Breakdown of the NFL Divisional Round

he doesn't in person. What's what's awkward here, Dean, is the fact that there wasn't enough budget in the show to get me on the road. If you guys, I'm back here in l A. This is right, you're right. This is We work on a we're working on a on a type budget, so we couldn't get you here. But so, Travis, what's up. What's happening in l A. Oh, it's sunny. It's a little bit chilly, but it's nice, you know. It's goods always goes at the weather. He

goes with the weather, with the weather. It's very it's non confidence. Yeah, there was no traffic today driving It's crazy. I don't know what's happening because just picture Travis and his Civic going, Hey, what's going on. There's new traffic today. No, there's a new news flash. I'm not driving a civic. Oh that's right with the turbo. That's thee can that

hurts though. That's the question. And like I said, Joe is on audio, Joe's here, Joe, this is gonna test your where I'm in a different in a different location, different acoustics. Oh yeah, I heart. Guys are not going to be This is gonna test you. This is gonna test your skills. Here, we stop, y'all makes this. A lot of yalls, a lot of y'alls calls down here, I said, I said, use guys the other day, and they thought I was like, what is that? What language

is that? So let's get to it. Let's talk divisional playoff playoff round and and a really good week from an officiating perspective. You know, there wasn't a ton Saturday, not a lot obviously, Um you know, Niners Niners one and uh and then the big upset obviously Saturday night. I mean, who saw that coming Titans the sixth seed, and uh and and going into Baltimore and and just you know, and I like, I mean, I don't know, I kind of I think I'm on the bandwagon. I

think I'm on the Titans bandwagon. I don't know, They're They're just fun to watch. I just I I, well, you know, I think I think Mike Rabel, I've always liked Mike. And I just think Derrick Henry's a beast and it's nice. I mean, Ryan Tannehill was left. You known, Hill played in Miami and the Super Bowl unbelievable, unbelievable, I mean, azing, st amazing. So anyway, those you know,

those games were well officiated obviously, UM, no controversy. And then and then we get into the Sunday's Sunday's games, and we'll start with the last game first, because that that seemed to have the most people talking. And uh and so Seattle Green Bay and we'll start in the first quarter. And we had um a past complete to Seattle, had the football pass to complete to Hollister and uh and he was ruled down. The ball came loose and

it and it kind of went into a pile. Green Bay came out of the pile with the football and UH, and replay showed that that he actually fumbled. Green Bay challenged and UH, and they lost the challenge because because they couldn't determine whether it was a clear recovery or not. And and and again, you have to win both. You have to it has to clearly be a fumble and you have to actually see the player recovering the football. And

that's why Green Bay lost the challenge. So this had a lot of people talking and and I'm curious, I want to hear your guys thoughts on on the rule, because it it felt like, look, I would have I would have leaned towards making that I get it. I understand why it was not overturned. And I agree that you just you just never saw and I think it was green It was thirty nine on green Bay that ended up with the football and you kind of see the ball between his legs, then it goes into a

kind of a sort of a pile. There were two green Bay players, one Seattle player and uh, and you never actually saw him recover it. I just you know, seeing it between his legs and then he ends up with the football at the end it just he recovered it. We just didn't have visual evidence that he recovered it. I don't know. I don't know what the answer is because it just feels like it should have been green

Bay's ball. But I get it. That's the rule. You couldn't see it and and that's why the call stood go ahead, you're in there. I mean I didn't I didn't understand the rule fully that if they don't have a clear recovery, the team who fumbled the ball automatically gets it back. And when we talked about I just it doesn't feel complete. Something felt off there because the guy from Green Bay clearly comes out of the pile with it. I mean, what happened before there was replay

for this stuff? Did they? Whoever has at the bottom of the Survival of the fittest at the bottom of the pile. And the reason why you have to see a clear recovery is the theory is the officials are killing the play, they're ruling down, they're blowing whistles, and so that in theory, then you could have players stop, and you could have a player in the pile with the football and the officials saying it's over. It's over. It's over. And then he lets the ball go and

another player takes it from him. So so that's the theory and and there's and that's there's good logic behind that. I was involved in all of this and when we were putting these rules in play, because remember when replay came back, when they ruled on the field the player down by contact, it wasn't even reviewable clear recovery or not. It was just over. And then there was a play green and involved green Bay, Green Bay, San Francisco and uh and where the officials old the player down and

