go win.

Okay. At Tennessee Titans.

When Mike Grabel against his former team, when.

When yep, Tights are still rebuilding.

As well, Home against the Browns.

The Factory of Sadness. When when.

This is getting an insane when I hear myself say that the Patriots seven and one, uh huh, and Taylor's got them six and two.

You know, Atlanta Falcons at home.

I want to say the Falcons win, but just for the sake of being crazy, I'll say the Falcons win. Yeah, give me the Patriots lost on that one.

I'll see Falcons win. In other words of Patriots loss.

Okay at Tampa Bay.

Well, that's a good team, I'd say. I'd say the Buccaneers win.

Okay, jd Buccaneers also.

Okay at home against the Jets.

Fuck fumble win.

When Okay?

At Cincinnati.

Lass, I'll say loss because the Bengals are good too.

Home against the Giants.

When Giants are still a DIRP when?

Okay, four more games to go because we have the bye week then and then we're talking. We're in the December Sunday, December fourteen, home against the Buffalo Bills, boss.

Laws.

Okay at Baltimore Ravens loss.

Ravens are still too good?

Oh, the absolutely lost to the Okay at the Jets when and then home against the Dolphins when.

When?

Okay, So, how many does that make?

I'm pretty sure I just put them at at least twelve and five, and Taylor had them like eleven and six.

And what were they to end last year?

They were number two? Yeah? No, they only won like two games last year, didn't they?

I think they won. I think this is from last year, and I think it was four.

And folks, I think I'm pretty sure did they draft who drafted second in the draft this year?

Was it the Patriots?

I can't remember.

Yeah, me either. There's so many sports, it all runs together.

I know, I know that the standings. Does it tell me four?

Yeah, you're right, yeah, four and thirteen? Yeah.

So so to go from four and thirteen and you're projecting them to be eleven, I mean, worst case eleven and six, that's quite an improvement. That's a seven game improvement.

And now, granted, like I said, we did, I did at least give them the benefit of the doubt on a lot of their fifty to fifty games. They're probably still roster pieces away. So realistically, at the end of the day, the Patriots maybe best case that you could put them at would be ten and seven.

I think I think that would be fair for everybody to settle on. And worst case they could go six and eleven, right, I mean.

Says nine and they still say they still have roster deficiency. They'll have to figure it out. But I do think Vrabel will account for a lot. I think he's just a good football coach.

Day well, and let's face it, I don't know if you guys have heard or read anything about uh Tua coming out and saying that he's still what developing a relationship with Tyreek, Like they're still not on the same page. Come on, really, well.

Well, the update I got is because of Tyreek in his I'm out post or his comment after the playoff.

Game last year or whatever it was or final game, he's like, I'm out.

That's the update I got is that they're still working through their differences following the Tyreek Hill I'm out comment.

I hear you, I hear you. It's still a work in progress. They're still trying to mend the relationship. Apparently, is what admitted that Tyreek Hill is still working to mend the relationships with the team after the wide receiver suggestion that he wanted to leave the Dolphins. When you say something like that, you don't just come back from that with hey, my bad. You gotta work that relationship up.

Yeah, they'll work through it. I think they'll be fine.

I mean, the big issue is going to be to a staying on the field, and I mean tyreek. I mean, if he has any more children, he might end up in jail for child support.

I don't know. He got a lot of kids. I do know that he does and a lot of catches. Great football player.

That's true. Okay, can Madcraft, Can I give you all an amazing stat on the Patriots? Of course you can. We love it when our listeners come in and talk to us, and.

Yeah, don't keep me.

Mac craw The proof is always in the pudding.

Cream always rises to the top. I like that one Taylor. Proof is in the pudding mmm.

Meaning truth is detected.

Mm hmm. Yeah.

As in stats research.

Analytics, everybody's got sports facts coming up, all right, send them, shoot them.

Don't just say you got them.

Put them in there, give them time, give them time. They need time to type.

Yeah they Hey, they better be good. I'm just kidding it.

Have swept the Jets eighteen times all time, out of those fifteen done by Tom the tom Brady.

Literally, I've never heard Tom Brady referred to them as Tom the tom Brady. So congratulations Mancraft. But yeah, that is a heck of a staff. Eighteen times all time, fifteen out of eighteen. So basically, the whole time Tom Brady played for New England, he swept the freaking Jets.

