October 1, 2024 • 39 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, the guys recap Double Barrel Action on Monday Night Football. Details emerge from Christian McCaffrey’s trip to Germany. A shakeup in The BQ Top 15. A weekly visit from Pete Prisco and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the best of two pros and a couple. Joe
with Lamar rings, Rady Winn and Jonas Knox on Box.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Radio, Man oh Man. Double barrel action in the NFL
on Monday Night. Football struck again last night.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah that's how you felt. Ye. Let me love me
some some DBA.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know where there ain't no double braid double double
Brady's double barrels. Where's that double barrel action? No double
barrels in uh? In South Florida, though, I'm just saying,
what do you mean double barrels there?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You know? Oh, come on, he's saying, they got no Yeah,
I mean they got ammo, they got no firepower. Geez.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I mean Tyler Huntley is a difficult spot. You know,
he's in a pretty difficult spot. He just got there
like an hour and a half ago, and uh, you know,
now there's you know, people wondering whether or not, you know,
the Dolphins players are just going to bail on the season.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
In general, and you know, just not not a great look.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But the Tennessee Titans are on the board first one
of the season, Mason Rudolph and relief. And so if
you're a Tennessee Titan, fan. You gotta feel good about
that if.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You're listening very Nash.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You know, I was thinking, though, you know how people
are like, oh, you know, Tyler Huntley is starting.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I was like, who's the backup? I mean, you think
they're bad off if if when.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Tyler Huntley is starting, wasn't he gets hurt? Like Tim
Boyle's their backup. I'm glad you brought that up, because
you know, you look at Huntley and like, you know,
how's he asked to play. He's probably asked also to
not get hurt because he's the guy that's been getting
all the reps to prepare for this game. You know,
Tim Boyle probably hasn't gotten almost anything. I mean, think
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about how dire of a situation that is if you're Miami.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean, I mean I wanted to encourage getting hurt,
but I certainly am not one to encourage looking that
poorly you're out there on the field either. I mean,
if you got to risk it, go ahead and risk it,
because that's what you're putting on film. You know, I
don't know what comes next for you. You're getting an opportunity
(02:14):
to start in the National Football League. I don't I
don't know what what's left.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know. I looked at it like this, I thought.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The first thing I thought about because I think about
you guys when I watch these games, right, the first
thing I thought about it's kind of weird, but I
do because obviously, you know, Q's gonna come with his commentary,
and you know he's already said things. You come with
your commentary, You've already said things. So I think about
the things that you've said in the past, and I
compare to the things I see right now so that
I can conversate for the future, you know, because Q
(02:44):
loves to jump on you when you say.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Something that he doesn't like.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So so first thing I thought was, Q said, you're
gonna find out how good or how much to amant
to this team now that he's not in, And I
was like, God, dang, he's right.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
These boys suck.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Why can't I think of a song that would be
appropriate for this moment?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, they stink?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man, don't know what you got until it's gone. Yeah,
they stink without him. So then I started so much,
But I know I love you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That looked just like Mike McDaniel's look on the sideline
last night when he was looking at how that thing was,
that monstrosity was unfolding in front of him. So now
I start thinking to myself, why does he look so
like blank, Like his face was just blank. And all
I could think about was he just kept thinking about
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Tua being on the sideline and look.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Turn it on up. You could turn it on up.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I mean, there's a reason the guy got paid, and
there's a reason why he got paid.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
There's a reason why they've been a playoff team. There
was a reason why they made the playoffs. He's actually
pretty good. And you know what, we didn't know much,
but we now know it was Tua and that is
why to what caad retire man we're talking about. We're
(04:10):
talking about concussions. He too. I'm sorry, Hey, here's an
advil I need you, buddy. Sorry, I'm sorry to him.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You know, all I know is listen, they looking at
me like I could be a possible Coach of the
Year contender. They're looking at our team as one of
the hottest teams could possibly win our division. Finally, and
foremost were attacking old ass coaches that then then said
that you wasn't much of anything from before. I'm gonna
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stick up for you, You stuck up for yourself. Everybody's
feeling good. The police then grabbed up on Tarik Hill.
They felt a certain type of way. There was just
all kinds of stuff circulating and flowing around about the
Miami Dolphins. They was creating a buzz and the buzz
is gone. Yeah, And I feel like, is this more
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of how good Tua is as a player or is
this more of an indictment on your coaching staff and
having the next guy ready to go, the next guy up,
ready to go and prepare it and ready to go. Which,
like that was my final question that instead of me answering,
I felt like the perfect approach to this would be
(05:24):
to pose that as a question.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's a good question, I think, Oh man, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The way I'd answer this is the NFL has lessened.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I think the impact of an importance of a backup quarterback.
Now in this case, skelet Thompson got hurt, so kind
of is what it is. But even then, you know,
teams because they're investing so much into their starter and
they're not investing into a guy behind him either, because
they're I don't know if they're worried about maybe there'd
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be an issue in the quarterback room if the guy's
got some experience, or he's done something before, whatever the
case may be. I just think you've got to have
a quarterback room that's good enough to be able to
withstand the punishment from an NFL season through seventeen games.
With a younger generation of quarterbacks that are going to
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get hurt. They're going to get hurt. They don't play
the game the way the older generations used to from
the pocket.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
There's just it's a different game.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And because of that, they've got to figure out a
way of circumventing like these issues throughout the season. Because
to your point about the team and whether or not
they're willing they're gonna, you know, quit, and Jonas kind
of had brought that up.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think it's too early for that to happen, but.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You know, there's there's not a lot of time left
they start continuing down this path. It's I mean, statistically speaking,
it would be really difficult for them to be able
to come back and be a playoff team. And that
is a tough reality of face so early on into
the season. So you're one in three and like what two,
it can't come back to a week seven, Is that right? Yeah,
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but they had two more games without them, yep, one
in five been there on a team like guys will
hang around a little bit before Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Once those things.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Are announced, baby, they out like it is they're done,
like they don't want any part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's the tough part about this.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You know, it becomes a very individual game where guys
are focused on Pro Bowl individual accolades, stats, bonuses, and
once those things are reached or once it looks out
of you know, out of hand, out of touch, it's
a different story.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But I mean, look at the other side.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Tennessee Titans have to have Mason Rudolph comes in, and
Mason Rudoff played pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well and in replace Will Levis. Yes he did. But
like that, I mean we're talking about, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just one of these games last night where that was
that was the issue because you've got injuries with those quarterbacks,
and we talked about Anthony Richardson and Joe Flacca coming in.
I mean, you can go across the league right now,
look at and say that there's guys who are getting
banged up left and right. You better have a backup
that can come in that win you some football games
that I think that's more of the state of the
NFL right now, unless you've got a stud a starter
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who knows how to play the game from the pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So we've seen Kevin O'Connell has taken multiple quarterbacks and
they've played good football with him. Kyle Shanahan obviously has
had multiple quarterbacks, Like isn't so if Mike McDaniels part
of that is his off how much different and this
is a nerdy football question, but how much different is
his offense? And how much more difficult is it to
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learn or grasp that they're struggling to find somebody behind
toa to play well.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
It's not that they're struggling to find someone to play well.
It's it's maybe who they have behind them. I mean,
Scalar Tomson had a good preseason two years ago. This
this past one wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I mean there's writing on the wall.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
And in regards to that specific you know, person taking over,
I was a bit surprised that him brings someone else
in to bring in some competition.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So it's to me it's.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
More surprising that he's the backup that they've got, whereas
there's other like Ryan Tannehill would have made a lot of.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Sense, would have made a lot of sense. Still don't
know why at this point, still don't know why, with
the injury, with the injuries that he's sustained in terms
of Tuah and knowing that he's a concussion away from
being in the exact situation near in right now. You
don't go into the season not knowing this. You can't
be oblivious to the fact that tuas one hit away
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from you needing another guy to go in. Why would
you not have a starter level backup on your roster?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Why would you not have that?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That was like I'm sitting there asking myself, You're we
were joking about It's like, oh snoop, no, hey, he's
going to start this, that and the other. What does
that look like? If you're not confident enough and what
it is that you have schematically to bring in a
guy off the street and put him into your offense
and still have a good game because of the type
of talent that you have all over the field, then
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why do you not already have that contingency plan in play?
