NFL Week 9 - Recap, baseball rules and CFP rankings

was set low, but it's getting better every week. And in a special shout out, Joe, great job getting us all this audio equipment from Oscar at Rolands, hooking us up with headphones and cables and everything else. Thank you, thank you, thank you Oscar. Yes, thank you, thank you. Let's get right into it. Week nine NFL let's talk

past interference review kind of. We were in this mode going into really last week where the league was, you know, almost overboard in terms of not overturning calls, very consistent look, basically sending the message it's gonna have to be something

so obvious to overturn a call on the field. And uh, and we did get an overturned last week in the which I predicted, thank you very much, in the Indianapolis Denver game, and we were talking about it during the week and actually in the Cube this weekend that it felt like that might have given the coaches a little bit of a glimmer of hope. And what we did see in in week nine so far is we've had

ten total reviews for past inferance, eight coaches challenges. So you compare that to the previous two weeks where there were only four in each of the previous two weeks, so a total for the two weeks prior and and ten total just this week, So coaches a little more aggressive in terms of challenging. One call overturned. It was actually a call that was made on the field for offensive past inferance in the Vikings Chiefs game and and it was picked up. There were three reviews in that

game Minnesota Kansas City for pasting inferrance review. You had a challenge by by Mike Zimmer on a on a play the Chiefs completed a past you had Sammy Watkins potentially blocking downfield before the ball was caught. Zimmer throws the challenge flag the call in the field stands. Look, I thought this was past inferiance. I thought Watkins was

clearly blocking downfield. Vikings fans were upset because you go back to a Dalvin Cook play week two against the Packers, took away a touchdown for for steffound Diggs and that was called past deference. I thought that was probably less of a foul than the US one. On watching, And yes, Zimmer kind of lost his his mind a little bit, understandably so, but this is this is the subjectivity of this call. And and uh, you know, obviously they felt

it wasn't. It wasn't clear and obvious. But when you're talking about blocking, and we've been using this language consistently throughout these conversations, you're talking about past inference, and the language says, it's this contact that significantly hinders your opponent's ability to make a play on the ball. Significantly hindered is in the book, but that does not apply. That

language doesn't apply to blocking down field. That the significantly hindered language isn't in the article that that applies to blocking downfield. So you're either blocking downfield or you're not. And it and it did look like it did look like Watkins was blocking downfield. Call stood UM and we

got very interesting into the first half. Two reviews initiated by the play booth, and UH one actually took away a past inference quall on the Kwan Treadmill that was called on the field, and I thought that was a good decision, and we were talking about it in the studio, and I thought that was a good decision because the defender actually initiated the contact with Treadwill. And when you talk about a receiver, what kind of receiver doing a

defender can initiate contact within five yards? And UH and the receiver can use his hands arms to get off of that contact to get into his route. He can't, he can't push off into the body, but he can swim through. He can use use his hands to try to work through that contact. AID a nice, nice job like sidestepping on that sidestep swim through and UH and so thought it was a good job. I thought they did a good job of picking that that flag up

and and it negated. UM took the foul away and it actually ended up being a nineteen yard game for the Vikings. And then and then a little bit further UM, I believe in that in that drive, the replay officials stop the game to look at a potential past inference defensive past inferance contact on Kyle Rudolph. It was interesting because we were doing the game and uh it was it was Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis who were on the call and the referee, you know, the referee has

no idea the referees on the field. The referee gets word from upstairs that we're gonna take a look at the play for possible past inference, but the referee doesn't know it's thirty two or forty seven. So we're sitting there and trying to figure out what contact are they

looking at. Normally it's pretty obvious it's where the ball is, but this you had several you had defenders and receivers in the vicinity of football that I think there were um four, you know to two defenders two receivers, So it was questionable as to who they were actually looking at. But we finally went through and uh and the call of the field stood. But again it goes into the subjectivity of this call. And and now you know, are you going to are you are mechanically as a replay ficual.

Are you're looking at every eligible receiver inside two minutes or on a touchdown pass to see if there's offensive past inference or on an interception to see if there's defensive past inference. I think the league has done a really nice job of not stopping the game um and an inordinate amount of times, but it does. You know, the potential is there as we get into these two minute windows and on scoring plays and turnovers when it's

automatically reviewable. But I think as a fan, this is when you want to see him stop it for sure, though, don't you agreed? Joe? Absolutely nice job, Joe. I do have a question for you doing on the on the treadwell play, and what's the on field officials seeing to even throw that flag in the first place? Yeah, you know, okay,