there was no there was no option. It was clearly a fumble and there was no option to even just give the defense the ball. So we added that rule, and the clear recovery came out of that, And so I get it. It's just, you know, I don't know. I don't know if it's if it's something where you you even if you rule the play dead, you ruled down by contact, do you still officiate the pile and and and officiate and and determined. Okay, if it is a fumble, we've ruled down. But if it is a fumble,

then green Bay has the ball. I don't think that's a perfect solution. I think there's issues with that as well, but but it's definitely this has come up. This has come up in years, um, you know, years past. I mean there was there was a game, there was a game last year with Dallas in Philadelphia where it was clearly a fumble and Philly thought they had the recovery, but there was no you know, there was no actual shot that showed the Philadelphia player recovering. And so this

has definitely come up. But I don't know what the solution is or if or if it even is a problem to be able. It seems like there's there's this common sense rule, right like with the kickoff that we talked about last week's podcast, and it feels like this to me, they dude have the like, we know who recovered the ball? Yeah, and and can you kind of get that common sense rule into that into that no

type of play. Yeah, No, it's hard because replay everything is predicated on what you see, right, you have to visually see it, and then that's the hard part. Like, so there wasn't like a clear recovery, like while you still had a shot of it, but the fact that there were only a couple of guys in the pile up, you know, almost makes you think that, Okay, so that guy did come up with it, so he did grab it.

At that point when when he does get covered by the by the the player from from Seattle, it's like, so he comes in, you see him kind of cover that guy up, but at that point you see the ball kind of a you know, or between near his legs, and at that point then you'd have to think that he grabbed in and pulled it up. But without that video evidence that you just can't you can't guess like anything else. That's it. Yeah, I think that's what it

comes down to. So so you have that play and then and then you have you know a little bit later in the half that was in the first quarter. Towards the end of the second quarter, we had a call on Jadavian Clowney and we're gonna talk about Clowney a little bit later, but he where he grabbed he he was called for grabbing the helmet opening. So there's there's the face mask penalty, which we all know grabbing the face mask and you turn or twist the face mask.

But then there's also a foul for grabbing a helmet opening, that could be the year hole, that could be under the helmet and uh, and it looked more like it was potentially helmet opening and um, but it was tough to tell if the fingers were actually hooked underneath. I know, you know, we talked about on our broadcast, and I know Praira, Um, you know he was he said, and I thought that was a good comment that I can see why it was called. But he didn't think it

was necessarily a foul. It's it's tough, and I think a lot of people were questioning that. I couldn't. I didn't see anything that said he didn't grab underneath the helmet opening. But it wasn't. It wasn't that clear cut either way. Um. And then and then we get into the play that there really this is this is the controversial play from the weekend, right. It's it's we're we're inside, We're just inside two minutes. It's third and nine and the Packers are trying to run out the clock. So

Seattle has one time out left. If they get a first down, basically the game's over, and Rodgers throws a pass to Jimmy Graham. He gets hit right at he gets hit, tackled lands right at the line. The line of game was the thirty six and uh and and it's ruled the first down that to start. I I thought the spot was I didn't think it was a uh necessarily a bad spot. I thought it was somewhat generous. Um. I thought the spot was closer to the thirty six

than where they put it. But I didn't I didn't see anything that led me to believe that it was obvious that he was short. I thought he was short. If if I had to guess, I'd say he was short. You know, you see the helmet. You see the helmet hit near the line. You know, forget about the yellow line, right the yellow line, it's not it's not exact. And if you watch the yellow line, I mean that's being super imposed onto the onto the broadcast. Yellow line moves

like it moves it. It actually moves, you know, from time to time. And so forget about the yellow line. You gotta find the yard line to line the game. And and unfortunately there was no big line. We talked about a big line, the thirty five, the forty forty five, obviously the goal line, and they just didn't have a big line. There was nothing that the shot that was closest to down the line was that almost that camera that's on that on the front stick the steak, and

it was really tough to tell. And uh, and so I don't think they are. Yeah, it was so far away. I didn't think there was enough to change it. And I know obviously, Um Seattle, you know, Pete Carroll was upset, and I think Pete was probably be more upset with the initial spot, not not the fact that they couldn't change it in replay at least that's you know, my assumption, Um, isn't this where trackers and the balls will come in. We knew exactly what at what point he was down