That's what's confusing to me, Like we could have this
conversation about some other teams right and say, okay, well
this team, you know, Green Bay or Pittsburgh or the
Jets or whatever it may be, we could have this
conversation and part of you is kind of like, well,
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you know, the guy they have starting is the guy
they have starting, or they have a quarterbacks you know,
kind of a deal. They're fighting it out to get
the position, whatever it may be. If I am the
Miami Dolphins, the first thing I think about is who
is my backup quarterback? Who's my backup quarterback? And that
should always be my question as long as to it
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is starting, no shade to just being realistic that my
guy is the guy that runs our offense, he runs
our team. We won his confidence level up. That's great.
I can't I can't. I can only stress to Tua
if I'm the coach that listen, I know that we
have a backup that was a starter in this league.
I know that we had a backup that is talented
(11:21):
enough could possibly challenge you for what it is that
you guys.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Have going on. But the bottom line to me.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Is is that when you look at what it is
that's taking place with Tua right now, how do you
not have a backup that is the equivalent of a
starter backing him up. It's got to be the biggest
question that that was not answered in terms of coming
into this season with with Tua as your starter.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Remember when we first started doing the show and you
did a really really good Mike McDaniel impression, like you read,
and then all of a sudden he became he changed.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Now he's like, yeah, he's like, uh, what's the dude's
name from Miami Vice? Crockett. He's Crockett now he was
he used to be Mike mcdan. Now he's like, he's
like Crockett. You know, Crockett and Tubs. That's who they were, right,
and I believe so, yeah, you never watched it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We're too young. No, not really, not my thing.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Miami Vice. You know that was Don Don Don Johnson Crockett.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, he's like Bridges Don Johnson.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, he's like Crockett now, same guy, Yeah, the same guy.
He was in Tin Cup too, right. I think it
was the Yeah Cup?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What tin Cup you talking about? It's actually I saw
a different movie called tin Cup. I believe you're thinking
the two Cups.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh that is it?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Huh Yeah, he went right for it too, didn't you.
I'm proud, are you? Brady? Everybody? Hey, man, look just
when they be thinking Brady Quinton, No, Brady Quinn.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Is q he thinking of injury not to move past
last night's games. But they weren't overly competitive. McCaffrey's got
double tendon night is.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
About to blow both his legs out. Man.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I was just thinking too, you like what activities could
be given. I mean obviously running, sprinting, jump like all
those things. I mean, I'm just saying, like I could give.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You a squat excessive squatting. I mean, do you want
me to look into it? I could see him. I mean,
just should take a deep dive into this excessive.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Footholding, foot foot anchoring, people carrying a wheelbarrow, will barrowing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Uh yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You know, the military has, you know, exercises that you do,
like that no man left behind type where you got
to you gotta get him up out of here, not
leaving that matter what you know, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I hear you, man. Well, I mean, you know he
goes over.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To Germany, he gets that you know, uh, that platelet
you know, enrichment, plasma crap, whatever they do where they're
spinning stuff and getting your blood all reworked. And apparently
doctor David Chow says he's got to go over there
to get that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Done because it's not legal in the US. I wonder why.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
In Canada then, I don't know. I mean, let's have
it north of the border. We can't get them to
do some illegal stuff like.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That, you know, they you know they could do it south. Yeah,
there's a lot of things are going to push back
on apparently. But shouts out to my nephew too. By
the way, I like, I like your new ball, my
g I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Like, yeah, you like that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh yeah, but you guys were busting my balls about
not going to Penn State practice.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I wanted to go get it. I could have got
you a real ball from practice. But that's fine. Yeah,
you did it the way you wanted to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, So, but I could have got you a real
football from the football team.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I try and get him for my nephew at every
place I go to.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I did think it was really cool y'all came in
with stick city gear though.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, I mean we haggled about the prices at the
place we bought him, but you know, I think.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Were I mean, my my, my stuff is competitively priced.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It is there you go some of.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The other stuff there. Yeah, man, not so much all right,
making money man, homecoming weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You gotta make your cash apparently, but stick City gear
was appropriately priced, comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well made, thank you man. So yeah, it was a
good time.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Did manage, by the way, to spill catch up off
his hot dog onto the white sweater no sick city sweater?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yep? I did definitely did that.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Very upset at myself, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Sloppier than someone's spilling on a sweatshirt eating a hot dog.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think that's a pretty sloppy thing to do. Yeah,
because it's poor planning.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It's like you didn't put the right amount on the
hot dog and then you couldn't keep it together as
you got towards the end.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
With that at the tailgate. You did that at the tailgate.
Oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Just this like there's no less appetizing, I don't know,
attractive thing to do and eating a hot.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Dog and spilling something on yourself. Yeah a hot dog.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Yeah, it was great hot talk. But you know, we
were we were swarmed. The people wanted to say hey.
So it's they want to say hey to y'all. Yeah,
it's very It was distracted. They get a bite every time.
Who wanted it took me an hour to eat a
hot dog?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Dude. Yeah, Lee, who was trying to say hey to you? Buddy?
Lee is pretty pretty popular man. A lot of people
bring up Lee to lap. I don't know. I don't
know who was doing it, but somebody who was doing it.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yeah, Brian, we got Blanco. We got Oh you're going,
you'll go there? I mean that is true. They might
have been tequila, unless that's a name name. Blanco is
a name, so yeah, I call him Blanks a billion.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, but uh good people and uh now Lee's got
to figure out how to get that.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And you know you got your meat wagon. I got
my blank, my Blanco.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
What was upsetting was that it was from the like
the inside pocket of the hoodie, like the pouch, and.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Took it out like it's spread. I don't get it.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I know, it's hard to explain. So I had to
pack it in my Oh you had a packet in
my pocket?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Very greedy. Why would you keep a ketchup packet and
a white shirt. Very greedy.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No, I don't know exactly how it did, but that's
where it started and then it spread from there.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I don't know if it was like a napkin or something.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Man, what is an oil spill? It's a ketch It
gets everywhere. White was a bad choice.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I should have gone with the blue, don't you and
ketchup choice.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The white fine was a white out energy gang. I
was really hungry. Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And the you know, you catch up, so the worst
they squeak, you know, they shoot out what mustards?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Mustard's love to McCaffrey. By the way, the words white
was a bad choice. Not the first time you said that.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Lay, I'll just say that whites was a bad choice
for racist.
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Speaker 3 (18:33):
Right now, it's time for us who.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Needs the ap Top twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'm just seeing things that I never thought exists when.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You've got the VQ Top fifteen.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
The top fifteen heading into Week six of the college
football season. You know, after the Tides big win, everyone's
vaulting them the number one spot. Not me, folks. Was
a great win, and we'll get to that, but they're
not number one. It's still Tennessee remaining at the number
one spot and in fact the number two. The University
of Texas had a good win with arch Manning, who's
coming into his own big game versus Mississippi State. So
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even though quinn ewers it's his job when he comes back,
they've got a very formidable backup there in arch Manning
and a bright, bright future At number three, though, it's
Alabama that moves up three spots from where they were
last week after their big win over Georgia. Jalen Milroe
has put himself in position to be a part of
that Heisman conversation. Ryan Williams, the wide receiver who's seventeen
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years old, has been absolutely outstanding for the time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But let's be honest about that game.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Great first half, second half, they let the Bulldogs back
in the door, who did eventually take the lead, if
not for a big play in connection from Milroe to
Ryan Williams and probably some bad defense too, for being
honest with ourselves, and Georgia is still in a chance
in the end to win the game after being down
thirty to seven at one points. So look, Bama's one
of the top teams. They obviously have a clear path
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of the SEC championship game.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But I'm not ready to put him ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Of Texas and Tennessee. Ohio State sits in the same
spot at number four. They pounded Michigan State on the road,
and we saw the other outstanding freshman and wide receiver,
Jeremiah Smith, when not one but two John dropping catches.
He is an absolute phenom and so much fun to watch.
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At number five, you've got Georgia dropping down two spots. Look,
I can't penalize them for one bad half of football.
