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Welcome to Not So Fast with Andrew Perloff and Paul Pabst, where two longtime friends challenge each other on the biggest sports stories of the day. Here's Andrew Perloff and Paul Pabst. Not so fast, my friends. Welcome to Not So Fast. I'm Andrew Perloff. He's Paul Paps. Paul, we've got game number two in the books. What did you think of football down under? You know, it was so sunny. That game, I think it kicked off at 10.30 in the morning, Melbourne time. The uniforms popped. It looked so awesome. The field on Netflix. The uniforms really, really popped. Is it that sunny there? I guess so. Dan Patrick said he was down there. And sunscreen is a major issue in Australia, apparently. Okay, if I asked you right before kickoff, the game's going to finish 27-7, you'd have said what? I would have said, wow, what a game for Miles Garrett. Look at that Rams defense. Story of the year. But what happened? How would you describe this game for those who... Okay.
So it started out pretty even. And then at a certain point, the Rams gave up. And I know. Gave up. Yeah. At a certain point, you said enough travel talk. But to me, that is actually the story of the game. The Rams did not look ready to play. They came to Australia too late. It did feel like there's a point in the third quarter where Matthew Stafford goes for a quarterback sneak at the goal line, which they don't do that a lot. I think he's had one QB sneak touchdown in his Rams career. They didn't make it. The review couldn't tell anything. It was just a big pile. And then the 49ers went on a 99 yard touchdown run, not a drive. And it felt like the Rams said, OK, it's time to start heading back home. This was almost a touchdown.
Right, I kind of thought that was a touchdown. Yeah, I'm not sure how, well, I guess the ball was, oh, that looks like a touchdown. Right. But when Stafford doesn't get in here, the air went out of their balloon. Yeah, the funny thing is, I actually think it probably was a touchdown. They just couldn't prove it. So whatever they called on the field was going to stick. Actually, I could see a little thought bubble off of Matthew Stafford. After that play, he came back and said, well, I'm going to order the chicken on the plane back, and I'm going to watch Project Hail Mary. It's going to be really fun. They checked out completely. And normally, I would rip a team if I thought they gave up. But going to Australia had, I think, a big toll on this Rams team. They're not young. Again, it's a cliche to talk about the travel science, but...
The Niners had it right and the Rams had it wrong. You know, it's weird, though, because if somehow the Rams did win this, is there a reason to worry about the Rams? I don't worry after week one, and I think Vegas still has them as a favorite, so you don't worry. I think you might worry about Miles Garrett. Was he not in shape or is he injured in some fashion? That would be a concern. That's a concern. That's a concern.
But the general offense doesn't concern me because Puka's Puka. Their running back tandem is really good. But let's go to the other side of this, the 49ers. Have we been sleeping a little bit on the 49ers because of their struggles with health and things in the offseason, previous seasons? I think I've been sleeping on the 49ers. I had no idea that Fred Warner was going to be Fred Warner and Nick Bosa was going to be explosive. Kendall wasn't quite as good as the other guys. He was present. But he was present. Debo Samuel looked thin and ready to go. It was the fountain of youth. CMC looked great. And then Christian McCaffrey had some help in the backfield. Everything worked perfectly for the 49ers. You mentioned Nick Bosa. People don't talk about him as much as they used to when he was defensive player of the year. He was all overstaffed for the entire game. And then if you look at...
what they did on offense. They split carries. Kalen Black, the rookie out of Indiana, he had as many touches as Tristan McCaffrey. And that's one of those things that maybe that's smart for the future. Let's balance these guys out. Keep McCaffrey healthy in January, February. Yeah, and quarterback Brock Purdy looked good, was running around. You know who, to me, the MVP of the game, and we're going to give out stickers later? We're saving stickers. Okay. Well, I'll just say Kyle Shanahan outcoached the Rams pretty decisively here. You can see on the Niners opening drive, they went 15 plays.
Kept the ball away from Matthew Stafford and the Rams. The rhythm went to the Niners. Brilliant plan. I think Shanahan has had months to think about this game, and he was ready to go. But if you're a 49ers fan, do you feel great today? Do you feel long-term great or short-term great? You feel great. Yes, there's always the injury risk. You have a lot of players over 30, but you don't think about that at all today. You get to kick back, watch football this weekend, and you're 1-0. And the other thing is, when you're watching the running backs from the Niners just chop through the line, you're thinking, Aaron Donald's at home right now, sitting there watching this game, and he could be stuffing this whole thing up. Absolutely. If you are a Niners fan, also you have the Cardinals and the Dolphins coming up next.
Probably 3-0 and probably come out of that healthy. And remember, they were just in the Super Bowl a few years ago. Maybe this is Shanahan's chance to finally get the Super Bowl. Last thing I love about Brock Purdy. Three touchdowns for Brock Purdy. Really great second half. He likes to run the ball. He's got a little giddy up, as they like to say in college football. But he never, almost never, I'd say not never, but this time of year, in September, he doesn't take on contact. No, he gets out of bounds and he slides. He looked really spry. They've been talking about him in camp all summer, how this was his best training camp he's had in a long time. And he completely delivered. And Matthew Stafford, he doesn't run. He barely walks. Oh, my gosh. To me, that actually, and let's transition to the Rams here for a second. Stafford struggles.
Really shocked me. But that's a short-term, long-term concern. Well, I mean, still, he's been held under 10 points twice in 85 starts. He looked hurried. He looked inaccurate. He either overthrew guys or underthrew them. The interception was concerning. You know what? He's getting older. I saw the age last night, Paul. No shocker. He was on a plane for 18 hours. You don't put an old guy on a plane like that, Paul. You know that. Yeah, my grandfather told me, don't put an old guy on a plane to Melbourne to play football. We always know that. All right, let's get to some NSF.
