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It's great. This is actually a master class in PR by Woody Johnson and his son, Brick Johnson, and the entire New York Jets organization, because they didn't even let the media have a single news cycle where we're talking about what happened on Monday night. Also, thank you for just wiping that memory of that game out of my brain. Oh my God.
And we can talk about the rest a little bit. So many calls, so many flags. This is perfect PR for the Jets. You lose a Monday night football game, and then next day, you completely change everybody's mind, and now Jets fans are happy.
Yeah, no. I mean, did you even have time to really get upset about this loss? No, I think a half hour into waking up the news broke. That's great.
Every team should be so lucky. Yeah. They should be so lucky. You just have an embarrassing loss.
You wake up the next morning, and you're like, oh, new toy. It's literally the fix it button. You're two and four. You look like shit on Monday night football.
Well, you looked okay at times, but you also had a Hail Mary. Defense looked like shit. Defense looked like shit. You fired your coach.
Can't make a kick. Can't make a kick. You didn't even get the new coach bump, but Devontae Adams. And we did say it.
His post two weeks ago, Edgar Allen Poe famously lived in New York City. The end of his life. The end of the career. That was exactly what happened.
Devontae Adams fixed everything, memes? Fixed everything. Can't stop the run, Devontae Adams. Can't make a field goal, Devontae Adams.
Million penalties, Devontae Adams. Gary Wilson now getting squeezed out, Devontae Adams. No, not squeezed out. Squeeze in.
Well, the last two games, Gary Wilson's been targeted a lot, but he's going to lose targets. But then you put Devontae Adams in the spots where he wasn't getting a ball. But what happens to Alan Lazar, because he's got to get his targets, too. He'll still get some.
He'll get the scrappy throws. You want more weapons. You want more weapons. Do you think Garrett Wilson and Aaron Rodgers' relationship is where it's at?
If, hypothetically, Aaron Rodgers next year, at the end of this year, said, this Jets organization is a dumpster fire. I want to trade. I want to go to the Vikings. Do you think he brings Garrett Wilson with him?
Because that's really the sign of whether Aaron Rodgers loves you or not. I think he would. I don't think the Vikings can afford Garrett Wilson. Well, this is perfect.
Because I have been hoping for the last two years that the way this would all shake out for Aaron Rodgers is he goes to the Jets, and then he goes to the Vikings. He does the Brett Favre. Like the guy he started his career out hating the most. It's like you become your parents at some point in life when you get older.
And then Aaron Rodgers just goes on to commit welfare fraud. I got another question for you, memes. This is me reading a tweet, and I'd like you to comment on it. Aaron Rodgers wanted Devontae Adams and got him.
Aaron Rodgers had no opinion on whether Robert Salah should be fired, and then it's a meme of Dr. Evil saying, right. Oh, it's Dr. Evil.
It's a classic. Was that Nathaniel Hackett that did that? No, well, he probably liked it. Did Florio tweet that?
That was Florio's tweet. Makes a pretty good point. Makes a pretty good point. I think Aaron Rodgers just works there.
I don't think Aaron Rodgers is there. He's no say. He was as surprised as you or me when he found out that Coach Salah was fired. You think he actually, he probably had to ask, like, whoever the big dom is in the Jets organization, he probably had to ask him for Woody Johnson's number this morning to be like, hey, can we please have Devontae Adams?
Because they never had that kind of relationship before. What do you think, Woody Johnson was like, actually, that's a great idea. Yeah, shit. Thanks for bringing that up.
I'm surprised it wasn't that long. Hit the button. It does feel like you forgot your wife's anniversary, and then you show up the next day and you bought her car. That's kind of what's going on with the Jets.
Remember Kobe after the Colorado, and then his wife had the biggest ring ever at the press conference? That's what Devontae Adams is for you. Hey, hey, hey, hey, please. I have a quote, another quote.
Oh, I like this. I like to speak in quotes. I'm not a big Jets fan, in case you don't know that. I thought Coach Salah really did a good job with this team.
That's kind of what it's been there with the Jets. They barely won over 30% in the last 10 years, the owner being the owner, ready, fire, aim. So, Hank, before Memes jumps in, that guy sounds like there's no way that person knows anything about football, right? Or the Jets.
