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Final Hour in this Thursday, we got football later on this afternoon. It's Notre Dame Georgia. That's it for Eastern Both schools petitions Sugar Bowl, and the College Football Committee and said could we move it up travel considerations there. I think you got a factor in, certainly with the tragedy that happened in New Orleans. Notre Dame is favored by one against Georgia. Also the nightcap Duke and Old Miss. Duke is getting seventeen against Old Miss. Now here are
the early potential spreads for the next round. You already have Ohio State versus Texas. Ohio State is favored by six. This according to DraftKings. If Notre Dame wins tonight, Notre Dame will be a one point favorite against Penn State. If Georgia wins, Georgia would be giving one point to Penn State. So that's the if scenario. The odds to win the college football playoffs, it's Ohio State and then Texas,
Penn State, Notre Dame, and then Georgia. Wow, so Ohio State, you know this is one of those where you watch them against Oregon, and I'm watching this game with an Oregon fan for a little while. He didn't last and neither did Oregon. But we're watching and he said, where was this Ohio State team all season long? I said, well, they were there, they just played poorly against Michigan. Everybody wrote them off after Michigan. Well, to me, it was just a poor game plan. They were out coached in
the game against Michigan. Because if you see that, like they can accidentally score twenty one points, that kind of talent. Quarterback's good, wide receivers are really good, got a really good running back, and you got a good defense. That should be a formula that you win a game against Michigan. Well, Michigan is an anomaly that game. It doesn't matter what your record is. It feels like going into that game and Michigan went in with a better game plan last
night was not the case. So Ohio State knew what they wanted to do. They were going to strike early, and Chip Kelly against his former school, he was going to make sure that they were coming at you from all different angles. And that was an impressive performance. People are like, they're surprised that Ohio State's really good. They spent twenty million dollars on Nio in them season. They need to spend that on one player. They should be great.
They are great, and I think that's what surprised people for some reason yesterday is now maybe the bigger surprise is maybe Oregon wasn't up to what Ohio State was.
Now.
Earlier in the year Oregon beat Ohio State. Great game at Oregon, but that was just two different teams. And now you can say, well, was there rust You know, Oregon didn't play and well it didn't factor in with Arizona State. Ohio State was a better team by far, and we saw that last night, And yes, does it take.
Away from Oregon season?
It will because I think people looked at and somebody made the analogy Oregon football is the Gonzaga of basketball, a finesse team, and maybe so, I mean, you're not going to out physical Ohio State or Georgia or Texas, just not.
They spent a lot of money on that beef upfront. That's why.
So you're spending your money, they're getting quality defensive and offensive linemen. And that's the difference with good teams and great teams. Controlling the line of scrimmage, but then you throw in the skill position players. Then all of a sudden it wasn't fair. It wasn't a fair fight last night. But let's not forget Ohio State is always good, yes, Marv.
Yeah, Oregon's kind of like a nineties European center. They have a great year or beat a Simonis Vladi Devac and when the playoffs comes, Shack just bullies them.
Wow, that's exactly what happened yesterday.
So Oregon was Vloatti divoc and Ohio State was Shack. Yes, Dave Patrick, all right, the Patrick shut the hell up. The Quinn Hewers situation is fascinating. What if he wins a national title, do they say, hey, that's awesome, good luck.
Where are you going to play next year?
Because arch Manning's coming in and it feels like that's a foregone conclusion. Imagine doing what you're supposed to do and you might not be able to keep your job. Ryan Day, if he wins a national title, he's keeping his job. But I wonder if they lose the game against Texas or they lose the next Like, I don't know how this works with you know, I would say that, but that's you know, I don't understand the fan base. I mean I was part of it because you know,
I understood Michigan, Ohio State what it meant. But now it's different because the college football playoffs where you have a lot of you know, there's better opportunities to get into the postseason, whereas before you wouldn't have that. They're still going to spend money. They get the best wide receivers in the country, and they always have a great running back. You're getting quarterbacks in the transfer portal now, Ryan Daid, I don't think he's gone anywhere, but it
certainly felt like that after the Michigan game. And you can win your way out of things. But I mean, he's lost what ten games? I mean, you know you'd say, how many is he lost ten? But really he's lost what four? Because he lost to Michigan And that shouldn't be the only thing that matters moving forward. That fan base should realize, Yes, bragging rights and it means, imagine, we won the national title. Yeah, but you lost to Michigan and it's the best rivalry in all of sports.