Say what you want about the Kentucky game a couple
of weeks ago, they found a way to win.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
In this case, you know, look, they couldn't pull it out.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I think the bigger concern for Georgia fans is they're
scheduled the rest of the way. They still have at
Tennessee at Old Miss, excuse me, at Texas at Old
Miss and then versus Tennessee the rest of the way.
So they've got one loss. Now, how many more could
they sustain through that schedule? And could they still potentially
be a college football playoff team. It's hard to imagine
them not being for two years in a row. At
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number six, up one spot is the Hurricanes cam woard
leading them to a comeback win over Virginia Tech.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yes, there's some controversy.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
There with that Hail Mary. The reality was there was
never control. They never should have called it a touchdown
in the first place. Sorry, Hokies fans. Still Miami's undefeated,
up one spot and headed at least it seems like
they're headed in a path to the a SEC Championship game.
Up two spots after the big win at home over
Illinois is Penn State.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's a good win. That controlled that game. Look was
a good team.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And the reality is that was a solid win at
home where I felt Penn State was completely control the
entire time. At number eight, Oregon, same spot as they've been.
It was an easy win over UCLA. But I got
to tell you, maybe my emotions are getting the best
of me here. But the old meat wagon missed out
on a cover after a late touchdown and missed pat
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the defense in the bottom half of the Big ten
right now, we haven't really seen them be able to
open up the big plays, in particular to Evan Stewart,
the outstanding wide receivers. So I got some reservations about
where Oregan's at nine. Missouri up two spots coming out
their buy. Their schedule sets up extremely well for them
to make the playoff. They heading to College Station this week,
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so we'll learn a little bit more of just how
good they are. At number ten, Old Miss down five spots.
Tough loss to UK, but maybe it's Kentucky's better than
we realize. Remember they did play Georgia close, took them
to the wild wire, and now they beat the Rebels.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Look.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Old Miss has a number of tests ahead two so
at that number ten spot, keep an eye on them
whether or not they can stay in the college football
playoff race. Up one spot the number eleven, it's Michigan.
They controlled the entire first half versus Minnesota, but let
the Gophers back in the back door. The passing game
is still a bit of a concern. There's a little
tidbit note to keep in mind moving forward. Jack Tuttle.
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I keep watching his injury status and he'd be surprised
he doesn't find his way into the lineup once he
is healthy. And the on side kick probably should have counted.
Who knows how we're talking about Michigan based on how
that game would end. Probably one of the more controversial
teams I've got is number twelve Iowa State up two spots.
Another shutout defensively for them, I should say their first shutout,
but another great defensive performance for them. They've got enough
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playmakers saw them at the running back spot had a
big game, rock O Beck, Scott Higgins and Noa on
the outside.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This is a team. Don't sleep on the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Don't sleep on them making it into the college Football Playoff.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They don't play a ranked team until the end of November.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
At number thirteen, Southern calis same spot as they were
just a week ago. It was a tale of two
halfs this past week. Looked off on the first half
versus Wisconsin and then pitched a shutout defensively and the
offense got it together with some big plays and number
fourteen up three spots.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Clemson a dominant win over Stanford.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
It seems like after that blowout loss to Georgia, we
forgot about them.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
All they've been doing is blowing.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Things out and getting better and better and better, and
finally entering the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
My fighting Irish up one spot.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was a good win over Louisville. But this isn't
last year's louisviit team. Let's be honest about something. And
the first drive of the offense looked good. However, this
was the worst defensive performance of the year. They give
up over four yards on offense first time, over twenty points,
allowed almost fifty percent on third down, over one hundred
and thirty yards rushing. It's just it's not the type
of complimentary football you'd like to see. But good win
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over a ranked opponent. I'll be curious to see if
Louisville's ranked by the end of the season. That being said,
the Irish are in the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Go about time. That Irish offense made their defense look bad.
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I maybe you can't keep punishing them for you know,
one bad game. You know it was an unfortunate situation.
They expanded the fi Let me ask you guys this question,
then let me ask you this question. I gave you,
guys Georgia's schedule, right, and then they still have obviously
some other SEC opponents which will be difficult. And by
the way, they got to play Georgia Tech, who's no
slouch either at the end of the season. But they
have to go at Texas, at Ole Miss and versus Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Still they have one loss.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Now they're likely to lose one more, but maybe two,
maybe even two.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, so let me ask you you guys both this yeah,
nine and three Georgia yes.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Or an eleven and one Notre Dame team.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Ooh, I gotta go with the one loss team. Oh man,
I gotta go with the one lost team.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Here's the only problem is Notre Dame may have only
one ranked team when it's all said and done, maybe
on their schedule after that. I don't know if Louis
will be ranked a m's twenty fifth. I believe this
week in the eight people. I don't know how the
committee is going to look at them, and then Southern Cal.
But Southern Cal's got a difficult schedule ahead, and you know,
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looking at where potentially they could be ranked, they're at
eleventh now if they lose a couple more games, Are
they still a part of it?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean if you let a three loss team in
over a one loss team, that's that's a significant punishment.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
For that one loss.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That's name Notre Dame, right, not not you know South
Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Which by the way, has to count for something.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
It has to, it has to. I mean that's to me,
I think that that's what's working in your favor. That's
what's working in Notre Dame's favor, is that if they
have one loss, I'm still looking at it as a
network and as a game, and I'm saying I want
that fan base to be a part of this. Get now, granted,
if you're saying it's between Notre Dame and Georgia, then
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you got a conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Can I Can I tell you what might end up
being the demise of Notre Dame in this case? Oh
remember that loss that clemps down to Georgia. They only
got one loss? Why was the thing move run on
to run the table and win the ACC I mean,
if you start comparatively looking at best wins and you
look at Georgia's schedule, they would have better wins even
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though they have more losses and that's that's the tough part.
So look at an Hispanic college football playoff. That's why
I like asking these questions now because we just started
October and this is where things start to kind of
funneling towards who those top twelves or teams are going
to be. It's kind of the elimination time. And this
is what makes the conversation interesting. This is what the
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College Football Playoff Committee is going to be tasked with
because Notre Dame very well could be eleven and one,
maybe even ten and two, and that'll be a difficult
conversation because I think the easy thing is saying, well,
they're eleven to one or they're ten and two, they
should go ahead of a team that's got three losses.
But then you look at the SEC and how good
they are this year where I mean, really the top
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five teams, you only got one big ten team in there.
Now that changes after that as far as looking at
the top ten, But as we start looking at the
top twenty five ranked teams and strength of schedules, it
becomes a bit more of a difficult conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I mean the fact that Northern Illinois hasn't won a
game since that Notre Dame game is also probably a
little bit of an issue as well.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Right, and especially like if it came on the road
or something. But the fact that it was at home
doesn't help things, I guess to put it simply. But
one thing I do want to draw attention to. Do
you remember all the conversation about Matt Sluka the quarterback
for you?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Uh, A lot of credit goes out to Hodgebitleke Williams,
the quarterback who stepped in at UNLV Campbell.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Was he Campbell? Wasn't he from Campbell? I think?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
All I know is he's thirteen to sixteen for one
hundred and o one hundred eight yards, three touchdowns. The
team was excited for him. UNLV stays undefeated, gets a big,
big win over Fresno States, so huge for all the
controversy and stuff that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Had kind of gone on. Uh, pretty cool to see
that happen for him. Yeah, no, good for them.
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Speaker 3 (28:40):
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Speaker 2 (28:44):
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
I forgot about that. That's right, that's right up. How
are we feeling?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I'm good, guys. How are you?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I mean music?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, of course you love this. So you're a smooth operator? Yeah,
of course. Well I used to be.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Hey, come on, every one saw you guys go to
date night. I've seen it before. There's still a lot
of smooth operating in there.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Pete, what'd you think of the smooth operating of Mason
Rudolph last night?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm in a relief for your guy, Will Levis hot.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I mean, they all stink. I mean the quarterback, the quarterbacks.
The quarterback play in this league is atrocious right now
in a lot of places. I mean it really is.
And they didn't even try and pass. They go, here, Mason,
you're in now, Well we're just going to turn and
run the ball. And you know what, Miami didn't stop it.