Helmet stickers. We put the sticker on the helmet. The player chooses whether to wear it next week or not. I'm going to go first, Perloff, and I'm going to go offensive tackle Trent Williams. Trent Williams yesterday, I wouldn't say ate up Myles Garrett, but he made Myles Garrett irrelevant for a game, and that doesn't happen very often. Myles Garrett always gets one or two or three hits on a quarterback at the very minimum. But Trent Williams reminded everybody that I'm the best offensive lineman in the game and the best pass blocker in the past 15 years, and even Myles Garrett can't get by me, so he gets my helmet sticker. Yeah, it's like he's not aging, but I'm going to not so fast you. How is that possible? Because Trent Williams got all this love last night. Guess who helped him a lot? Two men.
Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan. Purdy got rid of the ball immediately, every time. Are you saying it's system blocking? It was totally. He wasn't holding on to the ball. He had to block Bosa or whoever for, I'm sorry, he had to block Miles Garrett for one second. Purdy got rid of the ball so fast, and that was all Shanahan. Shanahan neutralized Miles Garrett on his own. Now, Garrett was still moving pretty fast. I know there's concerns about his health, but he finally got to Purdy, and Purdy had already gotten rid of the ball every time. Who's your helmet sticker for? That's got to be Kyle Shanahan.
You know, listen, Sean McVay is on 60 Minutes this weekend. He's getting all the hype. Really? He's kind of considered the best coach in football. I think Kyle Shanahan said not so fast. That hat is very becoming. Yeah. By the way, you couldn't see the injury from the car crash this summer. I thought Kyle Shanahan had his team ready to play. He won the battle of witches. He approached international travel. His game plan was brilliant. You did not know it was coming. A lot of short passes to keep the Rams off balance.
I'm a huge Kyle Shanahan play caller fan. Can he win the big game? That's TBD. But in a game like this, you saw his brilliance at work. Can I give a bonus helmet sticker to Netflix's new analyst, Luke Keekly? Oh, yeah. Big stage. He worked his way out, and he had some really good stories, some really good fun stuff. He had a story about Trent Williams. Luke Keekly said, when I was a rookie, I went up against Trent Williams, and he pushed me into the sidelines like I was a small child. And I thought Luke Keekly had a nice night. I'm going to give him a bonus helmet sticker. Yeah, Keekly was great. The whole Netflix thing, did you watch the Jonas Brothers at halftime? Of course. That's an insult to ask me. Yeah, it was a good job. I'm so glad football's back. All right, some bad news, though. A.J. Brown, the wide receiver, the new wide receiver, the
Worse than low ankle sprain. But here's the thing. Out four weeks. And when you're 0-1 and the Patriots have Steelers, Jaguars, Bills over the next three weeks, that could be a problem math-wise. Now, they still have a good team. Very good defense. Drake Bay is there. But if you somehow go 1-3 or, God forbid, 0-4, you could be in that position where you're just...
underwater, treading water the rest of the season. Right. And you've got to think about Drake May's confidence. Obviously, the opener was not good for him. There's this narrative out there that Drake May got great numbers last year because he was playing a lot of bad teams. And now, this year, the schedule's much harder. He needs an A.J. Brown for security. Right. If you want to lose A.J. Brown, can we lose him for the Raiders-Jets series, not the next three games Steelers-Jags-Bills? If you looked at the game on Wednesday night, you could see the difference between A.J. Brown running routes and other guys running routes. Here's where they are right now. Romeo Dobbs, who was 0 for the other night. DeMario Douglas. Matt Hollins is really stepping up. That's a guy who's probably going to catch a lot of things. Remember a month ago, they let Keyshawn Booty go in that trade? Yeah. Oh, he's got some
Not so fast, man. Well, Matt Collins has been around for a while. I love Matt Collins. You know, he doesn't wear shoes when he's not on the field, walks around barefoot. Incredible person. But he can't be your go-to guy, Paul. You know, it's at four weeks. Let's hope it's four weeks. It's a three-week go-to guy. All right, real quick, the NFL weekend. Bills, Texans, we're going to chop that up later. Packers, Vikings, Kyler Murray, saucy. That is so interesting. Kyler Murray, that to me might be the most interesting quarterback situation, but you really don't know. Yep, we got Buccaneers, Bengals, Ravens, Colts.
Falcons, Steelers, and we don't know about Tua and who's starting there. If it's not Tua and Scooper Rush for the Falcons, that's going to be an ugly game. Steelers play ugly games. I think Michael Penix is four string right now because of health issues. Commanders, Eagles, then let's wrap it up with Cowboys, Giants, Sunday Night Football, NBC, Saucy?
I think it's awesome. Do you think people are going to watch this game? Yeah, I think everyone's going to watch this game. I think you're going to have more people watching this game than really any sporting event that's not the NFL. This is a big test. I have more on the Cowboys later, but the Giants will be getting some buzz, too. Yeah, I think everyone wants to see if Neighbors can come back, if Scatterable can come back, and if Jackson Dart can run and stay away from the Blue 10. Yeah, and also the Cowboys-Giants is always a big rating. This year, I think it deserves it because these are very interesting teams. All of Week 1 is huge. Kyler Murray, that's a guy I'm really watching. He needs a ball-out game just so everyone can quiet down about it. Absolutely. All right, coming up next, Michigan. Will they rebound tomorrow against Oklahoma? I'll tell you right now.
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Here we go, Pearl. Not so fast. Pabst and Perloff. The midday pick-me-up to get you ready. Let's go back to Melbourne. Ooh, look at these fellas. I don't know if they're locals or they went in for the game, but they're doing the old drink out of the boot thing. Yeah, did you do that in college, Paul? Surprisingly, no. I drank just about everything that was available, but I always like, I don't need this. I don't need boot beer. So they're taking boot and rally to the next level? Yeah, that's the boot, and I don't know if either of those guys rallied, but that looks a little disgusting. Time for warm takes here. Not so fast with Pabst and Perloff. A little cozy stuff to get you into the weekend. I'm going to go first on the warm takes. Here we go, Pearl.