Patriots and Jets has always been a mismatch. The Patriots had Tom Brady, the Jets have always been a butt fumble. It's been their identity the whole time.

Mark Sanchez looks like he should have been a firefighter.

Yeah, like fireman, ed right, something close to it.

So somebody wants to take us to baseball here instead of football. If you convert bases to miles, Hank Aaron is thirteen miles worth of total bases ahead of Albert Coohols, who is in second place.

That is, hold on, we'll time out. That is a wild stat. I will give you.

That, that is I will I will say that too.

And so since you you tried to switch it over to baseball though on us watch this the Southern Fried gentleman will handle those games. So let's find out who the NFL rushing leader was.

All time?

Who is it? Is it still Emmitt Smith? Did somebody pass him yet?

I don't know.

That's a good time, I recall you pass He surpassed Barry Sanders.

Yeah, let's see I'm gonna find out and then we're gonna convert that to miles, and then we'll be able to convert it back in football if the Internet is going to cooperate with me though.

Yeah.

Still Emmett Smith, Yeah, eighteen thousand, three hundred and fifty five yards, let's convert that into how many?

Second is Walter Peyton with sixteen thousand, seven and twenty six So there's there's a bit of a gap there. He is, and Emmett Smith is held the all time rushing yards since two thousand and two.

Yeah, I didn't think anybody had broken it yet, probably won't ever be broken.

Frank Gore is third on the list. For you make madcraft, it's EMMITTT. Smith, Walter Peyton and then Frank Gore. And Frank Gore had sixteen thousand, so he has, so it has twenty three hundred and fifty five more yards and Gore.

Okay, and this is this is why I researched this, because it's gonna blow you away. Okay, over enthusiastic. In turn, Caleb, if you convert bases to miles, Hank Aaron has thirteen miles worth of stolen bases. Emmitt Smith, we said, had eighteen thousand, three hundred and fifty five rush yards correct, mm hmm. Do you think that would be more or less than thirteen miles more?

What about you tell you think it's more more? Yeah, it's not, it's less. There's only ten point four three miles. Wow. And so in baseball shorter distances, never being able to rush for eighty yards on a stolen base hank, Aaron ran more miles in baseball than Emmitt Smith did in football. That is wild.

So there you go, crazy stat back to football, bang bang.

Wow, that is amazing. Actually, if you think about it, I let you play way more games in baseball than you do in football though. Hmm. Interesting. So that's why it's harder on the knees.

And almost mm hmm. No, that's playing catcher, just as Scott he knows.

Oh yeah, been there, done that. Okay, so are we ready to switch it a little bit to some college football?

Sure?

We got a I react.

I can't wait to hear what Taylor and Candy have to say hearing these comments.

Okay, I'm gonna put this on the stage for you.

Okay, So first we will start with mister Greg SANKI commissioner of the SEC. And I started out my article for Greenville Sports Media by saying football is in the air. It's so close you can almost smell it. And you can also smell the garbage that all the commissioners and coaches spew at these media days. So here is mister Greg Sankie spewing nonsense about college football.

Let me be clear from my perspective, college athletics is not broken.

Oh yeah, I've read that. I've actually read it in notifications.

College athletics is not broken. It is under stress, it is strange. The answers we seek are tied into the complexities that have been referenced over time. I went back and read my remarks from this podium or others over the last few years, and pretty consistently have identified the challenges ahead with some of the decisions that we may have to make. I don't think the answers come from

Those of us in higher education, embedded.

And college athletics know the intricacies of what's in front of us, and we all have to continue to adapt and have adapted as we seek to provide life impacting opportunities and lifelong memories for young people across our nation.

All right, And so that was Greg Sinking and what he had to say about college athletics and how they are not broken. So, Taylor, the one thing I can agree with that he said is it depends on what broken is. Clearly they're making money hand over fist, So in that regard, no, college football is not broken. But we all know about the NIL and transfer portal and eligibility right now.

And getting tailed too for athletes.

Yeah, yeah, the NIL, name, image, likeness, right, they all of these things. And he said that it's not broken, but that part is broken. And he said it's not settled in courtrooms. That's literally where everything's getting settled now. Regarding player eligibility. Diego Pavia suing for more eligibility, so many players. So don't sell me this garbage that college

Well, what he was trying to say that college athletics is trying to develop even further and he's trying to tell them, trying to have the media, media everywhere in America to understand that the inner workings of how it works, and and it just it has some flaws, but it's still still alive. It's still out there. It just needs to develop even further.