So they kept doing it and doing it and doing it,
and you know, on the other side, I mean you
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feel sorry for Ronley. I mean, he goes in there,
barely knows the plays and they couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So that was bad.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
And Levis getting hurt not good. Levis throwing a band
interception not good. But the quarterback play around this league,
in large part because band offensive line player is part
of the reason, is awful.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Right now, you doubt Yeah, I'm just going to ask you.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
You know, we get on you about Will Levis and
all that kind of stuff, but at what point do
you kind of start being alarmed?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Obviously the injury last night, but just in.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
General, if he doesn't start taking those strides that you know,
you and maybe some others have kind of proclaimed he's
going to take this year.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Yeah, I mean, if he keeps his own interceptions like that, Brad,
he's going to go sit on the bench.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
But you see one of those guys who just throws
bad picks. I mean there's guys who just they do
that at times, they throw bad interceptions.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Yeah, that one was like all the one, like the
one he threw for the pick six last week. I
defended that and Kurt Warner did a great breakdown of it.
But there's no defense in the.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
One last night.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
You got to see that guy. How do you not
see him? I mean that that to me is concerning,
and I wanted to see how he would respond to it.
I do think if he had responded well to it, fine,
If he didn't respond to it, I think they go
to yank maybe yank him out of there. Anyway, So
the fact he got hurt and looks he made a
great play to try and get the first down, probably
did get the first down. They should have challenged that.
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But you got to be, you know, less reckless with
your body too. So I look, there's a lot of
things that play there. If he doesn't pick it up,
he's going to be a failure. I mean, and then
you look at that quarterback class and you go Bryce
Young right now, failure, Will Levis, failure, Anthony Richardson under
fifty percent completion percentage, you know, debates still out there.
And then you got DJ Stroud the only guy that's
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playing worth a dam. So that's kind of the way
the quarterback position goes these days.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
I like your your commentary there and listen, it's kind
of in a way, Pete.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's the teams as well.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
There are a lot of teams that you would have
we would have looked at and said, preseason wise, we
wouldn't think that they'd be struggling the way that they are.
You know, what do you attribute that to? I mean,
I feel like they're coming out of preseason right now,
if you ask me, I feel like practices are different,
the approach is different, the you know, the focus in
on health is much higher, or the understanding of the
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you know, the needs of the players is higher. Well,
I mean, do you look at this and you say,
you know, maybe we're going to see better football now? Like,
what's your take on just the state of play altogether
right now? In the NFL?
Speaker 7 (32:15):
State of play is terrible. I mean, I'll be the
first one to say it, and I've been around this
game for a long time, and you make good points there. Look,
here's a couple of things that you don't hit during camp,
so once you go to to the regular season, you're
hitting for the first time. Offensive lines don't work together,
they can't hit, they can't simulate, you know, coming off
the double and the speed of the linebacker because they
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don't do that in training camp. So you don't get
to that until you're in the regular season. All the
teams that twist and stunt the oppositive line can't handle
it because they don't see it, they don't rep it,
and I think that's where quarterbacks are getting blasted, and
therefore the quarterback play is bad. And so you're sped
up up front, but everybody's playing a lot of off covers,
so you're slowed down on the back end, and the
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combination of the two makes for bad quarterback play. The
other thing is it's a survival test. We're in week four,
look around the league and see who's not playing. And
I always say, this is my theory on it. I
think guys over training now you come out of it.
And you know that's just me and Brady have talked
about this in the past. But you train, you come out,
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you take maybe two three weeks off, and boom, you're
right back to training with high intensity trainers around the
country your guys. Then you go do all your stuff
with the team, and then you maybe take the week
and a half off. And most guys don't do is
top doing anything in that week and a half off
before the season starts and they get right back into
training camp.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
So what were they doing in the old days, Well
what were they doing in the old days?
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Now, in the old days, they stopped playing in December
and they had one mini camp where everybody came back
slovenly and smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. And then they
showed up in training camp and got themselves in shape.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
And you have left of that.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, you need a carton of Marlboroughs and that's all
you got to have happened.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Cigarette smoking, Come on, Pete.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
That.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Was ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I mean, look, no, not cigarettes, but but you know,
guys today are so they spend so much money to
take care of their body, and sometimes I think they
overtrain it. I mean, look at look look at Christian McCaffrey.
He's got achilles ten and ice and both you know ankles,
I mean both legs. That's ridiculous. That means he's overtraining.
I think there's too much training going.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
On that or maybe something's going off the off the field,
you know, I mean it's a hell of Yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Just got he got a busy operator. He might be
one of the smoothest, right that or is a hurky
jerky Maybe that's what.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Pete Prisco joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Pete,
I wanted to ask you just to explain a couple
of things because I was on your Twitter account, your
ex account at Prisco CBS, and I just I'm gonna
read off three tweets and I would like for you
to explain just what these are in reference to. All right,
so this is all from Sunday. All right, So.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Tweet one, can you get any dumber? Play?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Tweet two, that, folks, is what you call overthinking it
play football? Tweet three, how to turn a momentum faucet off?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
One oh one? What was that in reference to?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
That's in reference to the bill stupid trick play that
they try to run and you're going down. It's twenty
one to ten and you got momentum and you're driving
and you try a stupid trick play?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The guy gets blasted, they fumble, and the whole momentum
has gone.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
The game is over.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
I just and at least, look, I'm gonna give Joe
Brady credit because he came right out afterwards he said
that was a stupid decision on my part, and it
really was. And when I see that, you know, I just,
what are these guys thinking? You have the momentum. It's
not like you're trying to get it back. You're going
you're moving in to make it a one score game.
Why do you do that? So everybody sits around on
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Monday and said, oh my gosh, look how creative he is.
Go play football. It was ridiculous with dumb call mighty
calls from the game.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Let me ask you this one I threw to the
guys earlier.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Do you think maybe the Rams are looking at Jared
Goff and how he's playing right now and are like,
you know, maybe we would have won a super Bowl
if we just want to stuck with Jared Goff.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Yeah, he's No. I don't think they're thinking that because
they knew what they had Jared Iman looking. I give
I give Ben Johnson and that group a lot of
credit for making it really easy on him. And Sean
McVay is a great play caller too, but at the
time of his life. I think they needed to make
the move to go get Stafford, and had they not
won it, I think they really be sitting there saying,
maybe we did make the wrong decision. But I mean, look,
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Stafford is doing damn good quarterback and they moved the
football with nobody. I mean that that's the tribute to
Sean McVay and nobody.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
They didn't. They didn't look very good.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
They made the Bears defense like almost like the eighty
five Bears his past week.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
I mean, look, can we throw it to.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Bart Unders, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
What about the week before? What about the week before?
When when I'm just.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Saying, he's not moving the same the arm, it just
doesn't look the same, man, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And Jared, there's our headline.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
There's our Brady headline. Matt Stafford washed up.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
By the way, he used to do this when we
worked together.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
He would take anything I said and then he just
would make it into the most like headline ever.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
And like you said that, yeah, I did go viral,
go viral, but he's washed.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I'm not. I'm not trying to get a virus or
go viral. And Pete, I'll save that for you, pal Tang.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Washed us what.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Right, that's what it sounded like.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Pete, Pete, how about this talk about golf, because what
he did last night was historic.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We don't see that very often.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It was pretty ridiculous how he played, you know it was.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Yeah, it was. It was outstanding. I mean, look it was.
It was well done. He stood there, made the throws
and and look that Seattle defense is a shell of
itself with all the injuries. But you got to give credit.
Not one hit the ground. That's amazing to think about that.
You could have one kiss at the line of scrimmage normally.
So yeah, I give him all the credit. But he's
a good player. I always thought he was a better
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player than he got credit for. And you're right. He
fits with what they want to do with Detroit. He's
having He's also a good start. He's having a good
career with the Lions, and he resurrected.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It at Prisco CBS is where you can find him
just airing out decision making in the NFL on on
Fire basis Pete Prisco's CBS Sports CBS Sports HQ analyst.
He's our smooth operator every Tuesday here on the show.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Well you do, what's an idiot?