his elbow touchdown, first down? Why throw resources out that if it's so controversial and important to the game. Yeah, I think the tracker technology they do put trackers in the football and and and that, and that measures things like speed and distance traveled and all of those things. But it's it's hard. I think the technology that the challenge is combining the location of the football with the moment in time when the players actually down. And I

think that's that's the hard part. It's not as simple as the ball crossing the line there there's wended across the line, and and so you'd have to and I don't know all the all the tracker technology and you know the intimate details, but you know what, what part of the football is breaking that plane of the line to gain and and and again when the player was down. So it's definitely it's Look, it's something that's gonna continue

to be a discussion point. And if the technology gets there, I don't know how long that would take, but it's not there's no simple solution in terms of technology and and the just for your team. Like so, so you see the the official come running in here from behind the play. You know, I don't know exactly what his role is. You can probably get into that a little bit more. But what about the guy who's holding the

yard marker on that side? Couldn't he'd be like an added official, like give you a better idea of exactly where he thought the ball was when the guy that's because the other guy's kind of behind the play and that and that's typically gonna be those are your line of scrimmage officials are for the most part, gonna gonna gonna have those spots and so that's either the down judge or the line judge, depending on the side of the field. And and that was the line judges call.

And and uh, and they're typically going to be trailing the play and right, so they're not gonna have the exact So yeah, they're they're they're not, and but they do. They're really good at it, and they have they can they can see where that player, you know, either hits

the ground where his progress is stop. But most of the time, you know, unless it's like a fourth and one type situation, third and one, there, they are going to be somewhat behind the play when and then they're gonna come up and make that spot and uh, they're Look, they're really really good at it, but it's not it's not a perfect science. They are really good at it. But in these big situations like this reminds me of Ram Saints last year, right, a big enough call. Look,

I don't know, Dean, my car drives itself. You can figure out a way. We heard people wanted more Tesla. They missed it in last week. It's almost like a fourth person on the show. Tesla is in and we can say, you know, um, I don't even like, I'm so upset now, I don't even want to talk. Maybe it's all I'm saying, is a technology, let's make it happen. I just but no, Dean, is there is there no way to get that that line Judge was holding the yard market to be. It's yeah, And you know we

talked to me. Remember we talked to Warren Sapp earlier in the season. He came on the show and that was his idea, his and he he texted me yesterday during the game He's like, remember what I was saying, officials on the line of game? Right, I want an official on the line of game. So there's there's there's definitely something there. Um, you know, you're adding a couple of you know, you're adding another body or two and

right now that's a chain crew members. So they're not an official, but not someone that's going to make that call. And uh and and look at the NFL is experimented with going from a seven official crew to an aid official crew. You know, do you put that official on the line of game. There's a lot of different things that that go into it. Obviously you have replay that can help, but without a without a camera down the line, it's really difficult to overturn those calls. And and that

Baseball adds the extra umpire. Football could also, Yeah, and and there are alternate officials for for every post season game, you know, so there were four alternate officials. Again, they don't have flag responsibility, or they can't. They can't help on spots and things, but they can help an administrative issues. And uh, yeah, it's it's an interesting argument. I think

it's something that continue continue to look at. The thing that was unusual about that whole situation is that Cleet Blake, when the referee comes out, starts to make the announcement and then he goes back to look at more video and he makes a second announcement saying there was additional footage that was provided, but the call in the field

still stood, which was unusual. Look, there's no there's no rule that well, so so what happened is there was there's no there's no rule that says if once you make the announcement, it's over right. They have them up until the next snap to review the play. Obviously, it's not ideal to have it to have multiple because you're supposed to have a sixty second time period, right, that's

the rule. That's it's not like at sixty seconds the whole screen goes black and everybody stops and and somebody says, you know, you can't you you can't review it any further. But it was so there was one angle that was shown as Cleet was making his an announcement, and it was like the elbow down, and they seemed like there was a good look at where the problem is. I it gave the appearance that maybe he was down short. But again, it wasn't from right down the line. It

was in front of the action. And we when we talked about this, when the cameras in front of the action, it's going to push the action back. And so I think it gave the appearance. And I think that what happened is the replay official and the people in New York saw that, like, well, wait a minute, we need to look at this, so they brought Cleet back. I didn't. I didn't think it was gonna change either way. I thought I thought basically they were just delaying the inevitable

and it was gonna stand. And uh. But again it's it's you want to get it right, and you want to use all the resources that you that you have. Um I just didn't think that that that additional angle was was going to sway the decision either way, and it and it didn't. But I thought the additional angle was a kid on the sideline doing an Instagram story. Um all right, don't encourage him, Travis, go see if only please. I'm not gonna lie. That's a big game.