Oh, does that person know anything about football? Yeah, Bill Belichick. Oh, shit. Bill Belichick wouldn't know anything about coaching for the Jets.
Twice. He did it twice. Memes? I fucking hate Bill Belichick.
But Bill Belichick does not like the Jets family at all. No shit? Yeah. You think?
Was it the part of the quote that he said, what did he say about him? Ready, fire, aim. The owner being the owner, ready, fire, aim. The owner being the owner.
It's great. They've barely won over 30% in the last 10 years. The owner being the owner. Anytime you have to double a name, it's like Manny being Manny.
The owner being the owner. Enough said. Belichick on the main cast is the greatest TV of all time. I hate it.
He just gets so mad. When I have anybody else on, I change the channel, but when it's Belichick, that's good stuff. It feels like he's been waiting all these years to get all these takes off, and he finally has a platform where he feels comfortable just unloading on people. He was getting so mad every time they didn't keep contain on Josh Allen last night.
You've got to fucking keep him in there. And just having Eli's presence there is enough to piss him off. So he gets in that mood where he's like, oh, I need to turn on somebody else because I have to look at Eli. So Memes, you've got Devontae Adams to fix everything.
Can we talk about the game, though? Because you guys are not good. Yeah. Well, in which aspect?
I thought the offense looked fine. I thought the offense looked okay. It was better than what it was, and then you rely on your defense, and then the defense just looked like absolute shit from the first draft. You did get seven points, though, from a Hail Mary, which you can't...
I guess with Aaron Rodgers, you probably can rely on that because he's just... I tweeted at the moment, the fact that when he goes back... First of all, the Bills rushing, too, was so idiotic. But when he goes back for Hail Mary, in my head, I'm like, this is a 50-50 shot.
This is insane. I expect it to happen. What if the Jets just ran an all-Hail Mary offense? If they got past the 40-yard line, why not just throw the ball four times in a row into the end zone?
Teams would be ready for it. I would imagine the pass rush would probably be a problem. I actually think... He wouldn't rush, too, every time.
The first time they did that, they'd probably get a touchdown in the first four times because they'd be like, surely they won't run the Hail Mary again and then just keep doing it. Yeah, I expect the pass to be caught. He's got the perfect trajectory on his Hail Mary. I don't think Rodgers was bad, per se.
The last play, obviously everyone's debating, that was vintage Rodgers kind of hero mode where he did have Brees Hall. I don't know if Brees Hall would have gotten the first down, but it was third down, so you had another down to work with. It did look like he had a mild run, Brees Hall, but everybody was running back because they saw Aaron Rodgers. Correct, and that's how his last play with the Packers, remember, was the exact same play where he threw it deep and I think he had Lazard underneath and it was just hero ball.
He goes into hero ball every now and then, but I didn't walk away from that game saying, oh, Aaron Rodgers is totally washed or anything. I thought the refs ruined that game to such an insane level that I was starting to not like football for me. When they flagged during the commercial break, our guy Deion Dawkins got flagged in the middle of the commercial break. I was like, they're just doing everything.
And then somebody on the Jets got flagged for an inappropriate discussion with the referee, and then there were several plays. I think there were multiple plays in the fourth quarter where there were flags on both teams and it was just every single play that happened and it dawned on me. I think the NFL has too many rules. I think we need less rules in the NFL.
It has to be a one-in-one-out policy. Whenever the competition committee gets together, they figure out a new rule. Yeah, you can add that rule, but you gotta take one out. So hip-drop tackle got added and offsides gets taken away.
Exactly, or you can take out like hands to the face. Who cares about hands to the face? No, I don't care about it. Hands to the face shouldn't count unless the helmet comes out.
Get rid of the rule that says that you can't advance a punt. Yeah. You should be able to advance a punt if it's mocked. There was an unnecessary roughness on a pass block where there was no hands to the face.
He just got a pancake. I'd never seen it before. It was crazy to play. It was insane.
That's like what you're taught to do as an offensive lineman. Both roughing the passer calls were egregious. Rodgers even said it. He was like, yeah, that was a terrible call when roughing the passer on Josh and it was a terrible call when they called it for me too.
So I appreciate Rodgers just saying that. He ripped the rest afterwards. He's gonna get big time fine. But guess what?