And what it means it'd be like the Yankees and the Red Sox and you face each other. It'd be like if the Red Sox beat the Yankees back in the ALCS, but they didn't win the World Series. Is there a part of your fan base that go, yeah, but we knocked out the Yankees. It's like, but you didn't win the World Series. That's sort of the feeling
you get with Ohio State and Michigan. Look, Michigan played a great game with the green game plan, and you know, on a down year in Ohio State twenty four point favorites, and they acted that way last night.
I mean, was I surprised that they dominated? I was not.
It was a tract meet, and Ohio State was like, you don't want to give them a chip on their shoulder. They might be the most talented team of the country, and you're gonna go all right, you guys are underdogs or they think you're gonna lose again.
Hey, Ryan Daves on the hut seat.
They played great football, and now you've got to beat Texas in Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Which is another problem I kind of have with the College Football Playoff Committee that you set up this scenario where Texas plays a home game here, there's a few things they got to tweak here next year. This is the first go round. You got to you know, there's always the first draft where you go, what were you thinking?
Next year? It'll be different?
And I go back to let Vegas help you with this, because there's no emotion, no feelings. Theirs comes down to we want to make money. We don't want to lose money. We want to have the right matchups, the right teams, right teams playing one another. And I think that would help the College Football Playoff committee because when you factor it in like emotions, you go Alabama. I mean, we
kept hearing that the emotional part of this when Alabama. Yes, but Alabama wasn't Alabama this year, but nobody wanted to believe it. When you saw the Vandy game, you go, well, okay, you know it's just no. Vandy was a better team. Jalen Milroe regressed this year. I thought, man, here he comes, he got to stay another year. I think we get caught up in this is the way it used to be. You're going to buy into a brand, and that's not fair.
It's not fair to the other schools. They're fighting that brand and they might be a better team than that team. And Alabama wasn't. They weren't playoff worthy.
They just weren't.
But I think we look at the end result and then we say somebody shouldn't have been in. No, we said, for in the beginning, Alabama shouldn't be in. I didn't think Indiana played a great schedule, but they did what they were supposed to do and they got in. SMU they did what they were supposed to do. Boise State, Arizona State. It's sounded like they go, hey, we're going to pick ourselves to be in the playoffs, and we'd like to have a first round by I mean, let's
be fair. Don't hold it against them. Oh, Indiana, they never should have been Okay, who picked them? It wasn't a straw vote at in Indiana where they go, hey, we all voted we should be in and we're playing Notre Dame.
Just be fair to the schools.
But I did root for the underdogs to not get blown out because I knew that that would take over the conversation of yeah, never should have been there, Like did anybody say Tennessee shouldn't have been in there? They got blown out the worst, And the answer is they should have been there. They did what they were sposed to do, but we got caught up in Alabama. Alabama. I mean, you got a lot of people at the mothership flying the flag, and you got to be careful.
You know, those are your partners, Like you're in business, are you unbiased? Paul Finebaum's on all the time flying the flag, although he I think he finally had a white flag that he waved, like.
He gave up white, orange checkered He.
Finally decided that, you know what Alabama should have been in there. But sometimes we play the results of what happened with that team. Play beat that team, which means that team beat that team, so that means Michigan would be able to beat or like, you know, we start to do those things and it's not fair. It's weekend week out, Like Northern Illinois beat Notre Dame at Notre Dame. If Notre Dame wins against Georgia NORTHERNNY, Northern Illinois, they could probably beat No.
No.
Not how it were works week to week, gained a game. But I think it's awesome. I watched so much of the football, even the bowl games that didn't really matter, because I like what they're trying to do, Like here we are. It's a Thursday, and I've got this game this afternoon. Like we wouldn't have these things. You wouldn't have Arizona State in Texas. That's one of the that's an instant classic.
You wouldn't have it. And I know there have been blowouts. There are blowouts that happen in the.
NCAA tournament, in the NFL, blowouts happen, but embrace it.
We're making progress here. It's fun, Yes, Paul.
There is a stretch around Christmas where in North Illinois Fresno State two overtimes, South Florida, San Jose State five overtimes, Toledo pitt six overtimes.
That was in a.
Forty eight hour period.
It was fun.
And I know they'll have tweaks, and they should because this is fluid that they have to keep looking at this going okay, how do we make it better? How do we make it better? And they will, but it's fun. College football needed to be tweaked a little bit here.