Look at the college football ratings from this weekend. Notre Dame versus Wisconsin was a monster rating, and Wisconsin's not even that good. Louisville-Ole Miss was a great rating. All these kind of created matchups were fantastic ratings for college football. I wonder if, as we get to a 2014 playoff, which seems inevitable, instead of the regular season being more, you've got to schedule cupcakes because I can make it into the playoffs, do these college football teams think, why don't we schedule heavyweights for our out-of-conference games?
And this can work for you. Look at Ohio State versus Texas this weekend. The loser of this game doesn't lose a thing with the college football committee. You get credit for playing in a heavyweight game early in the season. You lose by four points, Texas or Ohio State, you're just fine. Now, if you're Michigan and you lose, which they did to Western Michigan, that is debilitating. That takes you out of the top 25. So I'm wondering if this has a reverse effect, the 2014 playoff. I'm going to schedule bigger. I'm going to schedule heavyweights. I'm going to, you know, Notre Dame and USC will get back together. Michigan, Notre Dame get back together. Texas at Texas A&M every year. I think that's what's going to happen going forward because there's more money to be made. Neutral site, home games. If Texas faces Texas State,
People leave. They don't stay. They don't spend money. But if Texas has Texas A&M in week two, you got something. I could not disagree with you more, Paul. Oh, come on. You're telling me if Texas didn't lose to Ohio State last year, 14-7 in opening week, they would have been in three losses. They would have made the playoff last year. I think you're just, I know what you're saying.
You've got to play it safe. Notre Dame last year, if they didn't have Miami and A&M early in the schedule and had Ball State and Youngstown State, they would have been in the play. But you still get credit for that. Heavyweight game early. You lose to Florida later in the season, I can't help you. I don't think the committee gives you enough credit. I don't think they pay enough attention to strike the schedule. I am anti that. I think that they should really weigh wins more than losses. And if you have three losses, they immediately kick you out. You poo-poo by warm take quick. Yeah, I know what you're saying. But I think that's a wishful warm take. Because if you were the commissioner of college football, you would have really hard schedules to start the season. And I'm available if you need to. You know, if they expand to 24, then maybe we'll get that. Okay, I'm sticking with college football.
There's a few rules here are not so fast. Number one, obviously, ball don't lie. Karma. That means Michigan is going to lose this weekend because the universe wants them to. It's not just that they got the extra second to beat Western Michigan. It's that their fans rushed the field. The University of Michigan fans rushed the field against Western Michigan. I think that things need to be corrected in a universal sense here. And I think that somebody has to make Michigan pay for these two, in my opinion, transgressions. Transgressions.
Oklahoma, who they play this weekend, has built a really good team under our buddy general manager, Jim Nagy. They obviously have John Mateers healthy, ready to go. Paul, they have a tight end, a backup tight end, whose name is Rocky Beers. Sort of touchdown last week out of Colorado State. I mean, that's reason enough to root for them. If your last name is Beers, you never, ever change it. That's why, you know, it did Ann Arbor, so it makes me a little nervous, but I do think that Michigan is going to have trouble emotionally rebounding from last week. This is a really serious game, especially with the quarterback Bryce Underwood of Michigan. He has to both win and play well. He has to do both of those. Yeah, I think Oklahoma is underrated. For some reason, they're under the radar, but they have a really, really strong roster. John Mateer healthy, the quarterback of Oklahoma, he wants to make a statement. All right, I'm going to go to my next warm
love when we play, when I say we, American football plays in other countries. Now, they've been playing in Europe for a while, even South America for a while, but this is new to Australia. And I think of the 60,000 people there, somebody in Australia is watching American football for the first time ever. And I wonder what they think when they see American football. We're used to it. But when they see it, they see a bunch of big dudes running around really hard for four to six seconds, and then they go and have a meeting for 45 seconds. And then they run around for four to five seconds, and then, oh, another meeting. Because that's what it is. It's explosive plays, and then let's talk about it.
Explosive play. You know, if you grew up on rugby or soccer, which I didn't, I used to look at soccer and think, what are they doing? I don't understand offsides. I don't understand rugby at all when I was a kid. Imagine what Europeans and Australians think of American football and all our rules. Surviving the ground, in or out. What is a fair catch? Why have you raised? So I'm asking permission not to get hit. Is that with my hands in the air? So I imagine if you're on Australia yesterday and you enjoyed American football for the first time, it will be back because we want to grow it.
nationally, you know, internationally. But at some point you're thinking, you're looking at your buddy like, they're having another meeting. Why all these meetings? Even I don't know the kickoff rules. I watched 14 hours of football a weekend. How about that offside on the tush push that was kind of made up on Wednesday night? Explain that, like what's going on here. All the rules are so convoluted and they change 10 rules every offseason. And one of the refs, there was a field goal by, I think, the 49ers. One of the refs did the old Australian rules football. One of those instead of doing that. That was kind of cool. That was very cool. Okay, that's a good one. I'm going to go to the NFL for my next warm take. 13 games this weekend. I'm fired up about all of them, but there's one storyline I really want to see, Paul, and that's the Dallas Cowboys defense. Cowboys got a lot of buzz this preseason and everyone thinks their
will be better than last year. New coordinator, Christian Parker, it better be. I'll tell you that right now. And we'll see against the Giants. Because the Giants are going to play conservative football. They're going to try and run it down the throat of Dallas. Now, Dallas in the past has been very weak against the run. Now they have Quentin Williams and Kenny Clark up front. We're basically going to see, Paul, did the Micah Parsons trade work out on Sunday? Because Jerry Jones is saying that we can stop the run now. We used to not be able to do that. And we know the offense is going to be good. So Cam Scadaboo, Jackson Darty will be running a lot against Dallas.