Did did either of your whole problem? Was they let the nil and everything.

Go ahead?

Jadi? Oh? Yeah, my bad.

Well I was just gonna say, sorry, I froze up there. Now I don't know what I was about to say, go ahead, Candy, my bad.

So so I was gonna say, did either of you see what Donald Trump did inking an executive order to clarify college athletes employment status, because I think he's gonna he's saying, these these guys are not professional athletes yet, so should they be? You know, will this mean that they're going to put a cap on some of this or that they shouldn't be earning as much which they have, because let's face it, they are getting an education, and

Right well, and Clemson dablos swinging. He touted that today he's graduated a ton like nine of his players, and a lot of them have also won championships. Every player he's ever recruited won some sort of championship.

That is ridiculous. Mm hm.

It's going to get interesting because it's a complicated topic. They said universities would become responsible for paying wages, benefits, and workers compensation, and schools and conferences have insisted they will fight any such move in court. While private institutions fall under the National Labor Relations Law, for public universities must follow labor laws that vary from state to state.

Oh absolutely.

And if I could make adapting into a dirty sea word, you just said it, I guess changing.

Yeah.

You got to be able to think on your feet, you got to be able to adapt, You got to be forward thinking. And the NC double A has tremendously failed in that regard. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. The NC double A is asleep at the will and then they got kidnapped and thrown in the trunk because you can't tell me that the NC double A is even driving anymore. At this point, Taylor, do you have any strong feelings about the NC double A.

I don't have any emotions at all. It's just, like I explain, it's just the inner workings of how it's supposed to work, that's all.

I've got no feelings at all. Make sure to clip that. Taylor just said that he's I've got no feelings. I'm just kidding, Taylor.

Yep, you ready for your next clip?

JD Yes, ma'am, we are ready.

Let's add it.

Okay, all right, we have Kurt Signetti. He just canceled a series against Virginia. Sure it wasn't just him, it might have been the administration.

We picked up an extra home game, and we played nine conference games. You know, the two best conferences in college football. Any football guy that's objective will tell you there's a big ten in the SEC.

All right.

Twelve to sixteen SEC teams play three G five or an SCS game. Twelve of those teams played thirty six games, twenty nine G five games in seven SCS games.

And one of the least conference games.

All right, So we figured we.

Just adopt SEC schedule philosophy. You know, some people don't like it. I'm more focused in on those nine conference games. You know not only do we want to play nine conference games, okay, and have the four to four championship the playoff format, okay, we want to have playing games to decide who plays in those playoffs. You championship weekend, let's play three verse six and four verse five. You want to decide that on the field and make sure

Now there you have it.

A lot of things, he said, I agree with a lot of things. I don't because I can debunk his whole schedule theory about the SEC in two point five seconds. Alabama, they play at least two powerful conference teams every year from this year until twenty thirty four. Georgia, same thing every year. From twenty twenty six to twenty thirty four. The game Cocks this year play Virginia Tech and Clemson, two ACC schools. We don't get cupcake wins over here.

I don't want to hear it. It's retarded. It's dumb. Sorry, that's a bad R word to say, but dang it, the nine game stuff is retarded, like ridiculous. Almost said it again, golle my bad. Should not say that word.

But when you're talking about the SEC and scheduling, we're plenty deep enough.

There's an ACC coach that said the same team as one the SEC. Six of the same teams have won the SEC since nineteen sixty four. Clemson and Florida State are the only two schools to win the ACC in the last ten years. What's your point? You know what I mean?

Mm hmm.

It's dagging good football and you can't argue that the SEC top to bottom football roster wise, team wise.

Is better than the Big Ten. Just ask the NFL. That's all I gotta say. Just ask the NFL.

I hear you, But he does have a point that the two I mean, he said the two top conferences are Big ten and uh SEC.

We're so yeah, we're so close to it being like broken away, like m hm, all of those conference schedules I just mentioned, shure they might not even exist in a couple of years.

Right, Well, let let's face it. I mean, he's right, Oh, Idio State won the national championship, but they weren't even in the top three in their conference. That's kind of crazy.