Now.
They still have other things to worry about and I can't help you there with nil and transfer portal, other than we shouldn't be allowing transfer portal during these bowl games. But then you actually have something called school that gets in the way. It's like, why are they transferring? Why can't they transfer and git? Well, school starts. They might have to go to class somewhere. I don't know. That might be optional. Tyler in Montana, Hi Tyler, what's.
On your mind today?
Hey guys, how's it going?
Good?
Good?
I just got a best and worst of the break? The best will be kans Kataboo, just you know, running all over the Texas defense in the second half. I mean, I guess all you got to do is throw up, right, yeah?
Yeah?
And then my worth is the Giants man really against the Colt.
I put the Colt.
Defense in on my fantasy team and they got me negative four points and I lost my championship because of that. And I'm a Giants fan and lost the number one taken the same weekend day.
Keep your head up, Tyler. We didn't do our best and worst of the week slash weekend. We'll do it after the break. Brent in Alabama, Hi Brent, what's on your mind today?
Hey?
Dan?
Love the show. Hope y'all are having a happy New year.
Thank you.
So a couple of points I want to make the first one is the targeting call initi would get a lot easier if they were taking a page out of the XSL playbook and open up, open up the discussion, give us some transparency to what the referees you're talking about. I don't know if that's a union thing where they're not going to allow the accountability or what, but I think that's an easy way to overcome at least you know, eighty ninety percent of the drama. Just let us know what you're thinking.
Right.
And then the second point I want to bring up is with the these Bowl games. I'm an SEC guy. We've been hearing about all of the trash talking, you know, the Bowl records, all that stuff. These aren't Bowl games anymore. It's almost like an NFL preseason game the way it feels like there's so many missing players. You've got transfer portal issues, opting out issues, people preparing for the draft,
trying to stay healthy, all of that. I really think that's why they're going to eliminate like the bowl season and probably just bring it in. Don't expand the playoff to maybe even sixteen or eighteen teams this year. I think that'd probably be better for the sport.
Well, Brent, you got to understand this. This is about ESPN programming. Bottom line, all of these Bowl games, they chew up hours for the Mothership. You got live content and they have a lot of shows and a lot of time to fill. That's what this is about. They would have even more Bowl games if they could. They don't care because they look at us and go, yeah, you'll watch that game.
What else is on?
Nothing? I'll watch that game. It's live, It's going to be there, not going away. Now are they going to expand? Probably? I think the tricky part you're finding is how will Ohio State fans travel to this next game against Texas. That would be my concern. You know, if Notre Dame Georgia, how many fans are then traveling the next week? This is what the Bull committee. That's why they had these home games games on campus because you can't ask you're
talking sixty seventy thousand. Nobody ever says at an NCAA tournament game march madness. Man, I wonder if they can fill the building. You know, it's going to be Iowa State against Stetson, Like nobody says that. But with college football, you're showing the crowd, it's so much part of the visual that you show. And the colors, the Oregon fans, the Ohio State fans. Oh, how many do they bring? You know, they travel really well. You can't do that three weeks in a row. It's tricky. And that's why
you'll have these games on campus. Yes, smart, and.
I think for bull season as a whole, those smaller schools, maybe not smaller, but schools that aren't Ohio State or Texas, it's something for them to you know, work towards.
Like I go to Yukon.
Yukon making a bowl game was a big deal for the program, and a bunch of other schools like that. So it's something to work towards, you know, for schools that aren't that big.
Yeah, in Arizona State or SMU or Boise State if they won, and then how many fans do you bring? And like they factor in all of these things. All right, we'll take a break. I'll give you our best and worst of the weekend right after this.
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Time for our best and worst of the week or weeks since we've been out for a little while. The Broncos and the Dolphins and the Bengals are still alive, the Buccaneers and Falcons. Who is going to be winning that division and perhaps hosting the loser of Sunday Night. So you're gonna have the Vikings or the Lions on the road playing Tampa or Atlanta or the Rams. And I certainly don't want to play Tampa or the Rams on the road, but they're going to have to. The
stakes are extremely high. This feels like play in games. This is a play in weekend here, like the Steelers can still win the division. You know, you got the Bengals there, the Bengals trying to stay alive.
I like this late season. Joe Burrow push.