DuPontae Adams. And that's the Aaron Rodgers rule too that he got. He said it was a fumble and then expedited review jumped in and instantly expedited review said no, that's an incomplete pass. Then McDermott tried to challenge the expedited review and you can't really challenge the expedited review.
I did like the expedited review so it's actually been working. There's a couple times the Garrett Wilson touchdown where the ref was just staring at it and it was so obviously a touchdown and they just immediately like, yeah, that was a touchdown. I actually think that they expedited the expedited review too fast on the tuck rule play because I don't think that they realized exactly what happened and I think it probably should have been a fumble. The good news is it was so bad it was just bad everywhere so it can't even, I don't know if you can walk away by the way, there's another team that played in this game, the Bills and they are back.
Josh Allen was awesome. Josh Allen has been awesome. Do you know that Josh Allen has not thrown an interception this year? That concerns me.
That's a bad thing. I'm just saying. We've got to be consistent. For all the talk about all the turnovers, I also have a Josh Allen stat for you.
The Glazen's crazy, bro, but Josh Allen has the most passing and rushing touchdowns since the start of the 2022 season and it's not really close. He has 99, Jalen Hurst is second with 81, Patrick Mahomes with 78. He was, I mean, and now he has Amari Cooper who gets out of jail. Yeah, so it's like the Bills at the Cooper button.
Yeah, but they didn't even need to. They're 4-2 with what feels like I don't want to say commanding, but it does feel like a commanding lead in the ASC East because of who's in that division and how they've been playing and yeah, the Bills, that was a good win for the Bills where it's like you're coming off some questions, two tough games and they went into a tough environment. I would, going up against a team that just fired a coach is like that's unfair advantage for the other team. Yeah, that's what I thought the Jets, I did not factor in the fact that the defense would look a little bit worse and more disorganized because they elevated their defense coordinator to head coach.
I didn't factor that part in. Yeah, so whoever trades for him probably talked to the agent. Drew Rosenhausen. Get the contract set up.
Yeah, so I think he got fired by his agent, which is very rare that that happens. Johnny Manziel got fired. Because they got, I guess the report was that they had a one-year deal basically set that was going to be pretty good for Hassan Reddick and he was like no and his agency was like we can't do this anymore. You don't want this.
Yeah, so I don't know if any teams are going to give up really anything of substance to get Hassan Reddick right now. Yeah, I don't know. The only team I would think would be the Eagles. That was crazy.
What was the third round pick you give up for Devontae Adams? Additional? A third round that could become second. Pretty much the same deal for Hassan Reddick.
And if Hassan Reddick goes to an NFC team in a trade, it's a second to Philadelphia automatically. Oh, so you're probably not going to trade Hassan to an NFC team then? Probably not, yeah. Wait, well how's that?
Oh, the Eagles had that in the game. The Eagles had that in the game. Wow, that was smart. Moved by the Burks.
Moved by Howie. Howie. Back out of curiosity, what did the Eagles give up for Jahan Dotson who is not Devontae Adams or Amari Cooper? Oh, they gave up a third.
Okay, cool. Either way, I was impressed by the Bills. Josh is awesome. I mean, he's just awesome.
He's now adding Amari Cooper who I actually think Amari Cooper would be good because it's not that Amari Cooper was bad this year. He just had Deshaun Watson and you could just see that he wanted to be anywhere but where he was. How good is this day for Amari Cooper? You feel like Shawshank Redemption.
You feel like you climbed through was it like 1,500 yards of shit? It's incredible. And now you're out the other side. Good for him also.
Good for the Browns just making Deshaun Watson's life that much more. Torture. The torture keeps going. It gets even worse.
Trade every single weapon they have and make him go out there and play. Don't let Nick Chubb play this year. I like Nick Chubb. Save Nick Chubb.
Yeah, Amari Cooper last year he had 12.50 in yards. That's pretty damn good. And he's what, 29? He's 30.
He's 30, yeah. He's younger than we always think. But yeah, that's the Bills. The Bills look good.
I also like the Taylor, the corner wrap who had the Guardian helmet on who was out for a concussion still just going like head first, balls to the wall trying to kill people. Yeah, respect that. The Guardian cap, I'm still not used to seeing the Guardian cap. I think it kind of looks cool.
I feel like I was walking down in a different fabric. Shockingly, Damar Hamlin doesn't wear the Guardian cap. Damar Hamlin's out there snatching people's souls. Just laying the lumber.