So so you have treadwell. Was the widest receiver on that side of the field, what you'd call the number one receiver if you're looking at you go, you go outside in and depending on the formation, UM, the widest receiver would be number one, and then inside of him too, you could have three to that side. UM, so one to three going from the sideline the boundary in so the number one receiver. Though, why this receiver in the formation is the deep wing officials responsibility Initially, that's the

side judge of the field judge. That's the official that's on the sideline. Typically eighteen to twenty yards down field. They can cheat a little bit on third and long um, but typically eighteen to twenty and so the official will look at that. They will find the official will find a mark, a point of demarcation, a landmark that will in his or her mind say that's my five yard zone, right, So so that once the contact goes past that five yards,

now I have potential illegal contact. So they have that. They're looking at who's initiating the contact. Is the defender moving laterally into the receiver as the receiver trying to to run a route. Is the receiver pushing off as the receiver trying to swim through. So they're looking at all of this, and I think from that officials angle, he did see Treadwell kind of trying to swim through with his left arm, and maybe in his mind he thought that was an extension of the arm. A push

off throws the flag. Because again, remember we get the benefit of looking at these replays from camera angles most of the time that are not the perspective of the official, right because you know it's a high camera, it's an end zone shot. Very rarely do we actually see the officials perspective could look different. You know, a lot of the networks are doing you know, official hat cam and so that that technology has gotten better to where it's not it's not so kind of shaky to where you

can get a really good look. But that's what the official would be looking for in that situation. So it's very likely he just saw him swimming and he at that angle could look like he was pushing off or initiating the contact exactly exactly, and I think that's I

think that's what happened. And uh and obviously you know, with the benefit of replay, and I thought they did they did a nice job of picking the flag up and a good job of just stopping it inside of two minutes, because we've seen plays where look like past inference, whether it was inside too or on a scoring play, and they didn't stop the game. So I thought that

was a good job. Great to see that. Yeah, I like that that how that whole thing played out, because when I was looking at I was just like, there's no way, that's just a bad call. And we like good calls here, like Joe, great work, great job there. I could see like he was setting that up wheel mile away. He was setting that up. Do you think they ever kind of sneak a peek up to the TV and go, you know what the video board in the stadium. That is you will see from time to time,

and some some cruise are very good at it. Some cruise are not so good at it. But you will see watch, you know, when you get a bunch of officials together. And I think this is has has lessened

over the years. His replay has become more involved. But you'll have a group of officials discussing it and then you'll have one official like kind of off to the side, but you'll see him kind of peeking up at the you know, at the heavens, and he's looking up at the video board and he may just nod like, can we get these guys sunglasses and just well, you know, officials can't wear sunglasses, and uh, and you know, but that does happen from time to time, and uh, look

that you want to get it right. And but again at not at the expense of extraordinary delay to the game. And then I think that's important too. Uh and then uh, you know the last one before we get into just some stats. There was DeVante Parker in the in the um Jets Dolphins game. Was was called for offensive past deference. The Dolphins challenged and the call stood. It looked kind of similar to the to the Treadwell play, with the defender actually initiating contact and then Parker trying to get

off of that contact. There may have been a little bit more of an arm extension and and so I can I can understand a little bit more, um why they let this call stand, but very similar. But again it just underscores the subjectivity of these calls, and we're not replay was really put into fix the obvious error and to allow the technology to help us see things that we couldn't see in real time. Right, Well, these calls, we're seeing them in real time. But it's just judgment.

And in in my judgment, I didn't think it was enough contact to significant significantly hinder And now we're just replacing one person's judgment with another, and so it doesn't make us to look at it multiple times. Yeah, I guess and and so now you know, and you know if you slow something down, you you guys have watched enough football to know that if you watch something in real time versus slow motion, it looks different, especially when

you're talking about contact with with between players. And I think that's just something we have to Joe and I talked about it all the time in the Cube too. How quickly you can see stuff that I had no idea was even happening, and you'll see it on the screen when we're watching it, Like, it's just amazing how quickly you see it. So these guys on the field are incredible as well. It's incredible. And I've I've watched thousands and thousands of hours of tape from an officiating lens,

so so that's just that's just reps. But these guys on the field, the officials on the field, it's unbelievable how much they get right. And and we're sitting there going you watch, you know, you watch a spot at the spots at the spots or you know, at the goal line when the ball is six inches short of the goal line and we're we're waiting for a goal line shot, and we go, oh, there it is that official made the call in real time, different angle, and

so it's really it's really impressive. Um past inferrance reviews that I talked about, you know, ten total this this week week nine so far and uh and and so they were going into the week there were fifty two total reviews, eight reverse. So this week so far we had ten more. So it takes us to sixty two with one being reverse. So unofficial numbers as right now, and uh and when we just look at just a kind of a summary of where we are in terms

of the game itself, penalties are still up. So going into week eight or I'm sorry, going into week nine, we were at seventeen point eight four per game, which is up from fifteen point nine one per game. Again that that sweet spot, that historical kind of average has been right between fifteen and sixteen a game. And uh

and so we're still up. But I I would, and this is not a bold prediction because this is based on years and years of seeing this, I would imagine second half of the season, especially as we get into the later the later weeks, we're gonna see the penalty numbers drop, you know, not significantly, but we're gonna see that number drop, and I would I would imagine if we're at seventeen point eight per game by the end of the season, I think will be somewhere in the sixteens.