Joe Burrow was my pick for MVP to start the season, and of course they went south because of their defense, but he's I didn't think we would have somebody getting close to fifty touchdown passes. It just felt like they weren't letting these offenses, you know, expand they were trying to kind of It's like when hockey went into that shell when they back. I don't know how many years ago it was, but you know, Hockey's like, we can't have this. The New Jersey Devils they mastered this. They'd
had Mark ten bro door. They'd score a goal and then they'd do this like shell defense and it was very boring. It feels like defenses are doing their best to keep everything in front of you and you're not getting that prolific passing game that we've come to expect. But then look at Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. They've been great this year. But then you see like Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert has to look around and go d those guys get throw the ball a lot. Justin Herbert's like
a quarterback out of the seventies. But he's going to the playoffs and that's all that matters. Let me see what else do I have here?
All right?
So, playing games playing weekend in the NFL, I don't know if anything changes as far as Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson this weekend. That maybe sways voters. Feels like people already have a feeling of who they're voting for. I don't have an MVP vote if I did, I would vote for Josh Allen. And you know when you say that and you go not taking anything away from Lamar Jackson, but apparently I am. I'm taking away an MVP vote from Lamar Jackson. I just think Josh Allen
surprised me this year. Lamar Jackson did not surprise me this year. Lamar Jackson's got a better offense than Josh Allen does. Josh Allen I think became elite this year, like truly where you could trust him. He wasn't going to try to do too much. Now, let's see what happens to the postseason really with Lamar and Josh Allen, because whoever wins the MVP, whoever bows out of the postseason sooner you're going to get that kind of blowback.
Where it's like, oh, MVP, huh.
It's a regular season award, because if we factored in the postseason, they would take away Lamar Jackson's two previous MVPs and they would give it to Patrick Mahomes every year. So let's not get that confused here. How about we do best and worst of the weekend. Todd, I'm going to start with you. You've been on fire today.
Let's do this best of the weekend. We've mentioned that a number of times and we even had a guest on it. The Texas Arizona State Peach Bowl, with the Sun Devil's coming back down twenty four eight and the fourth taking Texas a doubt in just a fourth and thirteen stop away from knocking out the long horse. Cam Scattabow's last four games six hundred and thirty seven rushing
yards and ten touchdowns. Last four games for Cam, worst being on the wrong end of a very exciting game lest satally as the Broncos once again missed an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot thirty twenty four overtime loss and since he did, Joe Burrow in the Bengals.
See No Connor best and worst. My worst of the weeks not to pile on, but Oregon. You can't be the number one team in the country and get humiliated like that. You have to show up. That's embarrassing. My best of the weekend, though, was actually another butt whooping. The Dallas Cowboys got absolutely destroyed by the Eagles, and as much as I love that, that's not what my
best is. Oh my best is Micah Parsons after the game saying, you know, if you take away the scoreboard, is actually a pretty close game.
That is one of the.
Best quotes of all Yeah, if you took away the scoreboard, it's only like five plays. That really said it was pretty much closer game than that. That is hilarious. You take away the scoreboard. Yeah, but with the scoreboard and those couple of plays, you guys got your ass beat.
Not everybody should have a podcast. That's just I'm just gonna put that out there.
Yeah. I think he said that to the media. Oh, that wasn't even on his podcast.
That was in the locker room after the game, being like, hey, you know it was as bad as seam.
Oh he didn't.
He didn't save that gold for his podcast like Draymond Green do did Draymond didn't? Draymond Green talk about how he learned from punching. He needed to punch Jordan Pole to learn not to bunch a teammate.
He really grew Yes he did.
Yeah, Oh what a goofball?
All right?
Marvin Best and Worst of the Weekend.
Best of the Weekend.
A one of our favorite wide receivers, Molik neighbors several receptions hundred seventy one yards two touchdowns, as the Giants said, bleep the number one pain. We're gonna win anyway, beat the Colts. My worst of the weekend Tennessee football players coming out shirtless for your pregame warm warm ups. I don't know if you guys trying to intimidate anybody or impress anybody, but you failed that both You got whooped, then you got hypothermia in pneumonia the worst.
I don't think that would intimidate me.
If I was on the other team, I'd be like, you guys look stupid and you don't have shirts on.
What's wrong with you?