This is a big game, kid with your phone. So anyway, um so then let's go to Let's go to the other game on Sunday, and this is Houston and Kansas City. I'm glad Houston. You know, I don't have to say it anymore, basically, but uh what, they're up twenty four nothing. So you're you're feeling as a Texans fan, you're feeling really good, and then kan City reels off forty one straight points like it's insane, insane. It was insane, but

so but there wasn't much. Imagine if you're gambling in that game and you got you got the Texans in that ten points, like you're just laughing, You're laughing all in the bank with that, and you're probably taking bets on the other side. But anyway, do what Travis now you're like a betting guy. What no, no, no no, And that's just more for Joe. Travis is going for the live betting. You're trying to Texas. Travis is going

big time. Travis was on the he's on the Hurt's website and he's looking at the gold collection and he's gonna baby, pick one, pick one. Why is my car in a rental car? Now? So it was the one play and you asked me about this, Travis, and it talked about and it wasn't it was it was Mahomestro a touchdown pass late in the second quarter where he was close, he was scrambling. Line of scrimmage was the five.

He he definitely was was part of his body was across the five when he when he released the ball, but but not all of his body. And so it was legal. And you asked me the question, why is it? Why is it the entire body? And I think the reason is is is it's it's easier to officiate. You know everything, you know the entire body and the football. So you're not trying to say you know, oh it's the ball and now it's it's just it's a bright line. You have everything is either over um. And if everything

isn't over, it's not it's not a foul. So that helps the officials, um, you know, be more consistent on that call and uh, and it you know, it just makes sense because again you you can't throw a forward pass from beyond the line of scrimmage, and so in order to to to not kind of nitpick it. Look, it's either either all of you all of it, the ball the body is beyond it, or it's legal. Um. But yeah, nothing, you know, nothing, Like I said, pretty

clean weekend. I think, you know, still some still some kind of lingering fallout from the wild card round and a lot of discussion. You know, we talked about the hit on on Carson Wentz by jadeveon Clowney and uh and how that wasn't flagged. And then we had the blind side block against against the Bills, I think it was Cody Ford late in the game against the Texans

that was flagged. In the league ended up doubling down and finding Ford like twenty eight thousand and change for the blindside block, and then no fine for Clowney, which I was I was surprised it. Look, I can, I can somewhat see, they said that they thought it was incidental contact, so they didn't think it was a foul So I didn't expect Clowning to get fined, but I was somewhat surprised that Ford got fined. I think letter of the law, it's a foul um, you know, based

on the way the rule is written. I just didn't think that was a finable offense. I agree with you on that, but I thought I thought Clowney should have gotten fined on that one. After the fact, you can look at it again. It seemed like I seemed like the league was just covering their their uh, their button stick. But if you're gonna if you're gonna take if you're gonna get this controversial and you're gonna have a hot take,

I'm just gonna give you some advice, all right. You that was good, Like that was you were like fired up, You like the league. Just you lose me when you say covering your butt, Just say they're covering their ass. Just you know, just say, look, the league is covering its ass. A bunch of high paid a bunch of high paid buffoons not doing anything, sitting on their asses like go go go big, go bigger. Go in on it. Come on, yeah, not Whitlock. I'm not the herd. I

that's not me. Be my brother. But I keep working on it. I keep working on it. Has some fun text with my brother this weekend. Oh I bet all right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're gonna preview the college football championship, talk about how the officials are chosen, and then, uh, what's all a little? Julian Edelman Julie, Julian had an interesting weekend. Next on good calls. All right, we're back on good calls. Let's

switch gears. Let's go college football playoff Championship game tonight Clempson LSU. Travis has been on the Clipson family and all year. Yeah, and I feel like everyone's jumping on it with me now at this point, saying they're the experience in team, they have the better head coach, they have the quarterbacks, they have players who've been there. Don't get on board. I'm a coach, oh fan, don't it's he's the only He's the only coach that I have