Speaker 7 (38:44):
That's what the coaches and general managers are in the
NFL moren Ian.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Radio, Man oh Man. Double barrel action in the NFL
on Monday Night. Football struck again last night.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah that's how you felt. Ye. Let me love me
some some DBA.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know where there ain't no double braid double double
Brady's double barrels. Where's that double barrel action? No double
barrels in uh? In South Florida, though, I'm just saying,
what do you mean double barrels there?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You know? Oh, come on, he's saying, they got no Yeah,
I mean they got ammo, they got no firepower. Geez.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I mean Tyler Huntley is a difficult spot. You know,
he's in a pretty difficult spot. He just got there
like an hour and a half ago, and uh, you know,
now there's you know, people wondering whether or not, you know,
the Dolphins players are just going to bail on the season.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
In general, and you know, just not not a great look.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But the Tennessee Titans are on the board first one
of the season, Mason Rudolph and relief. And so if
you're a Tennessee Titan, fan. You gotta feel good about
that if.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You're listening very Nash.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You know, I was thinking, though, you know how people
are like, oh, you know, Tyler Huntley is starting.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I was like, who's the backup? I mean, you think
they're bad off if if when.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Tyler Huntley is starting, wasn't he gets hurt? Like Tim
Boyle's their backup. I'm glad you brought that up, because
you know, you look at Huntley and like, you know,
how's he asked to play. He's probably asked also to
not get hurt because he's the guy that's been getting
all the reps to prepare for this game. You know,
Tim Boyle probably hasn't gotten almost anything. I mean, think
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about how dire of a situation that is if you're Miami.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean, I mean I wanted to encourage getting hurt,
but I certainly am not one to encourage looking that
poorly you're out there on the field either. I mean,
if you got to risk it, go ahead and risk it,
because that's what you're putting on film. You know, I
don't know what comes next for you. You're getting an opportunity
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to start in the National Football League. I don't I
don't know what what's left.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know. I looked at it like this, I thought.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The first thing I thought about because I think about
you guys when I watch these games, right, the first
thing I thought about it's kind of weird, but I
do because obviously, you know, Q's gonna come with his commentary,
and you know he's already said things. You come with
your commentary, You've already said things. So I think about
the things that you've said in the past, and I
compare to the things I see right now so that
I can conversate for the future, you know, because Q
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loves to jump on you when you say.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Something that he doesn't like.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So so first thing I thought was, Q said, you're
gonna find out how good or how much to amant
to this team now that he's not in, And I
was like, God, dang, he's right.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
These boys suck.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Why can't I think of a song that would be
appropriate for this moment?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, they stink?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man, don't know what you got until it's gone. Yeah,
they stink without him. So then I started so much,
But I know I love you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That looked just like Mike McDaniel's look on the sideline
last night when he was looking at how that thing was,
that monstrosity was unfolding in front of him. So now
I start thinking to myself, why does he look so
like blank, Like his face was just blank. And all
I could think about was he just kept thinking about
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Tua being on the sideline and look.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Turn it on up. You could turn it on up.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I mean, there's a reason the guy got paid, and
there's a reason why he got paid.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
There's a reason why they've been a playoff team. There
was a reason why they made the playoffs. He's actually
pretty good. And you know what, we didn't know much,
but we now know it was Tua and that is
why to what caad retire man we're talking about. We're
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talking about concussions. He too. I'm sorry, Hey, here's an
advil I need you, buddy. Sorry, I'm sorry to him.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You know, all I know is listen, they looking at
me like I could be a possible Coach of the
Year contender. They're looking at our team as one of
the hottest teams could possibly win our division. Finally, and
foremost were attacking old ass coaches that then then said
that you wasn't much of anything from before. I'm gonna
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stick up for you, You stuck up for yourself. Everybody's
feeling good. The police then grabbed up on Tarik Hill.
They felt a certain type of way. There was just
all kinds of stuff circulating and flowing around about the
Miami Dolphins. They was creating a buzz and the buzz
is gone. Yeah, And I feel like, is this more
(05:02):
of how good Tua is as a player or is
this more of an indictment on your coaching staff and
having the next guy ready to go, the next guy up,
ready to go and prepare it and ready to go. Which,
like that was my final question that instead of me answering,
I felt like the perfect approach to this would be
(05:24):
to pose that as a question.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's a good question, I think, Oh man, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The way I'd answer this is the NFL has lessened.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I think the impact of an importance of a backup quarterback.
Now in this case, skelet Thompson got hurt, so kind
of is what it is. But even then, you know,
teams because they're investing so much into their starter and
they're not investing into a guy behind him either, because
they're I don't know if they're worried about maybe there'd
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be an issue in the quarterback room if the guy's
got some experience, or he's done something before, whatever the
case may be. I just think you've got to have
a quarterback room that's good enough to be able to
withstand the punishment from an NFL season through seventeen games.
With a younger generation of quarterbacks that are going to
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get hurt. They're going to get hurt. They don't play
the game the way the older generations used to from
the pocket.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
There's just it's a different game.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And because of that, they've got to figure out a
way of circumventing like these issues throughout the season. Because
to your point about the team and whether or not
they're willing they're gonna, you know, quit, and Jonas kind
of had brought that up.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think it's too early for that to happen, but.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You know, there's there's not a lot of time left
they start continuing down this path. It's I mean, statistically speaking,
it would be really difficult for them to be able
to come back and be a playoff team. And that
is a tough reality of face so early on into
the season. So you're one in three and like what two,
it can't come back to a week seven, Is that right? Yeah,
(07:19):
but they had two more games without them, yep, one
in five been there on a team like guys will
hang around a little bit before Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Once those things.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Are announced, baby, they out like it is they're done,
like they don't want any part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's the tough part about this.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You know, it becomes a very individual game where guys
are focused on Pro Bowl individual accolades, stats, bonuses, and
once those things are reached or once it looks out
of you know, out of hand, out of touch, it's
a different story.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But I mean, look at the other side.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Tennessee Titans have to have Mason Rudolph comes in, and
Mason Rudoff played pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well and in replace Will Levis. Yes he did. But
like that, I mean we're talking about, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just one of these games last night where that was
that was the issue because you've got injuries with those quarterbacks,
and we talked about Anthony Richardson and Joe Flacca coming in.
I mean, you can go across the league right now,
look at and say that there's guys who are getting
banged up left and right. You better have a backup
that can come in that win you some football games
that I think that's more of the state of the
NFL right now, unless you've got a stud a starter
(08:26):
who knows how to play the game from the pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So we've seen Kevin O'Connell has taken multiple quarterbacks and
they've played good football with him. Kyle Shanahan obviously has
had multiple quarterbacks, Like isn't so if Mike McDaniels part
of that is his off how much different and this
is a nerdy football question, but how much different is
his offense? And how much more difficult is it to
(08:48):
learn or grasp that they're struggling to find somebody behind
toa to play well.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
It's not that they're struggling to find someone to play well.
It's it's maybe who they have behind them. I mean,
Scalar Tomson had a good preseason two years ago. This
this past one wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I mean there's writing on the wall.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
And in regards to that specific you know, person taking over,
I was a bit surprised that him brings someone else
in to bring in some competition.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So it's to me it's.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
More surprising that he's the backup that they've got, whereas
there's other like Ryan Tannehill would have made a lot of.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Sense, would have made a lot of sense. Still don't
know why at this point, still don't know why, with
the injury, with the injuries that he's sustained in terms
of Tuah and knowing that he's a concussion away from
being in the exact situation near in right now. You
don't go into the season not knowing this. You can't
be oblivious to the fact that tuas one hit away
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from you needing another guy to go in. Why would
you not have a starter level backup on your roster?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Why would you not have that?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That was like I'm sitting there asking myself, You're we
were joking about It's like, oh snoop, no, hey, he's
going to start this, that and the other. What does
that look like? If you're not confident enough and what
it is that you have schematically to bring in a
guy off the street and put him into your offense
and still have a good game because of the type
of talent that you have all over the field, then
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why do you not already have that contingency plan in play?