Yeah, pretty wild stuff. He's out there. But yeah, so to sum it up, Jets, Devontae Adams fixes everything and Bills, they quieted any concerns that things were kind of falling apart with their last two performances and I feel like they're in a good spot. Did you get any vibes from Ulbrich in terms of what we can expect from him?
Nope. I didn't either. I just got a vibe that Nathaniel Hackett was sitting up in the booth being like, god damn it. That first drive, was it the first drive that Jets went right down the field?
It was the first drive and it was the second drive and just him, like it's kind of mean that he's still there. I think he called the Hail Mary. I think that was a Hackett. You think that was a Hackett?
Yeah, all of Aaron Rodgers' Hail Mary completions have been under the tutel of Nathaniel Hackett. Not all of them. No? I don't think so.
No, he's probably on the Jaguars for one of them, yeah. Yeah, I mean he was only, Nathaniel Hackett was only the Green Bay quarterbacks coach I want to say for like two years, three years. The Hail Mary was 2019 to 2021. I don't think he'd have a beard that long as that coach.
I just said this to meetings. Have we talked about how phenomenal his beard is? The beard is perfectly manicured. It is a perfect beard.
It looks almost fake how good the beard is. And it's crazy because Aaron Rodgers probably appreciates that. He's not that old. And we don't shame having a little bit of gray in your beard around.
No, I'm just saying it's only 47. It is, it's crazy though The lineup that he does on it? He must shave that line twice a day. I think that's...
You can't shave that in the morning and then have it pop at like 11 p.m. like he was having it pop. You don't like the beard? No, I like the beard.
I just think... It looks good if he's a defensive coordinator or a regular assistant coach, but... What about McFay? What about the floor?
They don't have long Santa Claus. That beard demands respect. I disagree. I'm just saying, in terms of if you're looking at a head coach, like if you're mocking up a head coach, when are you drawing...
I don't know. The lines on the beard are perfect. The lines are crazy. I respect the beard.
As a man who's baseball, I can only dream of having a beard like that. However, I think it's too manicured for especially a defensive head coach. Like he spends a lot of time working on the beard. I would like it to be a little scraggly, a little more unkempt.
I mean, look at those lines. He uses a protractor to shave his beard. He's got a good beard. I'm going to look at it more.
I still don't know anything about the guy. He's just not giving us anything. I'm not going to rule out your take, Hank. The beard just doesn't give head coach vibes.
I can see that. Maybe go goatee. Goatee should come back. Goatees are cool.
All right. It's weird how all these trades happened during the NFL owners' meetings. That is interesting. Speaking of NFL owners' meetings, Jerry Jones is at the part of the season where he's threatening radio host jobs.
Yeah, I saw that. So he went on his... Wait, you have a bad birthday. Yeah, he did his hit on the local radio that he does every week.
And he basically was like, I'll find someone else to ask these questions if you keep asking these questions. Yeah, so they ask him about making personnel moves. Fair question, because Jerry's the GM. I would say that's a very fair question.
And he said, this is not your job. Should I do my Jerry Jones? It is his job. This is not your job.
Your job isn't to let me go all over the reasons. George Bush. I did something. I'm sorry that I did it.
That's not your job. I'll get somebody else to ask these questions. I'm not kidding. Yes, George Bush.
You've got to figure out what the team's doing right or wrong. If y'all are 85 or 10 likely, you can come to this NFL meet. I'm going to do 32 teams here. You're geniuses.
And that was Jerry Jones. That was Jerry Jones. Jerry George Bush. Also, a little Mike Greenberg in there.
But yeah, Jerry Jones is losing it. Yeah, bad birthday for Jerry. Bad birthday for Geno, too. Maybe it's the opposite of having a baby bump.
If you have a birthday, that feels like it might be bad news. Trevor Lawrence won his only game this year on his birthday. Okay, counterpoint. Yeah, yeah.
So it's hit or miss. Jerry's upset. Mike McCarthy says he relishes the opportunity to correct this team. He was just thinking about hot dogs.
He was like two hours late to his press conference. Everyone thought he might have gotten fired. Or got lost. Yeah, he was probably doing his hot dogs.
He probably was eating his hot dogs. Okay, should we talk a little baseball real quick before we do college football? Yeah. The Mets even the series.