Do they hold up? I think if the Cowboys' defense is legit, then that is one of the key storylines of the early season because the whole team is going to be good. And you picked the Cowboys to go deep this year in the playoffs. Well, I haven't been winning the division. Now, postseason Cowboys is always an adventure, Paul. You know, they used to go 12-5 every year. They'd get blown out in the playoffs. So I don't know about the playoffs. It's going to be interesting because the Micah Parsons trade will be talked about forever. As long as he's injured and not playing for the Packers, they win. The Cowboys win because their players are playing. But it's got a long way to go. I think people are maybe not so fast with this defense. They think it's going to be fantastic. They won and not be dead. Also, we got Cael Downs at safety, former Ohio State star. I mean, can a rookie safety really lead a defense? That's what they
I think we're going to be talking about that on Monday. The rookie I remember leading a defense or being impactful was Troy Palomalo out of USC, the Steelers. He was day one flying around. I mean, we're safety guys. I had Brian Dawkins in Philly. I know your favorite player maybe ever. Ed Reed. My favorite non-bearer ever might be Ed Reed. All right, it's time to play a little game here in Not So Fast with Pabst and Perloff. It's called Who Said It? Could be NFL, could be college, could be other. Perloff, who said this? Here we go.
I love playoffs. I love the big games. I want a chance at the tournament. You know what I'm saying? Overall, us as an offense, I want us to proclaim dominance. I want us to be who we think we are. Oh, boy. Okay. So this has got to be a good offensive team. I'm going to go NFL. I'm going to say this is Jalen Hurst of the Philadelphia Eagles. I see tournament. Tournament. I'm going to go Julian Sayan of Ohio State. This is a tough one. Here we go. Who said this? I love playoffs. I love the big games. I want a chance at the tournament. C.D. Lamb. Overall, us as an offense, I want us to proclaim dominance. I want us to be who we think we are.
He threw us off with tournament there. I think he did it purposely to get us to make a mistake on who said it. I kind of like that when people say, you just got to get into the tournament for football. But I get half point for right division, Paul? You get half a point. You know, CeeDee Lamb, by the way, there's a guy who needs playoff success to add to his resume because he's as good as anybody. One more who said it, Perloff, NFL, college, or other. Here we go. Who said this?
We got our behinds kick last time we played, and sometimes in this football world that happens, right? So when you get behind kick, you don't forget it, and it didn't end or break us, but it was a nice wake-up call. I would like to say the Rams because they got the big wake-up call. I think that's a coach that you try not to swear. I'm going to go Steve Sarkeesian of Texas? Yeah, I'm going to double down and go Sark. Let's go with Sark on this one. We got our behinds kick, you know, like the last time we played, and like sometime in the football world, like that happens, right? So when you get your behind kick, you don't forget it, and it wasn't.
end us or break us, but it was definitely a nice wake-up call. That's Deion Dawkins of the Bills. Talk about the Texans and not swearing. Very professional of him. You know, as a guy who's got behind kicked a lot in grade school by the local bullies, I don't ever forget. Yeah, but you don't really have the size or the talent of Deion Dawkins. That is really, really obvious. All right, stick around. We're going to talk to Connor Rogers of NBC Sports to get you ready for the college and pro weekend and much, much more. Stick around. Not so fast. We'll be right back.
The first time I met Andrew Perloff, I remember it well, I was with Dan Patrick at the SI Studios in New York City, in the offices. And we were talking to different editors about editing Dan's page. And the first guy came in, the second guy came in, and they were normal, nice guys. And Andrew came in kind of like Kramer, just like papers, and then like one shirt thing was out, but he was funny, and he had ideas. And he was goofy, but he had ideas, and they were funny ideas. And then we met two more people, and when we got done, Dan and I think we took a train home, for God's sake. And he goes, which guy do you like? I'm like, you know the tall guy? And we didn't remember anybody's name. He goes, the guy who looked like...
McLovin from Superbad? I'm like, well, he's a little older than McLovin's uncle. He goes, yeah, that guy. So we call back and say, we like that guy, Andrew Perloff. I'm like, yeah, I think that's his name, but he stuck out in a good way.
Welcome back, not so fast. Pearl off and taps. All right, last week in college football, nuts. What do you expect this weekend, Paul? Beyond nuts. I don't even know how to categorize what happened. Western Michigan, Michigan, all the different games. You got Michigan, Oklahoma this weekend. You got OSU, Texas this weekend. Rice, Notre Dame, Bama, Kentucky, ISU, Iowa. That's just the headliners. Yeah, no, it's going to be a great college football weekend and a great pro football weekend. And if you want to talk college and pro, there's no one better than Conor Rodgers. NBC Sports, of course, co-host of Chris Sims, Unbutton, every day, 4 p.m. Eastern, part of the pregame show for college football. Conor, how you doing? I'm great, guys. Thanks for having me. How are you? Awesome, dude.
First of all, I know how busy you are trying to control Sims. We've been there before. It's a hard job. Let's start with college football. Game of the weekend, Texas, Ohio State. You also do a lot of NFL draft stuff. It feels like this is a mini combine in September because there are so many talented players. How do you see this game playing out?
I mean, it's ridiculous, right? If you're in the middle covering the draft, it's a dream scenario because you get the best of both worlds. I mean, just looking at my preseason top 50, Jeremiah Smith was my number one player, the great wide receiver for Ohio State. I had a ton of Texas players in the top 10 between their pass rusher, Colin Simmons, of course, Arch Manning. They got a superstar wide receiver in Cam Coleman as a transfer this offseason. So it's not only loaded with NFL prospects, it's loaded with legitimately blue chippers on both sides of the ball that it's going to be fascinating because these teams match up really, really evenly. You know, you kind of try to lean on the side of the home team in that scenario as much as that has not gone well for Texas against Ohio State. Wouldn't shock me, obviously, no matter the outcome of this game. Both of these teams end up going really, really.
really far at the end of the year. This is a big moment for Arch. I know that's cliche and everybody almost spends too much time focusing on Arch. I think there's this kind of myth that he's broken away from the rest of the quarterback class when I see them as one large group, as much as I do like him the best out of all of these guys. But it's also a chance for Julian Sane, who in theory could be a part of that quarterback class to kind of show like, hey, don't forget about me. I'm a legitimate NFL prospect. But this could be a statement game from Arch who has new weapons. He does have a good offensive line in front of him. They've done work in the portal with their run game as well. I just expect as great as the Ohio State defense typically is, Texas' offense to really have a chance to make a statement and actually come through with it. I want to go back to Jeremiah Smith, the wide receiver of Ohio State. You've seen a lot of wide receivers.