Anything can happen, right, Yep, still gonna play the game exactly.

I was about to say that exact same thing.

Great minds think not alike, just they think, and me and Taylor were about to say the same thing.

Respect Taylor. I was about to say, yeah, that's why you play the game.

Mm hmm. Yeah that's true.

But yet, just golly, I'm just so sick of this whole conference talk. Everybody tries to lump everybody all in together because you're in the same conference. Like it's got that old school, like high school posse feel to it, you know what I mean, Like we're the cool kids and where they're not.

So cool kids, or we're the rich is and they're not so rich kids.

Mm hmm.

Like the whole SEC Big ten thing is juvenile, just juvenile, Just root for your team.

But the two conference, those two conferences are heads and tails above a lot of the other conferences. I mean, let's face it, look at what the PAC twelve is. What is the PAC twelve anymore?

You know?

Yeah, the PAC twelve has come back to life to exactly what you're saying that the Big ten SEC they can't agree on how they want the college football playoff to go.

Mm hmm.

They can't decide.

The SEC wants just the five conference champions guaranteed, and then whoever the top eleven is after that gets in, whoever may be the Big ten.

I like the Big Ten's I did better. I will say that they want four automatic qualifiers for the Big ten.

Dc ACC and Big twelve both get two apiece. You get the highest ranked group of five or group of six, whatever you want to call it.

Now, you get the one the highest one out of that, and three wild cards. So which way do you think they should go when they go to a sixteen?

I guess I'm leaning towards the Big ten way. But it's tough.

Yeah, I mean, Kurt said it there at the end of his statement, you want the best teams in the playoffs, right, Aleep.

I mean, as a game Cock fan, I'm still but hurt. We didn't make it in the playoffs last year. We were closed and guess what, I don't think we'll be that closed again this year. So it just sucks. It's part of being a fan. Mm hmmm.

A realist. Yeah, wow.

I mean, I'll face it, my Badgers are normally up there. Pretty they did they fell They kind of fell flat on their face these last couple of years. This was the first time and I think it was twenty some years that they didn't make a Bowl game even which was which was disappointing. But their quarterback, which was the transfer Tyler Van Dyke from Miami up to Wisconsin, got

Yeah.

And speaking of all this conference realignment stuff, Ben Blaylock he mentioned something and it made me remember something, but he says the PAC twelve is the Whack two point zero. Now they basically took all the teams from the Whack and are reviving themselves. That's always how the conference realignment has went. But what I was gonna say is, did y'all see Memphis they offered the Big twelve like a bookoup of money. I don't know if y'all know what

Iver heard of it.

It's a Southern word, Taylor, And honestly, I don't even know what it means. I just know sometimes we use it to describe something in mass quantity. Yeah, like the amount of money that Memphis they offered this conference to.

Get in the Big twelve. The Big twelve is like nope, swipe left, good to go on that, No thank you, And everybody's just like, what how could you not add meant that?

But all of the conference realignment stuff, they just they gotta be renamed and rebranded.

Because half of them don't even make sense anymore.

I think they eventually will. I mean, the Big ten is no longer ten teams. You have East Coast and West Coast, so travel is just kind of horrendous. I think I think eventually it's coming. It's not. I wouldn't say it's in the next you know, two or three years, but I think it's definitely coming.

Ben Blaylock with the inside information Memphis and Tulane having discussions with the ACC and Big Ten. Well, apparently the ACC as of today is going to have to replace UNC and Clemson because they're looking to join the SEC again. Like literally, people posting that like, I'm over the conference realignment and speaking of the Atlantic Coast Conference and Candy, we can move off of it after this, Okay, speaking of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the renaming and the rebranding,

But the Atlantic Coast Conference has teams that are on the Pacific Coast. So now you've got to you gotta name it the All Coast Conference. It can't be the Atlantic Conference anymore. ACC.

Well, I've always said Big Ten couldn't either, the because they have Ruckers on the East Coast and they have u C l A over on the Pacific coast side, so like that's just crazy, But yeah, I agree. I think at some point they will they'll sit down and they'll they'll change it.

But yeah, they'll go to that pods that. Yeah, something major like groundbreaking will happen with the n C DOUAA And to p Digit's hit his point big ten divisions are legends and leaders, and I said, I'm good with him just being east and West. That's what's gonna happen in the new format.