That's what's confusing to me, Like we could have this
conversation about some other teams right and say, okay, well
this team, you know, Green Bay or Pittsburgh or the
Jets or whatever it may be, we could have this
conversation and part of you is kind of like, well,
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you know, the guy they have starting is the guy
they have starting, or they have a quarterbacks you know,
kind of a deal. They're fighting it out to get
the position, whatever it may be. If I am the
Miami Dolphins, the first thing I think about is who
is my backup quarterback? Who's my backup quarterback? And that
should always be my question as long as to it
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is starting, no shade to just being realistic that my
guy is the guy that runs our offense, he runs
our team. We won his confidence level up. That's great.
I can't I can't. I can only stress to Tua
if I'm the coach that listen, I know that we
have a backup that was a starter in this league.
I know that we had a backup that is talented
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enough could possibly challenge you for what it is that
you guys.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Have going on. But the bottom line to me.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Is is that when you look at what it is
that's taking place with Tua right now, how do you
not have a backup that is the equivalent of a
starter backing him up. It's got to be the biggest
question that that was not answered in terms of coming
into this season with with Tua as your starter.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Remember when we first started doing the show and you
did a really really good Mike McDaniel impression, like you read,
and then all of a sudden he became he changed.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Now he's like, yeah, he's like, uh, what's the dude's
name from Miami Vice? Crockett. He's Crockett now he was
he used to be Mike mcdan. Now he's like, he's
like Crockett. You know, Crockett and Tubs. That's who they were, right,
and I believe so, yeah, you never watched it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We're too young. No, not really, not my thing.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Miami Vice. You know that was Don Don Don Johnson Crockett.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, he's like Bridges Don Johnson.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, he's like Crockett now, same guy, Yeah, the same guy.
He was in Tin Cup too, right. I think it
was the Yeah Cup?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What tin Cup you talking about? It's actually I saw
a different movie called tin Cup. I believe you're thinking
the two Cups.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh that is it?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Huh Yeah, he went right for it too, didn't you.
I'm proud, are you? Brady? Everybody? Hey, man, look just
when they be thinking Brady Quinton, No, Brady Quinn.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Is q he thinking of injury not to move past
last night's games. But they weren't overly competitive. McCaffrey's got
double tendon night is.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
About to blow both his legs out. Man.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I was just thinking too, you like what activities could
be given. I mean obviously running, sprinting, jump like all
those things. I mean, I'm just saying, like I could give.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You a squat excessive squatting. I mean, do you want
me to look into it? I could see him. I mean,
just should take a deep dive into this excessive.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Footholding, foot foot anchoring, people carrying a wheelbarrow, will barrowing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Uh yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You know, the military has, you know, exercises that you do,
like that no man left behind type where you got
to you gotta get him up out of here, not
leaving that matter what you know, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I hear you, man. Well, I mean, you know he
goes over.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To Germany, he gets that you know, uh, that platelet
you know, enrichment, plasma crap, whatever they do where they're
spinning stuff and getting your blood all reworked. And apparently
doctor David Chow says he's got to go over there
to get that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Done because it's not legal in the US. I wonder why.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
In Canada then, I don't know. I mean, let's have
it north of the border. We can't get them to
do some illegal stuff like.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That, you know, they you know they could do it south. Yeah,
there's a lot of things are going to push back
on apparently. But shouts out to my nephew too. By
the way, I like, I like your new ball, my
g I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Like, yeah, you like that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh yeah, but you guys were busting my balls about
not going to Penn State practice.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I wanted to go get it. I could have got
you a real ball from practice. But that's fine. Yeah,
you did it the way you wanted to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, So, but I could have got you a real
football from the football team.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I try and get him for my nephew at every
place I go to.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I did think it was really cool y'all came in
with stick city gear though.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, I mean we haggled about the prices at the
place we bought him, but you know, I think.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Were I mean, my my, my stuff is competitively priced.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It is there you go some of.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The other stuff there. Yeah, man, not so much all right,
making money man, homecoming weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You gotta make your cash apparently, but stick City gear
was appropriately priced, comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well made, thank you man. So yeah, it was a
good time.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Did manage, by the way, to spill catch up off
his hot dog onto the white sweater no sick city sweater?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yep? I did definitely did that.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Very upset at myself, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Sloppier than someone's spilling on a sweatshirt eating a hot dog.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think that's a pretty sloppy thing to do. Yeah,
because it's poor planning.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It's like you didn't put the right amount on the
hot dog and then you couldn't keep it together as
you got towards the end.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
With that at the tailgate. You did that at the tailgate.
Oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Just this like there's no less appetizing, I don't know,
attractive thing to do and eating a hot.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Dog and spilling something on yourself. Yeah a hot dog.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Yeah, it was great hot talk. But you know, we
were we were swarmed. The people wanted to say hey.
So it's they want to say hey to y'all. Yeah,
it's very It was distracted. They get a bite every time.
Who wanted it took me an hour to eat a
hot dog?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Dude. Yeah, Lee, who was trying to say hey to you? Buddy?
Lee is pretty pretty popular man. A lot of people
bring up Lee to lap. I don't know. I don't
know who was doing it, but somebody who was doing it.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yeah, Brian, we got Blanco. We got Oh you're going,
you'll go there? I mean that is true. They might
have been tequila, unless that's a name name. Blanco is
a name, so yeah, I call him Blanks a billion.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, but uh good people and uh now Lee's got
to figure out how to get that.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And you know you got your meat wagon. I got
my blank, my Blanco.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
What was upsetting was that it was from the like
the inside pocket of the hoodie, like the pouch, and.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Took it out like it's spread. I don't get it.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I know, it's hard to explain. So I had to
pack it in my Oh you had a packet in
my pocket?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Very greedy. Why would you keep a ketchup packet and
a white shirt. Very greedy.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No, I don't know exactly how it did, but that's
where it started and then it spread from there.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I don't know if it was like a napkin or something.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Man, what is an oil spill? It's a ketch It
gets everywhere. White was a bad choice.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I should have gone with the blue, don't you and
ketchup choice.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The white fine was a white out energy gang. I
was really hungry. Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And the you know, you catch up, so the worst
they squeak, you know, they shoot out what mustards?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Mustard's love to McCaffrey. By the way, the words white
was a bad choice. Not the first time you said that.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Lay, I'll just say that whites was a bad choice
for racist.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
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Speaker 3 (18:33):
Right now, it's time for us who.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Needs the ap Top twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'm just seeing things that I never thought exists when.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You've got the VQ Top fifteen.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
The top fifteen heading into Week six of the college
football season. You know, after the Tides big win, everyone's
vaulting them the number one spot. Not me, folks. Was
a great win, and we'll get to that, but they're
not number one. It's still Tennessee remaining at the number
one spot and in fact the number two. The University
of Texas had a good win with arch Manning, who's
coming into his own big game versus Mississippi State. So
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even though quinn ewers it's his job when he comes back,
they've got a very formidable backup there in arch Manning
and a bright, bright future At number three, though, it's
Alabama that moves up three spots from where they were
last week after their big win over Georgia. Jalen Milroe
has put himself in position to be a part of
that Heisman conversation. Ryan Williams, the wide receiver who's seventeen
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years old, has been absolutely outstanding for the time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But let's be honest about that game.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Great first half, second half, they let the Bulldogs back
in the door, who did eventually take the lead, if
not for a big play in connection from Milroe to
Ryan Williams and probably some bad defense too, for being
honest with ourselves, and Georgia is still in a chance
in the end to win the game after being down
thirty to seven at one points. So look, Bama's one
of the top teams. They obviously have a clear path
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of the SEC championship game.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But I'm not ready to put him ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Of Texas and Tennessee. Ohio State sits in the same
spot at number four. They pounded Michigan State on the road,
and we saw the other outstanding freshman and wide receiver,
Jeremiah Smith, when not one but two John dropping catches.
He is an absolute phenom and so much fun to watch.
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At number five, you've got Georgia dropping down two spots. Look,
I can't penalize them for one bad half of football.
Say what you want about the Kentucky game a couple
of weeks ago, they found a way to win.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
In this case, you know, look, they couldn't pull it out.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I think the bigger concern for Georgia fans is they're
scheduled the rest of the way. They still have at
Tennessee at Old Miss, excuse me, at Texas at Old
Miss and then versus Tennessee the rest of the way.