Yes, Paul My best of the weekend. I will go a tie T Higgins. He doesn't get a lot of national publicity, but he's fantastic for the Bengals, really hitting his stride as a player, and Lad McConkey for the Chargers. What an important acquisition he was as a rookie. Doesn't get a lot of pub My worst of the weekend. This is a little complex, but I don't know if we in the media and people in general give enough
perspective and context to records. Ashton Genty was going for the all time rushing record in college football, and he would have been able to use the bowl game records to add to his total that had been legal. Now in the NCAA, Barry Sanders was not allowed to use his bowl game numbers to his all time record. So Barry Sanders ran for two hundred and twenty two yards in a bowl game, you would have tacked that onto
a season. The NCAA doesn't recognize that, which hurts Barry Sanders, and that'd be an easy fix as well for the nca Go back to the box score, hit two twenty two and plus and you add it to his total. But for some weird rule, they don't do that.
But they allow it now, but they don't they didn't allow it back then.
Correct, and jenty would have gotten all his bowl games this year. Let's say Boise State one. He gets every yard fair to him, he earned him. But Barry Sanders did not get his two twenty two in the bowl game his last year.
OKA.
And even to go further with as you've said, dan Is, you know nobody loves OJ Simpson. No one's going to bat for OJ Simpson. But as a football player, to me, he's a single season a rushing champ because I think he ran for one hundred and forty three yards per game. That's ten more yards per game that season than Eric Dickerson did in his record season. And if we do a little bit of work in a little bit of context, it helps with these records.
Yeah, but they're selling now, They're not selling yesteryear. Correct, So it's hey, uh, say Kwan going for the all time record. Nobody's saying, but if you really look at how many games games that he needed, and they don't want to get caught up in the details, it's like he could be going for the all time record.
Okay, we could, Uh, but you.
Know, go back to when they played one hundred and fifty four baseball games and then they went to one sixty two and they did that to Roger Merris with an asterisk. Well, babe, did it one fifty four, You did it one sixty two.
Yeah. Point, by the.
Way, if you ever want to laugh, go back and look at Barry Sanders' rushing yards per game his last year of college, his last six games in college three twenty two, fifteen, three twelve, two ninety three, three thirty two and two twenty two. Those were his last six games.
Yeah, I think he's the greatest college running back of all time. And I've said this before. When I saw OJ Simpson at USC run the football, he wasn't running like I truly saw him glide and he was incredible. So that's the first running back who caught my eye that made me think like different about running backs and Gail Sairs in the NFL. Jim Brown was different. He was a power, power running back. But when I saw OJ, Gail Says, and then when I saw Barry Sanders, it was just different.
Now, it just they.
Don't make those running backs like they're all unique. It's not like somebody says, oh, there'll be another Barry Sanders. There won't be Gail Stairs. There won't be even what OJ did in college, and for you know a few years in the NFL. They just it's different. But Barry, to me's greatest running back that I ever saw because I never saw him get hit like where he went. Damn,
that's got to hurt. And I'll always go back to that quote that Barry Switzer coaching at Oklahoma National Powerhouse and they face Oklahoma State and Barry Switzer famously said, whatever you do. Don't hurt Thurman Thomas, who is a Hall of Fame running back. Don't hurt him because his backup is better. In his backup was Barry Sanders. That's an all time quote from a guy who wasn't afraid of playing anybody, but he was afraid of Barry Sanders.
Heather in Wisconsin, Good morning, Heather, what's on your mind today?
Good morning Dan?
Hey.
I was just calling to give a shout out to my dad Jeff, who retired this Monday to his one and only job of forty three and a half years. I'm guessing he is enjoying his retirement these first few days by drinking coffee in his garage while watching your show, as he's a big fan.
And his name is Jeff Jack Jeff, Jeff Jeff Sam Peltz yep.
All right, well thank you, Heather, Yes, Tim Paul or yeah, just see, well it's been a while since I'm seeing you guys.
Yeah, huh so that's like my mom.
Does you're Marvin? Okay? Yes? Is it Jeff or g Off? Oh? How do you spell Jeff with a J?
Or G?
Joe? All right? Jeff? Wow?
Okay, now graduating? Well, if it was with a G E O F F. Then we wouldn't have done and hang out. Hey Jeff, happy retirement forty three years. Congratulations, more time to watch this show.
Uh?
Chris in Texas? Hi Chris, what's on your mind today?
Hey? Dan? Worst time? Long time?
Uh?
Six foot ninety and working on it. Okay, Happy New Year to you and the guys.
Thank you. I just like you know.