receivers of your time. Does he comp out better or rate better than Marvin Harrison Jr. coming out of college? I think better, which is dangerous, right? Like you say those things. And, you know, people, how they talk about Marv now, I think he's going to have a good year in Arizona and really settle in, especially with Mike LaFleur there, who will know how to deploy a number one wide receiver on the outside in his scheme. I think that they forget what Marv really was at Ohio State. Now, Jeremiah Smith, I mean, he's got even more muscle on his frame to power through coverage. He can fly his strides just...
eat up so much turf it's really hard to match up with him he could be a really good player in the NFL tomorrow he just has to play the season of college football he's really really unique I'm gonna have a tough time when we get close to the draft kind of differentiating or maybe it won't be that hard the best receiver prospect I've ever scouted while doing this was Jamar Chase but there's a world where you just look at the physical gifts being bigger and playing even stronger that Jeremiah Smith is the best wide receiver prospect that I'll end up seeing and you know there's people that have been doing it long enough where I can't go back to this but they'll bring up you know Julio Jones Calvin Johnson this is really really rare air You know what's funny, Conor? He might not even be the best Heisman wide receiver candidate in college football. What do you make of Malachi Tony in Miami? I don't know about his NFL future, but in college, I'm not sure there's a better player.
Just electric, right? You really blink and he can do one bad angle and he's gone. I know people were excited about what they saw from Darian Mensah, their transfer quarterback in that game, but I'm sitting there looking at what, you know, obviously what Tony can do. And, you know, when people get to dangerous player comparisons, there will be people that will be like, is this Tyree kill again? When you just look at the game changing speed, I'm not ready to go there. And the perfect part is we have a lot of time left with him at the college level to do that. But guys like that, that just move in that kind of way that you clearly can't match up with, but you give any kind of space and zone, they're a real problem.
There's an argument. This Miami team is somehow better than last year's Miami team. I want to go to Michigan at Oklahoma. I think they're getting five and a half Michigan. It feels like Michigan's coming off a loss. It's almost like a perception loss for Michigan, not an actual loss. But Bryce Underwood, their quarterback, who's making millions of dollars to be their quarterback. I wouldn't say it's a must-win game for him, but is it a must-play-well game for him?
Definitely. I mean, you heard Wingham, whether it was after the game or the day after the game, kind of saying like, hey, it's not infinite here with him. So nothing is guaranteed to him, no matter how much you were paid, especially when, besides the second Hail Mary, you know, how well, how poorly he played. And I think what's more concerning for Michigan is I thought they were largely outclassed for almost the whole game for much of it. I feel like they were outcoached, outplayed. They didn't feel like the physically imposing team. For Oklahoma, I'll say this, on the other side, you're walking into a situation, you're playing a team in Oklahoma, that this is a must win.
for Oklahoma because of how hard their schedule is. They got to be looking at this and going, we're better than Michigan, especially with what Michigan just showed last week. We're going to go in there and take care of business and then look towards the rest of our schedule, which can get much, much harder. So Michigan, this is the same story with them, but now it's magnified because of not only the money that Bryce is making, but you're expected to take steps forward. If you have no consistent passing game in college football, forget being put in the class of the big dogs. It's hard to rank them in the top 25 after that. Connor, what do you want to see out of Notre Dame playing Rice, NBC? You know, obviously they should win.
Last week, they started off slow against Wisconsin, picked it up. A lot of easy games on the early part of the schedule. But still, I think it's championship robust in many people's eyes. So what do you want to see in a game like this on Saturday? Quite simply, rhythm and timing in the pass game. I thought CJ Carr, who I like a lot, he just looked a little jittery in the first half and then didn't really have to do a whole ton. That's a team that...
They have an NFL secondary, and now their safety, Tay Johnson, who could be a top 50 pick, is hurt again. But Leonard Moore, there's an argument he's going to be the best defensive player in the draft and is every bit good as a corner prospect as we've seen the last 10 years. But that offense, they did such a good job protecting CJ Carr last year, and he was phenomenal when protected. The very small sample size, which was, I think, less than 100 snaps he was pressured on last year, there were some questions, and that's not surprising for a young quarterback. And this year, a redshirt sophomore quarterback that...
You know, he can really attack all three levels of the field with timing, touch, and accuracy. Just want to see that against an opponent like Rice and get your offense a little rhythm and some of the movement they've had on the offensive line. Let those guys gel together because they had, you don't say that a lot about Notre Dame, they had some tough moments on the offensive line in pass pro last week. All right, let me ask you kind of a two-part question. Which is more likely to happen towards the end of the season? Dabo Sweeney is out of a job or Lane Kiffin is in the national title game with LSU? Oh, man. I'll go back to Dabo. It just feels like it's time.
It does. And, you know, obviously there's a lot of good things to feel about with Lane and LSU and a team that was built in the portal and did a really good job and how he gets them ready to play and, you know, how buttoned up and gifted they are on offense under him, no matter where he goes. But you look at Dabo and my problem with Clemson guys is everybody kind of falls back on rightly. So have they fallen behind of how to build a roster in college football because of how they don't compete in the portal the same way that, you know, you look at, you know, look at Indiana winning the national championship last year. That's the easiest example, but it's a lot of teams.
I don't think Clemson is a well-coached team anymore. Obviously, the change of coordinators over the years, but you watch them play, whether it's schematically how they build their team. They have NFL talent. The guys like me that do the draft do this every summer. Oh, all this NFL talent in the front seven for Clemson. And then, you know, you get boat raced. And it's like, how is this happening? Because I know this is a good player. Yeah, Connor, I noticed your phone ring there. Was that Dabo ringing you up because you criticized him like he did that reporter the other day? Yeah, that was actually my very delayed alarm for your guys' show. So you can tell how organized I am right now. Really poor form for me. Not a good day, man. No, that's great. Connor, you also covered the Jets, speaking of mistakes.