So they've got one loss. Now, how many more could
they sustain through that schedule? And could they still potentially
be a college football playoff team. It's hard to imagine
them not being for two years in a row. At
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number six, up one spot is the Hurricanes cam woard
leading them to a comeback win over Virginia Tech.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yes, there's some controversy.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
There with that Hail Mary. The reality was there was
never control. They never should have called it a touchdown
in the first place. Sorry, Hokies fans. Still Miami's undefeated,
up one spot and headed at least it seems like
they're headed in a path to the a SEC Championship game.
Up two spots after the big win at home over
Illinois is Penn State.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's a good win. That controlled that game. Look was
a good team.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And the reality is that was a solid win at
home where I felt Penn State was completely control the
entire time. At number eight, Oregon, same spot as they've been.
It was an easy win over UCLA. But I got
to tell you, maybe my emotions are getting the best
of me here. But the old meat wagon missed out
on a cover after a late touchdown and missed pat
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the defense in the bottom half of the Big ten
right now, we haven't really seen them be able to
open up the big plays, in particular to Evan Stewart,
the outstanding wide receivers. So I got some reservations about
where Oregan's at nine. Missouri up two spots coming out
their buy. Their schedule sets up extremely well for them
to make the playoff. They heading to College Station this week,
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so we'll learn a little bit more of just how
good they are. At number ten, Old Miss down five spots.
Tough loss to UK, but maybe it's Kentucky's better than
we realize. Remember they did play Georgia close, took them
to the wild wire, and now they beat the Rebels.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Look.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Old Miss has a number of tests ahead two so
at that number ten spot, keep an eye on them
whether or not they can stay in the college football
playoff race. Up one spot the number eleven, it's Michigan.
They controlled the entire first half versus Minnesota, but let
the Gophers back in the back door. The passing game
is still a bit of a concern. There's a little
tidbit note to keep in mind moving forward. Jack Tuttle.
(22:46):
I keep watching his injury status and he'd be surprised
he doesn't find his way into the lineup once he
is healthy. And the on side kick probably should have counted.
Who knows how we're talking about Michigan based on how
that game would end. Probably one of the more controversial
teams I've got is number twelve Iowa State up two spots.
Another shutout defensively for them, I should say their first shutout,
but another great defensive performance for them. They've got enough
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playmakers saw them at the running back spot had a
big game, rock O Beck, Scott Higgins and Noa on
the outside.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This is a team. Don't sleep on the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Don't sleep on them making it into the college Football Playoff.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They don't play a ranked team until the end of November.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
At number thirteen, Southern calis same spot as they were
just a week ago. It was a tale of two
halfs this past week. Looked off on the first half
versus Wisconsin and then pitched a shutout defensively and the
offense got it together with some big plays and number
fourteen up three spots.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Clemson a dominant win over Stanford.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
It seems like after that blowout loss to Georgia, we
forgot about them.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
All they've been doing is blowing.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Things out and getting better and better and better, and
finally entering the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
My fighting Irish up one spot.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was a good win over Louisville. But this isn't
last year's louisviit team. Let's be honest about something. And
the first drive of the offense looked good. However, this
was the worst defensive performance of the year. They give
up over four yards on offense first time, over twenty points,
allowed almost fifty percent on third down, over one hundred
and thirty yards rushing. It's just it's not the type
of complimentary football you'd like to see. But good win
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over a ranked opponent. I'll be curious to see if
Louisville's ranked by the end of the season. That being said,
the Irish are in the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Go about time. That Irish offense made their defense look bad.
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I maybe you can't keep punishing them for you know,
one bad game. You know it was an unfortunate situation.
They expanded the fi Let me ask you guys this question,
then let me ask you this question. I gave you,
guys Georgia's schedule, right, and then they still have obviously
some other SEC opponents which will be difficult. And by
the way, they got to play Georgia Tech, who's no
slouch either at the end of the season. But they
have to go at Texas, at Ole Miss and versus Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Still they have one loss.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Now they're likely to lose one more, but maybe two,
maybe even two.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, so let me ask you you guys both this yeah,
nine and three Georgia yes.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Or an eleven and one Notre Dame team.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Ooh, I gotta go with the one loss team. Oh man,
I gotta go with the one lost team.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Here's the only problem is Notre Dame may have only
one ranked team when it's all said and done, maybe
on their schedule after that. I don't know if Louis
will be ranked a m's twenty fifth. I believe this
week in the eight people. I don't know how the
committee is going to look at them, and then Southern Cal.
But Southern Cal's got a difficult schedule ahead, and you know,
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looking at where potentially they could be ranked, they're at
eleventh now if they lose a couple more games, Are
they still a part of it?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean if you let a three loss team in
over a one loss team, that's that's a significant punishment.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
For that one loss.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That's name Notre Dame, right, not not you know South
Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Which by the way, has to count for something.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
It has to, it has to. I mean that's to me,
I think that that's what's working in your favor. That's
what's working in Notre Dame's favor, is that if they
have one loss, I'm still looking at it as a
network and as a game, and I'm saying I want
that fan base to be a part of this. Get now, granted,
if you're saying it's between Notre Dame and Georgia, then
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you got a conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Can I Can I tell you what might end up
being the demise of Notre Dame in this case? Oh
remember that loss that clemps down to Georgia. They only
got one loss? Why was the thing move run on
to run the table and win the ACC I mean,
if you start comparatively looking at best wins and you
look at Georgia's schedule, they would have better wins even
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though they have more losses and that's that's the tough part.
So look at an Hispanic college football playoff. That's why
I like asking these questions now because we just started
October and this is where things start to kind of
funneling towards who those top twelves or teams are going
to be. It's kind of the elimination time. And this
is what makes the conversation interesting. This is what the
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College Football Playoff Committee is going to be tasked with
because Notre Dame very well could be eleven and one,
maybe even ten and two, and that'll be a difficult
conversation because I think the easy thing is saying, well,
they're eleven to one or they're ten and two, they
should go ahead of a team that's got three losses.
But then you look at the SEC and how good
they are this year where I mean, really the top
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five teams, you only got one big ten team in there.
Now that changes after that as far as looking at
the top ten, But as we start looking at the
top twenty five ranked teams and strength of schedules, it
becomes a bit more of a difficult conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I mean the fact that Northern Illinois hasn't won a
game since that Notre Dame game is also probably a
little bit of an issue as well.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Right, and especially like if it came on the road
or something. But the fact that it was at home
doesn't help things, I guess to put it simply. But
one thing I do want to draw attention to. Do
you remember all the conversation about Matt Sluka the quarterback
for you?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Uh, A lot of credit goes out to Hodgebitleke Williams,
the quarterback who stepped in at UNLV Campbell.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Was he Campbell? Wasn't he from Campbell? I think?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
All I know is he's thirteen to sixteen for one
hundred and o one hundred eight yards, three touchdowns. The
team was excited for him. UNLV stays undefeated, gets a big,
big win over Fresno States, so huge for all the
controversy and stuff that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Had kind of gone on. Uh, pretty cool to see
that happen for him. Yeah, no, good for them.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
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Speaker 3 (28:40):
Right now, we welcome him in. He's the one and only.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Pete Prisco, senior NFL columnists for CBS Sports, CBS Sports
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
I forgot about that. That's right, that's right up. How
are we feeling?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I'm good, guys. How are you?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I mean music?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, of course you love this. So you're a smooth operator? Yeah,
of course. Well I used to be.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Hey, come on, every one saw you guys go to
date night. I've seen it before. There's still a lot
of smooth operating in there.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Pete, what'd you think of the smooth operating of Mason
Rudolph last night?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm in a relief for your guy, Will Levis hot.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I mean, they all stink. I mean the quarterback, the quarterbacks.
The quarterback play in this league is atrocious right now
in a lot of places. I mean it really is.
And they didn't even try and pass. They go, here, Mason,
you're in now, Well we're just going to turn and
run the ball. And you know what, Miami didn't stop it.