Memes, congrats. That was a big day for you. The Bats woke up right away. It was the greatest three innings, and then it was the most stressful baseball game after that.
How do you feel about Diaz coming into pitch four outs? So based on everything that's been going on in the playoffs, it looks like a bad strategy because they get the one out, and then they get like 20 minutes of rest, and then they come back cold. Yeah. So I don't love it because it kind of happened to Stanek.
Stanek came in, got the out, came in, then got runners on second and first. So I don't love it. Okay. I felt like, yeah, a lot of Mets fans were panicking in that situation.
But yeah, he had the first three innings. Great first three innings. Great first three innings. Mania shoved.
Me and Max were talking about Otani. Okay. He shouldn't be leading off. Why?
Because he was like 0 for 19 with runners not on. Yeah, he was like 16 for 19 with runners on. 0 for 19. No, I know, but then they showed a stat where he was like 16 for 18 with runners in scoring position or something.
Yeah, so if you swap Mookie bats with Shohei, it's probably the greatest. I'm going to need Shohei to do something this year. It's not only because I said it on Sunday night, but also PFD told me that we're going to bet Shohei to hit two home runs every game, and I've been doing that. Well, he almost had a game one.
In a single. I need three hits. He almost hit game one. He hit the ball, Hank thought it was a home run, and then he hit the warning track.
We're on there. We're on there. It's a bad matchup with the pitcher last night. Mania, I love his delivery.
It's crazy. Like, the angle that he throws, he basically does a pick-off move and then throws the ball to home plate every time he throws a pitch, and it's just got to be impossible for a lefty to hit that. I don't understand why every pitcher doesn't do that. But Sean Mania sucked, and then he just did that one thing to switch it up, and now no one can hit him.
If you're bad, just do that. Then you'll be good. And it will work. It's a completely different angle.
He reinvented math. It's crazy. Everyone in the Phillies had great numbers against Mania. Everyone in the Dodgers had great numbers against Mania, but it doesn't matter because he's just a different pitcher this year than he's ever been.
Yeah, he's smart. The catcher lines up to the right mound or to the right plate and he throws from the left mound. I get that. I just didn't know that he did that.
No, yeah, that's how he warms up before every game. That's very smart. The Mets are doing something very smart. Yeah.
And then the other series, the Yankees beat the Guardians. Giancarlo's on fire. Did you see that picture of Giancarlo wearing a tank top at the press conference? He's just, he's the most jack guy ever.
He basically hit the moon with that home run. Yeah. I think Soto's home run was a unicorn, I believe. Love a unicorn.
Yeah. It was only out in Yankee Stadium. But that was a win, so he did hit it harder than like, it wasn't like a real cheapy home run. But yeah, it feels like the Yankees, I guess we'll choose your own adventure.
Garrett Cole tonight, the, whatever, he is $300 million man, $400 million man. Is he going to earn his pinstripes tonight? He's got to go out there and be a true ace big guy. Was that it last night?
Yeah. It was a unicorn home run only out in Yankee Stadium. Yeah, those are awesome. Love that.
They make everyone mad. But again, he did hit it harder than, there was wind, so he did hit it harder than like a little blue. But 110 miles away. Yeah, unicorns make people so hard.
Oh, there's reverse unicorns too. Yeah, I love those. It's only, it's not out. That's why I would have been a home run in every park except Cors Field.
Oh, wow. This is from June, but. That's pretty cool. Yeah, but it sucks when you bet on a guy that hit a home run and then he hits one of those.
Yeah. The reverse unicorn. Yeah, the reverse unicorn sucks. But I, so Garrett Cole, what do we think?
What do we think? This feels like a sweep. I don't think it's a sweep. $300 million man.
$324 million. Because I feel like there's too much at stake for Cleveland. This is the only thing Cleveland's got going right now. Yeah, their bullpen's really good too if they can just get a lead.
being in New York and them never even being in the championship. So it'd be funny if there was a Subway Series. I mean, it would be incredible content for our company. And just, like I've said it, but like.
I just want the Yankees to fucking win. But the, it would be so much pain for either side. Like, I don't even think about like who wins and gets to talk shit. I just think about the devastation for the loser in that situation.
I would be all time. I would much rather see Yankees fans devastated at this point. For sure. Wrong.