The Texas ASU game. I'm a Texas I don't think it was targeting, but I understand why people do.
Wait, wait, why don't you think it was targeted? Let's just be honest. Okay, you can admit it now, Chris, you won the game. Why don't you think that's targeting?
I think the difference is spirit of the law versus letter of the law. Letter of the law says that's a defensive bat meets to launch himself.
No, no, no, that's part of it. That's part of it.
There's direct contact with his face mask and the helmet of a defenseless receiver. You can't argue that it's a defenseless receiver. They should have flagged for that anyway. But you know it's okay to admit that. You know that you guys, got a call, You got one.
It's okay.
And what I'm actually what I'm what I really want to talk about is this implication that only Texas benefited from the officiating in that game. I mean, yes, Texas came out on top of it in the end, but for those four quarters plus, both teams benefited from bad officiating. Both seemed for frustrated by bad officiating. As Chris Sims pointed out a couple of series earlier, it was an Arizona State defensive back hitting a Texas.
And where did and where did Chris Simms go to college? I know we both went to Texas, Yes exactly. But Chris, it's okay, you got a call. And if you said, hey, there were calls for both teams throughout the game, yeah they were, and you don't have to apologize. It's it's a minute to play, and that's a defenseless receiver and it was targeting.
That's all.
Then Arizona State maybe goes down and kicks field goal, wins the game, that's all. But congratulations, good luck against the Ohio State. You don't want to admit, hey, we got away with one. You did, you got away with one they're not going back. They even had replay, and they still didn't get it right. Yes, I can see how, you know. In the moment watching that, it seemed okay. To me, it seemed like, wow, that was a really
great tackle. And then the more they showed it and the slower they showed it, I was like, dang, he smashed that dude right in the face. It's clearly targeting, but real time, real speed. Obviously you're watching on TV, so that's a different vantage point than any of the officials had. But I didn't really see what was wrong with it until they kept showing it. To me, yes, and they had the benefit of replay. Now, if you said, hey, was that targeting in the moment, you'd go, man, look
like just a really good hit. Yeah, And then all of a sudden they kept showing the replay, I'm like, Okay, they get to see what I'm seeing, and that's targeting. When the rules official comes on and says, yeah, that's targeting, even talks about a defenseless receiver and does so in a matter of fact way of yeah, this really isn't you know, shouldn't be reviewing this very long. That was the problem that I had with it. You know, did
I want Arizona State to win? I did when we got to that point, because then that's a better story.
Like I don't care.
Who wins the national championship, but I care about the content that goes along with that. If somebody wins and it's impressive, somebody loses, it's dramatic, Like that's content. But I you know, watching these games, Ohio stayed against Oregon. I wanted to see a competitive game, Like, couldn't care less.
So I don't. I'm not. There's no bias here. It was just that's a bad call.
So is fourth and thirteen and you let the receiver behind you, the only guy you gotta really worry about on that team Golden and I went, oh my god. And Jesse Palmer was like, hey, you got your go to guy, and that's the guy they went to and that's why they move on. So Texas did what they needed to do when they needed to do it.
It's still targeting. We'll take a break back after this.
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How about you write the headline for tomorrow, for today's game with Notre Dame in Georgia. Short notice here, that's not going to intimidate Fritzy, one of the great mock headliners of all time should be able to come up with something.
Just like that.
Dame, they did the dogs dirty.
Notre Dame, they did the dog's dirty. Seaton, you love this game tomorrow's headline today?
Uh, Georgia says no to Dame.
Okay, all right, I give that one.
George says no, no Dame.
All right, Marvin, what about you?
It's Dame time. Notre Dame pulls off the ope.
Okay, all right, I'm gonna give them one. I'll give you a bloop.
Paul uugh Notre Dame spanks Georgia.
Oh okay uugh ug. Yes see, Notre Dame.
What is it like thirty it's a lot thirty five thirty years, thirty five years or something like that since they won a real bowl.
Game, since they won a real bowl game, like a.
Major bowl game. They haven't won a major bowl game I think in like thirty years or something like that. Other than that, it's they get into a big one like a sugar Bowl, or something and usually get blown out. But when they're in the you know, Ico dot Com.
Bowl, the twenty nineteen Camping World Bowl, your riskmer too was that of no Orlando.
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It's nice. Maybe we just do two day work weeks.
Oh that's on the record, standing ovasward from O'Connor.