It will be geographical again and it'll be NFL two point h has been used two point oh earlier.

So Candy, what else we got?

One of the topics I wanted to quick just spring up and it's just a quick but do you have a bucket list? And if if something's on the bucket list, do you have a stadium that either you wish you had already gone to because maybe it's no longer even with us anymore, or do you have a stadium that you would like to go to that is on your bucket list. I can tell you one of them that would be on mine, and I know it's on my husband's. We would like to go to Fenway Park we've never

I am known to try to live vicariously through my children, and Tripp is a huge Renaldo fan.

M hmm. Packson is a huge Messy fan.

So they literally disagree just because on the who's the goat of soccer? So yeah, give me any of the stadiums that y'all saw on your recent vacation.

Kay, I don't even remember where y'all went.

But soccer stadiums, and then to be more specific, I haven't been the truest park. I would love to see the San Francisco Giants Stadium, Dodger Stadium. Give me baseball and beer or football and beer, and I'll take any stadium any day.

It could be high school or college mm hmm. Or it could be literal league flag football. There you go, give me, just give me competition.

Yep, Taylor, is there any stadium that's on your bucket list that you'd like to go go to. You know, I can tell you we were just up in Detroit and not that we went inside, but we were at the Big House. I've been inside the Big House before. But like, it could be a college, it could be a proof baseball football.

Stadium, so Fi, because yeah, I want, I do want to go outside the box because Sofi Stadium has all these incredible screens, incredible ceiling that the roof, everything inside the stadium is incredible.

Mm hmm.

Yeah, whether whether it hosts the Rams or the Chargers mm hmm. Just everything you see when you walk into that stadium is incredible mm hm.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely give me so Fi mm hmmm.

And it also depends, I guess too.

I guess could I like remix your question just a little bit, not to change shit or anything, really, but is there a specific stadium you would like to see during a specific event? Like, for example, Sofi Stadium wouldn't be that great with a Taylor Swift concert for me, but you give me a chance to go to the super Bowl in that stadium.

Oh, like, oh, I'm.

Gonna be like a little yappy shahuahwah, like barking out the front door, letting me get in, like give me all of that. And so yeah, just to remix the question, is there another like a stadium that you maybe wouldn't consider unless something like serious was going on there and then it'd be like, oh, yeah, I can't miss that, Taylor.

I'm sure.

You're up the Upper Peninsula, right, you called it the up earlier.

Yep.

Give me give me something around your area, like an event place or a minor league team that I mean you enjoy to go to or that you've been to.

Is there anything local that you've been to.

I used to go to Trevor City Pittsbetter's games until I got tired of the music that all the music that they play, which is a bunch of sissy crap that which leads me to conclusion that I'm done going to games now.

Well, okay, hey, I'll tell you what.

If you come down to South Carolina Spartanburg, I personally know the DJ for the Hub City Spartanburgers.

Yes that is a baseball team. Yes, that is their name. They're in Spartanburg and they're called this spar And Burgers. My goodness.

We'll talk about the name later, but I personally know that DJ so Taylor, if you need some specific music, you come down to this stadium.

Man, I got you.

How about blaster jacks with Timmy trumpet Narco? Huh.

I've never heard any of those words, much less any of them.

Put ed walk walkout theme?

Really Okay, I'm obviously gonna have to look that up now, the Edwin Diaz walkout theme.

Yeah, Timmy trumpet blastered? Yeah, Timmy. Yeah, you've never heard of Timmy Trumpet?

Come on, no, I really haven't.

Oh my god.

Really I lived. I lived a sheltered life.

Okay.

I think I think part of my my thought behind the question kind of was is some people have bucket lists, and some people, like I've heard, some people want to go to every MLB stadium, you know, and they want to do that. I can say that I have been a couple of years ago, I went to every spring training site in Arizona. So I've been to all those ballparks. I've been to a number of them here in Florida, but not all of them, you know. And then you hear like the iconic venues like I've I've been to

Oh yeah, No, it was a lovely question.

Like I said, Yes, there's so many stadiums. M Like I said, I literally just want to go to all of them. But Candy, so, like we mentioned earlier, and I'm gonna do this real quick and we'll move on again. But Taylor said, I never heard of timmy trumpets, and like I said, asking you if you ever have right, right, right right?