I really do, because UM, you do see those numbers start to drop as the season goes on. UM you look at game time. Game time is relatively close to where we were last year three oh six eighteen compared to three oh six ten. So I don't think game time him is an issue. I know the league is is really trying to eliminate some of that downtime, and I think they're really trying to get as close to

three hours as possible. I think three hour game is is almost impossible with the number of commercial breaks and and replay and everything else, but not significantly up. The one thing that does concern me is the number of plays and and and we've talked about this is right now at least through week eight, so going into week nine, hundred and fifty three point six plays per game that's offense, defense,

special teams. UM. That's a low number. Okay, they may not seem like a lot, but that's a low number, UM compared to one fifty six point four and twenty eighteen point one fifty seven point three, sixteen eight point one, fifteen through eight weeks. So when you start to drop one three one fifty two, you know, we haven't seen it dropped below one f fifty UM since the forty second clock went in went into um was implemented in

really important that that number. When you talk about the health of the game, plays are your you know, I never I don't like there are a lot of people in the NFL that used to call it a product. I don't like to call it a product. But for for lack of a better term, that's your product. You're you. You are giving the public and your fans and everyone plays. They don't watch the game to see officials. They don't watch the game to see, you know, the coach on

the sideline. They want to see Aaron Rodgers throwing an unbelievable touchdown pass, you know, to Jimmy Graham. They want to see Tom Brady, they want to see you know, Patrick Mahomes. They want to see see these guys that are the most unbelievable athletes in the world. And plays are what gives the fans the game. And and so that's really important that that number. We continue to watch it and uh and I would love to see that

number start to rise. I do worry that it may not because as the games, as we get into colder weather and we start running the ball more and and and inclement weather. UM less place. And that's been again consistent throughout history that plays have tended to go have tend to go down as the season goes on. So again, UM, just some stats on the health of the game, and we'll continue to update those as we go along through

the season. We're gonna take a break and when we come back, we're gonna talk a little used to the helmet. We're gonna talk about when it's okay Travis to throw your shoe throw your shoe. Next on Good Calls. All right, we're back on Good Call. A lot of discussion about

sky Judge video official that concept. I thought there was a really good example of a play on Sunday in the It was actually in the London game Houston Houston used US Houston and Jacksonville and it was in the second or now I'm sorry, the third quarter and and Klais Campbell hit Deshaun Watson. Watson was running and Clais Campbell came in and hit him and the official through the flag for use of the helmet, and that's initiating lowering the head and initiating forceable contact with the with

the helmet. And and look, that's a tough call, officials. I mean the number of times a player, you know, lowers his head and there's contact with the helmet, this is a really tough call. And uh, and the official saw Calais Campbell Lower's head, which he did, but he missed him with the helmet, you know, looked like he got him with the shoulder. Maybe maybe there was a graze at the helmet, but it certainly wasn't forcible. That's a fifteen year penalty pretty soon grapnificant and there was.

I thought it was a good illustration or a good example of a play where had there been a video official sky judge that could just quickly get in the year of the official and the refereence saying hey there's no foul, pick up the flag and even before and I think this is so important, this is this concept. For this concept to work, that information has to be passed along before the penalty is enforced. Okay, So so

even if it's before the announcement. And again that's gonna depend on when the angles are available and things like that. But the let we don't want the penalty to be enforced March of fifteen. And now we say no, there's no foul. Now we got to go back where where we put in the football and almost becomes another replay review. For a video official sky judge to work, it has to be seamless, and it has to be as soon as the flag is thrown. They're talking about it the referee.