to put on the close captioning when he speaks. Just understand, he's amazing. So I want to hear the coach from the water boy, I'll tell you what these these Clemsons they travel, man, there's a there's a lot of orange. Yeah, I don't know what the game is a lot, but there's a lot. We met a lot of nice people. Um, and we'll get into that. But we met some. I met a couple, We met some Clemson fans, one of guy from New Jersey. Um, yeah, really cool people. L

s U people are awesome. I think it's gonna be a great game. But I just want to talk about the officiating for a second and how that works. So so tonight's crew will be a pack twelve officiating crew and uh, and so how that's decided is there's a national Coordinator of officials and and Rogers reading is the is the current national coordinator of officials. And he was a long time referee in the SEC. He was a cordinate.

This is this is basically he's yeah, he's done basically after this game, and Steve shaw is going to take over for him. Um, Steve Sharre was coordinating officials for the SEC and he's gonna now be the national coordinator. And so what Rogers does is he looks at all so he looks at all the bowl games and he assigns that the officials to all the bowl games by conference, and and what the restrictions are is that if there's a team from that conference playing in that game, then

those officials can't work that game. So if you have a bowl game, say the Rose Bowl, that's between the Pack twelve and a Big ten team like this year, which was Oregon in Wisconsin, then you won't have either a Big Ten crew or a Pack twelve crew. It would be what's considered a neutral crew and UH and so from a different conference. So so tonight it's because you had going into the playoff right, our four teams

were Clemson, House State, uh L, Shoe, and Oklahoma. The only conference that was missing of the autonomy five was the PAC twelve. And so the PAC twelve, because they didn't have a team, they will a school in the game, in the in the in the semifinals, they will work the game tonight UM referee Chris quit. Replay will be done the way the PAC twelve has done replay all year.

So they will have a replay official at the stadium and UH and then they will have a command center back at the PAC twelve office in San Francisco, and they will be able to collaborate with replay and and make those decisions. So that's that's happening UM tonight and that's how those uh, those assignments are made. UM. So it's gonna be, it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be a great game. I think, you know, hopefully the officiating. Nobody's talking about officiating tomorrow and uh and we'll go

from there. UM. Something people are talking about, you know, UH today is the Astros. Uh you know from what they from the Houston Astros um and the penalties that Major League Baseball handled handed down today for the sign stealing operation that they had going and what a you know, I think Baseball sent a very strong message, UM, this this appos this goes to the integrity of the game.

And we've seen this with with the NFL. Right, We've seen this with whether it was Spygate, all these gates, right, the flake Gate, bounty gate, um and and severe penalties in those. But this was this was serious and so you had you had um the Astros gm LA now getting suspended for a year, a j Hinge the manager getting suspended for the year, five million dollar fine, loss of the first and second round draft picks in one draft, so so significant significant penalties. And then Travis, I think

there's some breaking news. Um that should before Yeah, right before we started taking the show. We uh, there was a press conference with the owner. He even wanting farther with that with a penalty, and he says, I don't want those guys here, and he fired the GM in the coach, which is pretty craol. Um, it's pretty wild, Like,

I mean, they just they don't want to cheat him. Yeah, and it's say they dropped the hammer on the track, can on that or no on these you gotta give me, you gotta let me know so I can give you a Travis is I think I like I like remote Travis. He's more like he's more he's so much more uncomfortable in person because you could just like make him uncomfortable. Now that you can't like you can't like look at him or kind of being arms reach. He's he's now

you're pretty intimidate. You just stare me down. And now he's like people are covering their butts and all this stuff and so um yeah, but pretty serious, pretty serious allegations and obviously the league, the league, you know, handed

down those um severe penalties. But you know, we talked about that then I think, you know, I'm a Dodger fan, so I feel like the Dodgers should be awarded the World Series and uh until so I brand, well, yeah, let's go to l A. We'll go downtown l A. Why all those guys driving in a rented you know, Baron from Avis throwing throwing stuff at people? After this a few days in New Orleans, I feel like I'm an expert in paraise. Yes, that's true. We'll get into that.