And we have to decide which two days. So I would think Thursday and Friday, so we could have a meet Friday.
We could do a nice Tuesday Wednesday selection if you want, can float?
Could float? Okay? Okay?
All right, but here is here's the kicker with that you have, hopefully not the textive kicker.
Hey, his hair is on brand. Oh it was.
You know what I love about that too? Your wife You're like, oh my god, dude, just cut your hair and learn how to kick, right.
I know, it's like his hair's nothing to do with it.
And then I didn't realize this, but the Arizona State equipment manager or trainer froze the kicker on the sidelines. She walks right in front of him as he's getting he's practicing, and Paulie goes, oh, she just froze him.
And then I went back and I go, oh.
Be damn she did. She froze him just a couple of kicks there. Let me see, Yes, Paulie, you you're Tom Brady.
I have a Tom Brady hot take up and sitting at I don't know if you want it, cause you're.
So you waited two hours in fifteen minutes to give me a Tom Brady hot take.
It's like a twenty twenty five prediction Tom Brady.
Okay, you meane his last year broadcasting.
That's it.
Yeah, And then Aaron Rodgers takes over for Tom Brady and the Fox.
Booth hmmm, that makes sense. I need to have some time away from Aaron Rodgers. I just do like I'm I'm I'm just now.
Maybe he plays for Tennessee next year, Maybe he plays for Cleveland next year. Maybe he plays for the Colts next year. But I need, we need to see other people.
I just do.
I'm just a little I'm fatigued. Fatigued, is what I am. Final results of the pole question seton.
Oh brother, is that what you want right now?
The final? Yes?
I do?
Good grief? Uh, well if my computer wasn't h.
The old computer?
Yeah?
Classic.
Well what do you think, Dan, what do you think Saquon Barkley should have done? Is it smart?
Or I think it's smart?
But I don't know if he said hey, I want to play and they said no, or they said or he said no, I don't want to play. I mean, that would be a bad look. If he came out and said hey, I didn't want to play and they wanted it like this is smart decision?
Right now, fifty six percent of the hoarser calling it a smart decision.
Wow, okay, you know.
And actually, now that I think about, I worded the cold question wrong. I put Saquon Barkley sitting this weekend. It should have been sitting Saquon Barkley this weekend.
Okay, right, yes, Paul.
Maybe to deal with something like this, what if you had a major sponsor that always sponsors certain huge awards, like the NFL rushing record. Let's say Coca Cola said we're going to give ten million dollars to the person who breaks Eric Dickerson's record, and it's a floating sponsorship, it's always out there, and then Saquon Barkley would look at this weekend and say, I personally can make ten million dollars. I know it's convoluted, but I don't know.
I don't think we care about records anymore.
I think we'd all tune in for Saquon.
Well, I was tuning in anyway, but I I'm just kind of numb to records.
Now there's none that I go, oh my god, is that impressive?
Yes, Mark, do you think it's easy for him to sit because he hit the two thousand yard mark?
Yeah?
Yeah, Like if he was maybe a hard of yard short of two thousand yards, that might be a different story. But since you're already up there with Chris Johnson and O. J. Simpson and Diggerson in the.
Way it makes It just makes sense for your team with your quarterback who's coming out of concussion protocol.
You got to win.
You know.
Part of the reason why he went to Philadelphia is he wanted to win games. They needed him because they want to get back to the super Bowl.
I get it. It makes it makes sense.
I know that.
You know, the competitor in us was like, oh, you gotta play. You're this close. I get it. And you're going against the giants. They're the happiest people in all of this. There are giants like, we don't have to eat this. He's not going to do this to us. Let's go around the room, see if we learned anything. Tod, did you learn anything today?
I did.
Chris Sims never felt any of this. His teams were tanking, but doesn't believe this. Four or five teams will orchestrate it did not exactly put the best foot forward.
Oh was there this state in sports history? Pauling, I just got a couple.
Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract in pro football history, four hundred thousand dollars in nineteen sixty five. This is a fun one. Nineteen seventy two, Elvis Presley gave Mohammad Ali a ten thousand dollars robe that said People's Champion on it, just a personal gift. Ali wore the robe when he lost to Ken Norton.
Ouch Thanks to you, Uh, Seaton.
Chris Sims went to Texas and is not shy about that.
Uh Marvin, you want to break up with Aaron Rodgers?
PAULI fill in the blank, crushing again?
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