You know, yeah, you have wireless communication. What do you have? We've got to use helmet foul. I'm looking at it now, it's not there, pick up the flag. Could this this sky jub side Judge sky Judge concept excuse me, come into play if you had like a control center who had all the angles, and that control center could look at it and call down into the refereene. Yeah, it definitely could. I think the the NFL is looking at that concept of of there's systems out there that allow

you to take in multiple camera feeds. So right now the replay system is taking in what the program feed, which is what the truck is basically you know, sending out, everybody sees it what everybody sees at home, and uh, and so you are waiting for the truck and the

producer to choose an angle and then show it. And so what this system would allow the people in New York, the replay official, whoever has access to it, they would have access to multiple camera angles immediately, so they could go through and pinpoint the right angle and say, no, it's not a foul. Where it is a foul. And and I think not that I don't ever want to see a day. I think it would just be too cumbersome for every call to be confirmed by by a

video official. I think the video official sky judge where that could work. It's when it's clear that it's not a foul, that hey, not a foul, pick up the flag, let's keep it moving. And I think that's I think that's really could you see that happen with replay as well, where you're not gonna stop and have them go through

the whole thing of looking under the hundred percent. One of the thing that drives me wild, I know we talked about it in the studio, is when um, and it happens more in the college game, is when they're gonna overturn the call in the field, and then they start writing on the car and it's just like, I get it drives you nuts. You start they're writing down, Okay, what's the next spot and all that thing. But my point is you have wireless communication. The referee can be speaking.

When the referee is getting that information from the replay official. The referee can just reiterate it, and then the officials that can hear the referee, they can start putting the ball where it needs to be, getting ready to reset the clock, the chains, the downmark or whatever it is. I think the process can be more efficient and uh and again that will continue to will work through that and continue to uh, you know, get better and get to get more efficient to let people get inside of

the cube. But we do a little more like you're doing that with the game producer. They're giving us the shots and you're looking at it, Okay, what they're talking about here, When when we're not on the air, you're telling them in the year like, oh, this is what they're writing, this is where the ball is gonna be, this how much time is gonna be back on the clock.

So essentially that person could be doing that for for the league, and that's and that's one of the things, it's one of the goals is And then you hear it a lot where people say, hey, we can see it. What's taking them so long? Well, they're there's just built in delays in the process. The referee coming over, put the headset on looking at the little device there, getting the getting all of the new spot information and the

human element, human element, you know. So again that's that's all going to happen as technology continues to get better, and I think these processes are going to become even more efficient. Um So, Indie Pittsburgh, This was an interesting player. I didn't see it. I didn't see it live. And uh I didn't see it live, but it was it was Pittsburgh. It was a Pittsburgh defender, Steven Nelson, and he lost his shoe and and the game clock was running,

the play clock was running. He lost his shoe and he was almost as if like he expected everybody to stop waving his official It's kind of like Joe when Joe gets a new pair of Nikes Jordan's, he comes in waving it and he's like, hey, look at me, look a look at these Jordans but waving his and so the mechanic there is, look, especially the game clocks running, you gotta you gotta figure it out. Get the shoe

back on. We're not stopping the game, because if if the officials stopped the game for something a non safety related equipment issue, then you could potentially manipulate the clock and sent two minutes take your shoe off. So and it was funny because he's waving his shoe and then he goes to the ground and and I didn't see the official, but I'm pretty sure the official told him to get up because he wasn't hurt, and he ended up having to play the down with one shoe, but

he the interesting thing was where he put his shoe. Well, then then he threw his shoe into the offensive backfield and it didn't interfere with anything, but certainly could have been you know, if that had hit the quarterback or had had interfered with the operation of the snap, that could have been the lay game. It could have been un sportsmanlike conduct. Bottom line is, officials don't stop the game, especially when the game clox running to to fix a

a non safety equipment issue. And uh and so you the players have to figure that out and they either get to the sideline and get a sub in or they fixed their shoe, tie their shoe, whatever it is. But it was it was pretty funny that it didn't appear that he was throwing it at anyone, But what if he did throw it at someone? Like, is that going to be like the same as throwing a punch? Is that adjectable? And no, no, no, no it's not.

Obviously you weren't just listening when I said that. It could be the lay A game, or it could be on sports Malike conducts. So what I'm saying, if he okay, and you're on a you're on a word count. Now, um, let's let's shift gears. Let's go let's talk a little college football. And uh, I got a big game coming up Alabama l s U one and two in the in the a P pole. But you don't even know he was a version until he was eight. Now I love that. So, um, Tuesday, we get our first CFP

rankings and a lot of speculation. I mean, this is like, I mean, it feels like the the stuff that goes into this, all of the computer rankings and the strength of schedule and all this stuff. But the bottom line is we're gonna get the first CFP rankings on Tuesday, and I want to see I want you guys. We're all gonna give us your top four teams. So Joe, who's gonna be? Give me one through four? Um in the CFP rankings? What do you got? I got Ohio