Yeah. How long after World Series win do you think it would take for Frank the Tank to go nuclear on the team and say, how they'll never win another game again? Pinstripe Max? Oh, Pinstripe Max.
He would ask for Pinstripe Dan to come back. I mean, Giancarlo's getting me close because he just keeps hitting bombs. Wow, Pinstripe Max. In New York?
Oh, yeah. You should. Okay, should we talk some college football? Let's talk.
That was an awesome college football Saturday. I have a belief now that college football is better than it has ever been. And I know there's a lot of hand-wringing going on with all the changes happening. But we're now in a spot and there's going to be more change.
I get it. Expansion, all that stuff. With the NIL, we talked about last week, but the NIL in the portal flattening it out so it doesn't feel like this year, maybe Texas, but it doesn't feel outside of Texas that there's those two or three super teams that no one has a chance against. The conference expansion has been awesome because you had games that were very meaningful and big-time games that you never would have had.
Oregon-Ohio State was awesome. And then you also had on Saturday the classics. You had LSU and Ole Miss, which was a great game. You had Tennessee-Florida, which was a great game.
And the fact that the Hispanic college football playoff, everyone's like all the regular season won't matter, I think it actually matters in a weird way more in the fact that we have true elimination games coming up where you're going to get a chance to, like you have games that now have stakes that wouldn't have had stakes beforehand. Like LSU and Texas A&M play I think next weekend. That's an elimination game. Yeah, there's going to be a ton of them.
That's an elimination game. Tennessee and Alabama could end up being an elimination. Like if Tennessee takes a second loss, then Tennessee's rest of the season they have to win. Alabama, same thing with them.
Georgia, if Georgia loses Texas this weekend, they play Ole Miss November 9th, that will be an elimination game because Ole Miss has two losses. I like the fact that there's a little bit of wiggle room too. If you have a bad loss to a Vanderbilt, guess what? You can let that slide for a little bit.
Vanderbilt, by the way, it's not a bad loss. They turn out not being a bad loss because their quarterback is legit legit. But I like the fact that there's a little bit of room for makeup if you're one of these top teams. Like if you, in years past, if you lose a game in October, guess what?
Chances are pretty good. If you have one loss, especially in your conference, if it's Georgia that's better than you or if it's Alabama that's better than you, chances are pretty good. You're not going to get to have a meaningful postseason game. And now, I mean, I'm very excited for the playoff.
Playoff is going to be electric. Because it does feel like there's a lot of teams that are, again, outside of Texas. We'll find out just how if Texas is that much better than everyone this weekend against Georgia. But it does feel like there's five or six teams that are kind of all in that same spot that could beat, anyone could beat anyone on any Saturday.
Whereas in the past, it's been like, all right, well, it's Alabama, Georgia and maybe Clemson when they were rolling. Or Ohio State when they were rolling. That Ohio State-Origan game was so good. It was a perfect college football game.
It was the weather, the sun setting, the vibes, the big plays, back and forth, puddles, puddles. And I didn't walk away from that game. So there's two ways to think about it. Obviously, Ohio State fans are going to say same old Ryan Day.
He comes up short in these big-time games. He's 2-7 now against top five opponents. He has had some close calls, obviously, that playoff game where they missed the kick against Georgia. There was one against Clemson as well.
They've had some close calls. They find a way to come up short in these big moments, though, that has to nag Ryan Day and Ohio State fans. But I went away from that game being like, well, Ohio State is still one of the best teams in the country. They lost by one point in a really tough environment.
I can't wait to watch these two teams play again. I think that throughout the years of Pac-12, for those people that don't stay up after dark to watch the Pac-12 games, you lose track of what a hard place to play Eugene is. It's a very, very tough stadium. Dan Lennon's a really good coach.
He had the 12-man on the field in the moment. I don't know about you, Big Cap, but I saw that. And I was like, that's the Buddy Ryan Polish goal line defense. Intentionally put 12 guys out there.
But kind of stupid. And then people said, no, it's not. That was a mistake by the defense. Then Lennon kind of confirmed that he didn't on purpose.
And now the NCAA is looking into punishing Oregon for doing that. Which would be crazy. There already is a punishment for it. It's called having too many men on the field.
And that's what's in the rule book. I feel like if you want to punish them more, you have to change the rule before the next season starts. And don't punish them for breaking a rule intentionally. It was your rule.