We'll get into the house New Orleans. How about the guy that had the most interesting weekend in California in Beverly Hills, Julian Edelman? What was that? What was that about? I was reading the story today. So he was arrested for jumping on the hood of a car, but he was he was at dinner with Paul Pierce and Danny Amondola. Like what, like what and then what leads you to after dinner in Beverly Hills to then go jump on cars? Like? Was that? Like? He's like Paul was like, hey man,

let's go to the club. He's like now I'm just gonna go, you know what, I'm gonna go jump on some cars. I'll meet you guys over there. And then was yeah he does. Yeah. Everything was like, Julia, don't are you gonna go jump on cars again? You know? You know West Welker never did this exactly. You know, if we're going back, if we're going back to the to the white possession receiver, the godfather of white possession receivers or one of them, I wouldn't say that. But

Wayne Carbet, my guy from Hofstra. Wayne wasn't jumping on cars. Yeah he was. He was getting into fights and there was some bars. And I find it amazing that you can say Hofstra. Hofstra has an ancient it, I know, but you can't say Houston. But there's no use. Sound You after you is a very strong it's a very strong sounding thing, and it belongs. It belongs up front. You do you watch you on Netflix? I've been everyone's talking about this, yeah, watching It's so it's ridiculous. Season

one was ridiculous. Season two was even more ridiculous. And the dudes like a homicidal maniac and I'm like rooting for him. It's insane. Why I just want to know why Paul Pierce wasn't jumping on the car. But Paulpius isn't gonna do no. Paulpius is like, let's, you know, let's hang out, let's go somewhere. It's like a gentleman's gotta go jump on a car first, all right, you know what I mean? I don't like Paul Pierce, not personally, but because the celt Is they beat the Lakers right well,

were the game that we talked about. We've referenced, Yes, when Joe wore a full uniform, a grown man were a full uniform. There's a lot of people doing that here by the No, nobody and they're even they're spelling Burrow incorrectly. Nobody's wearing a fat Yes, very good. No one's wearing a full uniform. Like like the equivalent, the football equivalent to what you did would be helmet, shoulder pads, football pants, pads, all of it. I didn't have a

basket mouthpiece, I didn't have a basketball. You had a head band. Can here about have wearing I have long beautiful lot. You were wearing a headband. I was wearing a headband Saturday night as well. So let's say a quick break and come back. We'll talk about highlights from New Orleans. We'll do brain of blind Meat. We'll wrap it up next. Alright, we're back on the road. Was a good call skin New Orleans. Nice championship game for a couple of hours away. And it's been an interesting

it's been a fun weekend in New Orleans. I was here, had some meetings. Um, we had meetings with the college commissioners and and just preparing giving them an update on on rules committee agenda. You know what what is happening, reviewing what happened last year, targeting obviously a big change in terms of reofficiating the play and and so that did result in more calls being overturned and that was the intended result. And uh, and so it was a good,

good session with them. We we we have rules meetings in February and uh, and then that process really kicks off at that point. But you know what a fun it's just a fun city. And it's one of these places where everybody seems to be having a good time and you meet people from all over like we've met I mean it met so many cool people from all over, whether they live here in Louisiana, met a lot of Clemson people. Um, just really nice, down to earth people that like to have a good time and and there

are good times being had everywhere in the city. You don't know where Clemson is. He didn't do he asked me, now, where Clemson was? You know what? I do know? They don't nobody here, Like yeah, that's the other thing Joe has been doing. Like he's been like it's like funny like the first two times and then um so, but the one the one thing that stood out, um that

happened to me. Like I was walking down I was going to get my credential for the game and at another hotel and this guy stopped me and he's like, hey, you're the quarterback. And I was like, well, who what what he said you? What's your name? You were the quarterback? You played for the Cardinals. And I'm like Kurt Warner. And he's like, yeah, Kurt Warner. You're Kurt Warner. And he had his son, his son was probably eight or nine, and uh, and I started laughing and I was like, well, no,