stated number one. I think they're the most balanced team. They got the best defensive player, old Chase Young number two. I'm going l s U. They've got the Heisman favorite Joe Burrow. Uh. Then I'm going Obama. I love their wide receiving corps and they got to AH and I mean they're Bama. I mean, will they have to will be, you know. And then I'm just for four. I'm just going with the defending champs Clemson. So pretty I'm not going out much of alleged there. But no, I'm not

going out on a limit there. I got the same teams, but I got Clemson in in Ohio state flip flop because they're the champion. You gotta just keep him at the top. I can tell somebody throws them. You just leave him at the top. So I got Clemson L S U, Obama, and Ohio State. I think we all have the four teams the same, but I'm the only one that has them in the right order. Okay, Um, so I'm going to L s U, O how State. This is, This is not necessarily this is the prediction

for the CFP. Right, So L s U, Ohio State, Obama, and Clemson. That's that's your order market down. That's what's gonna talk about this next week. And we'll talk about it next week. But if you're big, big big game coming up on Saturday, A couple of big games, big big ten match up undefeated Penn State, which is not that surprising, but undefeated Minnesota golfers the Gophers row the boat with p J Fleck. All right, um, now let's go let's talk a little Major League Baseball. I'm not

you know, this was something not that we're experts. I'm certainly not an expert in baseball rules, but I did think it was interesting and that you had the World Series. Look, the Nationals end up winning um the World Series Game six. There was a controversial call in that game and it involved Trade Turner. It was in the seventh inning, which

was a pivotal inning. Washington ended up blowing it open in that inning, but it was a pivotal could have been a really pivotal call where Trade Turner was called out for for running out of the baseline. He and he hit, he hit the first baseman's glove and uh and sucked the ball out. And this was It was interesting because I was texting with a friend of mine who is a major league umpire, and uh and what he was saying and and and he was kind of frustrated in that there's no He said that we don't

have a Dean Blandino. And I was very appreciative of the complin basically, don't we don't have a Dean Blandino. He did not say Mike Carrera. He might have said jug. He said, there there's no Dean Blandino for for major League baseball. And it was interesting because I hadn't really thought about it, because, um, you know a lot of the you talk about the baseball rules, and some of the baseball rules that we talk about are are the unwritten rules. And but this was a straightforward and he

was very adamant. Look that umpire made the right call, made the right call that Turner was he if you watch it. He was never in the baseline. He was inside the baseline the entire way. Now he can, but he was inside. And so it was a great call, big moment, World Series umpire making the right call in that moment in real time. And then you have people that don't necessarily know the rule that are kind of you know, not necessarily you know, roasting the umpire. But

but maybe they weren't explaining the rule right. And so it was frustrating for for my friend who's an umpire, and I would imagine for for other people that are in baseball and other umpires that to say, here's a big stage, big call, nails it and and we don't have somebody that can go out and uh and and explain it the right way. So that's something. And I know, look the Fox, you know, we have the World Series. I'm sure that's something they're looking at. Maybe it's just

they don't have the right person in mind. I I I love baseball, but I don't I don't have the experience in baseball. I can't. I don't have the credibility and and I would be guessing half the time. So the umpires that are retiring and give us all give us a call. I was an umpire for eight year olds, so let me know I'm fully available ext up on

the weekends because I'm over here with you guys. Here was a question that I always think about, and I always talk about this with people friends i'm watching games with. In softball, you have the orange bag, which they'll never

do in a baseball there's too many traditional lists. But what if you just since you can't run on the inside, but the base is inside the base path, why not put that orange bag next to infoul territory where you're supposed to be running, and then you have your bags for the base runner and then your bag for for the fielder at first base? Like, why why can't you put that in? No one'll ever do it, but it's great, and it's great in softball. It's good for player safety.

You sure you want to tell people that you play softball this week? Yeah, I'm fine with that. It's a great game, it's fun, it's competitive. There's nothing wrong with softball. It's a great game. But I think it's an interesting concept. I don't think you'll ever happen. I don't know how that how that impacts um. A lot of times it's the the umpire from what I've from what I've been told for for guys and people that I know, that umpire,

it's a lot of times it's sound. It's it's the foot hitting the bag and and the and the ball hitting the glow of that helps them. So I don't know how that would impact that if it's if it's right next yeah, I mean you certainly you certainly would still hear it. I would imagine. Um. I do like the idea because you do see you do see base runners sometimes step on the ankle or the foot of

the first baseman. That's that can be dangerous. But you know, again, baseball is a very traditional and then every sport has their traditions. I'd like to see it happen. Every baseball player knows that you have to run between that the line that's on the right side of the out side of the of the the base the three ft three You know that everyone. But then you have to turn at the end to get to the bat. You can.