But yeah, so.

Yeah, I know that's what I'm saying. So stream Yard's given me this crazy ability, though, Candy, if you could show that on stage, And so Taylor, please tell me, is this the song?

Yes? Mm hmm, it is nice.

Here, let's let it play for a minute. We'll let everybody hear it. We'll hear the greatness with you.

Let it rip because I because I've heard it in Uh it's like a high school in Michigan on opening kickoffs with the Yellow Jackets when I was commentating them right before w MLUM went off the air permanently due to revenue shortage.

Last Yeah, hold on, I'll I'll bring it back. I want there's like a little drop right here. Yes, man, what a song? What a song?

What a song?

I'm so glad, Like I said, stream Yards giving me these abilities, and Taylor led me onto something and I love trumpets.

So we went down a rabbit hole. Might meet you, Candy.

Well, I think it's time time for my town. So, mister Taylor, what's happening in your town?

Well, the Tigers have lost ten of eleven. Uh for the we they got four bombs in the lamp that can't hit Parker Metals, Matt Barling, Jake Rogers, and Tray Sweeney and this team cannot play even when sel Peiz is struggling. So yeah, the Tigers still have the al Central lead, but that may collapse to in the future

Uh.

But back to the Red Wings. They got Mason Appleton, not a goal scorer, but he can defend, especially on the penalty kill. And they got James Van Riemstak, who can bring more scoring in more veteran presence. It's it's just a one year, one million dollar deal. It's very cheap, so and Michigan, Michigan Football will have it. We'll still have a competition be at quarterback for the number one

Yeah, hey man, you literally you opened up the curtains, the back door, the windows, you let everybody, You let everybody all up in your town, right there.

Man, that was good stuff.

You let everybody detect. Truth box.

Yeah, there's a lot of it, I think.

As White Kelly or on the verge of filing for for divorce by the way, they actually have in the past a few months ago.

Spoiler alert, right, spoiler alert for anybody who didn't know about that divorce.

And so yeah, I'll take.

Over there, Taylor with my town, and I'm also gonna combine my parting shot and I'm gonna throw it to Candy and Taylor and then I'm gonna be done.

I think we're gonna be done for the evening, Okay. And so for my town.

We talked about media days and a lot of what people said that was crazy and all of this stuff. But what happened in my town was the Southern Conference Media Days. Just Tuesday of this week. We had my guy Mark and Greenville Sports media. There shout out to South Florida Tribune because you get all this coverage that I do through them as well.

So thank you to all of you who allow me to do this and make sure y'all hit like, follow, share, subscribe on Taylor myself Candy, South Florida Tribune, go to Greenville Sports Media. Most of what I said tonight you can find it in an article on their website regarding.

The college teams and the media days and the crazy things, the hot garbage got spewed from all of these commissioners and everything. But in my town, as I said, Southern Conference media Days happen, and it's just it's that local, small town you get to know these players on a different level versus when there's four and five hundred people

I have greatly loved.

The media days these past few weeks. And so Candy, last thing I will say, Taylor, last thing I'll say. I don't know if you watch much golf, Taylor. I know Candy plays a little bit of attention, but I'll say this, imagine a team winning so much or winning by so much that they just don't make it fun to watch anymore. We see it happen on the football field, Scotty Scheffler has made it happen on the golf course.

Most likely in golf.

A four way playoff would be incredible for the TV ratings and for the sport. They absolutely need fantastic things like that to happen because they don't have Tiger Woods anymore. And Scotty Scheffler dominating the field is nothing like Tiger Woods. In his domination, it was just different. People will get sick of Scotti Scheffler because he is ruining golf.

Okay, I don't know if I can follow that, but I'm gonna try because it's time for me to talk about my town. And what I want to say is I think one of the best conditions in football is happening right now. And what it is is the Green Bay Packers at training camp. They line up from their practice facility to go to the field. They have kids come and line up with their bicycles and the kids will carry the helmet for the players and the players will ride their bicycles or depending on how big the

Hand clap for that.

Everybody, Venus Williams, and I think Serena's coming back to tennis needs it.

That's fantastic. Yep, great call, Candy. Hand clap for Venus absolutely.