I'm not I'm not Kurt Warner. I've been mistaken for him before. And he's like no, you're Kurt Warner. Like he wasn't taking no for an answer, and he's like, no, you're Kurt Warner. And I was like, I'm not. I can show you my d I'm not Kurt Warner. He's like, come on, you're and then his son goes, Dad, Kurt Warner wouldn't lie. And I was like, listen to your kids. So good, but uh, but yeah, he's right, Yeah, I

have been mistaken for Kurt Warner. Actually signed an autograph and at the Pro Bowl one years and as Kurt is Kurt. Yeah, so that's You're the Quarterback show. So that there that we've been waiting for. We were even

talking about it. So while I was getting recognized or or accused of being Kurt Warner, Joe was trying to reenact the scene from Dirty Dancing Patrick's Crazy, the scene that they were working on, you know, the big the big ends to the dance, the dance routine where Jennifer or something like the big Finish whatever, and and it

was this is the Big Easy. So he was trying to complete the big finish in the Big Easy and he so so this girl was going to run up and it you remember the first like a couple of times, and it was that montage they were trying to do it in the movie and they just couldn't get They were in water. I was standing this hardwood. This did not go well, Like he didn't drop her, but it did not go well. I thought I did pretty well. It was you got it was like a half lift.

I'd take it like, yeah, it was. If I went for a hundred, then there's a huge chance of me dropping her. Yes, and there's liability it would have been it would have been. Yeah. It was actually a fun week. Our friend Steve was with us. He he took part in a dance off on the in the strong Bourbon Bourbon Street, a dance off. He think he thinks he won, but he were just saying that he took part of it.

He definitely did not. You guys know this, I have one. Yes, we're aware that you have won grad fifth grade Wyoming in Wyoming. Wyoming is the what's the what's what state is Wyoming? Travis? What is I just learned the equality state? Equality equality state, and the state to give women the right to vote? Full of white people and it's known. Okay,

we're we're all equal, We're all, we're all equal. So so we did get exactly we did get the Wyoming shirts, Like I got Joe and Travish Wyoming shirts, so thank you. They're great. I wore mine on Saturday. Did you That's what I'm wearing to the to the National title game. You're bringing the Wyoming I want people to know. Um, all right, you know, let's uh just been fun, but let's let's bring them. Do we have predictions for the game? UM? I think I I like L s U. In a

close game. I think it's gonna be close. I think this is why I think could be a field goal game either way. I could certainly see Clemson winning. Um, but I you know, I'm rooting for L s U. I like the the Joe Burrow coach. Oh, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, Baton rouge. Like I just I like the whole I like that whole storyline. Clemson one last year, they've won two out of what the last four. Some real interesting stats on Clemson, uh with their what

was it? We just saw it on their defense, I mean they wondering defense, right, and then the other one was like they've won seven of the last they have the longest winning streak in the nation. They've won. I think they've won fifteen straight neutral site games. That they're they're you know, they're they're legit. Like we made fund of Travis whole year, but but they're they're legit. Look they beat Ohiose State. They deserve to be here. Um, I don't I don't envision l s U blowing them

out like what they did to Oklahoma. Like I said, I think it's gonna be a close game either way. I'm really excited to Travis. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm going Clemson. I'm going Clemson. Um So, if if you're a betting guy and you're you're getting that five and a half with Clemson, I'd say take Clempson. Do you think they're gonna win, you gotta take the money line and take that extra dough. See this is why I don't gamble, and I don't understand how it works. So here's my prediction.

I don't know that I don't have a score like you, but Burrow is gonna lead them to a win last drive and they will win by three or four point it. So last week I said that l s will cover. I'm taking that back Clemson's gonna cover l is gonna win by three or four? Alright, how do I do this? How does he do? How about? I want to throw one out for you. Before we do that, I got to shout out to the of the NBFU North Dakota State. You know what's another championships seven games in a row

this year? They so when they that game, right the FCS championship game, where do they play that? Travis, Texas, Frisco Test Texas right here, this is true story. They they book their hotel as they're leaving the hotel the year this year, they're booking the hotel for next year. That's that's how many of these championship games in North dako To State, it's like eight out of nine they've won. They just they had three different head coaches. If the

off chance we have to cancel, will cancel. But there's a there's chance we're in this game next year. It's it's great fun, facts sane, it's insane band and bad breathalyzer with your friends. Okay, so okay, so breathalyzer with your friends. Obviously this is this this town would definitely be so let me let me start off. Let me preface this with like, don't drink and drive. Just just let's kid, don't drink and drive. Um, but a breathalyzer.