But the thing is if if your last stride step takes you inside the baseline to get to the base, that's okay. So if he had done that, that would have been okay, and it's just interesting. Um, it was the second bag. It was it was a great call. It was a good call for promoting the show, but in reality it was it was a great call. So you know, let's let's take a break and when we come back, we're gonna have a little fun, go inside

the queube. We'll go inside the brain of Glendino, and we're going to get to the bottom of daylight Savings time. Next on good Calls. Welcome back, it's good calls, and uh, we want to talk a little bit about something happened over the weekend that that I've struggled with from time to time, understanding the reasons behind it. And that's the whole daylight savings fall, fall back, spring forward. So we fell back this past weekend, this weekend, and we added

an hour, so it at two am. Apparently, right whatever time zone you're in, the clock goes from two am back to one am, so you gain an extra hour, which is right. I love fallback. I like when it gets dark early. I'm weird like that. I also thought next Friday was better than Friday, but we can get into that at another time. UM. So we were talking about this in the Cube explained to me, Travis, why at least why do we have daylight savings? Why is

it a thing? Why does Arizona and Hawaii basically say, f you, we're not doing it? And uh, And I know we had talked initially about you thought it was something. I thought it was farmers to do with farming, and another guy, which is clearly an urban myth. It's not not camp be an urban myth if it's about it came in it was first proposed back in the country myth and like seventeen eighty five, I think something like that with Benjamin Franklin. He brought it up and and

then and then again. It came up in eight by by um by the folks in in Britain, and and they had then we adopted the Germans adopted it in World War One, and then we adopted it shortly after that as a way of saving enter g which I call bullshit. Somebody in the Cube did predict that, you guys wanna Yeah, you predicted that it was because of saving energy. But we have since debunked to that, I don't think, because there's been studies since then. In two

thousand three, two thousand and eight. There's been studies that said it doesn't. It doesn't save any energy to me, but still, the theory is to save energy, Okay, the theory is. The theory is we're gonna give you more daylight. Right, So in the spring, when the spring, we're gonna we're gonna move the clocks up. So at five o'clock, right,

we're gonna move the clock. It's really four o'clock, So it's gonna be at eight o'clock when it should be dark and wherever, depending where you live, it's really seven o'clock, so it's gonna be lighter later, and that you won't use electricity light your house and stuff, right, but you still all morning. Okay, but you're still be using it in the morning because the starker. Okay, but you're still getting up at the same time. That's my point, Like you're getting up and it all sets the cost of

using your A C in the summer months. I don't understand that at all, but that study also took that an account. But then you're you're doing the opposite. So whatever energy you saved for those six months, you're right because now it's darker earlier, So I gotta put my lights on earlier. I don't know you're you're arguing a Benjamin Franklan. You're not gonna win this, obviously, but I think I think we took a hundred years for the

for the folks. So here's what this this created, this this debate in this conversation of alarm clocks on the night of Fallback Spring Forward, and so we have we have a real audio guy that works with us in the studio, um Goldie, and Goldie has to set his alarm on on Saturday night. But he he comes in, he sets his alarm at two am Sunday morning, right Saturday night, Sunday morning, he said, sets his alarm at two am, and he didn't know with the time change,

what time should I set my alarm? So he got so out of whack that he just set a timer that have to wake up at the I have to wake up in six hours. I'm gonna set a timer because I don't know because I'm thinking about it, like if I set the thing at two o'clock, it's really one o'clock. If I do it on my phone and said it at too, is it gonna jump to one? And then so either way he thought he was gonna be an hour earlier or an hour late, so he

set the time. But there's also studies saying that there's there's increased heart heart attacks during this time of year, and then there's also accidents and cars. So it's like, well, it's some people just can't handle the stress of life. I woke up before my alarm went off, and it's just it causes too much stress, I think. And that's your audio guy. He doesn't even know how the phone works. Okay,

so oh, you're the same guy that you said. You You go to go to Arizona a lot sometimes, right, you have like a like a vacation share or whatever it is, and it's on the border of Arizona, Nevada and California. And you're the one that's like, I don't know what time it is. Well, that's that's different because it's constantly changing everywhere you go to. You go to Walmart at six, you come home it's now five. Well, you're picking up all the different styles. How you got younger.

That's like when you fly when you fly to Australia, like it's just because they're ahead. When you fly home, you actually get younger. But anyway. But Travis, I got out a great idea, Travis, give us your idea, so we should we do? How could we do this so we didn't have to deal with this anymore? Why can't we go to universal time? So we just we pick sometimes on that this is gonna be the time we're

gonna go on. Everyone's gonna go to a military style, um, zero to twenty four hour o'clock, and then everyone's gonna be whether it's daytime or nighttime, you're gonna be on that time and that's it. But then of course we saw holes in that as well, because there's definitely things like songs like working nine to five because in London now they're working. Sell it is, it does? It does?