It looks like a tank from the outside. You've been around the building. What do you expect from the Jets this year? They're in such a weird place. I always find it, and I've been around the Jets long enough to kind of see this before. You have a coach that has to win. You have an organization that still doesn't have a quarterback. So you're kind of in a spot where, okay, can you win enough games that you save your job? But if you win enough games, but not enough to save your job, but also too many out of an interesting draft slot. And they have three first rounders, which gives them kind of that flexibility, hopefully to move and capitalize on what should be a deeper quarterback class. They're just a very weird place, guys. They had a lot of veterans in the off season. They are a very young roster from all the picks they've had. They look to me.
Kind of like the classic case of a six-win team that can beat up on the basement teams. And the Jets have been a basement team lately that usually they lose to those teams. So that's a step forward. But if you're looking at Aaron Glenn, a step forward is not good enough. We need to probably take one, two, three, four steps forward or a giant leap where the Jets, they're going to be really, really interesting because of all the assets they've accumulated. The roster is in a better place, but they still have giant questions of the two most important things in the NFL. And that's quarterback and the head coach.
Connor, that is two tough jobs. Helping Chris Sims every day and covering the Jets. In that order. Yeah, I don't know. Don't watch the show for it, guys. I lose the local Emmys every single year. I'm just glad you guys appreciate this. Yeah, yeah. Well, join us. Hopefully that'll help break your streak. All right, we look forward to seeing you on Saturday, College Football Countdown on NBC. Connor, have a great week. We will talk to you later in the season. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you having me.
There's so much college football, Paul. It is, and there was so much drama last week. It almost feels like, will this be a drama-free weekend and do stuff on the field, or will it be off the field as well? Well, we know the answer to that. It's college football. There will always be both, drama on and off the field. All right, coming up next, the Clip Join. Something very interesting on the DP show today that we'll break down. Got to stay for this, not so fast.
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Trent Williams had an unbelievable night, considering Miles Garrett was basically a no-show. How valuable is that if you're Brock Purdy and you know Trent is going to take care of that guy and you don't have Aaron Donald to worry about? Everything about the offense is created because you're not under siege, and especially with the best players in the league. So Trent Williams, if you think about it, Christian McCaffrey and Trent Williams showed up. And you can say kind of out of nowhere.
for the 49ers. Two locks in the Hall of Fame just kind of like chose the 49ers and it's just changed everything. The two of them have created incredible opportunity for the 49ers and Trent Williams. We say he's a Hall of Famer. He's a Hall of Famer Hall of Famer. He's probably the best. You can say he's the best tackle I've ever played.
Back on Not So Fast with Pabst and Pearl Office as the clip joint. And we went to the pen where we brought an ace in from the pen, which you usually don't do in baseball. I'm told Dan Patrick is joining us now. I don't want to talk football with you. And I'm going to almost fan out. I thought I almost escaped. I was ready to leave and start my weekend. We saw you go to the car with a plate full of wings and said, not so fast. I'm so fast. You've had Steve Young. We've had Steve Young on the Dan Patrick Show for a couple of years now. But I'm curious. And the reason I'm bringing it in is because I think it's some of the best radio we have. You two together, it could go an hour as far as I'm concerned. And I think a lot of fans agree with it as well. Did you work with Steve back in the ESPN days? Or is this kind of a new thing?
I first met him when he was playing, and I remember meeting him and spending time with him at the Children's Miracle Network. And my wife and family, we would spend a week helping Marie Osmond and Steve Young, John Schneider from the Dukes of Hazzard. So they would raise money for Children's Miracle Network. And the more I was around him, I clicked with him. I don't know what it was, but I think he's the best NFL analyst. And he's not working because he used to work at the Mothership, but I find him to be self-deprecating, very smart, and he's got the resume as well.
And I think when you put all of that together, you know, it just metastasizes, you know, how great he can be as an analyst. And he's so much fun. Sometimes I forget that we're on radio or TV. Which is the best. Yes. But he's just a lot of fun. He's a good person. I tell this story about you were standing next to him in the Pittsburgh-Arizona Super Bowl. I think you told on air that he was doing like a play-by-play with you. What was that conversation? Because I've actually told this story many times, but I want to make sure I have it right. Well, I'm going to hand out the trophy. Okay. And I think it's going to be Arizona. They just scored. Larry Fitzgerald scores. I'm on the sidelines.
And I figured, let me start where the Steelers are starting their two minute drill. And Steve Young happened to be there on the sidelines. And he was like, hey, what are you doing? I said, well, I'm gonna hand out the trophy. He goes, all right, let's watch this drive. And he was giving me his analysis of Ben Roethlisberger in real time.
And he was saying how incredible Ben was on that drive. I didn't even talk to him when he threw the touchdown pass. I knew I had to get in position to hand out the Super Bowl trophy. But it's one of the best times, highlights of my career, watching a Hall of Famer with a Hall of Famer with the Super Bowl on the line. You had a private broadcast. I only wish I could have had him mic'd up and you could have heard him because he was saying, this is what I would do. You know what's open? Boy, oh man, that's a great play.
And it was in real time that he was giving me one of the great drives in Super Bowl history. So when you have Steve Young on the show and he's coming on regularly, your job, a guy like him is an expert on quarterback play and offense. And he has more stories than he knows what he has in his head. What's your role? What's your job?
I don't know where I'm going with him. He's one of the few that I don't have it pre-planned that I got it. There's certain things I want to ask him about. Trent Williams, he said, might be the best left tackle of all time. The travel part of this, he didn't understand the Rams logic. So I get to those things. Then you just kind of go. But I always tell people, being a good interviewer means being a good listener. And Steve will always give you something, whether he means to or not, and then you follow up on that. And that's the fun part because I think he likes the fact that they're not your prototypical question. And he gets to breathe. Yes.