So Dan Lennon, coached a great game. He's got insane talent in Oregon. He's an awesome coach. He's one of those coaches, if you watch, this guy was born to coach college football at a high, high level.
I weirdly think that 12 men, which was intentional because they took a time out right before to assume in a big moment that he doesn't have control of who's on the field. But weirdly, unlike Buddy Ryan, where the whole point that would have been the play. Harvey had slid like two yards earlier. No, no, but I'm saying on that play because if he sees it at 12 men and he just spikes it, they call the penalty because the whole point was Oregon got four or five seconds burned off the clock and only had to give up five yards.
There was a world where Will Howard, if he had been aware of it, it could have backfired on him. I feel like that's a lot to ask of a quarterback in real time because you're probably looking at coverages trying to figure out where you're going with the ball. I don't know. And to also be able to count one, two, three, four, and get up to 12 and be certain.
Because imagine if you were wrong. Yeah, no, of course, but there was a dead ball situation off the time out so it wasn't like he was rushing to the line. That's unlike the coach to call that out. On the quarterback, Ryan Day was, he was yelling it.
It might be a lot to ask if you're the quarterback looking at that in real time to know for a fact they're 12. So Ryan Day should have yelled. He should have yelled louder. Maybe the beard got in the way.
Yeah, Will Howard, he came up just a little bit, a little short there. That's just Ohio State. The Ryan Day, Ohio State, he preaches all the time, like leave no doubt. That's his big mantra, leave no doubt in the big games and they keep having these moments.
And I just think, I don't know if it's, he beat Notre Dame and that big game and Ryan Day went after Lou Holtz and stuff. There was another moment in that game that was like, Ryan Day just feels like he's doing the things that some of these coaches, high level, high level coach in Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, Bill Belichick, these guys, Nick Saban, would never make this mistake. That game, Ohio State scored a touchdown with one second left to go up two. And he kicked the extra point.
That was so stupid. He never should kick the extra point. He should have nailed it. Because the only way that Notre Dame has a chance to tie this game is to block the extra point and run it back for two.
Like those are the little details that Ryan Day just misses. And yeah, but again, I think Ohio State's doing him. Will Howard played well. Dylan Gabriel, I wish Dylan Gabriel, I said it in the moment, he's one of those guys, I want him to just have a job for life in college football.
Like Cam Rising. Yeah, he should, Cam Rising, he didn't come out and say that eight years is too much. Well, he's eligible though. Yeah, but he said eight years is too much.
We can change his mind. He also just gets injured every single time he plays, so I can't, I don't, I like Cam Rising, I can't have Cam Rising in my life anymore. Eight years, I think we can change his mind. Damn, college football is better with you in it.
He came back from an injury that was cloudy and everyone didn't really know what happened and then got rolled up on in the first like five minutes of the game against Arizona State. Arizona State, by the way. And so here's my last point about the Bear College football. You have now all these teams that in last year's iteration or before with the 14 playoff you would never say they're still in it.
But like in Arizona State, they got one loss, they're still in it. SMU, Texas Tech, like some of these teams that they don't play in the big ten of the SEC if they catch a loss, they're never going to get in. What's new? Who's an independent?
They run the table, they have a chance. Clemson obviously, they probably will win the ACC. Did we forget about Clemson? No, I have not.
They've been killing people. As a collective society we have forgotten about Clemson. I have not because I've been betting on them and they've been winning every single week. Yeah, Clemson just, they tricked us.
Well, they just aren't as good as Georgia. Yeah. But it feels like there are so many games every single weekend that are high level games and there are more teams that are now in the mix and have a chance. I just, I love it.
I think college football's a great place and I know that there was a lot of people who were worried in the direction it was going to. I love it. I don't know anybody the regular season, the reason why college football is so fun is the regular season matters more than every other sport. The regular season's still awesome.
I think sometimes college football, like the diehard, diehard, pure college football fans are resistant to any change that makes it even comparable to the NFL. But there was a lot of pushback on the football team. We're not the NFL. We don't need a playoff.
Yeah, playoffs are good. Guess what? College basketball has the best playoff in the world. Maybe you could take a page from their book and be like, yeah, we'll include a couple more teams just for Mac.