So that was a concept that I thought of, or it came to mind of if you had to, if you could take a breathalyzer with you, and then you could just continue as you're drinking with your friends and give everybody the breathalyzer test, because because you have you, we all have our friends, like and we've all done this, Like there's a point where we're you're good, yes, Like you're your best you. Like that you're you're and you're

now like yeah, now your personality is coming out. You're your best you, you're fun, You're not standing in the corner. And so it's I want to I want to pinpoint when that happens. And so I want you right, and I want you I want to track it. So if it's a point zero eight, right, which is the legal limit, If if it's if it's at point zero five, if it's at what is it when you're your best you? And then you have to start it's like, bro, you're

moving into the red zone. You might want to get a water on the next and the water on the next one, because you're right now, you're peaking, and we don't want you to go over the edge. And exactly to promote, you know, to promote, it's just it's just responsible fun. It's responsible fun. And everybody has different tolerance levels, and you shouldn't be drinking driving at sleeping number right to sleep like we all have. I'm a seventy two,

you're an eighty. We you know, we're more married. I sleep prone, she sleeps with head up, all that stuff. This is your this is your drinking number, and this is where you need to be. Everybody has one. I think there's an app you can plug into your phone and you can blow right into the phone. We got we gotta find and it's like, bro're starting to get

a little jo. Pull up, pull up the alcohol blood content and so point zero two to point zero three nine, no loss of coordinations, slight euphoria, and loss of shyness. So that's that's that's like a good that's like the first drink. That's like the maybe maybe you're into your second drink and you're starting to feel that's a great loss. You're not anymore. We're not We're not saying you can't have fun without drinking, all right that My mom used to say, you do have to drink to have fun.

I'm like, no, I have more fun, but and so you can't. You don't have to drink to have fun. I get it, but we're just saying, if you do, let's do it. Response point zero four to point zero five nine. Feeling of well being, relaxation, lower inhibitions, and sensation of warmth. All good. Like that is a sweet spot from most people. Some minor impairment of judgment and memory. Okay, so now this is where we start getting into the

danger zone when you start talking about minor impairment of judgment. Like, I'm okay with you being more open and more forward. Maybe if you're single and you you don't you don't have enough courage to go talk to whoever you're attracted to.

That gives you that at least yet. Right, So but now we start to go in now zero six point zero nine nine, slight impairment of balance, speech, vision, reaction time and hearing, douce judgment and self control, which I which I know people are gonna like that all the time. So there are people like that that don't like you know who don't have to drink to be like that. But now you're getting you're starting to get to that. Like I'd be like, dude, don't drive at this point.

You shouldn't drive it after one. I mean that with uber and lift and everything else, too easy to knock. But now that range right there, that's the that's where the night could go one of two ways. Right there, not across, we're a crossroads, and then I can go one of two ways. You can either you can either keep it they're based on our breath of lives or concept,

or you can keep drinking. Just just throw caution to the wind and you end up with no shirt on on Bourbon Street having a dance off with someone that was a much better dancer than much better dancer, much better dancer. Point one to point one to nine. Now we're we moved from point zero two. Now we're in the point one. Significant impairment of significant impairment of motor coordination, loss of good judgments, speech may be slurred, balanced, peripheral vision,

reaction time, and hearing will be impaired. So you're starting, yeah, I don't starting to come down on the other and I really feel like the point one for most people, that's where that should be the cut off. That should be the cut off point. Like you're good up until that point and if you can maintain it, but once you go beyond that, now you start doing dumb things. Point one three to point one five nine gross motor impairment and lack of physical control, blurred vision and major

loss of balance. Euphoria you just said is reducing and that's turning into the angry or your slash emotional you're angry drunk, or your emotional drunk guy, Like now you're you're like I know you love me. You tell Joe stop telling me you love me? Like I get it okay, or like that guy just bumped into me. He's nowhere do you bump into me? I want to see your brother. At a point one six, dysphoria predominates. Nausea may appear. The drinker has the appearance of a sloppy drunk. No

that's not an appearance. It's you are a sloppy drunk, and we don't want that, so so we feel like the breath of line is the thing. I always thought that if I had that, then I could stop people and everyone could have a good time and there's no problems. You know what it is, it becomes you know what happens. It becomes clear and obvious. Oh wow, that's right. I like that. Good call Joe on that note. So that's Brandon Blondino. This has been good calls with me Deep Left,

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