But I do. I do like that concept everybody being on the same time because I have to explain to my mom pretty much every week because my mom lives in New York. I live in California, and she I have to explain to her that because the Giants game, whatever game she's watching, because it starts at ten am in California and one pm in New York, I don't know the winner before she does. I don't know, like it's still the same time in the universe, like it's

She's like, what time is it starting. I'm like, well it's ten am out here. It's like, oh, so you'll know before I do. Who's gonna be like, No, it doesn't work that way. Um, if it did, we'd have yet the Casino Sports Book. But but yeah, so I have to explain to her. But but universal time would be amazing. But again there's holes in that because then you businesses and you'd have to figure out, well, in Tokyo, it's what are they doing at oh seven hundred, they're

sleeping or there, you know, so it's tough. So that was but there was another tidbit that came up as part of the discussion. So what we what we thought about then after that was people will figure it out. We just we would. We were an adaptive you know, human beings, so we can we can change human we can adapt to it. And and one thing we came up with that that Scott came up within the cube was was a thing called day an age day It's

it was. It was a thing in in in Sweden in nineteen sixty seven where at this time, they you know, made this highly publicized for a while that at this time, we're gonna switch from driving on the left side to the right side of the road. What so they so? And this is insane. I think this is the greatest thing ever, This this thing dog in age and they just said, Okay, we're gonna go at this time on this day, everybody's gonna go from the left side to

the right side. And if I'm if I'm in Sweden, not that I want to, I'm like getting my launch share andre and I'm going to an intersection. I'm just watching the mayhem that's gonna take place. There was time for five hours you couldn't be on the road. From like one to six you couldn't be on the road, And then at four fifty was the time that it switched. Could you imagine like in l A, imagine New York City places they're not mayhem, it would be I wouldn't

I be like, I'm not driving. I'm not. I'm not going to take a week off, easily a week off unless you have a car that drives itself. Then maybe have you guys driven, have you guys driven on the other side of the road. I have. I didn't find it that hard to to make the adjustment you gotta it's there's turning is an adjustment. And you know what's an adjustment. The first time I went to London was

crossing the street knowing which way to look right. That's that's that's Americans get hit by cars because you because you always know, like you're crossing the street in in America and you look right and then first right, and that's where it's dangerous. And they actually have in London they have arrows that tell you which way to look because you know obviously that that's there's few a fewer places that drive on the left side of the road. But I just think that's so amazing. They just switched

no social media either. How do you get the word out? Like if you're living on a farm in Sweden and you don't pay attention to media or anything like, and all of a sudden you're like, I'm gonna go out

and get some whatever at the market. Today, I feel like if I had the delooran, I would go back in time to that day check it out now obviously you know, sixty seven old people just like it's just it's just like imagine just trying to do that today, like just with social media, the amount of hype and people and it would be in the upper sne it would be insane. The other thing, the other thing I think we figured out the Daylight Savings is a sham um.

And but the other amazing thing that happened in the studio this weekend in the Cube was the camel video. Oh my god, the camel video. Please, if you haven't seen it, um, it's I don't know, it went viral. I don't know how long it's been running around the internet, but it's the first time we had seen. It's got like four and a half millions. This couple that are somewhere in in you know, it's probably somewhere in the

Middle East. It's probably you know, it looks like a desert climate and they're doing some kind of camel riding and and they it's it's this poor camel and whoever did the video kind of put just trust me, just do just do camel funny camel video, Camel fail. Or you can see it on the Good Calls Instagram page. You can put it on in a Good Cals Good

Calls Instagram page. It's this couple and there, you know, there's some there's some wait involved, and but this poor camel is really trying to get up on four legs and it just can't do it. And this person who posted the video put the Titanic song like a kind of like it's kind of like a bad version of it, and it is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And I needed I needed, I needed some cheering up because I'm out of the survivor pool. I bought my way back in

and I'm out of the survivor pool. And just a quick update. I I bought um our colleague Luther, who's

a big Cleveland Browns fans. I bought his pick from him, okay, because everybody has a price, and he obviously had one, and uh there and there was a lot of toss up games, so I thought it would be fitting since it was Luther's pick and he hadn't picked them and I hadn't picked them yet, that I would go with the Browns, right, so toss up game like it was no, there was no gimmes this week, and I think the NFL.