You're going to get so many more viewers in December, January. It's going to be awesome. And Texas, to me, Texas, we'll learn a lot about them this weekend. I feel like they're inevitable.
I feel like this is Texas and then everybody else. Yeah, this will be the big weekend. Georgia will be a big test for them. Red River S-Out is the one game where no matter which team is good and which team might be having somewhat of a down year, it's usually a lot closer than that.
Oklahoma couldn't do shit. Oklahoma's in a bad, bad spot. They got no offensive line. They got no quarterback.
They got no wide receivers. Maybe no coach. Maybe no coach. Penn State, too, we should mention James Franklin with, I wouldn't say it was like a statement win because USC's not like a top 10 team right now, but still, the way that game was going, it felt like another fall-on-your-face James Franklin moment.
Down 20 to 6 at half. Tyler Warren with one of the craziest days. He had 17 catches, like 242 yards. He wears number 44, which is awesome.
He played running back, quarterback, wide receiver, tight end, and center. Took snaps in all those positions. Sean Payton's definitely going to draft him. It was awesome.
That was an awesome, awesome game. So it turned, it flipped from, uh-oh, here goes James Franklin again to, uh-oh, Stinkin' Riley. Yeah, Lincoln Riley, hot seat. Colin Coward, hot seat.
Big time hot seat for Lincoln Riley. The Colin Coward video is one of the weirdest things. The doucheiest video of all time. You see this video?
I did, yeah. Oh, my God. I think he's playing a character to be a douche, but he nailed the character. All right, I'm glad.
Some of you guys are going to owe Lincoln Riley, an apology. One of these Big Ten teams can handle coming out west, the sunshine, the distractions of L.A. Probably not. Look at a halftime score on a coosm.
I don't hold grudges. Apologies accepted. Look at the halftime score. He sounds like Joel McHale playing Craig Kilbourne.
Yeah, look at the halftime score. I don't hold grudges. Yeah, I mean, he's playing a character there, but it worked because it pissed me off seeing that. And then it was just an all-time, old takes exposed.
Lincoln Riley, I feel like this might be time to ask some tough questions if you're a Trojan. Yeah, yeah. They've been in all the games. It's not like they're getting embarrassed.
But yeah, their defense, which is better, has failed them late. The good thing if you're Lincoln Riley, though, is you can always... It's kind of like Coach Cal in the NBA for Lincoln Riley. He can get the best quarterback recruits in the country by saying, like, here's who I've coached.
They're all in the NFL. So every year, even if he has a down year, he's already reloading with a five-star, and you're afraid to fire Lincoln Riley because he might lose that quarterback. Yeah, that's facts. It's a job for life.
We also had Mike Dundee in his bi-week got headbutted by a bull. I saw that, yeah. Or a cow, which was awesome. He's got a bloodshot eye.
Yeah, Mike. He's had bloodshot eyes thousands of times. Thousands of times behind the wheel. We should give an update to Travis Hunter to get hurt, but I've reached out to sources.
I texted Dion, I said, is he okay? He said, yeah. Okay, all right. Best football player in the country?
He didn't say whether he was a starter or anything, but he just said, is he okay? Probably should have... No, I think I just said he's going to play. Okay, great, good.
All right, now that I'm playing back in my head, I probably should have asked him a more direct question than, is he okay? No, that's all I need. Is he okay? Just like, yeah, he's okay.
He's going to be fine. That's all I need. Also, Billy Napier is a coward. An absolute coward.
Yeah. For the way that Tennessee-Florida game ended. Yeah. You have your backup quarterback in.
Yeah. I think you have your backup running back in, right? Yeah. Your big underdogs against, you might say, you know, top three biggest rival.
It's always a rivalry game every year. Oh, 100%. It means a lot. You have a much worse team to begin with.
I don't know about that. Tennessee's not. I think Tennessee's definitely better than Florida. They are, but they're not what we thought they were.
Oh, no, Tennessee is not like a top three team in the country, but my point is, if you're Florida, you're playing with all those factors against you, against a much better team than you. Yes, agreed. In their house. And then you get to the end of regulation, and you have an opportunity to go for two and have one play from two yards out to win the game.
Yep. You typically want to take that. And what he did, what Billy Napier did, I think he sent, like, a fake extra point team out onto the field, right? Like, he set up in a weird swing gate type formation.