And all these analysts, when they come on, if you're on the mothership, you might get 15 seconds here, 20 seconds here. I'm giving you 15 minutes. Like Louis Riddick, love having him on because he wants to talk football. And to be able to have that platform, I think it's welcoming for a lot of these analysts. Do you have to be a quarterback to analyze certain things, to analyze a quarterback? You've actually, I've seen you work with current players and former players. Is it really, does it start with QBs? As far as? As far as being able to analyze, you know, Steve Young can see the whole game. Do you prefer former quarterbacks when you're talking about certain things with offense? Well, I think they're probably interviewed more than anybody else.
I like talking to defensive backs, too, because they see the field from a different angle. And I think we don't get that perspective as often. It's the quarterback's perspective. Sometimes that defensive back, even linebacker, when Brian Urlacher would be on. And he gave me a whole different view of what he would see. Ray Lewis, same thing. And I think when you get that, all you want to do is say to your audience,
you know, we don't want to bore you with the regular stuff. We've thought about something or give you something. Even when we had the sleep doctor on, I didn't know what I was going to get, but she works for the Broncos and she's saying, I don't understand the logic behind the Rams. Well, you know, that was before it happened instead of after. And she, you know, said the Niners will be more acclimated and thought that was going to be an advantage. And I think that, you know, that, you know, showed. Thank you for popping in. Also, thank you. I heard you saved us a to-go plate of wings. We appreciate that. And I get credit for this booking per love.
All right, it's fine. By the way, Paulie trying to show some skin here. I don't know what that means for the ratings here, but all of a sudden I got cleavage on the show, and who knew that was going to happen? You know, whatever works. I can't wait to hear what your wife has to say about that. Thank you for coming back. On that note, we've got to get back to the clip joint. All right, let's go to Mike Evans. Had a solid 49ers debut, but he didn't know when the Rams got into town. He had a great reaction. When did they get out here? Seriously. Oh, dang.
I mean, you've got to get your body time to adjust. I mean, obviously, whenever the game's scheduled, you've got to be ready to play. But maybe a few days earlier would have been ideal. But no matter what, we don't care if they came a week or two weeks earlier. We had it on our mind to come out here and execute, and we did that.
Wait, how is it possible that Mike Evans didn't see all the headlines about the Rams travel plans? See, you're looking at this completely wrong. Mike Evans is focused on football. That's what I learned. He's not watching SportsCenter. He's not watching Not So Fast. He would have known about the travel plans. Yeah, so yesterday we did picks, and I picked the Rams. If I had known Mike Evans was going to look like that, I would have taken the 49ers. He looks like he's going to be the cheat code for that offense. All right, we've got a lot more to get to. Let's talk a little bit about Heisman Trophy this week. We've got the Heisman coming up. Long way to go, but let's get to getting the Heisman always on Not So Fast. There it is. Look at that guy. That is the closest I'll ever get to the Heisman Award. All right, Perloff, a couple of Heisman games this weekend. Oregon, Oklahoma State,
Statement game for him. A couple more. OU Michigan at Michigan. John Materov, Oklahoma. Showcase game. Showcase game for him. But, I mean, I know the next game you're going to do. To me, it's the big one. Well, it's Ohio State, Texas. Everyone's a Heisman candidate. Is the winner of that game the frontrunner? I think Menta jumped in the odds. But Arch wins. The narrative is going to be all about Arch. Ohio State wins.
I guess it's going to be Jeremiah Smith based on the odds. It's weird that Jeremiah Smith is up there and Julian Say and his quarterback is not. That could flip-flop as the season goes along. C.J. Carr has Rice this weekend. I don't know if that's going to help his case. Well, he's going to get some numbers. He'll get some numbers, but Malachi Tony last night against FAMU, while you get numbers, you don't get a lot of credit for those. No, but they're going to have a lot more tests moving forward. I mean, you're right. You do have to, in those early games, you want to throw six touchdowns and have no picks, and then at the end of the year, you have 45 touchdowns. It's going to be, you know what to me, the big battle? Quarterback versus wide receiver. You got Tony and Smith versus Arch Manning and Dante Moore and all the other guys. They're sharing votes. Then you look at some other teams, like Ole
At this juncture, they don't. Wow. LSU, gosh. I mean, it could be their quarterback. Sam Levin is very, very good. All right. Coming up next, it's time for, oh, a little constructive criticism and the feel good. Much, much more. Thanks to Dan Patrick for stopping by. Stick around. Not so fast. All right. We're back on Not So Fast. Pearl Off and Paps. NBC Sports Now. Peacock. Paul, there are a lot of big games this weekend. Know what? Everyone's going to be watching. Bill's texting. The winner of Houston Buffalo. The favorite in the AFC. It feels like amongst the games, there could be an AFC title game preview. To me, it's C.J. Stroud. I mentioned earlier Not So Fast. C.J. Stroud in that playoff game, he felt like he hurt his team. You know, you can have an off day, but you can't be the reason your team loses. And C.J. Str
It's like he played that game with Mittens on in the AFC. And I think if he plays C.J. Stroud two years ago football or even close to it with that defense, they should be just fine. Yeah, I mean, they're both good teams. But to say they're the winner, this is the favorite. To me, those teams in the West will be heard from. Obviously, the Chiefs, Chargers, the Broncos. So I like both these teams. I'm pretty sure they're going to be in the playoffs, especially with New England, maybe falling a little bit. But once again, until these teams do it in the playoffs, I don't really care what happens week one. There's odds to win AFC and, you know, Bills, Ravens, Chiefs. Do you look at that? The Texans are down there. The Texans are farther down the list than I thought they were. Below the Bengals. Wow.
I wonder if the Texans may flip-flop with the Patriots as of today. Well, I'll tell you one thing. It's about the quarterback. If you look at that list, people just don't trust E.J. Stroud. All right, it's time for Monday's lead today. What we'll be talking about Monday on all the shows, including Not So Fast, right here after the Dan Patrick Show on NBC Sports. Monday's lead today. You were first, Perla. Okay, I'm going to go off the board. We've been talking a lot of football, obviously, but my Monday's lead is tennis, and I'm being optimistic. This is a wishful Monday's lead. Tonight, we get Francis Dioffo versus Ben Shelton. The winner of that goes on in the finals. We'll have an American in the finals.