So they kept doing it and doing it and doing it,
and you know, on the other side, I mean you
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feel sorry for Ronley. I mean, he goes in there,
barely knows the plays and they couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So that was bad.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
And Levis getting hurt not good. Levis throwing a band
interception not good. But the quarterback play around this league,
in large part because band offensive line player is part
of the reason, is awful.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Right now, you doubt Yeah, I'm just going to ask you.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
You know, we get on you about Will Levis and
all that kind of stuff, but at what point do
you kind of start being alarmed?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Obviously the injury last night, but just in.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
General, if he doesn't start taking those strides that you know,
you and maybe some others have kind of proclaimed he's
going to take this year.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Yeah, I mean, if he keeps his own interceptions like that, Brad,
he's going to go sit on the bench.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
But you see one of those guys who just throws
bad picks. I mean there's guys who just they do
that at times, they throw bad interceptions.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Yeah, that one was like all the one, like the
one he threw for the pick six last week. I
defended that and Kurt Warner did a great breakdown of it.
But there's no defense in the.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
One last night.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
You got to see that guy. How do you not
see him? I mean that that to me is concerning,
and I wanted to see how he would respond to it.
I do think if he had responded well to it, fine,
If he didn't respond to it, I think they go
to yank maybe yank him out of there. Anyway, So
the fact he got hurt and looks he made a
great play to try and get the first down, probably
did get the first down. They should have challenged that.
(31:06):
But you got to be, you know, less reckless with
your body too. So I look, there's a lot of
things that play there. If he doesn't pick it up,
he's going to be a failure. I mean, and then
you look at that quarterback class and you go Bryce
Young right now, failure, Will Levis, failure, Anthony Richardson under
fifty percent completion percentage, you know, debates still out there.
And then you got DJ Stroud the only guy that's
(31:26):
playing worth a dam. So that's kind of the way
the quarterback position goes these days.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
I like your your commentary there and listen, it's kind
of in a way, Pete.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's the teams as well.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
There are a lot of teams that you would have
we would have looked at and said, preseason wise, we
wouldn't think that they'd be struggling the way that they are.
You know, what do you attribute that to? I mean,
I feel like they're coming out of preseason right now,
if you ask me, I feel like practices are different,
the approach is different, the you know, the focus in
on health is much higher, or the understanding of the
(32:01):
you know, the needs of the players is higher. Well,
I mean, do you look at this and you say,
you know, maybe we're going to see better football now? Like,
what's your take on just the state of play altogether
right now? In the NFL?
Speaker 7 (32:15):
State of play is terrible. I mean, I'll be the
first one to say it, and I've been around this
game for a long time, and you make good points there. Look,
here's a couple of things that you don't hit during camp,
so once you go to to the regular season, you're
hitting for the first time. Offensive lines don't work together,
they can't hit, they can't simulate, you know, coming off
the double and the speed of the linebacker because they
(32:36):
don't do that in training camp. So you don't get
to that until you're in the regular season. All the
teams that twist and stunt the oppositive line can't handle
it because they don't see it, they don't rep it,
and I think that's where quarterbacks are getting blasted, and
therefore the quarterback play is bad. And so you're sped
up up front, but everybody's playing a lot of off covers,
so you're slowed down on the back end, and the
(32:56):
combination of the two makes for bad quarterback play. The
other thing is it's a survival test. We're in week four,
look around the league and see who's not playing. And
I always say, this is my theory on it. I
think guys over training now you come out of it.
And you know that's just me and Brady have talked
about this in the past. But you train, you come out,
(33:18):
you take maybe two three weeks off, and boom, you're
right back to training with high intensity trainers around the
country your guys. Then you go do all your stuff
with the team, and then you maybe take the week
and a half off. And most guys don't do is
top doing anything in that week and a half off
before the season starts and they get right back into
training camp.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
So what were they doing in the old days, Well
what were they doing in the old days?
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Now, in the old days, they stopped playing in December
and they had one mini camp where everybody came back
slovenly and smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. And then they
showed up in training camp and got themselves in shape.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
And you have left of that.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, you need a carton of Marlboroughs and that's all
you got to have happened.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Cigarette smoking, Come on, Pete.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
That.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Was ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I mean, look, no, not cigarettes, but but you know,
guys today are so they spend so much money to
take care of their body, and sometimes I think they
overtrain it. I mean, look at look look at Christian McCaffrey.
He's got achilles ten and ice and both you know ankles,
I mean both legs. That's ridiculous. That means he's overtraining.
I think there's too much training going.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
On that or maybe something's going off the off the field,
you know, I mean it's a hell of Yeah, he.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Just got he got a busy operator. He might be
one of the smoothest, right that or is a hurky
jerky Maybe that's what.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Pete Prisco joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Pete,
I wanted to ask you just to explain a couple
of things because I was on your Twitter account, your
ex account at Prisco CBS, and I just I'm gonna
read off three tweets and I would like for you
to explain just what these are in reference to. All right,
so this is all from Sunday. All right, So.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Tweet one, can you get any dumber? Play?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Tweet two, that, folks, is what you call overthinking it
play football? Tweet three, how to turn a momentum faucet off?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
One oh one? What was that in reference to?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
That's in reference to the bill stupid trick play that
they try to run and you're going down. It's twenty
one to ten and you got momentum and you're driving
and you try a stupid trick play?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The guy gets blasted, they fumble, and the whole momentum
has gone.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
The game is over.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
I just and at least, look, I'm gonna give Joe
Brady credit because he came right out afterwards he said
that was a stupid decision on my part, and it
really was. And when I see that, you know, I just,
what are these guys thinking? You have the momentum. It's
not like you're trying to get it back. You're going
you're moving in to make it a one score game.
Why do you do that? So everybody sits around on
(35:59):
Monday and said, oh my gosh, look how creative he is.
Go play football. It was ridiculous with dumb call mighty
calls from the game.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Let me ask you this one I threw to the
guys earlier.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Do you think maybe the Rams are looking at Jared
Goff and how he's playing right now and are like,
you know, maybe we would have won a super Bowl
if we just want to stuck with Jared Goff.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Yeah, he's No. I don't think they're thinking that because
they knew what they had Jared Iman looking. I give
I give Ben Johnson and that group a lot of
credit for making it really easy on him. And Sean
McVay is a great play caller too, but at the
time of his life. I think they needed to make
the move to go get Stafford, and had they not
won it, I think they really be sitting there saying,
maybe we did make the wrong decision. But I mean, look,
(36:42):
Stafford is doing damn good quarterback and they moved the
football with nobody. I mean that that's the tribute to
Sean McVay and nobody.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
They didn't. They didn't look very good.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
They made the Bears defense like almost like the eighty
five Bears his past week.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
I mean, look, can we throw it to.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Bart Unders, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
What about the week before? What about the week before?
When when I'm just.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Saying, he's not moving the same the arm, it just
doesn't look the same, man, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And Jared, there's our headline.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
There's our Brady headline. Matt Stafford washed up.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
By the way, he used to do this when we
worked together.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
He would take anything I said and then he just
would make it into the most like headline ever.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
And like you said that, yeah, I did go viral,
go viral, but he's washed.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I'm not. I'm not trying to get a virus or
go viral. And Pete, I'll save that for you, pal Tang.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Washed us what.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Right, that's what it sounded like.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Pete, Pete, how about this talk about golf, because what
he did last night was historic.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We don't see that very often.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It was pretty ridiculous how he played, you know it was.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Yeah, it was. It was outstanding. I mean, look it was.
It was well done. He stood there, made the throws
and and look that Seattle defense is a shell of
itself with all the injuries. But you got to give credit.
Not one hit the ground. That's amazing to think about that.
You could have one kiss at the line of scrimmage normally.
So yeah, I give him all the credit. But he's
a good player. I always thought he was a better
(38:15):
player than he got credit for. And you're right. He
fits with what they want to do with Detroit. He's
having He's also a good start. He's having a good
career with the Lions, and he resurrected.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It at Prisco CBS is where you can find him
just airing out decision making in the NFL on on
Fire basis Pete Prisco's CBS Sports CBS Sports HQ analyst.
He's our smooth operator every Tuesday here on the show.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Well you do, what's an idiot?
Speaker 7 (38:44):
That's what the coaches and general managers are in the
NFL moren Ian.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah, that's a headline. Bang bang there he is the
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