Exactly forty five years old. That's awesome to see. But I also want to say that we lost some people this past week and so our prayers go out to all of their families. We lost Ozzy Osbourne. We lost theo Huxtable from the from Malcolm Jamal Warner. We lost Cosby, Yes, from The Cosby Show. We lost hel Cogan, wh who I didn't realize actually lives lived down here in Clearwater, Florida. Unfortunately he passed away this week. We also learned I don't know if any of you else learned heard this,

And Candy, I Will'll second everything you said. Yeah, that suicide things no joke. Mental health is no joke, y'all. Don't hesitate. I am easily accessible. I think the teenagers say my dms are open.

So feel free.

I don't care whatever you want to talk about. I had somebody just message me about their mom who passed away three years ago yesterday. They were like, yeah, my mom passed away in twenty twenty one. I mean, it was like, I'm here, you can message me for whatever. Taylor Candy has been a fantastic show. You can find me at Southern Fried Sports JD on YouTube at j D Wyatt zero six on X and Taylor, I would love for you to tell everyone where they can find you.

Oh yes, I am the creator of the Michigan Sports t Truth podcast. There's my banner back there, but that's that's way too far away, so I'll tell you to you right now. It's on YouTube, the Michigan Sports Truth Podcast. Subscribe to it on YouTube at the Michigan Sports Truth Podcast, All on one Word. Also in audio four month Spreaker, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Slash, Noble, cast Box, Deezer Podcast, Attic Podchaser, and Giosavon. Also on Twitch at Michigan Sports Truth.

Taylor, I have a question for you for your podcast. How often do you do it? When do you do it? When? When should people look for it?

Well, when when we have topics of regarding new topics regarding our teams and they and it's something I'm I really have to discuss, then then it's something that must be addressed. So yeah, and and if I find something interesting that I that I like that most people like, hey mhm, whether it's positive or negative or in between, it's the truth. It's out there and that and that's what we target.

You don't do it on like the same night every night or every week or anything like that. It's when topics come up.

Correct, Yes, exactly.

So what I would tell people is definitely subscribe to his YouTube channel and turn on the notification because if they turn on the notification, they know exactly when you're going live exactly. Check you out Perfect.

Clicker clicker tap on live to find its latest full episodes on YouTube. Also check out check out shorts videos.

YEP, Southern friede. What when do do you kind of go on besides this show? Obviously you both do with me. Well, do you have your own YouTube channel, when do you go live?

I have experimented a little bit on different days. I did Wednesday last night. My schedule that I like to keep and I like to be consistent, which is a dirty sea word on Southern brod sports.

I like to keep.

Monday, Thursday and Saturday for content. However, college football season is coming, I'll have a pregame kickoff show that I'll be doing through Greenville Sports Media, So a lot of my time is probably gonna have to be rearranged. So either way, like Candy said, just hit subscribe, turn the notification on, and just be ready for tons of football and world and life and just whatever kind of content you can imagine. You'll never know what I'm gonna say.

That's true. Okay, It's time for me to do my my plug, and my plug is for my husband. And my husband wrote a book. I can't believe that. I can't believe I'm saying my husband wrote a book, but he did Lessons from the Microphone, Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders. It talks about his forty plus years in the media business and how it has changed. So if you're looking to get into this business, this

Aha, bro, I stay fired up. I could sit here and talk to y'all about twenty more minutes.

Y'all. Don't play with me.

Y'all know how the southern gentleman rolls. Y'all be blessed, not stressed, and just be kind to one another.

Dang, it sounds like a plan, everybody. Everybody, have a great week. Tune in next week Thursdays nine to thirty pm. And you never know what we're be talking about next week, so tune in. Although we will take one more let's see AFC NFC did we Let's see what should we do next week?

We got North and West. I thought I thought I did South last.

Week, right, people, south West, Let's do West next week. Well, actually, actually we probably should do NFC North, a a f C NFC and a FC North next week.

Plays in the Hall of Fame game.

That would be the Lions play, right.

And it's still an exhibition game, but yeah, right.

Right, yeah, I would say, yeah, we do that, yeah that we'll tie it in there together.

Yeah yeah yeah.

North.

So and there you go.

You came behind the curtains on Fire Up and Southern Fried Sports this evening.

Y'all heard show planning live on the air.

Have a great week. Everybody will see you next week.

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