An American is going to win the U.S. Open for the first time since Andy Roddick on the men's side. And Shelton and Tiafoe are incredible to root for. Obviously, Ben Shelton's got Trinity Rodman cheering for him in the sideline at Tiafoe. What's that? He has star power. Yeah. And Faux, as I like to call him, Faux is just incredibly entertaining. This would be a huge story. I know we're going to come off of football, but an American winning the U.S. Open would be huge for the sport, and I think everybody's really into it. I love you going against the grain off the board there where you pick a little bit. I also worry sometimes. I think the men's title match is 2 p.m. on Sunday. I know. It's always buried. In years. That is in the thick of NFL. I know. And witching hour is coming at the end of the 1 p.m. Eastern hour. My advice would be buy more TVs for your house. All right. My Monday's lead will be the Cowboys defense roughs up the Giants. The Cowboys defense does rough up the Giants. Let's say that game is 28-7.
The Cowboys are always a topic, and if they're really good, even more so. When they're really bad, much, much more so. But that defense, which a lot of people like, Caleb Downs making his debut, the trade, all that goes with it, if they could pitch a shutout or something akin to a shutout, they're going to get a lot of run, and people are going to jump to Cowboys in the Super Bowl, question mark, which will be way too soon. Oh, yeah. People are already there. Yeah, we have to hype this up. We're worried that no one's going to watch it on NBC. Yeah, no worries there. NBC, Sunday night. All right, let's get to a little constructive criticism. Week two of Not So Fast, our best week, I think, so far. Constructive criticism. Some people are saying, like, Dan Patrick, my shirt, I missed a button. We'll get to that. Yeah.
From Dave Shoemaker, Paulie, it's a must and it has to be metal trough like old stadium. Now, that goes back to yesterday. We were saying a buddy of mine in Chicago is building a man cave and is going to build a urinal in his bathroom. And a lot of people on Twitter like it. So, yeah, it's like a metal trough. Well, no, I think he's saying take it one step further and do the metal trough. I got to tell you, the ice in the metal trough at Wrigley Field when I first saw it, I had probably never been more grossed out at a sporting event. I am not pro trough. All right, let's get one more. And this is all urinal related. We really hit a string here. Bad call, the stank would be overpowering. Well, I mean, not if you get one of those nice urinal cakes and a nice flow of water to keep it clean.
Yeah, I think we need, can we get that sleep scientist from the DP show on to talk about the odor science of this? Yeah, is urinal actually sanitary? I don't know, but I still want one. Yeah, we go in the bathrooms and we leave. When you have one in your house, you've got to take a little bit better care of it. All right, big football weekend coming up, but let's stick with what happened last night. And it's time for the feel good. I'm not so fast. Oh, I'm sorry, check that. We're ahead. Keep it friendly time, Perloff. Here we go. These are our little bets for the weekend. Where are we starting? Let's start college football. I'm going to start Ohio State versus Texas. Texas giving a point and a half. So, who would you like? I was torn on this game, and then I heard Charles Davis on the Dan Patrick show today point out that Ohio State's run like a pro team.
I actually have been trying to convince myself into Texas. I see Ohio State walking away with a close win. So we'll bet straight up, I'm taking Texas, you take Ohio State. I think this is, if not now, never for Texas. I think it's a must-win-ish because otherwise you're going uphill with the Heisman race and the playoffs. Well, they can get back into the playoff. I mean, this is one game, but you're right. This feels really big for Sark and Texas. This game is saucy and for all the wrong reasons. You can't lose to a basketball school when you're a football school. That's one of the rules. Rule number 76 is play like a champion. Bama giving 10 to Kentucky. Now, Alabama football last year, good regular season.
Not good in the playoffs. They cannot afford this loss where you're at here. Wait, which one's the basketball school now? Because I've got to be honest, Alabama is a little better than Kalen DeBoer. Sorry, he's no Nick Saban. They might be more of the basketball. You can say whatever you want to an Alabama football fan, but if you tell them they're a basketball school, they may dukes up. In Kentucky, I think Kentucky is going to be salty. Keep this close. I love Will Stein, their new head coach.
I think they cover and even threaten to win. I don't know about the young quarterback at Alabama. It hasn't been tested. So you're taking Kentucky to cover, not to win. Yeah, cover, not to win. I want to take the win. I'm close, Paul. I wouldn't be shocked beyond shock. I will take Alabama, given the 10. I don't think it's going to be much more than that. I wish it was nine and a half, but I will take that. Let's get to NFL, and this one was the one you loved this weekend. Bills giving a point and a half to the Texans. Could be low scoring. I don't have the over-under, but could be low scoring. Where do you want this one? I actually think the Bills come out a team on a mission today because a lot of people have a lot of questions about them. They've got Joe Brady as their new head coach. I think Josh Allen is the one quarterback who can maybe run through Will Anderson. So I think it's going to
classic opening week game, but I think Josh Allen wins the game in the final minute. And this is the biggest test for their defense, because this is, like you said, the one quarterback who doesn't care about the pressure because he can run through it. All right, real quick, time for the feel-good. What happened in sports that makes you feel good? This one for us. Here we go. Here's the feel-good. We're going back to Melbourne, of course. Look at this crew.
The single one to Sweet Caroline. Tarps are coming off. Maybe some shouldn't. Oh, boy. Hello. Mix in a salad and maybe lift a little. How about a back raiser? I mean, you have to admit, international fans get into it. They always bring their age. And this game is 1030 a.m. That means they started tailgating, what, the night before? Yeah. There's a Dolphins jersey, the eclectic jerseys. They got to send us to one of these games just to keep track of all the different team jerseys. We absolutely should. We love that stuff. That's it for us on Not So Fast Week 2. Thanks for everybody who works on the show to make it possible. Stick around. Monday, Dan Patrick Show. Wrap up the NFL weekend every morning, 9 a.m. Eastern. That's it for us. Not So Fast.
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