That's great, Well, that's great about the NFL. And so it was it was Cleveland and Denverse and really, no, it's a it's a pick them and and Cleveland. Cleveland lost, So now we only have two people left in the survivor pool, and I'm basically negotiating with with at least one of them to try to buy his pick to continue in the survivor pool. And like I said, I will take a loss just to win the pool. Um. But anyway, let's uh, let's go on. So can I

add one thing? No fatal accidents at night that they changed it over to the other side. Yeah, that's our friends at Wikipedia have. That's a little fun. So we don't want to have. That's some real producers stuff, deep stuff. Anyway, so we're gonna go to inside the brain of Bigdino. What do you got Forest Joe? All right, let's uh, let's shake it up and see what we got. Jim rules guy actually waived someone out of the way so he could see himself in the mirror. This was red

Bro actually bro move over, and it's completely illegal. Like I saw that. I saw that happen. Now, look, I I go to an equinox and sent him on against a great Jim. But there's a look, there's a and I don't think this is just he here in Santa Monica, but I think there's a there's a culture right now of this Instagram and and the selfies and look at me and all that stuff. This guy legitimately waive someone out of the way so he would have a personal mirror view of the mirror. The look on the other

guy's face, he didn't know what. He was like what wait what and he's like like this and like so he thought. The other guy thought like, am I in the way? Like the bench, am my, something gonna fall on my head? Like he looked. He literally looked up, looked down, and the guy was like pointed at the mirror. And I was like, he's this, mom, he's looking at the mirror. He's pointing at the he wants him to move. And I was like, I was so dumbfounded, Like I

wanted to record it. But that is there are there are gym rules, and there are some really bad like infractions. That's it's one of the worst things. It happens all the time. I see that. I go to a kickboxing g them and there's people that videotape them and then they put them on Instagram and you see me in

the background just huffing. And this isn't the best I look now, I'm already not a very attractive might have a voice for radio or a face for radio, but I'm already a pretty unattracted dude, and you gotta put me in my worst time sweating there I am in the background. I don't need that public I I think I feel like that's a fault too. You can't if you're gonna videotape yourself, don't have me in the background. Then you have to sign a waiver. Yeah, I think

I think signing and even the gym does it. I uh, I think in some of these some of these trainers are it's a bit much of the Instagram stuff. But anyway, but that, yeah, I think that's a good that's a good uh, a good rule. So so can can we amend a rule from the rules expert? Yeah? Sure, what's the rule gonna be? You can't waive somebody out of the way, like you gotta find a clear path, Yeah,

find your own mirror like clear path rule. If you're gonna go like I get like, if you're if you're gonna stand in front of the mirror, like you find a clear path to the mirror and give yourself. Don't if you you gotta get close enough to where they're breaking the rule by be coming between you and the mirror. If you're if you're fifteen feetback, then you have to expect that there's gonna be traffic fair. That's a good call.

So if you can fit, if you can get in front of the mirror and somebody can't legitimately stand between you and the mirror and work out, then you've got that clear path to that mirror. And rule number two, I don't want to be in your background pick and rule number three, the bench is not a tripod. Okay, that's for lifting weights, dude. So there you go. Three generals. Generals. All right, let's go to the d M of the week.

I want to do two things. I want to do the tweet of the week and then the d M of the week. So the tweet, at least the tweet, the at me tweet was was wine Dad, great name wind Dad Mike from cr and he just tweeted like, I love Dean Blondino, I heart at Dean Blondino. And that made me. I actually showed both of you, because because my Twitter bag is so negative most of the time that this actually made me feel a lot about It made me feel really good. That's someone that someone

on Twitter. And I know Joe is looking at me because he gets upset because I've never compliment him and I kind of always give him crap. You rag on us a little bit, but it's you know, you've been getting a lot better. If I don't make fun of you, that means I don't like you. So that's the bottom line.

Keep it coming in. So, but the d M of the week, this is from It's actually a series of d m s and I haven't responded, but this is from Danny love l Nava and so Danny Danny on nine thirty nineteen at six o nine pm was you f and suck. And then Danny at ten six nineteen at twelve thirty one pm, get off my f and t V. And then he then on on Saturday at six o one pm get the f off my TV. So I'm gonna just keep this going. It's the same threat. I'm just having replied and I have not replied, and

we're gonna see how far Danny goes. And uh, and you know wind Dad, I've got wind Dad. I can always fall back on I can always fall back on wine. Dad. But we're gonna see how long Danny goes. And uh and hopefully I'm still on your TV, Danny, but you can. Here's the thing. You have the option to change the channel. That's just that's true. That's the way it goes. Checkout Jean Starotor and CBS. Right. Wow, shots fired, shots fired there. It is starting a little trouble. Al right, guys, you

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